Firefox Was Always Enough — Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

Issue #254 — December 17, 2020

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Firefox Was Always Enough ianbicking.org \| points: 750 \| comments: 411

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Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules reuters.com \| points: 643 \| comments: 469

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Gmail having issues google.com \| points: 629 \| comments: 422

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Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder github.com \| points: 447 \| comments: 281

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Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue news.ycombinator.com \| points: 401 \| comments: 195

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I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager i3wm.org \| points: 393 \| comments: 382

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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language news.mit.edu \| points: 336 \| comments: 210

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Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday psychnewsdaily.com \| points: 336 \| comments: 194

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Vercel raise $40M Series B vercel.com \| points: 322 \| comments: 171

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What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries eigenfoo.xyz \| points: 290 \| comments: 83

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CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14) cdprojekt.com \| points: 289 \| comments: 627

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Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers arxiv.org \| points: 277 \| comments: 98

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FDA authorizes rapid, at-home Covid test kit, costs –$30 with results in 15 min axios.com \| points: 267 \| comments: 176

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Bitcoin breaks above $20k nasdaq.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 401

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Hackers used SolarWinds’ dominance against it in sprawling spy campaign in.reuters.com \| points: 246 \| comments: 115

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Tig – Text-mode interface for Git jonas.github.io \| points: 233 \| comments: 76

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The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death bbc.com \| points: 222 \| comments: 107

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Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale) sfbay.craigslist.org \| points: 221 \| comments: 84

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GTK 4.0 Released blog.gtk.org \| points: 218 \| comments: 87

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Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads theverge.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 172

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