Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

Issue #516 — September 05, 2021

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Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans eff.org \| points: 1123 \| comments: 306

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uBlock Origin review addons.mozilla.org \| points: 661 \| comments: 226

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How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life? economist.com \| points: 465 \| comments: 1132

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Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network shlinkedin.com \| points: 286 \| comments: 55

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Back Orifice (1998) web.archive.org \| points: 282 \| comments: 157

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Migrating from Docker to Podman marcusnoble.co.uk \| points: 279 \| comments: 80

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GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website gizmodo.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 348

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Neurocracy neurocracy.site \| points: 241 \| comments: 39

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Vacation isn’t the answer to employee burnout technical.ly \| points: 241 \| comments: 226

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Faust: Functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing faust.grame.fr \| points: 209 \| comments: 21

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Writing Well-Documented Code – Learn from Examples codecatalog.org \| points: 201 \| comments: 95

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Pint – A Python package to define, operate and manipulate physical quantities pint.readthedocs.io \| points: 179 \| comments: 49

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Forgetting My First Language newyorker.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 156

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An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year epi.org \| points: 172 \| comments: 83

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SQLite-TUI: A TUI for viewing SQLite databases, written in Go github.com \| points: 170 \| comments: 39

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Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel wired.co.uk \| points: 158 \| comments: 174

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US Air Force chief software officer quits theregister.com \| points: 156 \| comments: 101

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WaterBear – A free library of documentaries and shorts waterbear.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 67

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OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1B onezero.medium.com \| points: 145 \| comments: 41

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Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and fixes typo so it works pcgamer.com \| points: 134 \| comments: 21

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