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by Vinnl 1y ago
It's amazing to consider how many people have contributed parts to all the improvements listed in this article. It's not as spectacular and doesn't get the same immediate positive feedback as, say, saving a drowning child, bu
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Well, primarily it's the other apps that are saying a lot about you. I think this story emphasises yet again that websites are better for your privacy than apps. (Especially in a browser that has e.g. uBlock Origin, such as Firefox for
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I think very few people would argue that cookie consent banners in the form in which they are the norm are a good thing just like permission prompts for microphone access are.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
At least for me, I'm fairly sure that I'm better at not adding security flaws to my code (which I'm already not perfect at!) than I am at spotting them in code that I didn't write, unfortunately.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Meanwhile I'll enjoy my bicycle that gets me that for 95% of my destinations, does so in reasonable time, is never stuck in traffic, doesn't risk killing or even significantly maiming others, doesn't pollute the environment,
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Well, not sure if "the industry" is proposing this yet, or if it's just this one person and the Airbnb guy.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Yep sorry, I saw this post, brought it up internally because I remember hearing they updated the export functionality in preparation of the shutdown, and then they fixed it while I was out. So here's your notification that the docs wer
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I think for me, the fun comes from preventing bugs; being able to draw on my experience to foresee common classes of bugs, and being able to prevent them through smart code architecture, making it easier for future contributors/reade
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by Vinnl 1y ago
It wasn't started in 2025, it's a process that's been going on for years. (Presumably, but I don't actually have more information here, the pre-acquisition codebase couldn't easily be open sourced without rewriting
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by Vinnl 1y ago
One thing that unfortunately never got properly announced, is that over time Pocket was slowly open sourced piece-by-piece, mostly as it got rewritten/modernised, as I understand it: https://github.com/Pocket/ I g
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Oh I can do backend work, but I'll easily introduce performance issues, log too much or too little, get lost as soon as I open one of our observability dashboards, or design an inefficient database migration. Likewise, I've seen m
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I always tell people about how I used to upload photos to Facebook because I was fine with it showing it to my friends, not knowing that years later, they'd have the ability to find me in other photos other people had uploaded. I'
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Oh yeah I totally get why he'd step away, especially after the ambitious goals the project set itself. That said, I haven't seen mass panic yet, so I'm wondering if people are confident someone else has picked up or will pick
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by Vinnl 1y ago
No, but Signal doesn't have to prove that centralised services can be successful: other services have already done that for them. At the same time, it has reached far more regular users than Matrix has. I believe market penetration is
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by Vinnl 1y ago
> - They claim federation is impossible… yet matrix has it. I believe the claim was that it's hard to adapt to changing markets and be federated [1]. Comparing Signal's market share to Matrix's is obviously not a direct
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Microsoft's ICC email block triggers Dutch concerns over dependence on U.S. tech(nltimes.nl)
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Thank You for Your Existence(daniel.haxx.se)
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by Vinnl 1y ago
TIL. Well, then I wish that was widely implemented :)
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Sorry to hijack this post, but since people who know are likely to look here... Anyone know what's up with Next-Auth/Auth.js? The main author had a post up [1] stating that they would stop their involvement, but that post appears
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by Vinnl 1y ago
> Tie in to a banking service, so you can do direct deposits to many millions of people, every time there's new settlements paid, and you'll be a folk hero. That's not much of a motivation, given that Troy already is a f
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by Vinnl 1y ago
To be fair, if we imagine a future in which this did happen, the start would also look like this, so who knows.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Isn't that parameter sent in the Request ? (Also note that I wasn't talking about automatically translated content necessarily. Manually translated content still often is of worse quality than the original language.)
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I don't think Accept-Language supports "Translated", "Exact" or "Soft"? But yes, that would match the language setting that GGP asked for.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
No, because then it will probably serve it in the original language regardless of the languages I speak . If the original language is French, I'd still prefer to have it in English. (To be clear, with how widespread English is, and ho
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Unfortunately, that just specifies which languages you prefer, regardless of what the original language is. I speak Dutch and English, but have English set as my preferred language, because most of the time that multiple languages are avail
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by Vinnl 1y ago
If you click the three-dots menu above the iframe, you can select "Show shortcut when selecting text". That allows you to select text and then provide that as context to an AI prompt. (At least, that's how I understand it - I
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I suppose in this case the questionable legality makes it a bit harder to publicly fund...
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Was absolutely not intended as an excuse for bad behaviour. I just care about not throwing the baby out with the bathwater: just because someone on an e-bike displays bad behaviour, it's still preferable to have people switch from cars
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Yeah two things are true: Reckless behaviour in traffic should be prevented, and The same reckless behaviour is more dangerous when performed in a car. (People rarely actually get killed by an e-bike. It happens all the time with cars.)
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by Vinnl 1y ago
They're really popular as well, and indeed increasing the distance people are willing to cycle.

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