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Just because we're in a position to say no doesn't mean that we shouldn't feel compassion for the others that are not in an opportunity to do so. A tech office without a janitor will be dysfunctional, same as the one without a senior engineer. But unlike a senior engineering position, a janitor will not be a full-time position.

I'd personally even take it one step further: those who are payed the least need benefits the most. By relegating this work to temporary workers you're doing exactly the opposite: cutting away the privileges that the full-time employees have. Not to just one employee, but anyone who's ever going to fill out that position.

A trip to the doctor would not make a dent in a senior engineer's pocket (regardless of the insurance), but a janitor could not afford a trip to the doctor in the first place. This could work in a country with good social programs to fall back on, but it has catastrophic consequences in the US.

Lower paychecks (75-80% of hourly rate of full-time workers), little to no benefits (like healthcare coverage), harder to keep track of for taxation purposes, harder to object to inhumane conditions like exploitative working hours or sexual harassment (since you're seen as a "guest" instead of an employee, complaining to the HR will usually result in you simply being discarded and replaced by someone else who won't complain) etc.

Note: I wrote this as a general trend, which does not mean this applies to Google specifically.

Because it made it easy to create inspirational posters and social media posts/avatars/covers. Its simplicity of creating a "good enough" design is what got non-designers registered, myself included.

Note: this isn't about accuracy, but you may want to read this first: https://nwu.org/an-open-letter-from-freelancers-at-nautilus-...

And a top comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14227337

We could all cherish and love our own native languages internally while relying on English abroad (and online). Those things aren't mutually exclusive.

Even that should be optional. I should be able to do with my device whatever I want to — including bricking it, deliberately compromising it (for whatever reason), and installing a different OS on top of it. Of course, there should be some sane defaults that prevent me from it, but if I really wished to, I should be able to do one (or twenty) deliberate action(s) that make that possible.

$5 means a lot more to someone who earns $5 in a day.

Look, if the companies are willing to look into a minimum wage and median salary when crafting prices for different countries, we might be easily convinced.

Do you know how much stuff you have available in Netflix? Now imagine having a choice between pirating and paying the same price as you do in a developed country for like 30% of the US catalogue. All that while earning much, much less.

GitLab introduced their Pages relatively recently, maybe three years ago. The other two (Netlify and GitHub pages) are a few years older. I also vaguely remember something about it first being available in GitLab's enterprise edition, and later on being ported to the community version.

Not saying that there's anything wrong with it in particular, but it arrived a bit too late to set the standard for anything. People compared it to Netlify even when it was first announced.

Both terms are just stupid.

Deep web: stuff not indexed by search engines. Private forums, non-public social media accounts, Telegram rooms, Discord servers etc. are technically "deep web".

Dark web: a subset of deep web that requires specific software or configuration to access. Slightly more precise, but still includes every possible use case for IPFS, Dat, ".onion" etc. Note that this is nowhere close to what people usually mean when they use the term "dark web". They're referring to the subset of a subset of deep web that's used for criminal activities.

Unfortunately, such cases will always be less appealing to write about compared to "assassins for hire on the dark web", leading to this wrong generalization of what Tor is about.

A description of the video is in Chinese, translating to something like:

> Lenovo today unveiled its own folding screen mobile phone video in an interview with Sina Technology and other media. The folding mobile phone design looks similar to Motorola's classic Razer. Do you like this lightweight folding phone?

I believe that the video wasn't meant for the English market, so they thought they could get away with it.

Apple is well-known for never talking about competition. They like to pretend it doesn't exist and only compare their products to the previous series.

It does grant them GDPR rights. If you offer service to people in the EU, you have to comply with the GDPR. If you don't, you don't have to.

How and will that be enforced is a different discussion, but the regulation clearly protects people in the EU regardless of where the website owner is located.

Wikileaks never published stories. They've focused on some elements of the data they had in order to spread the message about the entire dataset they had.

What's wrong with that approach is that everyone else got his/her private communications released publicly even if they didn't do anything wrong in particular. They were in a now-public database that exposed dirt on someone else, as a collateral damage. Wikileaks hoped that people would find more dirt from looking at the entire datasets, but what we got instead was conspiracy theories (like Pizzagate).

This is the opposite of the Panama/Paradise Papers approach, that only publishes the incriminating parts of the dataset, while guarding everyone else who happened to be a part of the same database.

I agree with the goal of Wikileaks, but not their approach.

Is this issue applicable to Feitian MultiPass key[0]? As far as I can tell, Google rebranded them as Titan Key. Ones with the Feitian's labels were handed out by Google to activists at various conferences. I assume there's no way they'll be replacing those (since they were handed out for free), but it would be nice to know if they're affected or not.

[0] https://www.ftsafe.com/products/FIDO/Multi

Nextcloud, preferably on a machine you own (but there are companies selling Nextcloud hosting as well). It replaces Google Drive, Contacts, Calendar, Photos (face recognition can be done with a third-party app), has an RSS reader, bookmarking service etc. Just look at its app store, you can install any of this with two clicks: https://apps.nextcloud.com/

It really is a suite that can combat Google's suite — and you can truly own it. Other than that, DDG for search, and your own domain for email (so that you could transfer it between different hostings if necessary).

I do have a Google account, but I use it for precisely two purposes: Google Play (my phone wouldn't work without one) and YouTube subscriptions (I can use an RSS reader for this, but it's a bit inconvenient). You can create a Google account without creating a Gmail account.

One act, regardless of how heroic it might be, doesn't mean that the person should be free from consequences for the rest of their lives.

The US extraditing him for conspiracy charges would be really tragic. Sweden wanting to hold him accountable for his behavior afterwards is completely fine.

I mean, yeah? You buy newspapers that you trust, you don't buy all of them.

What Fox News thinks is completely irrelevant to me since I'm looking for facts. I should be able to tell that to someone who's in the business of curating my news for me.

I don't know about the Spanish one, but the Croatian one caused a lot of controversy both internally and externally because it was took over by extremely conservative (and sometimes blatantly pro-faschist) group of mods, to the point where a Minister of Education discouraged students of using it as a source.

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/croatian-wikipedia-fascist-t...

> I am pretty sure that I can do a high quality FaceTime call with a number of people.

A number of people that could afford $1000+ to be able to use that platform.

I personally wouldn't consider this problem to be technically-solved until an Android that can barely be considered as a mid-ranger can do it.

> Why can't the User Agent allow the user to set themes, with some sensible defaults provided?

I think you'll be happy to learn about prefers-color-scheme: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

Chrome hasn't implemented it yet (Firefox and Safari did), but there's some activity here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=889087

As far as I understand it, a website would have two stylesheets (dark and light) and your browser would pick which one should be used. Websites would still have two themes, but the activation process would get automated. This would allow the browsers to finally implement a "I prefer dark themes" setting.

Hundreds of people died. It should leave a long-term impact on Boeing's safety record. It should take them a long time to recover and regain trust.

I believe it's a chicken and egg problem. I know I would rely on video way more if my first sentence in every video call didn't have to be "can you hear me?"

Well it's a good thing that this article talks about sharing salary info between colleagues, and makes no arguments for "telling the world" other than in the clickbaity title.

That's why it ends with a question mark, so that it makes the title not-technically-incorrect (author is "just asking a question"), while driving the engagements that have nothing to do with its content.

> Chrome on desktop has between 60 and 70, and afaik less on mobile, and less in the US. So, no.

No, it has about 60% on both mobile and desktop, not counting the derivatives (like Edge and Opera). Considering that both of those markets grew significantly since IE6 days, that makes Chrome more dominant than IE ever was.

And you seem to assume that an average consumer installs stuff on his own after the OS installation, which is not the case with less tech-savvy people I know. They usually give it to someone a bit more tech-savvy to do post-install tasks, and those always include an installation of a different browser. Every single second-hand computer available in my country's market comes with a cracked version of Windows, MS Office and a different browser. Tech-savvy ones just reinstall the OS, non-tech-savvy ones continue using the defaults — the defaults set up by someone else.

I know it sounds complicated, but it's a one-step process that only increases to pay off the more devices are connected.

I used to have four adblockers on my laptop (two operating systems x 2 browsers), one on my smartphone, one on an additional smartphone I use... and how do I stop my TV and my ebook reader from serving me ads?

Pi-hole requires little to no maintenance, and offers a lot of benefit. Two people have purchased their first Raspberry Pis after I've slipped in "oh and BTW, no ads will load while you're connected to this network" after giving them a WiFi password.

You don't need a smart lock for the second one, a cheap indoor camera that can send you alerts achieves the same. An even simpler solution is a spare Android running Haven[0] (I don't know if Edward Snowden actually created it, but he's usually associated with it).

As a tenant (and a hotel guest) I've used both of these methods over the years. Granted, I've never lived in a home that has a smart lock, but I know I would feel much safer using my own hardware for the purpose.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.havenapp.m...

> Site wants a sign-in.

Interestingly, they show the pop-up only in the US. Accessing from other locations doesn't show it.

> If this person was from any other country, he would have a green card by now.

Can you elaborate this a bit (or provide some links)? I am well aware that there are some policy changes around H-1B extensions, and that Indian workers make a huge percentage of the total denials, but I don't understand the connection between the two.

Researchers doing something using smartwatches =/= every smartwatch manufacturer already does this.