Barbing

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by Barbing 2mo ago
Here’s a clip of The Internet Archive’s nondestructive process [39 seconds]: https://nitter.net/internetarchive/status/135809098218971955... 6 Feb 2021 At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a boo
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by Barbing 2mo ago
A non-profit in a deeply unfair situation tugs at the heartstrings.
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I wonder the proportion of companies who store backups with a minimum of two separate vendors. Low?
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by Barbing 2mo ago
How terrible is this alternative: Mental health exam for C-suite once company hits billion dollar valuation, no sociopaths allowed. - Also, how greedy am I that when I look at the socially-responsible index funds and see their 10yr returns
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Challenger appears, one positive feedback so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321078
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by Barbing 2mo ago
:( where’s the hacker ethos here? I suppose you have a nice Linux machine or something you customize as you see fit, and you can make calls and listen to podcasts on your phone and that’s good enough for on the go…? I want grandma to have a
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Were they caught here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513 See anything below too? https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=49290062 https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=49
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by Barbing 2mo ago
wBlock by an MIT student is open source and seems (just!) about as trustworthy as uBlock, though of course without the track record. Light & fast, especially to update. “wBlock runs entirely within Safari's content blocking API
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Cavemen came up with the initial A & B, and we’ve gone from there? (Didn’t think this through much yet!)
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Oh welcome!
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by Barbing 2mo ago
> If you get rid of these exploitable mediums for messaging, other mediums will appear which -- hopefully -- are more just and healthy. I like that! Would be hard to be absolutist (“never mention children’s cancer unless I ask directly,
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by Barbing 2mo ago
(random user here) Emailed Nine PBS Edit per “no contact on profile” comment: Contact info@rsync.net for more information, and answers to your questions.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Sigh. You might be interested in this piece that came to mind from Doctorow: “Let me explain: on average, illustrators don't make any money. They are already one of the most immiserated, precarized groups of workers out there. They
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by Barbing 2mo ago
can't run away, fantastic
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Should add https://breezewiki.com to my StopTheMadness URL redirects
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Any leeway here for children’s bone cancer charities to separate them from Zuckgoogle_et.al._AdCorp? Or OP: OP posted the link in good faith, not to interfere with my brain but to inform me. Reminder to brush your teeth = benevolent. Remind
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by Barbing 2mo ago
They’re really going to make us drink the verification cans :( …require a refundable purchase of a sponsored product, maybe. Then our bot has to buy it, or in another scenario with the already-used tactic: take the quiz on which ads we saw
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Not a pittance but worth it. So fast, so reliable, such incredible engineers and comedians sharing such amazing things.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Yes and- Submissions can be flagged by anyone and mods/admins can downweight them. (If I’m not mistaken this is common for, say, Flock posts at the moment.) Curiosity & repetition are two key factors.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
I’m always excited to see “simonw” on my screen. More likely than not to be interesting & accessible for those of us outside e.g. compsci. Hope you stay happy so you stay nerdy and keep sharing both with us!
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Recent Guardian article: “Inside a meme factory: meet one of thousands of Indonesians trading political outrage clicks for Facebook cash“ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237298
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by Barbing 2mo ago
> I'm very likely going to cost their privacy/compliance team…time What might this look like for you? (I don’t cold email except thanks or say questions btw, but I am curious!)
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Downweighted(?) post: off front page to third, down to rank 89 at +3hr, 205 comments, 232 points. Perhaps considered followup or to avoid too much Flock on homepage.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
There must be a reason HN does not colorize the OP username or something. But there totally could be some indicator of “post submission text” without too much in the way of negative consequences… (the fact this has never been added tells me
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by Barbing 2mo ago
It’s both unfortunate police are trained with videos of cops approaching motorists and getting filled with bullets, and unfortunate those are real situations. I wish there were a way to guarantee officer safety so you didn’t have to tell th
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Great point, not fair for them to need a lifetime of therapy. So there’s a happy medium. I don’t know why the first thing that comes to mind is calling in for backup and having a cop in a mascot costume get out, with body armor and a comple
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by Barbing 2mo ago
He’d love a chance to have a reason to start marketing bodycams on sticks you strap over and above your back. He gets pulled over, links the cops to his timestamped cloud-attested footage from his 24/7 third-person view cam proving his
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by Barbing 2mo ago
I wish e.g. browser fingerprinting were implemented with little red-eyed robots that physically watched your screen. Make software as creepy as you want, intangibly creepy, and there’s not enough for normal people to latch on to. (If I coul
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by Barbing 2mo ago
What if you assume 1 in 100 are going to be dangerous? Only rarely does the driver say “I’m not going back to jail!“ when they have warrants out. If you inspect rollercoasters I figure you could probably be pretty lackadaisical on the avera
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Yes and in the meantime, respond with all available resources? (pretending my parents, wife, children are police officers and posting from that perspective, but do not like taste of boot nor Flock - just thinking logical on the ground proce

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