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by CookieMon 8y ago
There are multiple account migration issues, the hardest is what happens when the hobbyist/volunteer instance you use inevitably goes down for good - you lose your address, your social network connections, your posts/history etc.
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by CookieMon 8y ago
I have heard the Nobel Peace Prize awards explained this way - more an attempt to sway than to congratulate.
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by CookieMon 8y ago
As a side topic, is there a useful web search engine that uses a fundamentally different approach to Google, e.g. aren't using backlinks as a ranking signal? When Google's approach isn't giving me an answer, it'd be nice
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by CookieMon 8y ago
> I can't decide if its from maturation of technology or maturation of people though. It was a place by and for enthusiasts, and now it isn't. So not just the people or the technology maturing, the demographic fundamentally shi
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by CookieMon 9y ago
Not the only shady thing, by using Firefox with a webmail interface, all Mailchimp's tracking is automatically removed, which means most businesses these days send me their promotional announcements as a blank email. I don't know
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by CookieMon 9y ago
> Take twister for example Y'all got any more of them "examples" I'm now aware of two social media alternatives that aren't dead accounts walking. Twister is in beta, but that looks interesting enough to play w
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by CookieMon 9y ago
I would like to decentralize, but projects like Masterdon are not the way forward. If you want to decentralize the servers then you MUST also decouple user accounts from the server they signed up with. Today, if you switch to Masterdon (or
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by CookieMon 9y ago
> Your same link also explains how to sign a file with a timestamp as well Sure, further down it explains how to use signtool to timestamp something, but why would someone trying to get an app signed care about using the tool for timesta
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by CookieMon 9y ago
I imagine someone went to a site like this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3... read the command for signing their code, and signed their code as instructed. Today, the certif
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by CookieMon 9y ago
Is there any clone of make that's aiming to address the issues with file name spaces? Being incapable of handling spaces is a bug that's been marked Minor since 2002 - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?712 (plus
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by CookieMon 9y ago
Danny Hillis discusses the thinking behind locating it in a remote mountain here https://soundcloud.com/longnow/progress-on-the-10000-year-cl... But the entire talk is worth listening to. It's not intended to be a
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by CookieMon 9y ago
It may need some broken link tools. I clicked on the 4th link and the site no longer exists, Wayback Machine has it though - https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131659/http://www.lhup.e... Perhaps Hacker
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by CookieMon 9y ago
If you watch for more than 4 minutes, this 9 minute video explains how Bell proved that the particles can't have been given opposite "ball colors" at the time they became entangled. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by CookieMon 9y ago
Social connections (social capital?) is also how poor people survive everyday setbacks that others would pay their way out of, a “social stockade” would be debilitating. Debilitating your debtor IMHO seems counterproductive for getting a lo
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by CookieMon 9y ago
Joke's on them, my computer's never turned-off. But seriously, I take it we won't know the attack vector until December, however if remotely exploitable they would surely have used the word "remote"? Is any mundane
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by CookieMon 9y ago
Is that the right link? It takes me to a "subscription required" page for an article titled "What's new in gnuplot 5.2"
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by CookieMon 10y ago
Why did Note 7's have this problem? I assume the fault is entirely in the battery (?), so did Samsung change how the batteries were manufactured this year? Does the Note 7 have power demands that mean they can't go back to tried a
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by CookieMon 10y ago
> Any cyclist who rides on the sidewalk, runs a red light, or flaunts traffic convention in general absolutely deserves to be treated as a second class citizen. As does any motorist who drives above the speed limit? Or any pedestrian th
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by CookieMon 10y ago
Interesting. The plot thickens. I don't have any fancy script to check these addresses - I have to go into my spam headers manually, and I've not done that for a long time. Perhaps there was a common issue a while ago that got pat
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by CookieMon 10y ago
> Unique-per-service email addresses work pretty well as a canary for breaches I do this too, but it taught me everything is breached - the local ambulance service, the local computer store, the local car share, small businesses overse
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by CookieMon 10y ago
Damnnn, you're going to be stuck in a tent for a year, and they don't even put in some windows. The surroundings look martian enough. They weren't trying to artifically simulate a day/night cycle were they? (No articles
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by CookieMon 10y ago
This habbit of programmers to name things with puns instead of descriptively drives me batty. WiX is bad, but Homebrew is on a whole new level. Each time I use a mac I have to relearn what a tap represents vs cask vs brew vs celler etc. But
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by CookieMon 10y ago
> Cathedrals are not, generally speaking, profitable. This is getting lost in the metaphore, instead of the topic. Architected software is profitable.
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by CookieMon 10y ago
Bitcoin doesn't require weekly check-ins, but Good to know (thanks) - that's a less extreme requirement for Lightning. However, being online wasn't a main pressure for the potential problem of central hubs. (e.g. the large pa
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by CookieMon 10y ago
It's an awesome feature, but it's not a fix - Lightning requires a 24/7 online connection, which will also combine with several other pressures to strongly favor central hubs, putting easily regulated payment processors back
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by CookieMon 10y ago
> "the palm trees were throwing summer shade onto the concrete walkways – ‘Tailor Made Office Solutions’, it said on a nearby billboard – and people were drinking coffee in Deli 32 on the ground floor. Wright’s office on level five
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by CookieMon 10y ago
Brave Browser has all that build in, and Firefox is heading there with tracking ads now automatically blocked in private browsing windows, but those browsers have the user's back - I imagine Chrome has Google's back and Google is
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by CookieMon 10y ago
> ephemeral nature of Snapchat, combined with the lack of public "likes" makes it a much more positive experience to post That's an interesting observation, something's gone highly dysfunctional with social media feed
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by CookieMon 10y ago
Fascinating to watch Gawker's quarter-billion dollar public manipulation machine kick into gear. Linked-In just emailed me to ensure I was aware of another one of these articles. Thiel better hope he can manage a death blow, or that pe
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by CookieMon 10y ago
Most of that is a strawman: wanting to grow the main chain is not the same as wanting every transaction in world on it. Pushing the spam limit back so far that it acts only as a spam limit again gives breathing room for various layer 2 tech

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