DevKoala

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by DevKoala 6y ago
Whether the NSA cares about it or not doesn’t matter because the data controller can still be sued for collecting the users data if the users opt out. The controller has the motivation in this sense to comply. My point is that if the USA is
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by DevKoala 6y ago
The EU has already started protecting their citizens with GDPR.
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This is the first thing that will make me considering dropping from the iOS ecosystem. However, if Microsoft or Google were in the same position, they’d act the same. This has to be fixed at a legal level.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
ADT came pre-installed in my house. I deactivated it, and want to remove it fully, but I haven’t gotten around it.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
From my perspective tons of advertisers stopped spending in late Feb/March across multiple channels, not only Facebook. This was necessary for advertisers to re-evaluate how they would allocate their budget and change their messaging.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
You are right. The NYT has stopped being an impartial source of information. https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter PS: I am not a Facebook employee, and I don’t use their services. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t use inform
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by DevKoala 6y ago
I guess HN is susceptible to the same issues plaguing other online communities. I don’t know why I thought it would be different here.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
You are correct. Perhaps it is more widely used across their research and other divisions. They just went on a game dev studio buying spree though, and I thought there was a correlation.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
Microsoft has dozens of game studios that enjoy using Blender, and no competitor in the space (not recognized as a profitable business). Finding negatives to this move is being too paranoid.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
Reading the API reference or source code of the libraries I interface with is my first instinct today. In the past I would Google for the answer and land on StackOverflow. I don’t feel there was a radical change across all libraries I just
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by DevKoala 6y ago
My family is my most sympathetic audience. Also, my closest friends understand me well and accept who I am. However, I have tons of friends apart from the groups mentioned above; people that I appreciate, whom I have met through different h
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by DevKoala 6y ago
This doesn't surprise me. I am also afraid to express myself for fear of being rejected by most of my friends or excluded from my professional network. It is sad that I can only be honest and say things such as "let's wait fo
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by DevKoala 6y ago
That's a SoftBank valuation. Those were inflated.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
Perhaps, I believe I was confused with the "55 cents.." reply. I agree that private entities should be treated differently. It was never the objective of the service to work the way it works now.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/ From those figures it looks like > 90% of the USPS throughput benefits the marketing operations of private companies and scammers.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/
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by DevKoala 6y ago
> Marketing mail volume for 2019 was 75 Billion https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/ At a subsidy of 10 cents per envelope shipped, the US government is funding a $7.5 Billion / year worth of marketing operation
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by DevKoala 6y ago
I’d replace InfluxDB with Prometheus. InfluxDB has been a PITA for me.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
How do you know it is spam?
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by DevKoala 6y ago
> And denigrating companies because they did not speak about ALL issues would simply result in them avoiding all contentious issues. The NBA has had a voice on the matter, they could have stayed quiet like you mentioned, but they chose t
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by DevKoala 6y ago
True, I am also very excited about having a future ARM desktop.
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WSL is becoming more attractive as a development environment by the day. Maybe my next computer in 4-5 years won’t be a Mac. I miss having access to Windows games.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
That was in 2010. Then in 2018 Google was caught building dragonfly which was a CCP requirement compatible version of their search engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine) Google is a big organiz
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by DevKoala 6y ago
True, the individuals that stopped dragonfly are commendable. However, that was not all of Google.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
I feel the same as you. I am also an immigrant that came to the USA escaping a country where people were suffering after decades of oppression and a string of socialist dictatorships. Seeing the actions of the CCP being normalized and defen
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by DevKoala 6y ago
> Employing your line of thought - noone should condemn anything unless they condemn everything antithetical to their principals/views. Yes, it is called hypocrisy. The individual in question has a powerful speech platform due to hi
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by DevKoala 6y ago
> Barr suggested that Apple iPhones “wouldn’t be sold (in China) if they were impervious to penetration by Chinese authorities.” He suggested American tech companies were imposing a “double standard.” He has a point there, but I am not s
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by DevKoala 6y ago
Github had been in growth mode up until the acquisition. If Github stops being the nirvana for developers that it once was, it will be another dark mark in the history of MS acquisitions. Moreover, considering how sentiment influenced the s
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by DevKoala 6y ago
Fair enough. I don’t agree with the title either. Also, outside of the CCP/Tencent connection, there is very little “tech discussion” around this.
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by DevKoala 6y ago
The company I work for moved to Gitlab because we were pessimistic on GitHub in the past few years. I don’t really have a strong opinion on which is better though, I still keep my private repositories on GitHub. However, I feel that Microso

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