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17 votes
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Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
18 votes -
My colleague designed/engineered a hydraulic "Drop Down Truck" for wheelchair users
10 votes -
.com crash of 2000
6 votes -
Potential impact of two IoT security and privacy laws on tech industry
6 votes -
Internal documents show that Facebook gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed
25 votes -
Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
10 votes -
German cybersecurity chief: Anyone have any evidence of Huawei naughtiness? We won't be having a word with local firms until then
11 votes -
Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women
20 votes -
On ghost users and messaging backdoors
8 votes -
Do you use an alternative browser? Which one? Why?
The big players today are Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Then there are a load of alternative browsers from Vivaldi and Brave to EWW and elinks and w3m, and then things like Dillo and Netsurf....
The big players today are Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Then there are a load of alternative browsers from Vivaldi and Brave to EWW and elinks and w3m, and then things like Dillo and Netsurf. Do you use any of these alternative browsers? If yes, why, and why did you pick that particular one? I'd be interested to read why not, too.
28 votes -
The Rise and Demise of RSS
35 votes -
Keyboardio was deceived and defrauded for over a year by the account manager handling their manufacturing in China
18 votes -
Google’s secret China project “effectively ended” after internal confrontation
12 votes -
Apple computers used to be built in the US. It was a mess
11 votes -
Australia passes controversial encryption-busting law
23 votes -
As algorithms take over, YouTube's recommendations highlight a human problem
21 votes -
Your ideal smartphone in 2019?
As evidenced by recent topics, most people are unhappy with the direction the smartphone industry has taken in recent years. As more unnecessary features and sacrifices are made with each passing...
As evidenced by recent topics, most people are unhappy with the direction the smartphone industry has taken in recent years. As more unnecessary features and sacrifices are made with each passing generation of handsets, what components are essential in your ideal smartphone? Create one in the comments.
Here is mine, in no particular order:
- Optimized Stock Android
- Gesture-based navigation (think iPhone X)
- Removable matte black plastic back
- 2:1 Aspect ratio, 5.6" diagonal AMOLED display
- Dual front-facing speakers in top and bottom bezel
- Dual front facing cameras (Wide Angle and Standard)
- Bezel-less sides
- Dual back cameras, with OIS (Wide Angle and Standard)
- USB-C
- 3700 mAh removable battery with Fast Charging+Qi
- Snapdragon 855
- Apple-esque Face Unlock
- ~$750 price tag
28 votes -
Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8m users
33 votes -
Cloudflare is providing services to at least seven designated foreign terrorist organizations and militant groups
12 votes -
Vivaldi 2.2: Focus on details
8 votes -
Firefox 64 release notes
For general users: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/ For web developers: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/12/firefox-64-released/
31 votes -
How does the USA have jurisdiction over Huawei's alleged sales to Iran?
It took a while for this to sink in, since the arrest of Huawei's Chief Financial Controller a few days ago, but... How does the USA have jurisdiction over Huawei's alleged sales to Iran? Huawei...
It took a while for this to sink in, since the arrest of Huawei's Chief Financial Controller a few days ago, but...
How does the USA have jurisdiction over Huawei's alleged sales to Iran?
Huawei is a Chinese company, not an American company. Sure, the USA has imposed sanctions on trading with Iran - but surely those sanctions would apply only to American companies. How does the U.S. government have jurisdiction over what a Chinese company does?
11 votes -
Donations to the Internet Archive are currently being tripled by a generous supporter
17 votes -
Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life inside Tesla's production hell
13 votes -
We finally talked to an actual Waymo passenger—here’s what he told us
11 votes -
Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways
6 votes -
DuckDuckGo has acquired ownership of duck.com from Google
42 votes -
The cover of MAD magazine #258 from October 1985 announces a special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program
7 votes -
New Brave version now available for download for iPhones and iPads, with significant performance gains
3 votes -
After audit, no Chinese surveillance implants in Supermicro boards found
10 votes -
Looking to cancel Amazon Prime for ethical reasons (and quality decline) - what are my alternatives for online shopping?
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international...
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international shippers were added (as discussed in the podcast Reply All).
I'm addicted to the convenience of 2 day shipping, even though we use Amazon less and less, I like knowing I have that option.
I've been considering a Costco membership instead - how does their online shopping and shipping times/prices compare?
I've also considered using Jet more but I don't know much about their ethics, does anyone?
Open to other alternatives and discussion about business ethics here.
33 votes -
'You bunch of idiots': Australia's tech industry savages Labor for backing bill
26 votes -
Remember backing up to diskettes? I’m sorry. I do, too.
11 votes -
Four perfectly reasonable-sounding 2018 technology predictions that failed
8 votes -
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Data Collection
15 votes -
Disappearing movies and games: How safe is your digital collection?
33 votes -
We're no longer in smartphone plateau. We're in the smartphone decline
30 votes -
Tumblr's displaced porn bloggers test their new platforms
21 votes -
Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret
23 votes -
China ruling could ban some Apple iPhones sales amid Qualcomm fight (affects 6S through X)
7 votes -
Google+ shutdown speeds up, new privacy bug affected 52.5 million users
16 votes -
The tiny country of Niue has taken one of Sweden's biggest internet organisations to court, claiming its internet domain name was taken over without consent.
11 votes -
The state of web browsers - 2019 edition
7 votes -
Anyone using the BRAVE web browser? Thoughts? Experiences?
I was reading about it here: https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-matures-with-move-to-chromium-foundation/ First I heard of it and was curious if anyone has tried it. I love the idea of...
I was reading about it here:
https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-matures-with-move-to-chromium-foundation/
First I heard of it and was curious if anyone has tried it. I love the idea of blocking ads and trackers by default.
19 votes -
Attention Wars: Exploring the psychology, design and impact of tech and social media (Youtube series from BrainCraft)
6 votes -
Testers needed for Nextcloud Social - Federating with ActivityPub and Diaspora* social networks
7 votes -
Mac, Electron and the decline of native apps
17 votes -
Australia data encryption laws explained
8 votes -
Microsoft retools Edge, but Internet Explorer is forever
6 votes