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ta9999··on Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India
They're unable to handle their child pornography problem but they can still find the resources to rig democracies.

Why people let any of their software near their computers is a very interesting psychology problem.

ta9999··on Where does a candle go when it burns?
This takes surprisingly little precision, you really exhale quite a lot of mass over 8 hours.
ta9999··on Google have declared Droidscript is malware
Tinder does have a web interface, so does doordash (I've never head of Gojek but I'd imagine it does too.)

I thought WhatsApp also had a web interface but I wouldn't use it anyway and there are similar chat apps that do so why would you?

ta9999··on Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
Maybe something to do with household cleanliness? I know when I go into dirty buildings my allergies mess me up.
ta9999··on The Quest for a Floating Utopia
Does the perspective on the boundary matter if the end result is that you can't cross it?
ta9999··on Hedy is a gradual programming language that helps kids to learn Python
I'm still not convinced Python's syntax is great for beginners.
ta9999··on Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)
So tinder is essentially iPimp at this point, except the women get 0%.
ta9999··on [dead]
"Oh no you can just run malware on your computer! It's the worst hack in years!"
ta9999··on Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
Who the hell would pay google for youtube? Anything worth watching is on patreon so you can just watch it there if you want to pay for something without dealing with all of Google's crap.
ta9999··on CSS Tips
Yeah, if there's an alternative with functioning scrollbars people will probably use that instead. It's always surprising how popular screwing with basic UI elements like that always becomes.
ta9999··on iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
Never, they make way to much money and have an incredible amount of power over developers by keeping it disabled.

People just leave you out of group chats if you don't have an iPhone now because building a decent chat application for iOS is too fucking hard.

ta9999··on Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster
I would argue cars are still mostly a disaster. They're not good for the environment, they partitioned neighboorhoods, they're very dangerous (the biggest non-disease killer of younger people before drugs), and they're another thing poor people end up having to buy and owe payments on every month.
ta9999··on The Story of the SolarWinds Hack
Something to remember is that these sorts of things happen in many organizations.

You should always verify the data you get, be careful with complex supply chains, and avoid binaries you didn't build yourself. Don't skip these things just because "that's the way it's always been done." 10 years ago very little internet traffic was encrypted, security still means progress not the status quo.