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judiisison Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

https://github.com/pritkr/predirect is also there for many frontends like invidious,searxng,nitter,scribe etc,it's default list of instances is currently outdated but it's customisable

judiisison Dear Safari, Things I Hate About You

Also not supporting PWAs and in general being behind and ocking on next gen web features

judiisison Why the future of AI is neurosymbolic. (A rare optimistic post from Gary Marcus)

He is soliciting upvotes in violation of hn guidelines https://x.com/GaryMarcus/status/1817628149381054643

judiisison OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say

Maybe don't violate laws to be fined

judiisison StreamVC: Real-Time Low-Latency Voice Conversion

What is the current best Foss(or otherwise) implementation for voice changer/anonymiser?

judiisison Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again

Privacy sandbox is not private, that's why ICO(UK's privacy watchdog) raised concerns,https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-cookies-replacement-not-enou...

judiisison Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again

"privacy sandbox" is a deceiving name,it is a harmful tracking tech,glad regulators(UK's privacy watchdog ICO) are waking up,but that also means status quo of 3rd party cookies remains until it's fixed https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-cookies-replacement-not-enou...

judiisison Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat

This is misleading

judiisison Debloat non-rooted Android devices

This project is unmaintained since a year. For an up-to-date and maintained fork see https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-an...

judiisison Show HN: Niquests – a simple HTTP library, a drop-in replacement for Requests

Nice seeing support of modern protocols in http libraries

judiisison Mercury – Compiler optimized, private Firefox fork

They will need to have multiple builds for same os

judiisison Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

They today open sourced their server which can now be selfhosted https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/

judiisison Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript

can be done using service workers or workbox(abstraction to sw)

judiisison Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript

<frame> is already there

judiisison New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency

From the end user to majority open web sites/ips (minus waiting for server to respond)

judiisison Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules

Officially they haven't confirmed anything(employees deny to comment) but it seems intentional in all aspects and bug report is silent

judiisison Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules

They remove pwas in latest ios beta(only in the EU) they are evil

judiisison Apple drops PWA support on iOS for EU users

No it doesn't work for anyone in the EU for any type of pwa

judiisison Beeper Mini removed from Google Play?

Not available in India

judiisison Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

F-droid,All the privacy frontends like invidious, piped, nitter, searxng, libreddit

judiisison Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay"

Privacy is a fundamental right, advertising is okay but tracking people or pay up is not

judiisison Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists

This seems like a disaster bill similar to Canada's bill c-18 about news

judiisison Make Pixels Dance: High-Dynamic Video Generation

The sample video with a lovely story for children looks good. This has the potential to bring down costs in content production

judiisison India tamed Twitter and set a global standard for online censorship

https://archive.li/fMrNH

judiisison Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security

India is also preparing legislation for OS and browser having their CA, they also launched their own web browser challenge https://iwbdc.in/ .They were earlier removed due to unauthorised issuances https://pkic.org/2014/07/24/in-the-wake-of-unauthorized-cert...

judiisison Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms

dang can you merge this thread with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37925416 please

judiisison Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms

It is not Open Source as claimed by Louis Rossmann https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master...

judiisison Open source app to watch videos from any platform

The issue is not about "paid", OSS can be paid, but it doesn't meet other freedoms of the Open Source Definition https://opensource.org/osd/

judiisison Open source app to watch videos from any platform

I know,not your fault, you were probably misled by Louis Grossman 's youtube video https://youtu.be/5DePDzfyWkw