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Re:Show HN: Encarta 95 Web on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:09AM (#50257342)
the problem i have is the mouse control is weird.
Defend Open Knowledge...

Yet at the same time their CloudFront WAF decided to block IP coming from Singapore ISP...

So much on defending open.

Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:50AM (#50054445)
I like your idea, but as a pessimist, I believe the ship has sailed, all government are craving on monitoring their citizens' move. If there are way for the government to fingerprint their citizen digitally, they will want to do it instead of protect us.
I thought the tobacco industry taught us a lesson or two

https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/tobacco-preve...

Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:13PM (#49886763)
> It's worth stating that things not working isn't the fault of Firefox. It's developers not testing their web apps with Firefox, since it has such a small market share.

Moving from Firefox to Brave does not help the vicious cycle either.

Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:28PM (#49701630)
I wonder if Apple have fixed the issue where the user want the Siri to use a different language than the UI language.
Re:Remember Hong Kong on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:14AM (#49657874)
Propaganda of what?

If you have read news you should have seen the HK courts now jail people left right and center for against CCP.

Isn't it a name clashing with DuckLabs who made DuckDB?
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:17PM (#49078041)
I found lots of comments here suffer from proximity bias.

Anthropic anti-open-model stance does not mean China is not a threat.

Here we have an example of someone who see college/university as a vocational training center for worker, instead of seeing it as higher education that inspire civilized thinker.
Re:Remote Attestation on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:01AM (#48843425)
This is also the technology that big and small OTT stream provider that they wish they can deploy on us.
Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @07:37AM (#48759826)
I can tell you it has NOTHING to do with developer, but more the business/content protection people say unlocked bootloader is not secured.
Re:The <Usermedia> HTML Element on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @08:42PM (#48754973)
Chrome basically is abusing its market position, 69.65% globally, and becomes the new IE. Implementing its own HTML/JS standard.

The sad truth is, some companies will look at Statcounter[0] and say because Firefox does not reach 5% global population and decided not supporting it, actively or passively.

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/

Does it means the Wayback Machine is also unethical to you as well?

To me archiving the internet is way more ethical than putting bulk of the content behind paywall.

Re:Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:18AM (#48550523)
Genuine ask.

Roku do Automatic Content Recognition, why do you feel they are non-evil?

Re:Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:17AM (#48550518)
The only decent device out there will be Nvidia Shield.

As a Google certified Android TV, this means it will do Widevine L1 DRM decoding, give you the 4K streaming quality.

For TV I used to recommend Sony, but now they sold the whole business to China TCL. Will have to wait and see if TCL will enshittify it.

While Trump can travel to the China with his burn phone, the citizens of the US cannot. Surely everyone is equal.
Is there any relevance with another tool call mnemon?
Re:Roku LT Operating System open source distribution on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:28AM (#48380248)
How could it be better? Brightscript is a proprietary language that serves nothing but a low power STB.
Re:Roku LT Operating System open source distribution on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @11:34PM (#48379571)
The good thing is, it is not written in Brightscript.
The "First they came for the Communists" logic still holds. When government able to open the flood gate, the mandatory ID check will be slowly and surely be everywhere.

If you don't use social media and AI platform. Fine. But what about app stores, what about any registries from docker, to npm, to apk and toward the end source code repositories like Github/Codeberg?

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