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iqanq··on ‘Space cleaner’ satellite spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite
>Wow. In the beginning I found the article interesting before (in my subjective eyes) it turned into a thinly veiled Anti-China propaganda piece.

Domain is .in, you didn't have to open it.

iqanq··on Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war
The NATO, which shouldn't be expanding eastwards, wants missiles in Ukraine pointing at Putin's face.
iqanq··on Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war
I suspect "Anne Applebaum"'s loyalty doesn't lie with America.
iqanq··on Ask HN: Why is there no small Android phone?
"Why doesn't X exist?" Because people generally don't want it.
iqanq··on The Wild West of Windows command line parsing
The Wild West of Trying to Shove UTF-8 onto a UTF-16 Operating System
iqanq··on Going IPv6 Only
There still isn't a 464XLAT implementation on Windows that can be used in WAN/LAN networks.
iqanq··on Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
>This site will be the first stop for anyone wanting to harass another person online. Some times a little friction is a good thing.

Precisely I was thinking of how much fun we'll be having in efnet with this.

iqanq··on A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world
If you are a feminist activist in saudi arabia, I guess you know the deal
iqanq··on Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
If you don't like the way Outlook shows you ads then do not use Outlook.
iqanq··on Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting
So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?
iqanq··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
Ooops, virtue signalling gone wrong here.
iqanq··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
No but you can pirate it.
iqanq··on 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer
60M up, lmao. Let me guess, HFC
iqanq··on Replace the Text Encoding menu with a single override item
Given that it's known that power users disable telemetry, developers should not rely on telemetry alone when deciding to remove a feature. The opposite is spiting power users, and you can see how that's going for Mozilla.
iqanq··on Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?
Discord is snappy? Is this the level of desktop applications in 2022? :P
iqanq··on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
People want to debate politics, but submissions about politics get killed. Therefore people end up using any excuse to debate politics in any thread.
iqanq··on Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?
That's like saying if I create a 3D model of my neighbour's car and drive it around the streets of a videogame I am "squatting my neighbour's car" or "using a car I don't own".
iqanq··on Audiblegate
I know how VAT works. If the government changes the VAT overnight then prices won't round to .99 until merchants (or Amazon themselves) change the base price again. I don't see the issue.
iqanq··on Audiblegate
>I can totally see that happening. Who develops systems with short term VAT changes in mind?

I suppose it's the same codebase as any other country's amazon, and there's a different VAT rate in every country.

iqanq··on New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars
I'm not an authoritarian kind of guy but there are people who are better removed from society entirely.
iqanq··on Privacy Sandbox on Android
After so many years people love apple products much more than they love google products.
iqanq··on How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013)
I don't see a single ad. Perhaps your ad blocker is misconfigured or the filters are out of date? Try to refresh the filter lists.
iqanq··on DuckDuckGo \u202E
It's accidental, because other characters are also displayed: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=u20aa
iqanq··on Google Search Is Dying
For the same reason some apps (used to?) launch on iphone first.
iqanq··on I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic
If you think HN is toxic you haven't been anywhere else.
iqanq··on Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)
As soon as I visit every website I am asked to install an app. That doesn't mean I install any. People will only switch browsers if they are discontent with what they have.
iqanq··on Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)
>the Mr Robot marketing stint

I remember how much I freaked out when I found that that extension was installed. I had not installed it myself, the title and the description were pretty weird, there were no hits on Google (yet), etc. I thought that I had been hacked and that my browser data, including passwords, had been exfiltrated somewhere else. And all in the name of advertising for a telly show! This broke my trust with Mozilla forever and I haven't used Firefox ever since.

iqanq··on Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)
Google is a convenient scapegoat, but the current state of Firefox is 100% Mozilla's fault, and until you realise that you will be far away from a solution.
iqanq··on Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act
I am vaccinated and I oppose mandates. Who am I to tell others what to do?
iqanq··on Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act
Certainly yes. You are fined. If you accumulate several fines, you will eventually be arrested. If you resist the arrest, you will find where the barrel of the gun is ;)
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