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I'd like to point out that amazon is making ginormous profits, meaning increasing wages and ensuring safe working conditions would hardly make a dent in amazons revenue.
> It seems like most of the times, the result is a higher price for the customer, at least when things go well.

Can you substantiate this claim?

With the vast majority of goods the price is set by the market, i.e. higher wages would indeed result in a smaller profit margin and not in a higher price.

Re:Clojure 1.11 is now available on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:55PM (#30769995)
The contributor list is expanding :)
Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:59AM (#21418851)
Youtube
Re:Firefox 68.0 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:27PM (#20393491)
No, I'm using gnome-shell which uses mutter as wm.

But using gnome tweaks you can enable Emacs Input, which if you are used to emacs key bindings, is really handy navigating in gnome-terminal or, as mentioned web browser address bars.

Re:Firefox 68.0 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:05PM (#20393212)
There are two things keeping me using Chrome.

1) Videostreams are way smoother using Chrome, at least on Linux.

2) I've enabled Emacs Input in Gnome. When I enter something in the address bar, both Firefox and Chrome show suggestions for websites below. In Chrome I can type Ctrl+n / Ctrl+p to navigate between the suggestions, because it respects my keyboard schema.

In Firefox this opens new browser windows :( and I've found absolutely no way to change this behaviour.

Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:58AM (#20391761)
I don't think there are any.

However, you easily can install alternative readers on Kobo ereaders, see here for a list of some hacks:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=295612

Re:Brave – A private, secure and fast browser on Saturday October 06, 2018 @12:13PM (#18155826)
> Users banding together to send crypto anonymously toward their favorite sites and creators is not "parasitic"

True, but replacing ads you don't get compensated for with ads you do, is.

Re:Brave – A private, secure and fast browser on Saturday October 06, 2018 @12:01PM (#18155767)
Brave's business model is to replace a web site's ads for which the web site gets compensated for, with ads brave gets compensated for.
Re:Brave – A private, secure and fast browser on Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:17AM (#18155543)
What happens to the small sites that don't track users, but display some ads to keep the servers running? Hope that they get "rewarded with BAT's accordingly to the users attention" ?

Btw, I'm guessing you are a Brave employee, that many Buzzwords in one comment would otherwise be quite astonishing, how does Brave guarantee a users privacy? I assume brave "phones home" in order to replace ads with ads Brave gets compensated for.

Also, I read a lot about a transparent way funds are distributed among publishers, where is the code?

Re:Brave – A private, secure and fast browser on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:53AM (#18155122)
The first time I heard of Brave, I thought Oh cool, a privacy focused, chromium based browser. But I must say I'm honestly appalled by its parasitic business model.

Content creators are strong armed into becoming verified publishers, while users have to trust Brave that their data is handled properly and carefully.

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