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by Rjevski 8y ago
> based in France (as am I) The laws in France seem a bit better as far as “unauthorised access” is concerned, I haven’t heard of any precedents where security researchers have been prosecuted there. In any case, I’d recommend disclosing
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I don’t think many people are hating on Microsoft because of the bad they did a decade ago. People are hating on Microsoft because of the shit they are doing now . Windows 10 and Skype are prime examples, and that is still happening as w
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I just clicked on the LKML website and I have literally no idea what to do next. It’s like a mailbox full of patches without even any clear indication for which source file it is, which patch is the latest, etc. I also don’t even know how t
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by Rjevski 8y ago
A Wordpress website isn’t an advantage, it’s a nightmare in terms of security and maintenance.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Would not recommend anything Wordpress-based. That thing is a security and maintenance nightmare.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
It’s just a matter of time. ;)
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Anyone can register for an account, no need for a Mac.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Correct. But don't you agree that advertising is analogous to cancer in the tech world? It starts off slow, then gets bigger and bigger, consumes more stuff in its way and transforming/removing the company's core values (like
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Until there is nobody left to see their content and they go out of business. Perfectly acceptable outcome if you ask me!
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by Rjevski 8y ago
The issue with "acceptable" ads is that 1) there is no such thing as "acceptable" shit, and 2) the "acceptable" ads are just as bad (if not worse) than everyone else as far as privacy & stalking are concern
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by Rjevski 8y ago
1Blocker allows it too.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Not sure if you analogy works. There’s only a very few countries where German is the main language. There are unfortunately many businesses where ads (aka cancer) are the main business model.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> they are actively at war with FB/Google Why is that? They’re not at war with any particular company, mainly at war with a business model equivalent to cancer. Those companies will be welcome back anytime once they find out a prope
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Do you mean Apple's own apps or third-party ones? I'm not sure in-app ads should be completely blocked, but there should be strong policies around what is allowed, and possibly an approval scheme for ads just like there currently
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Kill it with fire?
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I wish at some point Apple would also include a built-in ad blocker so we don't even need to install third-party ones.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Yep totally agree, Twitter only exists because of network effects. > even though they were announcing loud and clear that they were going to cost money On the other hand, WhatsApp announced this back when scammers aka mobile networks sti
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I’m not sure it would be able to compete now - displacing an established player is very hard; App.net tried that a few years ago with Twitter; but ultimately not many people cared (despite the free tier) and the few paying users weren’t e
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Oh I am so sad, Facebook is “victim” of lies and poor reporting, let me get my tiny violin. Facebook lies every possible time, it’s built into their perverse business model. Even if the article was actually wrong, it’s only fair that they g
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by Rjevski 8y ago
These services want to show you cancer - sorry I mean ads - as much as possible, and for that they want you to stay on the app as long as possible. With a sane chronological feed, once you scroll down to the last tweet you remember reading,
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Agreed. I love GitLab and it’s UI, but recently the performance of the hosted version is awful (not sure why - just being overloaded?). In fact, even their own status page reflects it: https://status.gitlab.com/ - the curre
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Totally agree, but until we abolish the death penalty I’d rather have it done humanely.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Just wondering, why can’t an inert gas be used? We know from high-altitude aircraft accidents (like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 ) that lack of oxygen leads to quick and painless loss of con
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Make API access paid. Most of your users would switch to the official clients and see your ads. The few who wouldn’t click on your ads anyway will keep using the third-party client. Everyone ends up happy as a result.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
The real value of a social network is in the people using it - whether they use a third-party client doesn’t change anything in this regard. If anything, having third-parties making free/cheap clients for you is actually a bonus.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
But this is Twitter we’re talking about. The API is a relic of their (much better) past and nobody gives a shit about it anymore. It’s a miracle it still works to be honest. I wouldn’t be surprised if this limitation was actually a feature
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I would not recommend this unless you hire these people for a regular maintenance role. Leaving a box with no monitoring and no on-site skill capable of fixing it is a bad idea. That box will explode at some point and it's going to e
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by Rjevski 8y ago
GitLab has been a pain for me lately. Chose them for a client due to built-in CI (as opposed to Github), but the HTTP response time on the web UI makes it painful to use - I'm routinely seeing ~1s response times on pull requests and CI
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by Rjevski 8y ago
This is a shame. Apple was the only big player not yet consumed by the cancer that is advertising.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Django or Flask, backed by PostgreSQL, both on Heroku. Once you scale you can look into doing it manually with AWS when the cost savings start to become worthwhile (Heroku ends up being quite expensive for high traffic).

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