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Re:There Is No Tech Backlash, Worse We Think There Is One on Sunday September 15, 2019 @04:45AM (#20976232)
The NYT wishes there was one. Sorry fellas, nobody cares about your struggle and eventual death. :-(
Re:Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:55PM (#20972082)
And going online without an ad blocker is simply irresponsible.
Re:It's time to talk about post-RMS Free Software on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:53PM (#20972056)
In this context that's implying that rms has done things such as looking for child pornography online, which is something we don't know and can't prove. Defending the right to do something != doing something
The article mentions how Windows reads an ACPI table, looks for a specific executable file, and willingly runs it. It's not the BIOS forcing anything to happen, Windows goes out of its way to look for an .exe that is bundled in the BIOS and then happily runs it.
>What's your basis for believing this?

I don't know. It sounds reasonable to me that as time passes more people become transgenders because it's more acceptable. Similar to homosexuality.

>If n trans people are killed one year and > n trans people are killed another year, the number of trans people killed has gone up, regardless of the size of the population itself (which, for reasons stated in the article, can't be accurately measured anyway.)

Yeah but the headline makes it sound like it's a problem that's worsening but if the % is not going up then the problem has the same severity.

I suppose there are more transgenders every year. Are killings of transgenders actually going higher when we compensate for that?
Re:Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases on Thursday September 12, 2019 @07:20PM (#20957534)
I agree with you on the gun emoji thing, that was gloriously retarded. But all in all, you can always choose an open source rendering of the glyph.
sic? it's spelled neighbour in British English

Yeah, I know you are just baiting me.

Re:Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:28PM (#20957145)
How is U+1F604 corporate-controlled?
Re:Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:44PM (#20953552)
The backspace button no longer works to go back, you need to press alt+backspace
Wait until they find out about all the fleshy spy devices that Israel planted in the Congress.
Re:Experimenting with same-provider DNS-over-HTTPS upgrade on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:50AM (#20950005)
Not everybody lives in the US. I trust my ISP. They are cool, and their handling of my data is regulated under the GDPR and other laws. CloudFlare? Not so much.
Re:Experimenting with same-provider DNS-over-HTTPS upgrade on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:49AM (#20950003)
Might sound like a conspiracy, but yes, I think they are getting money. They are definitely not sending the entire browsing history of users (DoH) and even the contents (VPN[]) to CloudFlare and getting nothing in return... right?

[] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927832

Re:Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:17AM (#20949840)
Everything that discourages designers from doing fancy things is good in my book.
Re:Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor on Thursday September 12, 2019 @04:56AM (#20949418)
If you leave a room then you are no longer inside and you can't know what people inside were talking about while you weren't inside. As it should be.
Re:Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums? on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:41AM (#20941333)
The chans? Something Awful? MeFi?
Re:Turn off DoH, Firefox on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:05AM (#20939649)
I can think of something worse: sending all your DNS queries to an unregulated third party.
Re:Turn off DoH, Firefox on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:01AM (#20939603)
No, the other viable option is not enabling DoH by default.
Re:Turn off DoH, Firefox on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @08:01AM (#20939030)
I do trust my ISP and my government more than I trust CloudFlare.
Re:Hong Kong can be a gateway to liberal values for China on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:50AM (#20937843)
The UN chart for "human rights" is not some kind of holy scripture.
Re:Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for Everyone on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:22PM (#20933920)
That's not an HTTP error code.
Re:Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:16PM (#20933846)
Accountability? (Pun may or may not be intended)
Re:Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @10:22AM (#20928499)
"Send all your browsing data through cloudflare" is not exactly what I think of when I want privacy
Re:Jack Ma retires as Alibaba’s chairman on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:19AM (#20926402)
You can also look at /r/China for your daily dose of "China is the devil"