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New comment by ndisn in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

ndisn — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:53:24 +0000

There also has been, in the past, threat of indirect consequences that would happen in the future and which never came true.

New comment by ndisn in "Social media is no longer social"

ndisn — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:48:22 +0000

Pretty sure non-uni students were allowed on Facebook way before 2014

New comment by ndisn in "Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x"

ndisn — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:28:42 +0000

He notably worked at Microsoft before founding Valve.

New comment by ndisn in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

ndisn — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:42:29 +0000

Correct. You have to spend a while in settings disabling stuff.

The browser does not re-enable the things you have disabled, but they keep implementing new stuff that you have to disable too.

It’s annoying, although that’s how most software works nowadays (and I include Firefox unfortunately). You have to disable a lot of stuff to make it usable.

New comment by ndisn in "Is Italy the new tax haven for the global rich?"

ndisn — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:26:34 +0000

> Italy has already been attacked by the French Government for using tax incentives to lure wealthy French and other international residents away

Has France tried to compete instead of criticise?