Well... Good point, but it seems I'm the lucky 10K today :) I wasn't around WWII to see the military equipment ads in the newspapers. And even though I've read a lot of newspapers in Poland (basically since the 90s) I don't recall seeing an explicit military equipment advertisement in popular daily and weekly newspapers, except for one case when Poland was debating the purchase of multi-purpose fighter jets, and there were I think F-16 ads – but these were printed inside the in-flight magazines of LOT Polish Airlines, so not really accessible to the wider public. On a side note, air travel advertisement seems to be a MIC's favourite choice, as I vividly remember huge Raytheon billboards at the Warsaw airport baggage claim during the NATO summit ;)
Google Fit is being replaced by Goolge Fitbit, but as usual with Google what is really happening is Google is one by one replacing the sections of the original Fitbit app with the Google Fit interface. The first thing that got replaced is the Fitbit Sleep tracking, and believe me when I say what Google did is an abomination in terms of UI/UX design. The previous Fitbit sleep tracking screen was near perfection of readability and clarity. The new one is Google's usual form-over-function design language where the most important metric (weekly-view sleep score) is hidden and requires many taps to access.
Turns out it's Apple itself that "sells" my data. Most likely because of I have Siri enabled with location access to "frequent places" or "important locations"... I'm quite disappointed. I thought this data wasn't shared with third parties, but as usual I didn't read the TOS/Privacy word by word...
I thought about it, but how would this work exactly? I passed the airport on a highway, so I didn't connect to any wifi. Maybe my phone probed some access point, but still this would require the said point to send my phones identity to FR24 servers. Or maybe it was my cell provider? I pinged a cell base station nearby the airport, and this fact was registered and sent to a 3rd party, and FR24 has a subscription with that 3rd party monitoring users? But that'd be surveillance on another level. Thus my first guess is something happened on my phone, FR24 somehow came up with a solution to go around various privacy restrictions of iOS.
The author highlights tracking, profiling & targeting. Just yesterday, I Asked HN but none responded: can't we just flood the trackers with random data instead of fight so hard to block them? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324946
Can't believe nobody here mentioned that his translation is a funny blunder. When you type "валентина сынах" into Google Translate you in fact get "Valentine Sons" but it's a mistake. There's actually a helpful tip showing the correct translation from Ukrainian of the person's name "Valentina Synakh" (Synah, to be accurate). Making a Russian connection out of this is a bit far fetched... But I guess that was the point.
This reminds me of TweetDeck, with many many streams opened at once. While the concept sounds interesting, it quickly becomes very cluttered to the eyes. I think the main problem stems from the necessity to monitor chats horizontally but read each chat vertically.
I find it interesting that the fact so many comments mention config flags mean not many here are actually using the same Firefox, and not even close to the default one used by the 99% of its users.
We, as humanity, simply have to explore beyond Earth to survive in the long term (meaning really long term, like next 1000 years). Moon, Mars, and beyond. It's evident that Earth is not big enough for all of us, today. What about the next 1000 years? Our population growth rate over the millennia looks very much like covids spread ;) so I guess there's nowhere else to go than space.
Turns out "engineered social interactions" is indeed an oxymoron. Also, Google's work structure where most product leads don't have dedicated tech teams but instead have to win over tech groups to work on their projects result in too much technocracy and too little empathy in projects like this. Can't say I feels sorry for them though. Google masqueraded itself as an idealistic company and a champion of the internet but consistently kept undermining the free web in pursuit of money. It's a great business model and they made a huge commercial success. But the "do no evil" bullshit and the cult-like attitude of googlers is just pathetic.
Electric cars still need power - hopefully wind and solar, but most likely also nuclear, and fossil. If one would be to calculate the pollution cost of creating materials to build all the new power sources (wind, solar, nuclear) to support nearly 100% electric mobility, I wonder how it stands against current fossil-powered transportation.
Some developers are a funny bunch, always chasing after the next cool thing: either a language, an editor, a stack or a methodology. I’ve watched the RoR hype, the Agile frenzy, the Sublime Text popularity, the Angular and React mania... The truth of the matter is that while a developer needs to keep up with new tech, often “new” doesn’t mean better, just different. Choosing the right tools for the job at hand from all the available ones, not just the “cool” ones, is an often missed quality of a good developer.
Your dobelli link is 404 :( anyway, this whole problem isn’t new but it’s very hard to solve. How to stay informed but not bloated? I don’t know... here they compare mainstream news to fast food so I guess that’s one way to look at it: https://thecontext.net/opinion/2017/04/4/the-post-truth-and-...
To put it a bit over the top: In every other language you write code. Perl is magic and you write spells. It suppose to be this way, because the way it works is sorcery. I don’t know about you, but I always wanted to be a wizard, not a typist.
Oath has one of the more nagging GDPR pop-ups. I like Slashdot, they at least give an opt-out option to access the content. On TC you are either opting-in or forbidden to access. And it's not like a technical necessity either. My company, ProcessOne, has a Wordpress blog that doesn't set any cookies or local storage. It uses Google Analytics and internal WP stats. But they are properly configured to not track, just measure.
You gotta love the developers' schizophrenia where on one hand we go batshit crazy over mass data collection by "malicious" apps, and on the other we fight with passion for the same apps to just run unmonitored in the background and collect. "You've got a smart phone but a dumb ass..."
When it comes to ideologies, it’s very easy to screw over lots of people in the name of a “greater good”. It’s very hard to be the “bigger man” and do the right thing. Google was placed between a rock and a hard place here. In a dominantely leftist community of Googleplex, they were really faced with just the bad choices. But they probably made the worse one here.