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2malaqon Show HN: Forced to Give Your Password?

I feel like this answer only explains the concept and not how it _actually_ works.

Is it an app? Is it a framework? How would it be used when one is being forced to open up their phone, does it only work within the app itself, or would it boot the phone into an alternate partition? Etc etc...

Also the website is full of AI generated images, buzzwords, and little to no substance.

2malaqon Contra Chrome: How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy

Explain who decides what a good media diet is.

2malaqon Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all

Easy now. I'm only speculating on optics here.

2malaqon Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all

I guess the fuss is about Bolsonaro being depicted as a dictator in the media and as soon as Lula da Silva takes over, authoritarian measures such as these are pushed forward?

2malaqon Show HN: XDeck – An ad-blocking client app for macOS, like TweetDeck

Bubbles, my friend.

2malaqon Thorium – Radioactive Chromium Fork

Like what? I'm genuinely curious.

2malaqon Firefox and Fastly take another step toward a privacy upgrade for the internet

So you think TCR is the best one, but you haven't really tried the other ones? How can you know?

2malaqon Gunung Padang

Well, if it says so on Wikipedia it must be true.

2malaqon Investing: Is ChatGPT outperforming the top most popular funds in the UK?

It's easy to feed current relevant data to ChatGPT.

2malaqon Vim users are better programmers

I like and use vim, but this is like saying BMW owners are better drivers.

2malaqon Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful

Needs a 2018 tag

2malaqon Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling

> This might be targeting a minority of users - it’s design for power users. I’d expect HN to be supportive of this sort of design.

You'd expect.. But please listen.

2malaqon BlackRock suffers $1.7T loss in 6 months: Worlds largest asset manager

Genuine question; If they're competitors, why is Vanguard Blackrock's biggest shareholder?[0] Is this the norm? Or is there a link between the two? (I don't know anything about the stock market)

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BLK/holders?p=BLK

2malaqon Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right

It's not a bad example when it's literally relevant to the article.

2malaqon Dato.rss: The best RSS Search experience

Which one do you think it is, considering both the functionality of the program and the high possibility of the author not being a native English speaker? For millions of people 'dato' simply means 'date', as in day of the month.

2malaqon Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta

But as per searching for "rt.com" it seems they do.

Edit: But as soon as I changed the region to 'International' instead of my own region within the EU, it produced the relevant results.

2malaqon Searching for Susy Thunder

Gob

2malaqon No Severe Covid Cases Among Vaccinated Patients Infected with Omicron

The headline should've been "No Severe Covid Cases Among Patients Infected with Omicron"

2malaqon TrackerControl

But who is tracing the trackers tracking the tracers?

2malaqon Don't let social media think for you

Just as important is to not let the mainstream media do your thinking for you either.

2malaqon Microsoft Edge just got a killer upgrade Chrome can’t match

Sidebery for Firefox ís great.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

2malaqon Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge

I read it as sarcasm.

2malaqon Show HN: Ship Investor game: Practise your bet sizing intuition

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12 x max bet gets you a nice starting capital ;)

2malaqon Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

Yes, the good old Don't Be Evil days. I've asked so many people if they can remember Google's old slogan. Nobody does.