Polylactic_acid

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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Catering to people who don't own a phone (Richard stallman and kids in Africa) is a lower priority to most mods than stopping waves of trolls and spammers.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
You're not paying for emoji, your paying for an incredible product that provides a lot of value. Emoji is just one feature they hold back to tempt you to pay for the amazing thing you have been given for free. It sounds greedy when you
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The gaming alternatives were mumble and teamspeak which also sucked. Its no wonder discord took off when all of the competition sucked.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The censorship angle is likely how discord shuts down servers used to organise gatherings that are borderline terrorism and servers used to share anime under age content. Its worlds away from china level where your DMs are being monitored f
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The majority of discord users would have 16-64gb of ram and don't care if 250mb goes to one of their most useful programs.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
You can enable phone number verification which makes it massively harder to avoid bans. Its way easier to cycle IP addresses than phone numbers.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Its a fairly logical anti spam method. If its a private discord server for your friends there is no need but if the invite link is public then the anti spam protection becomes pretty important.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Your phone holds the passwords for the websites but they passwords never get presented to the user. FaceID is just used to unlock the password store. You would have to steal a phone and trick faceid on the phone to gain access to someones a
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I might be wrong but I don't think thats how its working. It sounds like your phone saves a password/key locally and then when you load a website, faceid is used by your phone to unlock the keyring and sends the normal password to
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Its not hard, it just costs money. Lego is the default option and the only reason you would pick another brand is if it was cheaper and to be cheaper they have to cut corners since Lego isn't massively ripping people off.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The browser version has a lot more friction with getting audio inputs working for me as well as not supporting screen streaming I think.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
We have completely replaced a set of jira tools with gitlab. Its great.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Oculus was the first to realize that we now have the technology to do VR right and forget about all the failed attempts from the 90s.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
>software updates for a UI that no one asked for. No one ever asks for these things even if they are needed. People complain at every single youtube redesign but when you look back at the past designs they look ugly compared to the curre
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
>Speech that is false and intentionally causes a panic should not be protected. 70% of facebook posts and newspapers instantly banned.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The wonderful thing about IoT is the criminal can be on the other side of the world with no chance of any justice coming to them.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Its pretty interesting how much core open source technology is maintained by a single developer and just vanishes when they leave/get bored.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Who in their right mind is going to dedicate their free time to writing printer drivers in 2020? Forking solves the problem of a poor maintainer holding up things, it doesn't just spawn interested developers out of nowhere.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Something has to be done. Obvious bullshit is fooling huge chunks of the population and causing huge damage. We have always selected acceptable content and it has usually been a positive. Schools have always picked which info to teach and w
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Yes. Stating that the product was useless due to FTP+SVN/USB drives was incorrect. The idea was a huge success. Dropbox just wasn't the one that got the reward.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Bluetooth support is all over the place for me. My Apple watch and airpods work flawlessly over bluetooth on my phone but everything else ranges from usable to very frustrating.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
HFP mode is not worth using for anything unless you are roleplaying a person from the 90s taking a phone call in the car. The sound quality is truly awful in HFP mode, I can hardly understand what people are saying when in that mode and you
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Agreed. If I turn the screen off and tilt my phone I can see hairline scratches but when its on I can't see anything so who cares.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
If you are actually a potential rapist there are plenty of easier methods than setting up a fake repair garage and matching vibration sensors with pot holes. The entire idea is ridiculous.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Yes I'm quite aware that if governments were after me they could probably dig up this stuff but thats not my concern. I'm focused on random internet users being able to dig up 10 year old posts which would be insanely difficult gi
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The original thread was shitting on the idea of an online storage solution. The idea was good, its just every other tech company jumped on the same boat and crushed drop box.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
If you got to a store that has "unlimited" refills for drinks and you go and bring in a set of 40L drums to fill up, thats abusing the service. You know this is a gross overuse of the service which was intended for normal users to
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I'm Gen Z too and for my whole life the advice has been "Don't put your real info on the internet". The only thing that comes up when you search my name is my gitlab profile and a technical blog. All of my cringy forum p
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
This is the reason I switched to an iphone this year after 10 years on android. Everything I loved about Android devices is dead and they are now while at least Apple respects privacy.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Apple started out as fairly repair hostile while Androids were relatively repairable. Now most android phones are sliding more and more towards glued together bricks while iphones are mostly the same to the point where most android devices

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