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by TekMol 3y ago
It is not a human but it is a fellow intelligent system. Mankind had this discussion before. When Darwin published his theory about evolution. He faced a lot of hatred because it made humans less special. Now we go through the same dance ag
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by TekMol 3y ago
Big media companies go fuck yourself. That nightmare scenario, for Levin, would turn a Food & Wine review into a simple text recommendation of a bottle of Malbec. If there is just one wine review on the web which re
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by TekMol 3y ago
"Thousands of IPs" can not hurt Twitters bottom line in any way. With a "read 10 tweets per IP per day" limit, that is 10k tweets. Delivering 10k tweets does not even cost a penny.
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by TekMol 3y ago
My solution is to make it less of a walled garden. At the moment, they often refuse even reading a single tweet when not logged in. And for the "simply log-in": It is even more expensive (way more expensive) to get good email ad
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by TekMol 3y ago
First of all, Twitter does not support IPv6. Secondly, if they would, they could simply rate limit by the first x chars of the address.
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by TekMol 3y ago
I don't believe that Twitter has to limit requests to avoid bots. They would just have to limit requests by IP and thats it. Say 10 tweets per IP per day. For requests which do not come from logged in users. I can't see how scrape
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by TekMol 3y ago
And what kind of project do you run which needs up/down scaling and load balancing? In my experience, for a simple PHP web application, the smallest VMs already can handle a thousand concurrent users, which amounts to something like a
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by TekMol 3y ago
What exactly does Fly.io give you? You already know how to set up your project locally. Why not just do the same setup on any cloud VM and boom it is online?
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by TekMol 3y ago
What do people get out of using special services like Fly.io instead of standard VMs like the ones you can get from $5/month these days? Can anybody who uses Fly.io explain their rationale? Why do the additional integration with Fly.io
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by TekMol 3y ago
I hate systemd with a passion, but I won't fiddle with Debian to get rid of it. I would love if a major distro emerges which works with human-readable scripts and logs and stays away from any "binary" formats for system confi
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by TekMol 3y ago
Ok, you are tired of Self-Driving, VR, Crypto, AI and other upcoming technologies. Is there anything on the horizon you are interested in / enthusiastic about?
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by TekMol 3y ago
What is going on with the reflexive upvoting of articles arguing against new technologies here on HN? Are there any upcoming technologies HN does not have an aversion toward?
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by TekMol 3y ago
From the outside, the blockchain is just a giant bunch of transactions. No company like a Amazon or Visa has a clear picture of what those transactions are about. Now in the times of lightning, there is not even a transaction for the paymen
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by TekMol 3y ago
Which payment provider do you use? I only know payment providers who are mega cooperations: Visa, Paypal etc.
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by TekMol 3y ago
The problem even with DRM-free epubs is that: A) I don't see a reason why some mega-cooperations should know about every book I buy. B) You don't know if they have been watermarked. I don't want every book I own to be waterma
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by TekMol 3y ago
Here in Europe, we are in a paradoxical downward spiral. And unfortunately, I see no end to it. Understandably, we don't want our citizens to be spied upon by the US and have all that data stored in the US. Unfortunately, our "sol
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by TekMol 3y ago
the burden of proof lies on the one who makes a claim Now you made a claim. Time to proof it.
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by TekMol 3y ago
Let's go for an unbiased list. You name the 10 most important tech products of the year so far. And then we go through them and see if they are available in Europe.
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by TekMol 3y ago
I'm still not sure if we (here in Europe) gain anything from all this work the GDPR causes. For myself, Google never seemed to pick up which websites I visit. At least ads never followed me around. Probably because of my surfing habits
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by TekMol 3y ago
I guess you could just proxy a normal SQLite DB? Should take only a few lines of PHP. Maybe just one: echo DB::select($_GET['query']); All that is needed is a VM in the cloud. A VM with 10 GB is just $4/month these d
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by TekMol 3y ago
I meant the latter. Stocks purchased on custody by a chines/russian entity. Because that is how the world works today. People from all around the world buy shares of companies all around the world. But the companies don't know tho
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by TekMol 3y ago
So the stock markets of two of the biggest countries in the world (Russia and China) went to zero quite recently (1917 and 1949). And the author summarizes that stock markets can't go to zero? How does that make sense? Even his closing
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by TekMol 3y ago
It's not hard to convert to HTTPS and it doesn't cost a lot. I have to disagree. Certificates are still a pain in the butt. The reason is that the only free and "easy" solution is Let's Encrypt. And th
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by TekMol 3y ago
I wonder if uBlock origin has overshot the mark. It even blocks self-hosted analytics scripts from the same domain. By default. I don't see how that is a good thing. It just makes the lives of people who run websites harder. When I vis
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by TekMol 3y ago
One could still use Google Analytics by proxying the tracking events. Afaik only the IP is considered private data. So one could mask or (non-reversibly) hash the IP, remove anything else which might be considered private data and then send
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by TekMol 3y ago
When I visit https://news.google.com I only see very short excerpts like "Supreme Court Rejects Affirmative Action at U.S. Colleges".
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by TekMol 3y ago
Sure, laws are human constructs. But what is the situation in Canada now? Did they really put a law into place which says "When you link to a page with a short excerpt to show what the link is about, this is now a copyright violation&q
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by TekMol 3y ago
News outlets usually provide RSS feeds. Don't they allow to show the contents of those feeds on websites? And isn't showing the content of the RSS feed "fair use" anyhow? When I look at the content of the Toronto Star fo
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by TekMol 3y ago
You describe the issue of dependencies. You don't need modern tooling to prevent it. A server side build step to combine assets only makes things worse. Because on first load you get bombed with a giant blob of code you don't need
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by TekMol 3y ago
Have you thought about testing that assumption?

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