Normille

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by Normille 6y ago
Yes. By number of users, Gab is by far the biggest fediverse/mastodon instance. However, because people [including it seems the article author] don't agree with the views of many of their users, they pretend it doesn't exist.
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by Normille 6y ago
TL;DR; someone who joined fediverse because it was free and uncensored, complains about fediverse because it doesn't censor people whose opinions he doesn't like.
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by Normille 6y ago
I see what you did there!
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by Normille 6y ago
Gotta love a website that trumpets freedom and privacy and then uses browser fingerprinting to try and track visitors!
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by Normille 6y ago
Agreed. Wire had such great potential, being E2E encrypted, cross platform and based in Switzerland. I discovered it probably 4 or 5 years ago when looking for a cross-platform alternative to iMessages, after buying my 1st Android phone. It
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by Normille 6y ago
Pity it doesn't work for importing chat history from Wire... ...But then again, Wire is so useless, it can't even import its own chat history, most of the time.
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by Normille 6y ago
>AOL must have saw the writing on the wall Dearie me!
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by Normille 6y ago
Yandex Mail [0] is a better choice for this than Gmail. It also asks for a phone number to validate, on sign up. But there's a box you can tick which says something like "I don't have a mobile phone" and then you can v
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by Normille 6y ago
Whoosh!
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by Normille 6y ago
^^ This. There's "I'm plotting criminal activities or planning to overthrow my government" messaging which requires secure encryption. And there's "I don't particularly want to be followed round the in
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by Normille 6y ago
>Signal actually has a desktop app. So does Telegram. And it works independently of whether or not you've got the app installed on your phone.
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by Normille 6y ago
>Europe and the UK, where tipping is an optional gesture and not a form of the customer subsidising the restaurant's wage bill Unfortunately, a lot of unscrupulous restaurant owners [in UK anyway] used it as exactly that. I
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by Normille 6y ago
>Tipping is a cultural thing True. In UK tipping is seen [in my view correctly] as a reward for good service. So, if a taxi driver or waiter / waitress is especially friendly & helpful, you might leave them a tip. In ot
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by Normille 6y ago
>Scientists are pouring over satellite imagery to confirm... Incontinent scientists? Liquid scientists? Or did the author mean "poring"?
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by Normille 6y ago
...or it could be that --as in my city in England where 100.000 students descended on us from all over the country and instantly went out partying and mixing in large numbers, ignoring all the lockdown advice and regulations, so that our R
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by Normille 6y ago
Really bad wording of the title. It suggests the exact opposite of what it's trying to say.
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by Normille 6y ago
A slightly less facetious answer: As an experiment and from the point of view of publishing rather than consuming [which I think the article was more focussed on]: I've replaced my old Twitter accounts [one linked to my personal blog,
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by Normille 6y ago
I find that not using Twitter [or Facebook, or Instagram, or any social media] at all works best for me. And is even easier to set up.
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by Normille 6y ago
If you write proper English, the coding world is littered with misspellings: * COLOR instead of COLOUR * CENTER instead of CENTRE * FLAVOR instead of FLAVOUR * ---IZE instead of ---ISE etc... etc.. I never gave REFERER a second thought, ass
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by Normille 6y ago
>To me the biggest issue that was raised by the Trump bans is that we shouldn't be relying on these channels for communication with our governments and elected representatives What I find most alarming about this, as a Europ
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by Normille 6y ago
... or too lazy to proof-read
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by Normille 6y ago
You didn't hurt my feelings. It just surprises me that someone thinks "Wow! I have a strongly held opinion about X which I really must share with the world!" but then doesn't even bother to take the minuscule amount of
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by Normille 6y ago
>Did Jack Ma think he was going to tell the CCP how it is? The thing is that [even allowing for the fact that any news coming out of China that we get in the west is heavily spun to make China look bad] what Jack Ma is alleged t
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by Normille 6y ago
Parl-fucking-LER! At least take the time to note the name of the company, before weighing in with your opinions. [None of this confusion would arise, if you Yanks spelled 'Parlour' properly]
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by Normille 6y ago
Apparently he had a word with God, who said it was OK now.
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by Normille 6y ago
You're wasting your time there, matey. The concept of checking whether something has already been posted a zillion times seems to be beyond a sizeable number of HN members.
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by Normille 6y ago
Interesting read. Just a pity the accompanying illustrations are: 1. Not actually part of the document. but linked to 2. Illegibly small GIFs with overly reduced colour palette
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by Normille 6y ago
Laudable concept. But unfortunately (at least when I tried switching to it early last year) the search results were just not very good. You might almost say that, reading them, I couldn't see the wood, for the trees.
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by Normille 6y ago
Same here. I use Imgur to post images to a couple of forums I'm a member of. I uploaded only yesterday without any problems -and I have uBlock Origin, uMatrix and PrivacyBadger all installed.
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by Normille 6y ago
Tap and hold on a Chat in Android and it selects. A tick appears beside it. You can continue to tap on other chats to select multiple chats. A Bin icon will appear at the top to delete them. I don't see what's so difficult about t

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