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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>this really strikes me as evidence that something is wrong with the http standardization process. The overall decision-making around how the web works is insane and getting more insane by the year. We have fairly trivial and absolutel
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
I think it was Matt Taibbi who pointed out something I should have realized on my own. Words like 'whataboutism' are exactly what Orwell described in 1984 as doublespeak. Not a close match, not a good analogy, but the actual phe
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
I think what you're pointing out is an example of a real problem. I'm not sure the problem has a name or is noticed by most people. But something is off. In some cases it might be that common conventions (like dotfiles) aren'
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>I can't think of any situation where hiding really helps. The irony of dot-files is that they became used for metadata, like .git directories, .htcasses files and so on. So, a solution that fakes metadata by abusing names is now
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Most people seem to interpret this as "don't hide things". I interpret this as "file systems need to have a flexible metadata mechanism instead of ad-hoc hacks". Of course, at this point in time no such thing will h
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Do you not see the complete farce of pretending to host something "at home" while being reliant on CloudFlare?
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
"We will help you shoot yourself in the foot for a modest fee, while peddling unnecessary hardware and complicated software." Brilliant business model. What the tech world really needs is a better shared hosting software/stan
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
The problem with the concept of "conspiracy theories" is that it's essentially a label entirely controlled by the media. There are beliefs that (by any reasonable definition) should fit the label, and yet they are never refer
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
It's astounding how smoothly we went from "you can criticize the government" to "you can make a documentary about someone who criticized the government and got royally fucked". As if those two are the same thing.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
It's a perfect example of how people are brainwashed to accept degradation of their basic speech and due process rights because powers that be found an example (a scapegoat, really) that's not sympathetic to the public. I recall
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Government might be bad, and if they did bad, can we criticize it? Assange rots in prison, Alex Jones gets found guilty of defamation by default judgment , FBI raids James O'Keefe and leaks his phone data to NYT (which he is sui
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
TikTok to Geocities is what AstroTurf is to real grass.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
The insistence that mandatory phone-based 2FA is for your security is a lie. For large companies it's all about tracking: https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/twitter-2fa:d
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Volunteer editors are spread thinly over millions of articles I would like to point out that this is, effectively, a very clever way of saying that Wikipedia is controlled by a tiny group of people whose goals for Wikipedia do not mat
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Wikipedia is a cautionary tale of what will inevitably happen if you try to hypercentralize information at the Internet scale. It's broken on every conceivable level, and yet people stubbornly cling to the myth that was formed around i
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
I have a solution that no one will like, but it's probably the least insane one in practice. 1. We move from using leap seconds to leap minutes. 2. We move leap minutes to timezone offset, because time zones are already a clusterfuck a
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>All because programmers wanted to save some lines of code. No, it's because programmers don't want basic timekeeping in all devices involve the worst issues of managing a distributed system.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Instead of/in addition to reading about fictional collapse of civilization you can now visit New York, Portland or Los Angeles and see it for real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nvTgSW2L8Q https://odysee.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Treating DOM as the state of my JavaScript code instead of storing state separately and then synchronizing. Using HTML instead of parsing Markdown by applying white-space: pre-line with some additional styling for semantic tags. Styling sty
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
If you automatically update your dependencies all the time, you will constantly get new bugs, issues and sometimes even malware. If you don't update your dependencies all the time, you will be vulnerable to old bugs and issues. The cur
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Our society is currently suffocating in the endless torrent of information and pointless products. Just because you aren't interested in thinking about costs of things doesn't mean they don't have costs. So yes, I want to kno
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Yikes. Like 90% of the comments on this throw out wild scenarios that clearly don’t apply if you read the law which is less than one page. Your certainty is completely unwarranted. Here is a lawyer from Arizona talking about it: http
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>This was discussed prior - a police officer standing next to you isn’t included in the defined police activity. Unless they are enforcing the law. Which they will be, because they will be enforcing this law.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
I looked up the text of the (original) bill: 6 A. IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR A PERSON TO KNOWINGLY MAKE A VIDEO RECORDING 7 OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY, INCLUDING THE HANDLING OF AN EMOTIONALLY 8 DISTURBED PERSON, IF THE PERSON MAKING THE V
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
"Nobody walks up to a cop when he is questioning a suspicious person or arresting somebody and stands one or two feet away. Common sense says you’re asking for trouble," Kavanagh said on Arizona PBS. Common sense tells me Kavana
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>However, I suspect that dams are much harder to turn into a catastrophe than nuclear plants. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-deadliest-dam-failur...
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
The web in the 90s was an evolving, alive ecosystem. Without the ecosystem, websites that approximate something old-school are standalone entities. Flowers in a vase. They might look the same or even temporarily feel the same, but they are
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Codeblog is powered by MDX, a new flavor of Markdown that supports JSX. With MDX, words look like words, and code looks like HTML. Or, you know, you can write HTML and avoid all that complexity. About 100 lines of PHP code to add navi
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
The reason the web is not fun anymore is because it's now hypercentralized. Companies that effectively control the web found the formula that works for them. They want you to mindlessly consume streams of curated information. They want

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