Rjevski

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by Rjevski 8y ago
What’s the avantage of a pager compared to a smartphone in 2018? I don’t see any. I’d rather just use my phone and email/Slack/Telegram.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I’ve thought about it but no, some of the recommended videos have zero link to the other ones, the only link is my “shadow profile” or whatever Google calls it. Tell me how a video about wasp pest control (had a wasp nest issue about a year
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by Rjevski 8y ago
On the other hand, even a laptop mic would be better than MP3 wouldn't it? Granted, the quality of the recording would be bad, but the point of FLAC is to get an authentic reproduction of the original recording (however bad it may have
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I wish, but knowing the general public they’ll just see this as yet another screen to click through to get their daily dose of bullshit memes, game invitations from their “friends” and other bullshit.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
The problem is anonymous data is an ambiguous term, as enough randomness in the “anonymous” data can still uniquely identify that individual. Let’s take YouTube for example - I never had an account with them, yet they recommend me videos ba
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Finally. I wish third-party analytics would be next. A lot of apps are using analytics from companies who’s business model is inherently incompatible with privacy (Facebook & Google) and that concerns me.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
The issue is that ads themselves are a waste of time, targeted or not.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Says Google, who’s entire business model is based on stalking everyone and wasting their time with ads.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Well it could masquerade as a pair of EarPods and get access to the audio output yeah. But it still wouldn't get access to the iOS sync & backup/restore service (because normal EarPods have no reason to access that).
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Not really. They could allow accessory protocols while disabling everything else. The only sensitive thing we care about is "usbmuxd" or whatever the protocol for iOS sync & backup is.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
To inflate some other account's (either spam bot, or someone who buys fake followers) followers and make them look legitimate. However this particular account is a spam bot as it occasionally tweets financial frauds such as "yes l
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by Rjevski 8y ago
However, if the car saw the pedestrian, even as a false positive (presumably from far enough away to have enough time to brake/avoid it), I think it should’ve alerted the driver. The driver would’ve most likely started paying attention
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Because Facebook? Because they switched from providing a great service to try and milk out as much money as possible from their users by the way of ads and privacy violations?
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Could everyone who has a Twitter account report some of those? Just to see if a pile of reports from mostly influential accounts (we’re on HN after all) would have any effect. Here’s a screenshot of the account just in case this actually wo
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> Automated systems can and will be gamed as well. Taking an user’s reputation, account lifetime, reputation of their followers, etc (so for example, a report from a new account has less weight than an established account with a good his
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by Rjevski 8y ago
They should actually put that report button to good use and take that into account when suspending users. A high number of tweeets seen by a lot of active followers and not being reported is actually a very good signal the account is not
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I never said I used the system. I deleted my account in 2013 when they started making the platform worse and worse with every “upgrade”. I loved Twitter and I wish they get their stuff together and make it enjoyable again, but I’m not expec
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I’m sure their engineers (if they still have any - I haven’t seen any innovation from Twitter in a long time) are more than capable of fixing this if management lets them. Hiring more engineers isn’t going to solve it. Management and produc
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Profit? Which profit? Not to mention, having spam on the platform isn’t really a good strategy for profit anyway.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Well the existing system doesn’t seem to be working right. Blatantly obvious spam is allowed to remain, just see the spam replies to any big account’s tweets or spam on certain popular hashtags.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Whoever designed how this system is supposed to work (as in, allow the spam to remain) is still an idiot in my view. Granted, I’m sure they have an agenda to justify this (aka boost user numbers as much as possible, even if all of them are
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Any of the open-source email spam filters? Not saying they’re excellent by any means but they’d at least take care of the most obvious spam there is. False positives can be dealt with appeals - allow people to actually appeal the decision a
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Most likely, but then I wonder, what do their 1k-5k (according to CrunchBase) employees really do? A simple spam flagging system (that’ll take care of the lowest hanging fruit aka very obvious spam) can be built even by a single engineer.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I assume this is sarcasm, so I’d like to point out that I don’t consider myself smarter than anyone else or anything - I say idiots simply because there’s no excuse where blatantly obvious spam (for example the crypto currency scam replies
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by Rjevski 8y ago
LibreOffice is absolutely awful from an UX point of view. That’s enough to put me off personally. If you’re an office expert you’d probably figure out how to use it, but for me I’ve only used an office suite maybe a dozen times in my life s
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I love it how they have “automated systems that remove spam” that somehow remove innocent accounts like this one but completely fail to remove blatantly obvious spam. I don’t expect the system to be bulletproof and remove advanced spam ring
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by Rjevski 8y ago
What does your site provide - does it sell any products or services or is it purely ad supported? If it’s ad supported and you don’t care about your brand I’d say there’s no risk in switching to shittier ads, but if you want to keep a quali
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by Rjevski 8y ago
This would be lovely - it will take a long time to regain people's trust (knowing the current Facebook they'd still stalk you even if you pay), but if it happens then it will be awesome.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Carbon ( https://carbonads.net/ ) seems to be going strong.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
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