Endy

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by Endy 4y ago
There's no way I would donate to Thunderbird in its present state. Why should I want to give money to people doing things I don't like? That's like paying money to Google!
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by Endy 4y ago
Thank goodness for Pale Moon & the UXP.
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by Endy 4y ago
Look into Interlink from Binary Outcast. It was originally based on Pale Moon in the same way Thunderbird is based on Firefox.
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by Endy 4y ago
Congratulations on getting launched. Can I just ask where the name came from?
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by Endy 4y ago
This doesn't work in Pale Moon.
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by Endy 4y ago
Nextdoor also has a local ads / classified ads section. I expect that would be the next destination for the FB Marketplace users (since they mostly fled Craigslist previously).
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by Endy 4y ago
You're suggesting that one of the old Rules of the Internet, LURK MOAR, should be more suggested. I agree with you, but I think this is one of those problems that the Eternal September brought on.
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by Endy 6y ago
Is this related to the Gnutella Network?
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by Endy 7y ago
Well, if by 'for years', you mean 25 years, you're right. ECMAScript is still hot garbage that clogs up computers and the internet, ballooning requirements on browsers and nearly forcing the monoculture we have in terms of br
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by Endy 7y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I work with marketing tech, and having this laid out allows me to share with them a little more of the tech that we rely on. And, it allows me to remind them that our work is utterly terrifying in terms of privac
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by Endy 7y ago
By which you mean that they'll recognize everything that's been stolen from the users, right? Win 3.1 & DOS was probably about the last time I really felt in control of my PC.
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by Endy 7y ago
Well, I was already pretty much ignoring the W3C already since HTML5. Now I can really let go, which will put me back to HTML 3.0 with no CSS nonsense.
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by Endy 7y ago
IMO, HN readers can't be the target audience of a mapping product that's being used as a backbone of so many large projects. You have to make it painfully simple and give people a real incentive to do it.
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by Endy 7y ago
That makes you part of the problem of Google's takeover, not part of the solution of a free Web.
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by Endy 7y ago
Most people who just want to eat an apple (even an apple a day) don't have bandwidth to pick them. Offer them the option of picking apples at an orchard for free vs. buying a bag of apples at a grocery, and most people will go buy the
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by Endy 7y ago
This makes me very glad that I don't use GMail regularly, and the only access I have to it is via IMAP in Interlink.
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by Endy 7y ago
Nope, but we have a fairly active Slack channel that we use, so we just put things in text. Having that on my work PC and IRC on my personal really gets mind-boggling.
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by Endy 7y ago
You can make that choice. On the other hand, if you decide on not making the situation right on that, you'll alienate not only accessibility-focused users, but also a very loud minority - some of whom are influential across tech (or te
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by Endy 7y ago
What you're missing is that I'm talking about developers having a choice between providing the best possible product in a technical sense, or simply going the way of profit and greed. To me, when you knowingly produce a substandar
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by Endy 7y ago
I also personally believe in, and this isn't just for code, but for any project you'll pass to another, a connected read.me file explaining the high-level reasonings and other thoughts, including a personal changelog and roadmap,
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by Endy 7y ago
Well, that was the gist of their partnership with TaskRabbit.
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by Endy 7y ago
Yes, you're right. That fact is, to a certain segment of users - like my senior citizen mother - a strong positive.
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by Endy 7y ago
A great idea.
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by Endy 7y ago
It isn't exactly special, but it tastes good and it doesn't make you feel like you just ate something that came entirely out of a factory.
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by Endy 7y ago
How does Greyhound compare to that?
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by Endy 7y ago
My goodness. I don't even trust Google enough to let them have access to any of my financial or payment info. I'd rather keep cash under a mattress than trust them with holding money.
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by Endy 7y ago
Yes, because you're asking a client for text and images downloaded from a server to do things it was never intended to. When you start employing torturous misuse, you're going to find the tool unsuited to the job. You can use a pi
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by Endy 7y ago
Lynx (and/or Links) is my #2 browser for day-to-day traffic.
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by Endy 7y ago
The fact that it didn't respond to commands as well as Zork or A Mind Forever Voyaging didn't help the case. Infocom had a pretty solid engine for "natural language" input. Too bad they couldn't adapt it well.
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by Endy 7y ago
The best way to have a faster web is to get rid of Google Analytics, DoubleClick, AMP, "web assembly", WebDRM, ECMAScript (and all derivatives), and go back to only loading text and images from a blind server to a user-agent entir

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