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There is actually a Chinese solution to this which you wouldn't prefer at all. Legally every place who provide free wifi will need you to do sms verification with your smartphone, and record your ip with your smartphone number (which in China is connected to your identity). Then they need not worry about liability, because if anything goes wrong, they can tell the police exactly who you are.

If you want both privacy and liability, it seems indeed only you can do is to be harsh on larger entities like cafe shops who provide free wifi.

Re:D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:10PM (#37771852)
Typical bs when legacy is replaced. Same reason can also argue that cavalry and archer should remain in army
Re:Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad on Saturday September 09, 2023 @11:42AM (#37446661)
Actually you cannot use your present Mullvad account to do so. Instead, Mullvad provided exclusive API for tailscale as partner account to do so, which you can only get from Tailsacle if you choose their service. Mullvad only allows those data to go through its server.

Given that Tailscale is a ridiculous company that advertises on privacy while force user to login via SSO by tech giants or OIDC which is shit in privacy, I will stick to my current origin Mullvad account and keep away from this service.

There has been a perfect simulator of Casio fx series on android for several years.
I am always curious why don't people use zotero directly for archiving everything
Read the book Just Law published by your own people
It is really fascinating that the first website I went to is exactly named "Why bkuhn's Website Looks Like Crap", where someone explains why he is sticking to Web 1.0.

http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/why-crap.html

These are the times that make me consider to believe in fortune.

Re:Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser on Saturday May 20, 2023 @07:02AM (#36010856)
One thing that stopped me from using it is unable to sync history.

Is someone familiar with how hard it would be to use the hook system to allow it to sync with e.g. firefox android?

Re:Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams on Thursday May 18, 2023 @07:25AM (#35986480)
> You dont like it, dont use the feature! Its not like Google is forcing you to use this.

And why only Sony have 3.5mm headphone jack now? I guess Apple did not force us right?

Yet app store itself is violating the app store rule and being sued in California for this.

So the walled garden didn't work that well right?

I haven't use the app you mentioned but KDE connect and a notification log app I use both can do this.

I think maybe you forget that they need to first get the accessibility permit before it can read notification, which is a very high level permission in Android. You cannot even grant it directly in normal permission menu and there will be pop up warnings. (Well then there is the question of how many 0day on earth are there in android)

Traffic accident is causing so much death. Let's kill every car manufacturer thus there will be no traffic accident anymore.
Re:TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:54AM (#35373563)
There was a fascinating (but sadly discontinued) app called Shortcat for MacOS. It basically let you control your entire MacOS with keyboard typing texts.

Thus, this can actually be done at larger scale for over 10 years.

Update: It turns out the development is resumed again, but I don't use mac anymore.

This is so hilarious.

It only detects if there is a block in the browser that does not serve as website rendering. Since I use Tree Tab on side panel of Firefox, this plugin will believe I have opened devtools all the time.

Edit: it will think I closed devtools when I really open devtools. I start to wonder how shitty the code is.

Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:25AM (#34833385)
You can enable in about:config and install all plugin with Firefox Nightly
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:25AM (#34772659)
the container is definitely synced at least for over a year. since I bought my laptop last year and everything is synced
Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop on Sunday February 12, 2023 @02:44PM (#34766129)
>To this day, we still haven't found a competitors laptop that performs faster with the same hardware.

I am quite curious how on earth "a laptop specially made for linux" will enable to have more performance on same hardware? More thermal pipe or you write your own drive?

because most garbage now are all ready produced by script. chatgpt will actually improve them
Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:26AM (#34577980)
Even easier, at login window you can select, and then it will remember your choice.
Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:25AM (#34577972)
Hear your words.

How is that different from I don't like relativity theory at a fundamental level. It feels abundant, bloated, and not very physical. I'd rather have my Newton's law with a handful of augmentation.

Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot on Friday January 27, 2023 @08:32AM (#34545749)
I don't get all the replies to this comment.

hogepiyo was saying someone who lived for a decade and cannot speak native language does not have enough credit for us to believe his/her comment on the entire country's changes. The fact that people do can live this way does not change this point.

Re:How to store your app's entire state in the url on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:57PM (#34316770)
one problem to me is that I run a script remove parameter in url(for tracker) ofc I can set a whitelist but it is a issue i consider
Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:22PM (#34222400)
Since human beings are in physical forms (at least still in 21 century), physical form has been the most secure since beginning of human civilization. Every top secret NSA holds also relies on physical objects I think.
Re:Why Not Mars on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:18PM (#34222351)
It is because no one would invest same as much money to do a pointless habitat challenge. Given same funding as used in Mars plan, of course we can manage to habitat in Antarctica.
Re:UI Web Design 5 Rules of Thumb on Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:34AM (#34117730)
I think negative labels are deliberately designed to trick user into subscribing things they don't want.
Re:Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:26AM (#34062335)
I would expect a software to close itself when I ask it to instead of hiding behind and update itself.
I can guarantee you it is not true. If the matched song is removed from itunes store, I can only listen to it on my MacBook and cannot stream or download it on my iphone
Re:Show HN: Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:51AM (#34013986)
It is weird that you think even hn user should not be the group to be privacy oriented. I definitely don't prefer that future.
Not every rich man has same publicity as mask. It's basically his own choice and he should expect this.
Are you suggesting that any country that has a prison is actually a fascism camp? Use your brain before talking plz.

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