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by FreakyT 5y ago
I think a key reason is HN has (IMO) a well-designed vote-based moderation system. Flamebait tends to get downvoted/flagged pretty quickly, burying it where it belongs. Contrast that to pure engagement-focused social networks like Face
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by FreakyT 5y ago
Did you ever use Glass? The display was really too small to get work done; I would describe it as identical in functionality to a smartwatch, just on your face instead of wrist.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
Based on this part of the official statement released by Waymo: > "...the Fleet Response team provided incorrect guidance..." It sounds like the car automatically pulled over when it detected the cones (as intended), but the
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by FreakyT 5y ago
A bit disappointing it doesn't mimic any of the glass-motion effects that Win7 had. I really like the colored glass hover effect that they used for running applications in the taskbar. (And let's not forget the way the "shine
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by FreakyT 5y ago
An excellent article and one that lays out convincing points why, when choosing between absolute free speech and silencing the crazies, the latter is the lesser of two evils. This paragraph is probably the most relevant quote: > But mor
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by FreakyT 5y ago
Agreed, this seems more like a UX problem than a "people don't value privacy" problem. No reasonable person would ever expect that connecting your phone to a car's wireless audio system would transfer all your contacts -
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by FreakyT 5y ago
Realistically you can’t get big infrastructure projects built without angering some group of people. People here in the US love the highway system, but there’s absolutely no way anything like it could be built today. At some point we just
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by FreakyT 6y ago
An interesting output of this is, if you keep scrollbars visible, you'll find that a lot of websites end up with weird extra scrollbars on random elements. What often causes this is some HTML element overflowing by one pixel, but no on
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Why N95 masks are still hard to get, even though production is up(arstechnica.com)
2 points by FreakyT 6y ago|1 comments
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by FreakyT 6y ago
The SFUSD school board has, at this point, become essentially a caricature of what conservatives think liberals are like. They're like if you took a strawman argument and willed it into reality. It's really a shame, I hope they ca
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Time to commit the unforgivable crime of virtualizing macOS on a non-Mac host!
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Sadly it's not supported at all on iOS, since apparently the Signal devs don't believe that people ever lose phones.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Absolutely! Telegram provides nice to have features like cloud message history, but those inherently mean it's less secure. I actually wish Signal had a "trade some security for convenience" option like that.
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Why Is Big Tech Policing Free Speech? Because the Government Isn’t(nytimes.com)
6 points by FreakyT 6y ago|2 comments
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by FreakyT 6y ago
> the execution was so out of touch it's bizarre This more or less describes Facebook's entire corporate ethos at this point. Almost all of their products are now clearly driven by PMs who are so focused on random metrics that
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by FreakyT 6y ago
The article states that all the emails appeared to be from official Harvard email addresses. At some universities, it’s possible to create email aliases at your .edu domain, so it’s possible that the scammer had access to one or more convin
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by FreakyT 6y ago
> I really don't see it as a forum for ideas or activism, unlike Twitter or reddit. but maybe that's just the bubble I'm in. Exactly -- and that's the real danger of algorithmic engagement-driven content. For you, i
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Completely agree! Dropbox was at its best when it had almost no UI outside of "sync status" and "pause/resume" in a menu. Now they constantly shove their terrible UI in your face when all you ever want to do is sync
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I'm glad it's happening (better late than never), but they really should have started doing this a year ago.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
The cloud backups themselves could be encrypted with a key that I control, couldn’t they?
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Exactly this. A lot of other messaging apps have this problem (read the App Store reviews of LINE for a sampler of people upset about it), and I find it baffling. Have these devs never lost a phone (or had one break unexpectedly?) It seems
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Exactly! The lack of this feature is completely baffling.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Seems like that only works on older versions? (The readme notes "55 or prior")
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Their solution (as documented here: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba... ) requires that you place the devices "nearby" and wait for them to detect one another. For whateve
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I see it like more like email history (I don't really delete emails either) -- if someone sent me something, I like to be able to reference it later. It's not something I do super often, but it's nice to be able to do.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
The issue with Signal that annoys me most is the complete lack of any meaningful backup/export on iOS. I lost my entire chat history when I got a new phone because their bizarre "proximity based" solution failed.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Agreed, it's too bad they didn't go for something like the Sharp Memory LCD found in the Pebble watches.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Exactly -- there's a pervasive belief in the bay area that high rents are solely due to the evil cabal of landlords who meet every week in a dimly lit room and agree to charge sky-high rents while cackling maniacally and twirling their
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Totally agree, that needless romance subplot was the most WTF part of book 2.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
"It’s going to go away, hopefully at the end of the month. And, if not, hopefully it will be soon after that." — Trump, 2020-03-31 That's long after human-to-human transmission was confirmed. So, no, you can't blame th

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