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Hilarious! It never occurs to the model that the user might be using a privacy-oriented browser (I tried it on several devices in several browsers). I like it even though it's drawing totally incorrect conclusions.

Brave just disables the cookie banners (they don't even load), while this fills such forms if I understood correctly. Somehow I get very targeted ads in other apps after using Brave, so I tend to use firefox-based browsers for personal (i.e. any not work-related) stuff.

Thanks for sharing. By skimming through readme some stuff is still not clear to me:

- Can it be used for rejecting consent and not just consenting to everything?

- If so, do you maybe know what happens when it doesn't have a rule for rejecting consent on some site? It would be great if it just lets the pop-up pop up normally.

- How does it handle the "legitimate interest" checkboxes? I.e. can I make it uncheck them all on every site that provides them?

Is there a good explanation why didn't gdpr "make websites obey do-not-track" (or a similar set of rules/whitelist/blacklist that can easily be set once in a browser) instead of prompting for manual consent every time? I never see it when a discussion like this arises

It should have been designed in a way that doesn't allow such malicious compliance, but this is still an improvement

Yes, and I'm glad I can at least now tell such sites from others. Not allowing such malicious compliance would be better, but this is still an improvement over websites stealing data with no way of telling it happens

I hope more companies start recycling their own products. It makes me sad to see so much valuable electronics, so many "totalled" cars just thrown away on the same heap as other rubbish (and old cars respectively). Such a waste of resources is surpassed only by war.

In case you watch on an Android phone: Newpipe doesn't even use your account, so the possibility of getting banned for it is much smaller.

You can make playlists in it and track your history (locally), so I don't think it's inferior to the official app. On the contrary.

Also, these new Android phones have the option to modify which app opens youtube links by default, so it's easy to just list Newpipe instead of the official app.

The only downside are downtimes a few times per year when YT changes something and Newpipe devs are making a fix, which never took more than a few days.

Knowing facts and applying algebraic formulas indeed doesn't seem to be doing much, but I guess education about logic, critical thinking, biases, fallacies and debate _would_ play a role _if such education was emphasized_.

Interesting. I had the impression that Chinese will likely become very useful during our lifetimes... With the momentum their economy has, I expect knowledge of both English and Chinese to become a very sought out skill

Ditto the first sentence.

One imperfect, but applicable analogy: "emotions are a fuel, and reasoning should be the steering system"

I think it would be useful to emphasize that not letting the emotions govern applies to regret as well: Yeah, I did what I shouldn't have (or missed an opportunity), but now it's done and staying miserable helps noone, just makes me feel bad. Let's take it seriously and make the best of it (at least using it as a very important lesson), focusing on improving the future, not crying about the past.

If advertising is giving an expected edge over competition bigger than price decrease, then the advertising will be used in sort of an arms race that could have been a competition in giving the best product for the least money instead.

Still, even if there is no immediate price decrease for the customer, I would be much more satisfied if all the money went to the maker(s) of the product and well-investing shareholders than someone who provides no value and could have been working on something productive instead.

> I agree with her about blaming developers, not hackers.

They are clearly called "villains".

Wind isn't a person capable of controlling their actions. There is no intention to do harm. They aren't senseless animals either. Yes, it's developers' fault if a product isn't secure enough, but it's also not wrong to put blame on those actively exploiting that. Let's not stop blaming those who do wrong --- and that kind of hackers is doing wrong, not just the developers "making stupid decisions".

Those aren't mutually exclusive

I know it's just a figure of speech, but I'd also like to add a reminder if someone needs to see it: channeling that same rage into investing time and effort into making a change is the very reason why such an enraging show is made and why it should be watched. Just raging into the wind is pointless, specially after choosing not to invest anything into making a change

GP comment says that more often than not the blogger isn't an artist. I'd like to add that not only blog-sellers can benefit from the advice above: if someone is drawing an instruction manual, making an expressionist painting is counterproductive to the totally valid goal of conveying information as clearly as possible and in the most digestible manner. Stick to the stick figures if that's your goal.

And if you write primarily for the sake of writing, I don't think anyone is telling _you_ to change your approach in a way that doesn't fit _your_ goals. The advice are for others.

And if neither fixes nor selling deficient phone aren't expected to yield decent profit on used phone market, many won't hassle with it.

It's not always just battery replacement:

Spend 12% of the cost of a new phone to keep the deficient one running, spend even bigger fraction on both battery and another overpriced fix to have decent QoL on the used phone (or other way around, fix a broken screen to have a working old phone with bad battery or spend bigger part of the price of a new phone to fix both), expecting the new battery to die sooner, requiring another 12% as well as other overpriced fixes due to the phone's age -- or just buy a new phone and impress whomever you want without any hassle and worry?

I don't think that's majority of cases, but I bet it's a significant amount (>5%), in a large market

What a disingenous question, yuck. No, whether ads are relevant or not was never the core issue, so that alone wasn't the cause of his actions (btw, doesn't sound like much effort tbh). The relevance of ads is just a symptom of underlying cause.

I would work on making education more enjoyable and more effective in a scalable way, so that young people start liking it intrinsically and can get more out of it.

I would study to get as much as possible formal education myself in economics, law, marketing / psychology and politics and I would try to improve peoples' lives through politics.

I would develop the most useful side projects I put on hold.

If ES plus is the type of calculator you want, fx-991EX classwiz is a more capable version in every way except maybe the price. If you don't want a graphing calculator, programming and CAS on it, the fx-991EX is one of the best, if not the best scientific calculator out there (haven't seen many, though).

Includes beautiful UI (roots, exponents and fractions are displayed like we write them, so more is visible, and the navigation is easier), spreadsheets, printing out values of a real function, solving any real equation for X (one solution at a time, gotta give it different starting Xs for optimization, though), some very basic probability (Gauss) statistics (e.g. linear regression), up to 4x4 matrices, finding derivative in a point, sum over a range, integral over an interval, arithmetic with complex numbers etc.

It doesn't render graphs, but, it renders a qr code that a phone can scan and then the phone shows the graph, so some graphing is there for studying, but not an exam.

From user's POV: if you do have to ask for cookies, please make the "reject all" button object to all "legitimate interests", so I don't have to manually expand each "purpose" to object. I won't use the site unless I object to all. If it's too big of a hassle at that moment , I'll just leave and not come back

Hello! Are there some educational materials for learning about conflict resolution / management you would recommend? If there are, can you please name them here?

It's highly subjective. Fallout 1 is quite enjoyable once you learn the ropes (Internet is your best help there, not the game), but I prefer Fallout 4 in terms of gameplay mechanics, content quality and amount of content. Fallot 4 was much more immersive and overall enjoyable.

If someone has enough time to give it a try: look up on the Internet the controls beforehand and have very balanced SPECIAL, otherwise you won't reach vault 15 (the first mission). Also, there is a gun behind a toilet in that vault, even if you can't see it when looking for it there. Don't bother trying to escape if the mutants capture you.

Those are the acivities I lost too much time figuring out, which can be quite a turn off in the start. I well spent much more time enjoying the game.

P.S. SPECIAL can't be upgraded later

Why not have a random draw?

How do such devices affect eyesight? Is the leneses not "zooming in" to see "far objects" harmful? How does it compare to using flat screens?

I suppose it's findable on the Internet and I am planning to search that info later, but here seem to be knowledgeable folk, so I'd also like to hear your thoughts

As a former high-school student who has done many little projects with tkinter at that time, I would recommend against dumping tkinter altogether for several reasons:

- with higher complexity comes higher versatility. I liked how it enabled me to be creative - there are two well-written reference websites for learning it easily despite complexity (and that's important if you want your students to like/learn to read the docs) - the tkinter being shipped with Python meant quite a lot to me

However, the reason I did that many projects is that part of my class wasn't really into programming, so if you think that learning and using this will be significantly easier than tkinter basics, go with it, but I would recommend leaving tkinter at least as an option for "those who want to know more", i.e. students who are considering studying CS.