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afweon Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime

You will have a hard time convincing people of this. Myself I don't agree. But I can see how it is appealing to privileged people who don't have to suffer petty crime themselves.

afweon Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup

I share your concern, but CAD has claimed to be able to wipe localStorage, IndexedDB and Service Workers for some time (a few months?). Check the settings screen of CAD and see for yourself.

afweon The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas

Why aren't they kicked out? Why do people need green cards if they can stay?

afweon The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas

How can a non citizen pay taxes?

afweon Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos

If I wanted to see naked women on tiktok, I would not complain about it.

If you make a new profile on tiktok (or just download the app) you will see a few women in borderline pornographic videos. That's all it took for me to remove the app, which means I did not give the app much time to learn about my tastes.

afweon Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos

I don't personally agree with banning an app for that reason, but "indecent" is a proper adjective for a good chunk of the content you see on TikTok. Sometimes I wonder if bombarding people in the west with this kind of content is a strategy from China, because surely they don't allow such videos in the mainland.

afweon Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

Visible but disabled items are only useful if they can be enabled in a more-or-less obvious way. Showing a disabled item that you can't enable in any way is bad UX. Am I wrong?

afweon Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

But those notices really are irrelevant, right? I mean, there is nothing I can do to bypass them. It's bad UX, like showing a disabled button that I can't enable by any means.

Having said this, you can still use Telegram Web on Safari to bypass these restrictions.

afweon Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

>Through what right or means can Apple demand this, though?

The App Store is theirs and they will kick you out if they don't like you. Isn't that good enough?

afweon Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

They can see the title and possibly the picture, though. (People who know this use inconspicuous names and pictures)

afweon Ask HN: Do you get addicted to your HN votes like normal people do to Instagram?

On HN I get addicted to my downvotes. And the flags... oh god, the flags.

afweon “35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”

Regular users used to be able to search for people using email addresses, not anymore.

afweon Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet

The website could detect whether you are using a regular browser or curl itself to download the .sh file and return something different. So inspecting the .sh using your browser before you run that line would not protect you.

afweon Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network

I love masscan, I guess the author won't read this, but thanks for this tool, it's very useful.

If you hadn't made it, someone else would've written it in Python so it would get stuck on CPU all the time, heh.

afweon Purism – Fund Your App

What about React Native?

afweon Facebook Just Forced Its Most Powerful Critics Offline

Why blame Facebook here instead of the ISP that disconnected the website for a stupid reason?

afweon Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

The tech world is in the US, not the EU.

afweon VW sees EVs making up 90% of Norway sales in 2021

Why the downvotes?

afweon Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y

Redirects me to the local version of businessinsider and 404's.

https://archive.is/GZtG6

afweon Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally but Not Vertically? Here's the Physics

Isn't it the photograph that is flipped? After all if I'm in front of a mirror my left hand appears to the left and the right hand appears to the right. But on a photograph it's the opposite.