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OrgNet··on Pirate Act: what the law says and how it threatens pirate radio stations
It is harder to track who's listening to which FM station and might be useful if your internet is being blocked or censored
OrgNet··on Pirate Act: what the law says and how it threatens pirate radio stations
I did that for a bit too and quickly noticed that not all aircrafts broadcast that signal...
OrgNet··on The California DMV Is Selling Drivers’ Personal Information
> * Some contact details

this includes phone numbers and it causes about 90% of phone spam...

OrgNet··on Yahoo Pipes
pipes looked like the future ... but it was too early, I guess
OrgNet··on Recreation.gov
The map doesnt load and it's missing many camping sites in my area
OrgNet··on Are We Wayland Yet?
> How do they get people to use it?

call it Firefox v100 and automatically update

OrgNet··on Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker
you should also track the comments moving from thread to thread (when an admin moves comments from one thread to anoter), comment shadow banning, post popularity based on upvote counts (lots of times, post get to the front page with only a few votes), or maybe even track how fast posts get deranked
OrgNet··on 20yo brags to undercover agent about building a secure Gentoo distro for ISIS
> The FBI's complaint alleges that 20-year-old Chicago man Thomas Osadzinski designed a custom Python script to enable other ISIS supporters to archive propaganda in an organized manner with the goal of spreading it online.

that sounds like a big crime /s

OrgNet··on Apple pulls all customer reviews from online Apple Store
> It was frankly idiotic of them to have it there in the first place.

exactly, you have to be stupid to buy apple products...

OrgNet··on Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file
lol... a file that contains a bunch of files? is that an archive? or a set of instructions to download a bunch of files? what is the world coming to?
OrgNet··on How to run your own mail server (2017)
probably should switch to something like Matrix instead...
OrgNet··on Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
I signed up but the cost is way too high so I won't be using it... like 10 times too high?
OrgNet··on Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
It needs to fight for the present of the web, because it is getting worst.
OrgNet··on Google Interferes with Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results
search results used to be pretty neutral 20 years ago... but yeah Google Search is not neutral.
OrgNet··on Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
it probably cost less than $1/month to host the average user... this is just craziness
OrgNet··on Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed
I use an extension that re-enable the messenger in the mobile browser... it is very broken but better then nothing (broken on purpose by Facebook because they want to spy on you with the app) ... it is called, "unblock facebook chat"
OrgNet··on Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
I've been using Firefox since the beginning... even when it used to be a lot slower then Chrome. I didn't like the updating service that Google installed on my computer that was always running in the background... do they still do that?
OrgNet··on My name causes an issue with any booking
hyphens and name length can also cause issues
OrgNet··on Audio Fingerprinting using the AudioContext API
do we really need another reason for blocking all ads?
OrgNet··on Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think
I love Firefox sync, mostly to share tabs to any of my devices but also to access history/bookmarks
OrgNet··on Google Announces .new Domain Availability
lets just go back to IP addresses at this point
OrgNet··on Panopticlick
is that still true since operating systems and browsers automatically update themselves now?
OrgNet··on Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com
how did they get caught?
OrgNet··on AirPods Pro
you are not required to buy ugly wireless earbuds with a battery that only last a few hours... you are required to eat though
OrgNet··on Panopticlick
that'd be nice but I don't think that there is one so I don't think that he is doing what he is claiming.
OrgNet··on Panopticlick
the useragent is far from being the only metric used by panopticlick
OrgNet··on I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece (2018)
Exactly. The deep state wanted Clinton, and they failed.
OrgNet··on Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy
what about top-secret patents? (aka: inventions too good to be shared)
OrgNet··on $2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People
It's not as bad as police dogs that 'find' things on-command, by the real police officer, to give him/her probable cause to search your car/etc...
OrgNet··on Gmail marking email from me as spam
The do that to me all the time and also tell me there is suspicious activity on my account when I login and there is no way to turn off these "features"
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