webwanderings

10 ghostery items and 23 Ads. Nice.

Never heard of this company before, not sure what to think of their blog post announcing the availability of this browser. If I'm not mistaken, one can pretty much configure any browser to do what they have identified done in their browser, unless there's more.

Perhaps because Walmart is the parent company?

Walmart owns Sams Club which is equivalent/competitor to Costco.

I hate the fact that there is no multiple account feature in iPad, otherwise it is a fine piece of machine.

No AOL? It is a pain to delete AOL account.

This story had nothing to do with Islam/Muslims/Ramadan, but for reasons only known to the author, he has implicated every bit of his story and ordeal to Muslims. This is just amazing.

I need help changing my kitchen faucet. My options are: a) DIY, b) arrange proportionally large amount of cash and call the professional help.

Am I going to use Google as my option C? I really doubt, because there is a good chance Google will be arranging the same option B above. So what is the point?

This is amazing. Very much needed.

This is very much needed on my iPad.

Microsoft, build your own YouTube.

Makes sense. Nobody as large as NYT organization would do their maintenance during weekday morning hours. So there must be another behind-the-scene story altogether.

This is one of the most fascinating article that has come out in recent times.

Free plan has no direct download which is an old trick in the business.

So that place in Utah is gathering only 1.6% of ... whatever it is gathering.

CNN and a government is a kool-aid for the masses.

I thought Medium was a platform which you write for. You don't become Medium platform. They are running it like an editorialized magazine. Your articles are promoted by the platform and not just by yourself. So why not maintain your own blog and write for others as well?

I thought this was already done using Google script and sheets. I tend to recall an old blog post from labnol.org specifying exact steps without installing anything.

Never felt comfortable with this service from day one.

By now, I have tested many and have stuck around long with InoReader. However, I must confess that nobody is doing this better than Feedly team under the circumstances. So I give up looking anywhere else for now.

What a mind boggling time we are living in where the liberal government is pressing to keep such practices and conservatives are against it only because they are against liberals in principle.

If this is not the doom of two-party ideology of liberal/conservative political system than I am not sure what is.

I thought he launched a Facebook competitor.

I don't have smart phone mainly because I think their recurring costs are a rip off. Besides, I have no need to carry computer in my pocket for just a few hours when I'm away from the desk computer.

Last time I was using Drive, I ran into a trouble of re-synching my files with Drive after a crash. I had copy of my files on a hard drive which I was able to bring back in. I reinstalled Google Drive to learn that Google has no way to avoid the resync (ultimately making duplicates). So I gave up on Drive altogether. Their encryption efforts won't be winning me back.

Is it just me or does anyone finds this odd:

>> When we are legally obligated to comply with demands, we pull the specified content from our servers where it sits in an unencrypted state...

Why would the public's private data sit in unencrypted state on Microsoft's servers? What would be the point of encryption if corporation servers can see what you think you are securing via assumed privacy?

Using or not using a so-called useless thing is not a question of human survival. Humans are consuming soda and it has been proven that it isn't HELPFUL. So the question is really about the continuous waste of time, resources and energy (in producing and consuming) versus that of the intent behind all these (time, resources and energy).

Unless of course you believe that producing/consuming Soda is HELPFUL in a sense that it is helpful towards economy (someone's making and people are consuming it). In this case, I have no argument here because the intent is clear enough.

I thought I am reading a joke, a landing page with just a text under Show HN category. But then I read a comment below about Ghostery block. I think I'm okay with using Memrise.

You don't need a study to know that none of the Soda drinks are of any help to any humans. Humans lived without soda for very long time until someone invented Pepsis and Cokes and .... and they are not something you use to help yourself for anything. So why bother?

Wait, so I have to keep my computer ON (the one which has this USB device connected) and I am supposed to feel I am using Dropbox?

I could do a whole lot more if I could keep one of my computer ON 24x7x365 without using a $69 device.

Most likely Aunt Sally is not posting on Facebook and Google+ simultaneously, so there's another problem here altogether.

Yup, I mentioned glass houses.

> Twitter knows a lot about you from who you follow and what links you click on.

No kidding. But we don't care as we live in the glass house of a celebrity culture.

PS: downvote the quoted text if you must. My point is not obvious.