flatfilefan

But the small brainless degradations of the UI in Firefox make me worry about its future. For example it’s not possible to permanently add exclusions to the privacy shield. Because of it the sites are often broken. And this is a feature that is directly user facing on the main screen!

Comment · 6 years ago

Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543932

Comment · 6 years ago

I wonder how much merit this objections have in a larger scheme of things. The original complaint from Mr Schrems is dating from 2013. Last few years he was chasing the DPC to merely start acting on the first court decision against FB. So it’s not like the case is new to FB. They actually mention all that in their submission.

Comment · 6 years ago

Were you guys ever curious as to what the word “anthrop” means exactly?

Here’s an interesting explanation from Socrates:” Socrates I will tell you. The name “man” (ἄνθρωπος) indicates that the other animals do not examine, or consider, or look up at (ἀναθρεῖ) any of the things that they see, but man has no sooner seen—that is, ὄπωπε—than he looks up at and considers that which he has seen. Therefore of all the animals man alone is rightly called man (ἄνθρωπος), because he looks up at (ἀναθρεῖ) what he has seen (ὄπωπε).”

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname...

And yet the English “man”, Spanish “hombre”, Russian Мужик mean the same yet different thing, namely a (working) hand. As in “how many hands do you have in your factory?”

Comment · 6 years ago

In other news Nihongo pacifier won Karáte match by a unanimous resolution.

Comment · 6 years ago

It would be cool to identify the owner of a mobile phone by the heartbeat sound. You can then keep the phone unlocked as long as the owner has it in their vicinity.