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by Nicksil 6y ago
~05 hrs ago: Nearly half of the Twitter accounts discussing 'reopening America' may be bots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23277536 ~11 hrs ago: Half of the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America
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by Nicksil 6y ago
~24 hrs ago Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255283 ~24 hrs ago Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Reopening America’ May Be
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by Nicksil 6y ago
Why not just post the URL to the thing instead of a URL to something that just redirects to the thing? https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx
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by Nicksil 6y ago
My personal experience has lead me to believe yes, it's broken. Or at least severely damaged. Thanks in large part to the SEO/marketing awfulness. A week or so ago I noticed I've begun to adapt to this poor state of search re
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>There are other ways to target / close the circle. App developers can share emails of new installs with facebook for cross match and more options. Would this feel better? Of course not because it describes the same behavior.
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>This very same argument would apply to, say, "5% of the price of my dinner goes towards healthcare for the waitstaff. That's something the company wants, not something I want." I'm not sure I follow. If you're p
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>I cannot easily see what information goes through an ASP form submitted with a ViewState parameter (where the page state is encoded in a blob buried in a JS var or HTML comment). Is that also surreptitious? I can't say I completel
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by Nicksil 6y ago
You're trying to convince me that the system isn't perfect. Listen, I've long since agreed with you. I commented on your initial response because it was overly dismissive and implied the only way forward is to first wait unti
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>The 'not knowing' part happens when the outrage is then transferred to any app which does integrate the FB SDK (like zoom). Sorry, I'm lost here. Can you elaborate? >We as developers have sortof taken for granted that
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>Software developers want to know whether their existing marketing methods are effective. The FB SDK helps with this. As you mention, this is something the software developer want, not necessarily the user . >You always have the ch
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>The resources are trivial. Some of them aren't, though. The Facebook SDK isn't a trivial resource. It also depends a lot on the specific device the software is being loaded on to. It may be trivial to a newer device or one wit
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>For the average user out there, the fact is, most people only care about privacy when there's a breach/outage/scandal of some kind. Otherwise, the average person is not going to have "zomg fb is spyware" on thei
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>That definition is rather too broad. It makes basically everything spyware which dilutes the word too much to be useful. I don't agree. I was very specific in stating that the practice of consuming a user's resources to transm
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>Having a government full of technical lot illiterate politicians regulating digital advertisement - what could possibly go wrong. I'm not sure that argument works. If we expand a bit, It wouldn't be difficult to find that gove
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>Devil's advocate: you could always not run those apps. Although for non-technical users it would be challenging to determine if the apps were transmitting that info, it's possible for technical users to detect it (assuming the
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>It's difficult to argue about whether it's "surreptitious." It's certainly no secret. I think this is why you need organizations (perhaps government or otherwise) to establish standards for what is and isn'
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>If the software developer didn't get anything off you they wouldn't make the software available to you in the first place. A lot of software these days don't offer a way for casual users (read: not enterprise/small b
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>Is that "spyware"? Yes, absolutely. It uses energy and bandwidth I paid for to surreptitiously transmit my information for use which will solely benefit Facebook and the software developer.
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by Nicksil 6y ago
No. Please no. There's no need for this. The reasoning behind this is because some people occasionally forget to include the `f` prefix? Then there's this: >Smith would add a new "p" string prefix for plain string
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by Nicksil 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23039560 ~124 comments
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by Nicksil 6y ago
I'm still not quite there. >real-time requests What's this mean? If you're describing the ability to transfer the web site's data whenever a request comes in for that data, that's been the case since day 1. Alter
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is fundamentally reshaping the web. How? "fundamentally reshaping the web" is a bold claim; how are those things reshaping the Web -- what's changing shape?
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by Nicksil 7y ago
The RSS/ATOM syndication was created for this purpose. No need to collect email addresses. Point your favorite RSS/ATOM reader to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events and it'll pick up the
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by Nicksil 7y ago
I'm not sure why `dbooks.org` is hosting this (couldn't even find a link pointing back to the source). If you go to the source[1] you'll find the contents in-full along with a whole bunch of other great stuff[2] from Al Sweig
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by Nicksil 7y ago
>5 does not fit the definition many in anyone's book. ... >I was asking OP if he was personally affected So 5 people dead is insignificant, but a single person, adversely affected, is cause for concern?
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by Nicksil 7y ago
>Biggest thing for me would be instant installs[...] That's relative to the size of the thing you're installing, no? Wouldn't it then be comparable to software of the same size being installed on the host system? >no&#x
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by Nicksil 7y ago
>Most important thing for me is sandboxing, no abuse of the device's data and sensors. I hate how most native apps invade your privacy. User abuse is rampant on the Web. For example, those APIs you mention are used to fingerprint ma
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by Nicksil 7y ago
>Single codebase for multiple platforms[...] Native, cross-platform frameworks exist. >no app store approvals/revenue share required[...] Software was distributed long before those walled gardens came into existence. It is as pos
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by Nicksil 7y ago
>- No store needed Software was distributed long before those walled gardens popped up. Native applications need no store. >- Crossplatform (in use and development) Cross-platform frameworks exist for native applications. >- No sto
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by Nicksil 7y ago
>Failed you? This sounds either very entitled or sensational. Has software caused you major grief in any way financial or the loss of limbs or loved ones? While this happens, very few people are affected by bugs in such a way, at least c

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