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These are probably more related than you think. I believe we were on track to work together in a global Open Science initiative until Bill Gates stepped up to bankroll most of the biggest initiatives under the agreement that the results were proprietary.

Apple historically was the first company to sue for software copyright infringement. As many other have posted in this thread, they haven’t gotten better over time.

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The ability to edit titles seems like an obvious feature that Reddit never added.

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The copy protection for Quarantine was particularly interesting because it was thematic. Given the weight of a pedestrian and the speed of your car, how far will the body fly?

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There are alternatives that provide more privacy. FSF India made an excellent visual chart comparing messaging applications. Signal stopped publishing their back end so they moved from the third bucket to the second bucket. The fourth and fifth categories are good.

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GrapheneOS on a Pixel 5. It is very nice and I would recommend it.

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  • JShelter actively fights fingerprinting.
  • NoScript blocks by domain by default.
  • uBlock Origin with cookie list to block ads, trackers, and hide cookie banners.
  • DarkReader to help the eyes.
  • Stylus to fix any CSS not fixed by the rest.
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I did not trust 538 before. I think a few major US election voter turnouts suffered because too many people thought the 538 results meant that their candidate was a sure thing.

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Extra firmware cannot be modified.

Firm firmware might be able to be modified, but documentation is largely unknown.

Silken firmware is easily modified by the user.

These names are taken from tofu packaging.

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