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by Nicksil 5y ago
>If you build it as a CLI, you can get the GUI for free via Gooey But then you've just added a dependency and, unless you vendor that thing, or don't update it in the future, you've no way to ensure it doesn't screw u
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by Nicksil 5y ago
Google search UI has degraded so much in recent history. It's become almost comically user-hostile. I say comically because I would be laughing if not for the fact that real humans use this service every day and are subjected to this
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>The people that disable Javascript are missing a whole world of interactive applications. What? Interactive applications came way before the Web and JavaScript. Interactive applications currently exist outside of the Web and these same
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>They use packages such as celery which happen use Redis under the hood but the user doesn‘t have to deal with these details other than pasting some Redis connection URL somewhere. Celery doesn't use Redis under the hood. However, y
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>How about this: you have a business that sells stuff online and but then a buyer suddenly refuses to give you money in return and says "I don't like money as it has corrupting power. I prefer an alternative means of compensati
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>And then how is the website jedberg likes supported? What a bizarre argument; the implication that advertising is the sole method of remuneration and sourcing support for some venture is the responsibility of anyone besides the venture.
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>On the plus side it gives free information to billions of people, now everyone can have free gps maps, email, websites We've had that all along; for free. Nothing in this list is thanks to advertising.
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>Or is there also an antianticaptcha? I believe we're back at captcha again.
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These websites can still use the JavaScript GeoLocation API[1], can they not? The article just talks about removing the ability to ascertain a users Geo-location via their IP address (unless I've missed something which is very possible
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>It seems they also edited their comment to include a link - seems pretty reasonable to me. Well of course this was done after my comment.
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>Despite the sad loss of the ACLU as an institution that cares about civil liberties, we can remain hopeful due to other organizations like FIRE. You're just going to leave it there? What/who is FIRE? This isn't one of tho
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>The aforementioned "allies" are dangerous like bear-traps. Ostensibly they exist to deal with the bears. But they lay hidden in the brush ready to take off the foot of anybody who missteps, bear or otherwise. And you probably
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>'dang may have pinned the comment to the top to make clear that he had changed the submitted title to the tweet and be open that he had done so. But he hadn't as was said in this very thread: https://news.ycombinato
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>Saying it was “petty drama” in the top comment sets a tone for the convo. Top comment is the top comment because it was voted to the top. One doesn't say anything in a top comment; one says something in a comment which may become t
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Its not the first time you've been caught in a lie, dang. >But folks, this is the secret hackernews site, called BookFace. This is the site that the event happened. Its also a nice site to conspire with other YC companies and YC
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>HAHAHAHAHA Elucidate for fuck sake
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But that doesn't stop their abuse. Think about all the other websites out there using Google Analytics, FaceBook "Like" buttons, Twitter excerpts, etc. You're ever getting away.
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OK, so there are flagged links. What's stopping Google from flagging the links of their competitors?
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>This time a witch-hunt to cancel a user, due to ‘past crimes’. It's worse: According to the article, there weren't even "past crimes": "The outrage stemmed from photos of the 41-year-old actress as a teenage deb
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Ah, much clearer. Thank you for taking the time to go into detail.
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>It's really not alright to step on the pulpit to point fingers left and right when your house is also not in order, it makes it seem more like you're trying to move forward your business agenda rather than really caring about
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>...but the real problem is that young people believe that the world should be a fairer place? A common argument with this statement is that a lot of the behavior coming out of all of this doesn't align with the sentiment. As mentio
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by Nicksil 5y ago
I'm not familiar with those services, do they not provide POP3, SMTP, IMAP addresses? I've been using my own email setup for ~15 years, but have recently considered looking into some of these online services. I'd require the
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>We need a Firefox moment for Email! https://www.thunderbird.net
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Yes, Hitchens's razor! Good call. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens's_razor
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>And you assume that nobody will fork it to keep webRequest. No, I'm not sure how you got that idea. There are plenty of instances in the past where Mozilla/Firefox has been forked.
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I'm actually a bit optimistic about it. I know Mozilla has reached-out to uBlock Origin before (I believe it had something to do with uBlock Origin's UI) in what I would consider to be a positive light. It's also why I&#x27
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Not at all; I cover that when emphasizing "we consider important" (as well as including the ellipsis to indicate the continuation). I did not include it as it would have been redundant.
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>Google has introduced declarativeNetRequest (DNR) to replace the blocking webRequest API. ... >After discussing this with several content blocking extension developers, we have decided to implement DNR and continue maintaining suppor
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>This is incorrect. Check out what the PEO has to say about using "software engineer" as a title Which is why I qualified my statement with "many". >You can sometimes use the title without being licensed, but you h

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