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hydgv··on Australia wildfires: 500M animals and plants killed as glaciers turn black
>Nature Conservation Council ecologist Mark Graham told parliament: “[Koalas] really have no capacity to move fast enough to get away [from the flames].

Seems like natural selection to me

lol someone was so irked by this small dose of truth that he proceeded to downvote all of my past comments

hydgv··on Windows disk space requirements (log-log scale)
This would actually be interesting if the author wasn't trying to be funny.
hydgv··on Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
If you use Brave you have to enable device recognition attempts or you won't see anything. https://i.imgur.com/QYIBFVO.png
hydgv··on Which Emoji Scissors Close?
It was quite literally leftist virtue signalling. A way for those companies to say "I support gun control".
hydgv··on Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood overweight
Skim milk tastes like whole milk that's been watered down. Simply unpleasant.
hydgv··on 100 years ago, prohibition went into effect
I like your arguments against gun control: murder is illegal already, after all.
hydgv··on 100 years ago, prohibition went into effect
>Laws should only be passed when you’re harming someone else.

Cough cough DUI cough cough liver disease cough cough domestic violence

hydgv··on How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing
Where's the entire text of this? https://i.cbc.ca/1.5397449.1576501622!/fileImage/httpImage/i...
hydgv··on Signal Creator on Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies
Actually I think it's quite a good idea if it stays up. It will show him the consequences of what he's preaching. A taste of his own medicine. (I support laws like the right to be forgotten, and I believe decentralisation to be a bad idea because it defeats those laws.)
hydgv··on Don't Shave That Yak (2005)
(2005) in case you're confused about the "five years ago" remark
hydgv··on How to stay private when using Android
I have no clue.

https://i.imgur.com/qiKBJQf.png

hydgv··on How to stay private when using Android
>This is the reason why none of your Amazon purchase confirmations list the items you purchased any more

Just checked a recent email from Amazon I received on a Gmail account and that is false.

hydgv··on Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads
Why is it a "soft limit"? Are you allowed to go over it under certain circumstances?
hydgv··on Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads
If something is not unlimited in theory, but it is unlimited in practice, then it is unlimited.
hydgv··on Bushfires in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more fires
Pretending that fires have gone up 10x[] this year is an agenda, too

[]Yeah made up number, not the point

hydgv··on The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
You could create a usenet client with all the accessibility features that you wanted.

Reddit might be accessible, but that's because they want it to be accessible. You rely on them doing you a favour.

hydgv··on Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study
Because he's my butler!
hydgv··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
Brave said they wouldn't. Who knows. I switched and I'm liking it a lot thus far, but if they implement manifest v3, all that will remain of me will be a puff of smoke
hydgv··on Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]
>FB usage is not obligatory, what I keep telling everyone who complains about FB censorship or privacy abuse - I don't have FB account because of that.

Wow are you saying that people should take responsibility for their actions and should let others choose freely what to do?

hydgv··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
Setting aside whether Cliqz could be trusted or not, just think of it: this is a decision that went through lots of managers in the Mozilla Corporation, and nobody ever stopped to think for a moment "sending the entire URL history of our users to a third party? well this is wrong". This is the kind of decision that should've led to lots of resignations inside the company, but nothing happened. To me this means there's something deeply rotten inside Mozilla. What kind of assurance do I have that they won't pull this off again in the future? And let's remember that they are strapped for cash, so it's not like they don't have an incentive to sell private user data again.
hydgv··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
Being super duper clear about having sent the full URL history of users to a third party doesn't excuse you from the fact that you, well, sent the full URL history of users to a third party.

And unless the entire leadership of the Mozilla Corporation has been replaced since then (a wet dream of mine) that blog entry is relevant, since they've done it and they could do it again.