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rjvbkon Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe

Yes sorry. The browser is directly owned by a for-profit, then.

rjvbkon Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe

You're talking about the same Firefox that displays ads on my home page by default, sends analytics to them by default, and is owned by a foundation that is owned by a for-profit company?

rjvbkon Unveil(2) – Unveil parts of a restricted filesystem view

I don't like it, it's un-C-like.

rjvbkon Zuckerberg defends Facebook users' right to be wrong – even Holocaust deniers

Banning the spreading of ideas requires control of information, yes.

rjvbkon Facebook to Remove Misinformation That Leads to Violence

I think "protesting in front of twitter HQ for enabling a political view I don't like" is a silly thing to do. If you don't like X (in this case fascism) I am sure there are better things you can do to stop it, like creating an alternative that those who like X would adhere to.

rjvbkon Facebook to Remove Misinformation That Leads to Violence

They will just switch to whatsapp. I'm sure "human rights" advocates will be extra happy about the end to end encryption now :')

rjvbkon Facebook to Remove Misinformation That Leads to Violence

"human rights abuses"... so they will lean left, like that Twitter committee.

rjvbkon Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed

>ALICE fails to adequately peer with CAROL’s autonomous network and calls it a feature.

It also works the other way around: CAROL does not want to pay ALICE to have premium access.

Also, laughable that you call me a shill. Seems like the most used argument when you don't agree with someone. I'm not even American. So your "BOB can't switch ISPs" does not even apply here.

rjvbkon European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

Liechtenstein has a population of 37,666 and Monaco has a population of 37,308. I mean, they are "countries", but...

rjvbkon Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed

>Side note, Netflix isn't using any traffic. They're not sending me a UHD video stream unsolicited. I'm using the traffic.

Milk companies put their lorries in the highway to deliver their products. You're the one buying milk. Are you the one who's using the highways?

If Netflix wants a premium highway let them pay for it. Otherwise they will have to use the normal highway, the one that's worked fine until Netflix decided to fill it with lorries.

rjvbkon Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed

ISPs are neutral here, the problem is, once again, that Netflix uses a HUGE amount of traffic, and the normal routes (the ones everybody gets) get saturated.

If they want "premium" routes for their MASSIVE traffic, they will have to pay to the ISPs. I think that's reasonable. Giving them premium routes for free would not be neutral, would it? ;)

rjvbkon Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed

Netflix uses fast.com and their speed index as a way to extort ISPs into giving them traffic for free. They refuse to pay any fees to connect directly to ISPs and then they use that website to imply they are being throttled when the meager free routes they use get saturated, which is their own fault.

rjvbkon European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe

It gets much worse depending on the country:

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/italy

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/spain

rjvbkon European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

I used the wrong term, I meant "dominant position". Google has one with Android and they abuse it. That's why they are being fined.

rjvbkon European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

Apple does not have a <s>monopoly</s> dominant position. In my country I think they are like 10% of the market. You can't abuse your dominant position if you don't have one.

rjvbkon People in these countries work the longest hours according to OECD

In what cultures exactly?

rjvbkon An entomologist rates ant emojis

In this case it was a political change; some OEMs caved and changed the pistol to a water gun and some did not.

Emoji are a vital part of the way we communicate online so some see them as a prime way to push their agenda.

rjvbkon I’m leaving China

That's not everything the TFA says. It begins talking about how uncivil the Chinese are.

rjvbkon Microsoft is making the Windows command line a lot better

The point of Windows is Win32 and DirectX. At least for me: those are the two reasons I can't move to any other OS.

rjvbkon Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'

Just prepend https://outline.com/ to the URL.

https://outline.com/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fe...

rjvbkon Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

Yeah, the same many developers haven't escaped strings they inserted into SQL tables, leading to SQL injections. Does this mean if I don't do that I have a right to brag about it? If I wrote a post saying "look at me, I escape strings" the response here would be "cool story bro". This isn't any different.

rjvbkon Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

>We don’t share the state of other players if it doesn’t need to be shared, so we can avoid common cheats like “map hacks” (revealing all players on the map). >We let the server’s game simulation make the authoritative game decisions and generally don’t trust the information received from the client, which helps prevent common cheats like “god mode” and “disconnect hacks,” barring any overlooked exploits. >Our network protocol has been obfuscated, and we change this obfuscation regularly so that making a network-level bot is much more difficult.

I hope they are proud of doing the obvious. That's like having a webpage and bragging about escaping strings that you insert into a SQL table...

rjvbkon Voting Machine Vendor Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States

I don't think it's technically possible to make voting machines secure enough to use them in an election. So I am happy these things happen so the idea of using voting machines fades away forever.

rjvbkon Almost booting an iOS kernel in QEMU

Knockoff iPhones would sell like hot bread.

rjvbkon Almost booting an iOS kernel in QEMU

It seems strange to me that there are no Chinese OEMs selling mobiles with iOS. I mean, I understand it's hard, but is it THAT hard?

rjvbkon Instapaper is going independent

Is it still blocked? It works here, but some geo DBs locate me in Russia because my ISP bought the IP address I use from there recently.

rjvbkon Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out

Having a centralised system with health records is bad? I've had that since I was born in my country and I think it's useful and handy. Something happens to you, they know what could've been, if you're on meds, what things and meds you're allergic to, etc.

I guess the outrage makes sense when looked from an American point of view where you distrust the government by principle?

rjvbkon Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI

The cloud provider will notice when they get blocked in a country.