Daily Archives: 2019-10-12

A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Given the incentive structure, this seems... entirely normal.
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uBlock Origin Update Rejected from the Chrome Web Store

Source: Hacker News

Article note: aaand this is why I already bailed back to Firefox.
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What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Apple's habit of integrating reference implementations of good 3rd party features is kind of a good thing for users. Their habit of courting then erasing the places they steal the features from is bad for everyone. Also, as one HN commenter points out, until recently that kind of thing would have been cheap Shareware or FOSS hacked up by someone and maintained by a few weeks of community time, rather than a subscription rent seeking operation.
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