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>Wow. In the beginning I found the article interesting before (in my subjective eyes) it turned into a thinly veiled Anti-China propaganda piece.

Domain is .in, you didn't have to open it.

Re:Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:02AM (#30406206)
The NATO, which shouldn't be expanding eastwards, wants missiles in Ukraine pointing at Putin's face.
Re:Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:00AM (#30406189)
I suspect "Anne Applebaum"'s loyalty doesn't lie with America.
Re:Ask HN: Why is there no small Android phone? on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:45AM (#30405258)
"Why doesn't X exist?" Because people generally don't want it.
Re:The Wild West of Windows command line parsing on Sunday February 20, 2022 @06:18AM (#30404887)
The Wild West of Trying to Shove UTF-8 onto a UTF-16 Operating System
Re:Going IPv6 Only on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:04PM (#30401376)
There still isn't a 464XLAT implementation on Windows that can be used in WAN/LAN networks.
Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases on Saturday February 19, 2022 @03:37PM (#30400308)
>This site will be the first stop for anyone wanting to harass another person online. Some times a little friction is a good thing.

Precisely I was thinking of how much fun we'll be having in efnet with this.

Re:A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:32PM (#30393909)
If you are a feminist activist in saudi arabia, I guess you know the deal
Re:Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:38PM (#30390747)
If you don't like the way Outlook shows you ads then do not use Outlook.
So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?
Ooops, virtue signalling gone wrong here.
No but you can pirate it.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:34PM (#30388597)
60M up, lmao. Let me guess, HFC
Re:Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:39PM (#30380273)
Given that it's known that power users disable telemetry, developers should not rely on telemetry alone when deciding to remove a feature. The opposite is spiting power users, and you can see how that's going for Mozilla.
Discord is snappy? Is this the level of desktop applications in 2022? :P
Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:14AM (#30374714)
People want to debate politics, but submissions about politics get killed. Therefore people end up using any excuse to debate politics in any thread.
Re:Who is squatting IPv4 addresses? on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:53AM (#30373638)
That's like saying if I create a 3D model of my neighbour's car and drive it around the streets of a videogame I am "squatting my neighbour's car" or "using a car I don't own".
Re:Audiblegate on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:47AM (#30371300)
I know how VAT works. If the government changes the VAT overnight then prices won't round to .99 until merchants (or Amazon themselves) change the base price again. I don't see the issue.
Re:Audiblegate on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:09AM (#30371043)
>I can totally see that happening. Who develops systems with short term VAT changes in mind?

I suppose it's the same codebase as any other country's amazon, and there's a different VAT rate in every country.

Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:19PM (#30365829)
I'm not an authoritarian kind of guy but there are people who are better removed from society entirely.
Re:Privacy Sandbox on Android on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:31PM (#30365285)
After so many years people love apple products much more than they love google products.
Re:How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013) on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:52AM (#30358450)
I don't see a single ad. Perhaps your ad blocker is misconfigured or the filters are out of date? Try to refresh the filter lists.
Re:DuckDuckGo \u202E on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:18PM (#30352868)
It's accidental, because other characters are also displayed: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=u20aa
Re:Google Search Is Dying on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:11PM (#30351981)
For the same reason some apps (used to?) launch on iphone first.
Re:I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:49PM (#30350919)
If you think HN is toxic you haven't been anywhere else.
As soon as I visit every website I am asked to install an app. That doesn't mean I install any. People will only switch browsers if they are discontent with what they have.
>the Mr Robot marketing stint

I remember how much I freaked out when I found that that extension was installed. I had not installed it myself, the title and the description were pretty weird, there were no hits on Google (yet), etc. I thought that I had been hacked and that my browser data, including passwords, had been exfiltrated somewhere else. And all in the name of advertising for a telly show! This broke my trust with Mozilla forever and I haven't used Firefox ever since.

Google is a convenient scapegoat, but the current state of Firefox is 100% Mozilla's fault, and until you realise that you will be far away from a solution.
Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:45PM (#30340940)
I am vaccinated and I oppose mandates. Who am I to tell others what to do?
Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:35PM (#30340829)
Certainly yes. You are fined. If you accumulate several fines, you will eventually be arrested. If you resist the arrest, you will find where the barrel of the gun is ;)

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