Make no mistake, Asians are unabashedly racist, so you may be onto something. Anyone who lived in East Asia would confirm this. So many “no foreigners allowed” and “Japanese only” places.
However, given the context (and equivalence to “healthy food”) it’s hardly racism as you mean it.
I have a friend with a Japanese wife he met in California (he's French), they got married in Japan and lived there for a couple years, and their decision to finally come to France was because the racism became aggressive when they were together in public.
A white guy alone was fine, a white guy holding hand with a beautiful (subjective, but honestly she could be a model) japanese girl? Even his coworkers were disrespectful, which I find baffling.
“Chromium browsers” are not actual forks, they’re still the same Chrome.
What they could do, as GP suggested, is actually fork an existing engine and start with a working foundation that’s already compatible with the existing web.
Note: Google did it, they forked WebKit and now nobody calls Edge a “WebKit browser”
Today people complain that Safari and Firefox are “the new IE” because they don’t keep up with the slew of updates Chrome pushes out. Nobody wants to support a third, brand-new super-buggy-forever engine.
It’s an interesting bet, but incredibly high-risk or relegate to obscurity.
All the current "forks" of Chromium basically rely on continued development by Google, saving them from having to invest in all the engineers necessary to work on, maintain and develop a proper fork. So they can limit the size of their engineering teams to what's necessary for developing surface-level features like vertical tabs (Edge) or built-in adblocking and ... uh ... crypto (Brave).
I'd say Microsoft throwing in the towel and building a flavour of Chromium instead shows that there's no corporation out there that's going to be willing to make a real fork.
The only reason why Ladybird exists at all is because it's a part of SerenityOS, which was started because the founder wanted to make his own OS for daily use. Like, of course the guy's gonna write his own browser instead of just forking Chromium.
Technically you can use history.replaceState to store, ahem, state on the "current page", so nothing stops you from saving a cursor there to use when loading the content.
The issue with infinite scroll is that very few people know how or care to "make it work correctly"
They do if you use non-ajax navigation: the scroll position is preserved and so is the document as last seen:https://web.dev/bfcache/
But once you call history.pushState, the browser is relinquishing control to you. At that point, going “back” only changes the URL, as far as the browser is concerned, and that part is instantaneous.
The trouble with throw away accounts is that there is technology to link the accounts by comparing your writing style to other accounts. Hacker news had a good demonstration of that awhile back.
Some might call me paranoid, but I also change my writing style between sensitive accounts.
Not all, because that would be a bother, but between accounts where I'm a moderator and those where I'm a normal user, I make sure to change my mindset.
On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.
I probably should have just said "cross-reference," but here's a hand-wavy scenario. The gist is, the more information you have on a persona, the more you can filter out identity candidates.
So, for example, if you have unique anonymous accounts for multiple online communities but use an identifiable "anonymization" scheme (and with the right heuristics and AI "magic" this need not be a targeted attack), I can correlate and build a profile on you: Military history enthusiast, knife owner, lives in Maine, Boston U alumni, class of 2001, active hours imply working 9-5, age 39, etc.
Which is probably enough to compare against public records, leaked data, whatever, to pinpoint a single individual.
I see that implementation now says "Site is closed as of 2023-03-01". Do we know of any alternatives? Ideally I'd like to see if my HN handle brings up my reddit handle, or other cross-site linkages.
Lots of subreddits have minimum account age and/or karma requirements due to how bad the bot situation has gotten, so unless you're willing to farm karma and wait a month to post each time (or maintain multiple semi-permanent "burner" accounts, which, as pointed out by Maximus9000, can still be linked together by writing style), it's easier to just purge your comment history on a regular basis.
Sort of but what made me think I had SARS specifically was the fact that I had this weird cough that persisted for a month after I recovered from the worst of the flu symptoms. That was very unusual to me.
During the actual week or two I was sick I had all the symptoms of Covid, diarrhea, shortness of breath, and the rest of normal flu symptoms. And when I recovered I remember eating a protein shake just because I couldn't eat anything else and I needed energy, and I remember not tasting it.
I'm not saying it went unnoticed for a year, it's just an interesting thing that happened to me that I didn't pay attention to until after covid was detected.
I even know how I got sick, it was on the plane from Copenhagen to Doha. Two thai guys were sitting next to us and one of them was visibly sick. We felt pity on him and offered him a pillow or candy sometimes. Then 1 day after we landed in Udon Thani we both got sick.
Which is useless in this day. I was in China last week and Google Map’s street layer was aligned correctly to where I was, but the satellite imagery was not.
This demonstrates that Google already knows the correct coordinates of street in China, including those of an airport finished in 2021. For some reason they have spent no time manually aligning the imagery.
Coordinates on the globe are constant whether China likes it or not, my only guess is that Google doesn’t want to spend time fixing data in a country that blocks them entirely.
Google is doing no business in China, so they don’t “have to.” They could easily bypass that by internally mapping the imagery to the vectors, they have thousands of developers who could do this.
Even if they had to buy it, they’re not buying it because again they don’t do business there.
> how their stance interacts with any of the privacy laws passed in the last 10-12 years.
You’d be surprised how big players work around those.
I asked GitHub to remove an issue from a repo whose owner blocked me. Being both I and the owner EU users, I sent a GDPR removal request. They just said they’re a “controller” and that the request would be forwarded to the owner.
Nothing came of it.
GitHub even has customer support, Reddit does not, so you can imagine how little chances you have in doing so unless you fire up your lawyers.
Fascinating. Thanks for answering that aspect of my post. So similar excuse if you were to exercise a right to be forgotten? (Would that even apply in this context? Or is that what you’re describing?)
I think that right only applies to search engines and "directories," the actual content would not be deleted. I suppose I could ask Google to delist that issue, but not GitHub to delete it.
The more recent GDPR on the other hand should allow me to ask the "owner" (I forgot the exact name) to delete all the data related to me. He however declined to follow my request. An option at that point was to pay something like €50 to file a complaint to the governing body (some EU entity), so I gave up.
The point is that backpacks are limited (in theory). Some low-cost airlines will weigh and measure them, so this jacket would let you wear extra weight.
However, given the context (and equivalence to “healthy food”) it’s hardly racism as you mean it.