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New comment by twistiti in "Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021"

twistiti — Sat, 07 May 2022 16:48:43 +0000

People 60 and more voted massively in favour of Macron. Source (FR): https://www.leparisien.fr/elections/presidentielle/president...

New comment by twistiti in "Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands"

twistiti — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:29:41 +0000

Could you expand in the general idea and goal of such a system?

New comment by twistiti in "T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked"

twistiti — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:25:36 +0000

You can get an rough idea using https://www.privacyaffairs.com/dark-web-price-index-2021/ report

A valid US valid social security number is estimated at 2$, a USA selfie with holding ID is estimated at $100 $2

New comment by twistiti in "Coronavirus: Spain to keep registry of those who refuse Covid vaccine"

twistiti — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:04:51 +0000

How will Spain ensure the registry remains confidential?

What identifiers will be shared with other EU countries?

New comment by twistiti in "macOS Big Sur"

twistiti — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:34:31 +0000

Correct. I understand in that case.

I would love for uBlock to find a workaround.

New comment by twistiti in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

twistiti — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:32:36 +0000

That's scary. What if you set it up inside a Virtual Machine?

New comment by twistiti in "macOS Big Sur"

twistiti — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:17:01 +0000

Untrue in my understanding.

The Electron app needs to run to set options or to force filters update, not the rest of the time. It's still an annoyance but it's better than nothing.

New comment by twistiti in "Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous (Pavel Durov)"

twistiti — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:37:40 +0000

I've found [1] to be an interesting source of comparison. Crowd-based, authors seem to actively update it.

[1] https://securemessagingapps.com

New comment by twistiti in "What kind of data is my new car collecting?"

twistiti — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:24:10 +0000

Another interesting quote from this thread:

- "On that note, China has a law in place that mandates all electric cars send real time telemetry to their government servers - Model S/X/3, NIO cars and any other electric car if they're driving already complies with that law to be road certified"

- "Don't be surprised if that becomes a mandate in other countries"

New comment by twistiti in "Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search"

twistiti — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:27:56 +0000

Modern smartphones keep recording WiFi access points even when you toggle WiFi off.

New comment by twistiti in "TailScale – Instantly interconnect your devices and services, wherever they are"

twistiti — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:59:52 +0000

ZeroTier is an alternative, free up to 100 devices.

New comment by twistiti in "How to Make Remote a Success"

twistiti — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:36:04 +0000

Good point. This will probably force more companies to experiment remote work.

New comment by twistiti in "France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra"

twistiti — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 20:53:15 +0000

Would it be a solution for you to buy foreign currencies with lower inflation amount (e.g. EUR)?

New comment by twistiti in "Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found"

twistiti — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:35:59 +0000

I can confirm. They might use your origin account country?

New comment by twistiti in "Apple Watch Series 5"

twistiti — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 23:27:59 +0000

There is few literature on the effect of marijuana on sleep. It mostly looks like it decrease your REM sleep while increasing your deep sleep when you take any of it (the process inverse when you stop). Actually, any open data or even feedback would be of help.

New comment by twistiti in "Show HN: Cloud Maker – Rapidly create cloud architecture diagrams"

twistiti — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 22:45:47 +0000

Or maybe even offer to acquire you?

New comment by twistiti in "Is it better to avoid washing your clothes?"

twistiti — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:05:19 +0000

Being heavily subject to eczema in my first two decades I have experimented with various changes to the point of having it stop 98% of the time now:

- increasing the skin natural barrier through limited soap (only if there is a stinky area) - reducing overall inflammation (better sleep, more sport, better nutrition through vegetables fruits and limited meat proteins) - bathing in the ocean - minutes of direct sun exposure

The last two will do wonders. A highly stressing episode or accumulated sleep debt however and the skin will start itching as a warning.

New comment by twistiti in "Is it better to avoid washing your clothes?"

twistiti — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:55:48 +0000

On that auto-immune topic, this reminds me of the Hygiene hypothesis which basically assert immune issues as a result of too much cleanliness (over simplified version).

"The hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms protects against diseases by contributing to the development of the immune system. In particular, a lack of exposure is thought to lead to defects in the establishment of immune tolerance." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis]

New comment by twistiti in "Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users"

twistiti — Wed, 29 May 2019 16:18:25 +0000

Thank you, lots of detail provided.

Excerpt: "What we see are the public statements, for public consumption, they are designed to "sell" the changes to the wider public. What we do not see is what is being said in private meetings by officers who get to decide how to optimize the business."

Thank you gorhill for what you did to the web community.

New comment by twistiti in "Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users"

twistiti — Wed, 29 May 2019 16:08:05 +0000

Brave [1] has an interesting native ad/script blocker too.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.brow...