Gaelan

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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   I think the best solution for this problem is to move the password setting after the email verification, so that if someone has an account attached to their email, it has a password that they sed.
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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   Looks like Friendica (along with most of these other "decentralized social media" things) is federated, not distributed in the way that Bitcoin is. They work kind of like email: each person picks one service to use, but users can
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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   Many private schools run fundraisers throughout the year, so that cost is likely subsidized.
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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   Windows 10, of course, gives you no choice but to install new versions immediately (besides enterprise deployments, of course). Apple's updates are getting sloppy, but at least they're optional.
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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   The Facebook blog post includes this screenshot [0]. That's definitely an opt-in, although I could imagine a non-technical person clicking through it without reading the grey text. Better than nothing. [0]: https://fbnewsroo
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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   I think Mozilla might be doing just that.
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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   Looks like it’s not actually Facebook’s share widget, just a plain link, so at least it’s not s privacy issue.
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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   I think the point neuronexmachina was trying to make about microtargeting is that Obama simply asked their users to send messages to their friends, whereas CA directly advertised to people.
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   by Gaelan 9y ago

   The "false intentions" here are about the user agreeing to use the app. Obama: "Give us a list of your Facebook friends, and we'll help you contact them about voting for Obama." While the Obama campaign did collect
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    IMO, what CA did was more of a phishing attack than anything. People voluntarily gave the "personality quiz" access to their data, and that was abused. The reaction to the data being given to CA wasn't big enough, but beyond
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    That may lead to algorithms being optimized for the “video game” instead of real life.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    IMO as long as there is a human in the driver’s seat who is expected to intervene, they should bear the consequences of failing to do so.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    Note: this was an April fools day joke.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    I mean, if those records are being kept, it shouldn't be that hard to make them easily user-accessible, right? Support people that got the letters could just give users the link to the page with the data.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    I believe that GitHub stores all forks in a network with a single git object store.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    The terminology is a GitHub-and-friends thing, but the idea is at the core of git. When you clone a repository, you're creating a "fork" of the repo on your own computer. Git is a DVCS (distributed VCS), where you can make ma
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    Great! Sorry for the harsh tone, it's good that you're working on it.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    The site claims not to work in Safari, but it works fine with a user agent switch. Please don't arbitrarily limit browsers.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    This restriction has existed since Lion, and (both then and now) only applies to sandboxed apps.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    This is almost certainly the answer. The author is overthinking this.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    Less clickbaity title: Googling Bend, Oregon's ZIP Code 97702 results in an internal server error.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    I mean, if 10 people surrounded a truck with a single human driver, they'd probably be able to drive off with it too.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    iOS does.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    One reasonable explanation for this clause would be to avoid claims that Amazon stole an idea when in fact they did not. For example: 1. I submit my script to Amazon 2. A year later, Amazon releases a movie with a similar character. 3. I s
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    Safari Technology Preview has a WGL2 flag (doesn’t seem to work well enough for this thing yet), so probably yet.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    Sandstorm?
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    Right, my bad.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    There was the password vs password hint thing.
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    Assembly?
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    by Gaelan 9y ago

    Looking into != launching soon or even ever.