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Comment · 5 years ago
> most idea i have seen, like a tor browsing, is focusing on changing fingerprint and not so much on making fingerprint non-unique.

Not sure if I exactly understand what you're trying to say here, but the Tor Browser itself certainly focuses on making its users' fingerprints identical. At least it's the only browser I know of that passes fingerprint tests (Panopticlick and friends) with JavaScript enabled.

Comment · 5 years ago
I would guess that the amount of people who care about which keyboard layout they use, don't use the local keyboard layout, and require appropriate labeling of keys (i.e. don't touch type) at the same time isn't that high. I can imagine how annoying it must be to be in that group, though.
Comment · 5 years ago
I still wonder how that detection thing works. My custom Firefox setup with requests proxied through Tor passes as the TBB, but copying the same request as a curl command somehow doesn't.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah after years of suffering from reCAPTCHA I'm somewhat thankful for hCaptcha. It is still annoying (especially Cloudflare's integration which seems barely compatible with the Tor Browser's cookie and circuit management), but at least I don't have to switch exit nodes twenty times just to have a chance of my solution being accepted (like with reCAPTCHA).
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
> I have sort of a weird grip but can type at about 80-90wpm on my phone with enough accuracy that autocorrect works the majority of the time.

I'm quite curious about your `weird grip'; 80-90 wpm on a touchscreen sounds absurdly fast.

Comment · 5 years ago
Couldn't the poster set a password instead of a cookie, which they could then use for comment moderation on that post?
Comment · 5 years ago
> which was/is interpreted by some to be an endorsement of deplatforming.

How else could one interpret it? I'm genuinely curious, as I thought they were pretty clear about it (emphasis mine):

> We need solutions that don't start after untold damage has been done.

> Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms.

> Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Well the Hungarian one feels like somebody took every single word in the essay and replaced it with the first result from a rather small dictionary.

Google Translate produces a better translation (which is of course still awful), but I have a feeling that the one in question was made by an earlier version of Google Translate as well.

Comment · 5 years ago
I don't really get the outrage, I've always been perfectly fine being addressed by the government and other organizations without the diacritics in my name. In fact I far prefer that to their placement being mixed up by human error (or a wrong diacritical mark being used, etc).

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