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Re:Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb's New Universe on Saturday July 04, 2026 @08:12AM (#48784833)
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Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:10AM (#45964393)
DDoS prevention may be essential, but not CloudFlare.
Re:DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:29AM (#43329160)
Smaller is less efficient. They don't get to benefit from economy of scale as much as larger.
Re:Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default on Saturday January 27, 2024 @01:18PM (#39158204)
Re:BugMeNot Is Gone on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:16PM (#33634079)
I was hoping someone would know why it was blocked as malware, thinking it might be compromised and that people should be warned. VT says it's safe though so it's likely a mistake. Not sure what you mean about traceability. You could check the github.
Re:BugMeNot Is Gone on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:08AM (#33619492)
Blocked in uBO by The Block List Project - Malware List.
Re:Optimal Stopping on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:04PM (#26706298)
I don't think that would break it because you have a limited amount of time. You base it on 1/e of the number of people you expect to date not the number of potential options.
Re:Out of the top fifty games on Steam, 70% work on Linux on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:30PM (#26448124)
Such bans are rare, and usually get reversed if it was only triggered due to Linux.
Re:The Sovietization of the American Press on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:46PM (#26440062)
> several hundred thousands

Several thousand, coming from Trump's rally which only had about 20k total.

Re:AI Teaches Itself Diplomacy on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:06AM (#26354175)
But you know that's the next step and it's going to happen.
Re:Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00 on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:39PM (#25739820)
I can't edit my comment, so here's a citation in reply: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/tr...
Re:Getting Started with Brave on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:53PM (#25736683)
If you want to avoid fingerprinting you should use tor-browser. And using a chromium-based browser over tor makes you more fingerprintable, not less.
Re:Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:47PM (#25736545)
Neither was omitting Putin's admission that he wanted Trump to win from the Whitehouse transcripts.
Re:Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:32AM (#25415063)
It's not a big deal. You can just hit K on any you're not sure about to see the help. Might need to set keywordprg=:help.
Re:Self-host your fonts for better performance on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:51PM (#25307759)
Not nearly as good.
Re:Self-host your fonts for better performance on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:44PM (#25307659)
Are you just clinging to the last dev version of uMatrix, or did you find an active fork or something?
I'm still sore about Reader too. Fortunately Inoreader is about as good.

I'm surprised thumbing things down isn't helping you - it was the thing that fixed YTM for me. I wasn't thumbing things down enough, now anything I don't want to hear again I thumb down, and I mostly listen to the personalized and discovery mixes. You might need to switch/reload stations for it to take effect. And IIRC the discovery mix only updates on Wed.

Re:Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:53PM (#25131910)
Felinks is an actively maintained fork.
Re:Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:51PM (#25131898)
Browsh does some js, and felinks is an actively maintained fork of elinks with some js support as well.
Re:VPN by Google One on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:16PM (#24938438)
Snowden's revelation that the NSA was in Google's network had their engineers pissed, and they immediately changed their architecture to make it more secure, encrypting internal connections. That doesn't make me want to use them less. And Snowden was compromised by Russia even before he went there.
Re:VPN by Google One on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:54PM (#24938285)
> What does the VPN log?

> In order to provide peace of mind for our users that their activity is private from the VPN operator and from potential attackers, VPN by Google One does not log user activity on the network or other information that could reveal personally identifiable information about them. The following data is NOT logged by the VPN for a given user:

● Network traffic, including DNS

● IP addresses of the devices connecting to the VPN

● Bandwidth utilized by an individual user

● Connection timestamps by user

Re:A Youtube video downloader written in Go on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:21AM (#24906329)
`youtube-dl --list-extractors|wc -l`

1163

And I think that's the issue. It was a foreign lock they weren't familiar with so didn't have one to practice on. It was apparently easier to copy the key.
> it is very likely that Russia was also behind the DNC hack.

Actually it's an established fact. They were being watched live on their computers and security cameras as they were doing the hacking.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...

Re:Embedded Spy Software in Millions of Homes on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:18AM (#24478376)
Yep. Extreme-right questionable source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-national-pulse/
Seems unlikely. The layoffs happened before they got a new deal: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-f...

Now they can bring people back.

Re:Malcolm Gladwell: How I Rediscovered Religion on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:12AM (#24105777)
Certainly not his entire career. Malcolm Gladwell is/was a propagandist shilling for pharma, big tobacco, wall street, and the health insurance industry.

https://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/

Eg.:

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/02/27/n...

* https://www.businessinsider.com/new-study-destroys-malcolm-g...

Re:Infinity: open-source search engine on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:08PM (#24087339)
> You will need to enable JavaScript to view the results. If you do not, the loading bar below will keep staying that way.

Really? Or you could fix your site.

> unjustified use of donation funds

There was no actual mishandling of funds, just [disagreement on procedure](https://forum.manjaro.org/t/change-of-treasurer-for-manjaro-...):

> To clarify, there has not been any fund misuse. There has been a disagreement about the process of how the funds are allocated, but no funds have been allocated during the conflict.

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