Railander

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by Railander 3y ago
TBF having a quick response time to real-world fraud (as in, not because there is a bug in the code, but because users are lying to each other) is not an issue a developer would normally have to worry about. Seems like he simply got scapego
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by Railander 3y ago
I think it is very bold of him to claim starting from zero would be slower. He has accrued so much hate that if he were to start one I can't see how it would turn out any different than truthsocial or if Biden started his own social me
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by Railander 3y ago
That will only happen when people can't do the things they normally could anymore on the browser. I was/am expecting it to happen with manifest v3, as I understood it it would break userscripts and make adblocking a pain, so far i
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by Railander 3y ago
> Lots of networking equipment works over HTTP only, still. MikroTik has supported https for a very very long time, though it comes disabled by default and even if it didn't it wouldn't work because it requires the user creatin
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by Railander 4y ago
Considering they did lay off 50% of their staff, your analysis was spot-on.
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by Railander 4y ago
He's definitely feeling the pain right now, you can tell by how much more docile he's gotten in the last 48 hours.
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by Railander 4y ago
From his recent tweets he has said exactly the opposite; that he will build a "council" of diversified opinions and cultures, or something of the sort. Whatever that means or if it's ever actually happening though remains to
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by Railander 4y ago
> This is the old "voters are actually stupid" idea. I don't buy it. "Stupid" is probably the wrong word here. "Gullible" is probably more apt, considering they keep falling for these.
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by Railander 4y ago
>it almost might incentivize politician-style vacuous/feel-good statements They for sure would since there's a word for that: demagoguery.
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by Railander 4y ago
> repeatedly annoying non-user visitors doesn't make them want to sign up? It absolutely does, and that is precisely why they keep doing it. It doesn't work for the kinds of people that browse hackernews, but that's not th
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by Railander 4y ago
This is a technique called "getting the foot in the door". You see videogames employing these psychological tactics constantly nowadays to completely min-max human behavior into spending money.
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by Railander 4y ago
To be fair, doesn't seem like he's putting any effort into digging holes. The strongest argument is Tesla still doesn't have self-driving cars considering he's given it tons of attention for years and missed ETAs many ti
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by Railander 5y ago
Also alternatively, turn on Safe Mode so if you lose access the router will revert to the configuration state when Safe Mode was turned on.
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by Railander 5y ago
Their firewall is iptables wrapped in a really nice GUI. The criticism on their firewall might as well be a criticism on iptables (which IMO is completely valid, even after years I still have doubts about what a certain rules structure is g
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by Railander 5y ago
Agreed, MikroTik is extremely complex due to how feature-rich it is and because they run the same OS across all their devices, regardless of router/switch/AP/generation. Definitely not for the faint of heart that simply want
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by Railander 5y ago
From what I understood the part they are changing regarding scripting is in the `routing filters` feature. Your script is probably going to break due to the new syntaxes in v7, but no significant added new features on that matter that I&#x2
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by Railander 5y ago
As a Network Admin at an ISP in Brazil I can confirm their products are extremely popular due to the basically unbeatable price to performance and especially price to features. I can't think of anything close to their retail prices tha
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by Railander 5y ago
> So there’s nothing stopping someone from jamming your equipment Nearly a decade at a small/medium ISP in Brazil (where illegal competitiveness isn't uncommon) and I've never seen this happening to us (or if it did, we ne
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by Railander 5y ago
> free youtube content This cannot be stated enough. I think just YouTube alone would be enough to justify Google's existence. Meanwhile Amazon has Twitch, and people there don't seem to think too highly of how things are being
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by Railander 5y ago
> They could have prioritized websites with fewer tracking/ads/scripts. The downside comes down to the end user experience if those websites being prioritized have lower quality material, which in turn might force those users t
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by Railander 5y ago
> But we can be sure that in 50 years, the data that Google collects about us today will be lying on some hard disk drive, ready to be used for who knows what. I would sometimes worry about that. At some point internet privacy will be co