Gentil

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by Gentil 5y ago
Gentle reminder that these are studies funded by tax payers money. If America as a country has to deny non-americans access, it makes sense. Especially considering that China is abusing democratic institutions. But it is messed up that us A
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by Gentil 5y ago
> You need a huge infrastructure for that. Only a Google or Facebook could possibly deliver such a competitive offering in that space. Sure, the ad ends up being the same a fair amount of the time, but dare you risk going with some Bran
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by Gentil 5y ago
> Well google don't sell behavioral ads to user, they sell to companies. Without extensive knowledge and experience, companies executives are more likely to lean for behavioral ads even it's more expensive or inefficient. Yes.
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by Gentil 5y ago
> I don't particularly like the ads, but I understand they are needed to sustain many businesses (either online or elsewhere.) Would I prefer alternative payment methods? Maybe, depending on the publisher, and the price of the conte
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by Gentil 5y ago
I would have to respectfully disagree though. Cos like I said, the reason why free trial is there in the first place is to entice users. There are so many products without free trials. Again, the burden should not be in the shoulders of the
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by Gentil 5y ago
Setting web development environments and mobile dev environments or anyway in which different languages are involved. NixOS have some documentation on it. Like I said, this wasn't because they (NixOS and Guix) implement it bad, but bec
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by Gentil 5y ago
Good points made by others. But another thing is you don't have to? Nix(OS)/Guix installs packages and dependencies separately instead of replacing packages like other OS/package managers do. This means you have multiple vers
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by Gentil 5y ago
I moved to NixOS and came back to Arch because setting up development environments for general purpose computing felt tricky. I was on a schedule so had to drop it. Is it the same for Guix? I don't know why it should be any different.
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by Gentil 5y ago
Interesting question. My question again would be why? . You just transferred the responsibility from you (the SaaS company) to a well known processor. This doesn't make a data breach or data sharing avoidable/impossible. Also,
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by Gentil 5y ago
Credit card for trial is a dark pattern from the end user's perspective for sure. Cos, that is one more place where the end user have to risk his/her/their PII. This is especially important considering the end user is trying
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by Gentil 5y ago
Interestingly enough, the pay for these individuals differ too. And this matters as well. We should be taught to negotiate. This is the most underrated thing our industry and seniors don't tell juniors of the field. I learned this the
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by Gentil 5y ago
> This might be more indicative of your bubble than anything. Sure. But this bubble that I was in since for a long time had been OK with JOB positions and talking about a career in FB before. So if there is anything else, that itself sho
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by Gentil 5y ago
This is a huge possibility. They are already struggling. The reality is I don't see Zuck backtracking on anything. Meta and the new tech coming around it is a good example of it. They are actually looking into doubling down on surveill
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by Gentil 5y ago
I don't have much data points to share. But I've been seeing responses to people working FB have been horrible since for a while now. It has been a common trend that when someone I know posts a job position in FB, nobody replies t
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by Gentil 5y ago
As much as I would love to give the benefit of the doubt, this is purely about increasing engagement. Disliking something was a very easy way to say I don't like this. When something controversial happens from now onwards, you will hav
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by Gentil 5y ago
Heavy blow to JAMF folks! It would be interesting to see how thing go from now onwards for them.
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by Gentil 5y ago
I hope they remove it. Anything and everything FB sends data. Their share button alone does it. Don't you think their auth does it too?
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by Gentil 5y ago
Forums are awesome for this context. It is most of the time better for privacy as well. But is it just me or whenever I use Discourse forum, my FB container in Firefox shows it has blocked something which FB uses to track me! This is in mul
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by Gentil 5y ago
Sir, I would ask your wife if it is OK to share all the usernames and passwords of all websites she has signed up to a stranger. And if she says NO, ask her if she wont share what she know are in her field of view, how can she be sure about