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It seems you don’t see the value in having one integrated provider for everything. Other people clearly do.

Also if there were GOOD European alternatives to those google service people would use them, but there simply aren’t. Low salaries and terrible regulations are to blame.

> Now you know which websites are willing to absolutely ruin your experience just to abuse you.

Which is absolutely all of them. I guess the legislators wanted the popups to be annoying so publishers would be forced not to import their party scripts. Turns out publishers can’t stay open without the ads that pay their bills which means popups are the new normal, to the point where when I see a website that doesn’t have popups I suppose they are just in violation of the law. Thanks EU!

Re:Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:36AM (#26155675)
>I don’t know how many people this bug affects (anyone with 200-300 icons is hitting a modest version of this, and it gets progressively worse with more) and I have no power to fix it. So, I filed a bug. I am not hopeful that it will be fixed. My last quadratic-in-Windows bug has had zero comments since it was filed a few months ago.

What’s the way to report a bug in Windows? The closest thing I know is the feedback hub which is an unmoderated public forum full of spam and dunces

Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:04PM (#26145256)
I opened their website and it asked me to install their app but the App Store says it is not available in my region.
Re:GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:40AM (#26133758)
Wow... how did mta convince rockstar to share stuff like that? For what purpose?
Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video] on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:37AM (#26133733)
If you’re on Twitter you will see 99.9% of tech people spend all day posting left wing political takes. Just a bit of counterbalance is not going to hurt you lol
Re:GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:26AM (#26133633)
Rockstar forgot to strip the PlayStation binaries so I suppose those are the variable names of the original codebase.
Re:Armenia Is an Orphaned Client State on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:00AM (#26130985)
The truth is that the future of Armenia is either with Russia or with Azerbaijan, a Muslim country. It’s their choice, but I know what I would choose myself.
That’s interesting. You should write a post or something with all the links, because if you’re right that’s going to be spicy.
Someone else should!
Re:California Is Making Liberals Squirm on Friday February 12, 2021 @09:39AM (#26114065)
> Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals.

It feels like the opposite.

That just means that with time more and more poor people will get online and buy their first smartphone, which obviously will be an android. That doesn’t mean google cares too much about those poor people because they don’t make google much money. iOS users on the civilised world, though...
Re:China bans BBC World News from broadcasting on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:48AM (#26111777)
It doesn’t seem like the BBC follows that rule either when emitting in China I guess?
Decentraleyes
Re:Investors Embrace Gender Diversity, but Not Female CEOs on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:13PM (#26104220)
Clearly the solution is to force investors to invest in female-led companies at gunpoint.
In the meantime millions of people would kill for a green card.
Re:Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster? on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:20AM (#26099708)
Defaults matter.
You wish.
Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:07PM (#26079887)
If I tell you to go on Facebook and take screenshots of your friends’ profiles and send them to me and then I do dubious things using that information, whose fault is it? I’d split it between you and me. Facebook is not at fault at all.
Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:47AM (#26078819)
There’s no thousand page EULA. Just a screen that says “do you want to allow this app to access your profile data and your friend list” and they clicked yes.
Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:43AM (#26078743)
If your friend has view access to your profile, why shouldn’t he be able to extract that information via an API as well?
Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:39AM (#26078695)
Obviously it’s the result of stupid users, but you can get rid of the APIs, you can’t get rid of the stupid users.
Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:28AM (#26078553)
This is the result of open APIs. It shows why web sites like Facebook have to close them down. They are not worth it, they are a liability.
Re:Block The New York Times on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:37AM (#26075899)
The worst of two worlds :P
Communities online all seem the same--have you seen Reddit?
Re:Block The New York Times on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:33AM (#26075524)
To me it just sounds like “progressive”
This makes me wonder why the hell referer headers are still sent by major browsers, especially to third parties. I can’t think of a single reason that benefits the user.
If anything this headline means the opposite, right? That you are not born a homosexual, at least from a genetic perspective.
Re:Deleting Facebook on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:13AM (#26064673)
That’s most likely a cache bug.

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