literallycancer

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Comment · 2 years ago
It has nearly nothing to do with the tech industry or counterculture and everything to do with being shit at urban planning and selling land to speculators on the cheap, so you end up with nowhere for the sprawl to go, and the land owner voting block that sabotages any attempt at building high density settlements.
Comment · 2 years ago
Living in an apartment rather than a house is a strange definition of poverty.
Comment · 2 years ago
How do they see TOR traffic in a TLS tunnel?
Comment · 2 years ago
Might have something to do with how that particular website is using Cloudflare.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is it? Why should a random third world country be allowed to trade with Russia, Iran, North Korea or China? If anything, it would make sense if there were more sanctions, not less, with how things are going.
Comment · 2 years ago
You are likely overreacting. If you don't slap random trackers on the website, it doesn't ask you to do much at all.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sadly the EU doesn't really communicate this very well, and doesn't care to call out outright propaganda from ad tech and surveillance businesses, but the regulation is not actually hard to be compliant with.

It literally just asks that you don't spy on people. That's it. Not spying on users? Great, you don't even have to do anything.

I would be extremely surprised to see any attempt at enforcement against a website that didn't collect PII on some technicality such as not having the right footer or a contact person.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, people obsessed with Russia, and sometimes even normal experts studying Russia tend to use Russian words that way.
Comment · 2 years ago
Chris Marshall from New York Oblast :)
Comment · 2 years ago
The fluoride added to the drinking water in the US exposes you to many more times than using a fluoride tooth paste, so any leeching from this is likely inconsequential. There's also papers linked in the website and it appears that it's an improved version of the silver diamine fluoride treatment, which a quick search reveals is FDA approved.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's not your customers' fault that your business model is not viable, and guilting people into turning off AdBlock is manipulative and detrimental to overall human productivity. Asking people to watch ads is simply a bad trade off, in the same way that burning trash to save on fuel is bad -- to save 1$ in fuel costs, environmental damage in the thousands is caused. To make 1$ from ads, many multiples of damage in lost productivity and bad product proliferation are caused.

Ad based businesses are as bad as door to door life insurance scammers, multi level scammers, etc.

In short, find a job that doesn't require damaging other people.

/Forgot to mention, watching ads without buying the advertised product simply decreases ad yield over time and therefore it even wastes productivity for 0 return in the long run./

Comment · 2 years ago
Funding source is irrelevant.
Comment · 2 years ago
Do you have the Apple silicon version? The brew package is messed up somehow IIRC a the up to date version for Apple silicon doesn't have the graphical shortcuts (I don't remember what brew calls these), but the one that does is for the Intel CPUs.
Comment · 2 years ago
VLC doesn't play everything though. mpv plays stuff that VLC can't play. I never have to worry about codecs or installing anything.

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