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unicornporn··on Apple Studio Display Review: Nothing to See Here
Oh my gosh. Buy a Eizo CG-line monitor if you're shopping at this price. Built in hardware calibration and very good gray uniformity. No, not 5k but quite frankly I don't have a preference between UHD and 2560x1440 for photography, video and general use. True colors reign.
unicornporn··on Ask HN: Do I have to host all data in the EU to comply with GDPR?
Great! Rulings are one thing. I can however add that despite rulings, there's extensive work being done at Sweden's governmental agencies and municipalities to replace USA hosted services. The city of Stockholm (40 000 workers and countless students) just recently said no to Office 365 partly because of Schrems II.

Similar things are happening in other countries:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/17/stop-using-zoom-hamburgs-d...

https://edri.org/our-work/microsoft-office-365-banned-from-g...

If you want to stay ahead and will have customers in the public sector in the EU, you should probably consider hosting within the EU.

unicornporn··on Ask HN: Do I have to host all data in the EU to comply with GDPR?
If your customer is in the public sector that is probably the case.

Mandatory reading is some info on Schrems II. Starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_II

unicornporn··on We must return to an economy fueled by innovation, rather than disruption
> but in many other cases, they can do things that taxis can't.

Like what?

unicornporn··on AVIF has landed (2020)
> And apple doesn't give ios uses any choice. You are stuck dealing with those differences.

Yeah, that's by far the worst part. Imagine being stuck with IE indefinitely. :)

https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/why-webkit-supports-avif-...

unicornporn··on AVIF has landed (2020)
Hopefully. Safari is the new IE, that's for sure.
unicornporn··on Libli, tiny Matrix client for building public libraries
Cactus is a great example of unexpected Matrix use.

https://cactus.chat/

unicornporn··on Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
It's not just "the internet" (and I think you get that). The point is that these inconveniences penetrate every aspect of your daily life.
unicornporn··on Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
Exactly.

If every Russian can see what an inconvenience it is to have Putin as a leader the hope is that they will be more inclined to do everything in their power to have him replaced. Some will of course just blame "west", but there will also be those who will come to question power.

unicornporn··on Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
> For christ's sake, I use Yandex translate because it's better for Russian. I now can't link that on a language learning subreddit.

I'm sorry that you can't post translation links and it may seem blunt, but currently people are dying and fleeing.

If every Russian can see what an inconvenience it is to have Putin as a leader the hope is that they will be more inclined to do everything in their power to have him replaced. Some will of course just blame "west", but there will a also be those who will come to question power.

unicornporn··on Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites
Is this Hacker News?
unicornporn··on Designing a retro-game art style that evokes the aesthetic of the Game Boy Color
Color, what? That looks more like Advance to me. Very nice though.
unicornporn··on SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
I love it and use it. But product? Nothing is being sold and product sounds almost condescending. :)
unicornporn··on Secure messengers in war time
> The Terrible UX is in part from the protocol, clients can't fix that (just look at the absolute mess that rooms are).

Please explain.

unicornporn··on Secure messengers in war time
> Matrix had a horrible UX

Matrix doesn't have "terrible UX". The client you chose had. Pick another one. You don't have that choice with Signal.

Try:

https://syphon.org/

https://schildi.chat/

unicornporn··on Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/no-need-to...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29610056/

unicornporn··on Ngrok Alternatives
This simplifies:

https://boringproxy.io/

Written by the same guy that wrote awesome-proxy list in the original post.

unicornporn··on NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android
There's a reason it's not in the play store...
unicornporn··on Why I will never buy another Samsung device
...and so, one day, the TV finds an open Wi-Fi hotspot and sends everything it has collected anyways.
unicornporn··on Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
That's cool, but it's only going to save the 1% that knows how to bend the internet to their will. What we need is legislation, like this: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_f...

That would actually make difference, not only for the HN crowd.

unicornporn··on Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
> Years ago I was on the "people who block JavaScript are crazy" bandwagon, until just loading a single news article online meant waiting for a dozen ads and autoplaying videos to load.

Seems like clear case of "crossing the river to collect water" (as the Swedish saying says)? This is what I use uBlock Origin (with the right blocklists) for and it happens automagically. I did use uMatrix for quite a awhile, but eventually ended up ditching it because uBlock Origin worked so well.

unicornporn··on Firefox Relay
What the f. Do they even want users. I can not create a Firefox Account. Every register page is a login page. When I enter an email and a password it expects an existing account (which I do not have). This is beyond belief.
unicornporn··on There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here
> 100% agree, I've been saying this for years. I've joked with friends that I'd call it Dumb Inc.

The problem is that — in a not so distant future, where every company makes a large slice of its profit from selling user data — Dumb Inc. products will be a lot more expensive than the competition. As people in general are not technically competent to assess the consequences of their digital actions, they will chose the cheaper option. So, perhaps Dumb Inc. won't have mass market appeal, but I guess it could still sell to the techo elite. :)

unicornporn··on There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here
Oh, great timing. Just ended a conversation with some friends who had bought a dishwasher. The display for these new machines had been removed, so the only way to tell when the machine was really finished was to... Guess what? Download an app! I suppose I don't need to tell you all the permissions it asked for...
unicornporn··on Reflections on E-Bikes
Sounds like you're an edge case, ride an ebike!
unicornporn··on Reflections on E-Bikes
> Today I got cursed out by a spandexed “real biker” as I passed by with my electric whirrrr.

So, a motorbike a passes a human powered vehicle? That should come as no surprise to neither of you. :)

To be honest, I don't get the appeal of e-bikes for the type of riding you do. Getting up to 15 MPH when you're riding for 8 km in a city when stopping for lights should be no problem without disabilities on a decent bike. An 8 km ride takes 20 minutes at 15 MPH. At 20 MPH it's 15 minutes. You'd add 5 minutes off your ride and get some proper exercise.

As a reference, my grandmother rode her bike 12 miles to school and then back at the age of 10.

E-bikes make a lot of sense for longer rides with cargo bikes packed kids, trash, food and whatnot.

unicornporn··on POSSE: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
Nah, https://spacehey.com/
unicornporn··on Psilocybin clinical trial to treat anxiety disorder receives approval
Or perhaps you could try working on your Americentric perspective. The internet is international.
unicornporn··on Chinese athlete accuses former top Communist Party official of sexual assault
You make it sound like a relationship of choice. It was rape. A rapist doesn't seem like the person that has qualms about age difference.
unicornporn··on How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
If we're comparing lossy compression mode, WebP is close to equal to MozJPEG for higher res images. Check the 1500 px comparison: https://siipo.la/blog/is-webp-really-better-than-jpeg
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