Because a browser is very complex and does many things simultaneously. Not going to list them here. We all know the many things a browser has to do right. It’s a bundling of many separate components.
I think the gist of the article is: Sometimes (not always) the winning move is not to play. I have experienced this phenomenon before where my best ideas are had in the shower, or a software bug is resolved after going for a walk in nature. Another way of putting this is: avoid the target to hit it.
Yeah but many opt out of telemetry so the amount of users would be substantially higher. Also I can just spoof my useragent to Chrome to use certain sites that require chrome-only users.
There’s no mention of it being a strictly UK affair in the app description. I imagine 100s of people download it each day, fill in the form and then bail once they realize it’s UK only.
The Treasury should setup several mixer honeypot services to find out who’s tumbling dirty money. This would be far more effective and would turn people off using mixers (at least for a while) and would uncover a vast criminal network.
I downloaded Monzo on the Play store and installed it. During registration it asked for personal data like my address etc then proceeded to tell me it’s a UK only app. I was shocked. I’m in the EEA and thought I could use the app. It should be clear in the app’s description that it’s a UK only affair. I imagine this has happened to many more people other than me.
I only ever used prepaid CCs that you load with a fixed amount. CCs that allow you to spend more than is in the account is financial vampirism and needs to stop.
I think the gist of the article is: Sometimes (not always) the winning move is not to play. I have experienced this phenomenon before where my best ideas are had in the shower, or a software bug is resolved after going for a walk in nature. Another way of putting this is: avoid the target to hit it.
It’s worth having some form of takeaway from a book, even if it’s just one profound paragraph that resonated with you, and the rest can be filtered out. I mostly read self help, and have managed to boil some books down to a little kernel of truth that I use daily to help me navigate life. Holding a whole book in your head can be done.
Yeah I’ve even had very personal dreams where my Linux root password was spoken in the dream. I’m glad I don’t talk in my sleep. There’s also truth serums that can be weaponized in war scenarios to extract secrets from the enemy without resorting to torture.
Gabriel, whilst you’re answering questions here, I have one slightly tangential question and it’s as follows: why does DDG not have a warrant canary?
I’m skeptical of using the service since it’s a US based service and the US doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to privacy.
For this reason I only ever use DDG combined with an anonymous mixer service like Tor. It would be trivial for bad actors to be placed in your data center and tie specific IPs to particular searches, no?
Some sites have multiple versions of the same page. Like there would be a GitHub repo, and then a GitHub page residing on site.github.io that is usually the same thing. Also some projects eventually get an entire dedicated domain after residing on GitHub for a number of years.
I imagine depression is a multi-faceted problem and not singularly a chemical imbalance problem. On a holistic level it could also mean you’re spiritually broken and don’t have the right tools to navigate life and its many hurdles. People need the right tools to navigate life.
I read a quote that went something like: Even the paranoiacs know a little something of what’s going on.
Most paranoia is baseless and delusional, but every now and then it has some foundation. It depends on who you are. This is why I don’t want to be famous, or a journalist, or a prominent activist.
I’m a regular Joe Schmo and can barely have any privacy anyways due to the way the Internet has been designed.
By mentally ill I mean it can cause extreme paranoia. Obviously not in all cases. It depends on set and setting. Imagine taking shrooms at a death metal concert and seeing demons for example. I’m all for the ritualistic set and setting, and eating well beforehand and maybe making a mixtape of good music to listen to whilst tripping. You don’t take these things going in blind.
I’m all for psychedelic therapy especially for those with a terminal illness and in a controlled environment with a sitter or an experienced psychonaut, but psychedelics are a double edged sword and need to be treated as such. So many going fully mentally ill after taking them.
Reminds me of ‘Fitter Happier’ by Radiohead. Some loose guide on how to succeed in life, although the Radiohead lyrics are more cynical. Here’s the lyrics:
"Fitter Happier"
Fitter, happier, more productive
Comfortable (Not drinking too much)
Regular exercise at the gym (Three days a week)
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well (No more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
A patient, better driver
A safer car (Baby smiling in back seat)
Sleeping well (No bad dreams)
No paranoia
Careful to all animals (Never washing spiders down the plughole)
Keep in contact with old friends (Enjoy a drink now and then)
Will frequently check credit at (Moral) bank (hole in wall)
Favours for favours
Fond but not in love
Charity standing orders
On Sundays ring road supermarket
(No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
Car wash (Also on Sundays)
No longer afraid of the dark
Or midday shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
Nothing so childish
At a better pace
Slower and more calculated
No chance of escape
Now self-employed
Concerned (But powerless)
An empowered and informed member of society (Pragmatism not idealism)
Will not cry in public
Less chance of illness
Tires that grip in the wet (Shot of baby strapped in back seat)
A good memory
Still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva
No longer empty and frantic
Like a cat
Tied to a stick
That's driven into
Frozen winter shit (The ability to laugh at weakness)
Calm
Fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics
I had a blogpost about five years ago that got frontpaged on HN. It had about 300 upvotes. Google Analytics reported it got 10,000 uniques, impressions about twice that (some people browsed the about page and other posts of mine). Then there’s people blocking Google Analytics so the actual metric would be much higher. I was lucky I used a CDN both for HTML and images, otherwise it would be hugged to death.
Ubuntu for surfing. Although I don’t like their bundled Firefox I uninstalled the Firefox preinstall and got the proper one from Mozilla as you get real-time updates. (The Linux compatible one).
As for search: Kagi (paid) and Qwant are pretty sound and don’t track you.
Small startups need to be poaching ‘Big Boys’ employees, not the other way round. I see many boutique shops offering (nearly) the same pay, and poaching from FAANG+M (The M is Micro$oft)