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by akersten 7y ago
These stats are wonderful and make me really appreciate the culture of the company. I've been considering becoming a customer because of these posts, since they reflect a lot of pride in the craft and care for the community. But I&#x27
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by akersten 7y ago
Woaaah, this is really ridiculous. The Ninth Circuit thinks that not only are there "anti-competitive" exceptions to Section 230 (there aren't), but that Section 230 applies to actions that a user-installed software takes on
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by akersten 7y ago
How is it possible to patch this while retaining the ability for users to make custom themes? I'm genuinely curious what the right solution is. CSS is practically a programming language at this point (isn't it Turing complete?) so
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Possible Data Breach at PearsonVue(reddit.com)
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by akersten 7y ago
This poster is braver than me. They're almost certainly identifiable based on the projects they worked on, and they admit to insubordination at best and industrial sabotage/CFAA violations at worst. Not that I agree with that inte
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by akersten 7y ago
In my opinion it's a first-principles kind of thing with respect to "what is the purpose of a web browser." To me, a web browser's purpose is to render markup into something useful for a user, dependent on variables like
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by akersten 7y ago
Eh, I'm not so sure. I spent more effort than I should have to find an example of this working and I'm not impressed [0]. Everything about it seems worse than browsers' reader mode for accessibility. It's also very slow,
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by akersten 7y ago
This might be a hot take, but I think this is unnecessarily complicated and is a solution looking for a problem. My thoughts apply more broadly to the CSS Draft for pagination as well. In general - why does the Web need this? This is a less
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by akersten 7y ago
These should not fly for a decade. They're rewriting the avionics from scratch. This should require a years-long process of testing, external auditing, and approvals. I'd even go so far as to say in flight, we should require compe
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by akersten 7y ago
No, that's patently ridiculous. The internet is a new medium; things scale so vastly differently here. Your proposal is literally impossible to enforce at the scale of major platforms. To force everyone to choose between "hands of
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by akersten 7y ago
100% agree to dismantle patents entirely. They are a hindrance rather than a benefit in today's economy. Show me one small-time developer who earned a little more money by enforcing license fees when Big Corp would otherwise have scoop
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by akersten 7y ago
If I may, I'm curious about your thoughts on few things, in the context of use case #1 (abuse), not #2 (reduplication): * What are the challenges surrounding verification that your system functions properly, given that the test materia
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by akersten 7y ago
> what do you mean by "that ship sailed long ago"? That Google should just close up shop and go home? If that's the only alternative that the brilliant minds at the Big G can come up with, then that sounds fine to me. I&#
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by akersten 7y ago
>> > I think making this conclusion from the data in the linked adblock report is a bizarre interpretation of that data. > How so? One of the big pros every ad blocker advertises is "faster page loads" Without getting
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by akersten 7y ago
The fastest ads are the ones that never load at all. Not sorry Google, that ship has sailed long ago when ads became a delivery mechanism for malware and tracking. > Since fast ads result in improved user experience metrics, a focus on
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by akersten 7y ago
Ugh, yucky. Surprising lack of quality control on Apple's part - surely they should have tested typing into a text field at some point during the testing; don't most programs register a shortcut key or two? But there are also some
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by akersten 7y ago
Not really the same thing at all. Comcast is modifying content, and profiting off a service that delivers that derivative content. That is clear willful infringement. User modifying their own content locally is not infringement, since the
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by akersten 7y ago
This is a pattern we see time and time again: companies hiding behind "we can't tell you how it works, it's a trade secret, you just have to trust us that it does." And these companies land exclusive government contracts
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by akersten 7y ago
This is fundamentally a fight about the autonomy of the human mind, and what the government can command you to do with your own brain. If you and a cohort were the last survivors of a dying tribe, with your own special language that no one
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by akersten 7y ago
Isn't that an argument Facebook could make too, that it's not your data now that you've given it to them?
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by akersten 7y ago
Thanks. I updated my post. I don't really do Windows command-line, so it's easy for me to conflate the two.
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by akersten 7y ago
This is a really neat project. But the website undersells it. It took me until reading the docs to understand that this is an alternative to many raw Windows utilities / PowerShell commands, which (to me) are notoriously hard to rememb
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by akersten 7y ago
Nice game. I'm glad you identified the major problem in many online blackjack toys - that they've got a scummy vibe to them - and done a clean break from that. Some ideas: * Keyboard shortcuts would be welcome - the click targets
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by akersten 7y ago
Everything I am reading (especially the Vanity Fair article) heavily suggests that the large trades in question are a single trader or group of traders. How else could they mean, when they say "10 minutes before market close, this trad
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by akersten 7y ago
Oh, "These transactions were entered into by a significant number of diverse market participants."? So, the insider info was shared widely? Well CME - if the allegations in Vanity Fair are indeed false, why not sue them for libel&
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by akersten 7y ago
Great optimization. I wonder if the second video is also real-time? The first video is captioned that it hasn't been slowed down, but the 2nd video, I'm not sure. If it is real time, it still seems like it takes a few seconds to g
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by akersten 7y ago
That's fair, "vendetta" is too strong of a word. "Personal bias" is better-suited. It's just hard to read a post calling them "internet vampires" and still assume a neutral author.
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by akersten 7y ago
Sorry, I'm really not seeing the jump to "treason" here. I also think the author has a personal vendetta against Twitter based on the final sentence of the post, but regardless - they acknowledge that declaration of war is a
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by akersten 7y ago
Their post specifically stated a legal argument: >> publisher vs. carrier is the legal distinction between the two So I'm curious about the law that provides that. My quotation marks are to summarize the position being made - I u
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by akersten 7y ago
That's troubling. Thanks for taking the time to find that article. I guess the discussion is actually a two-parter: * Does moderation imply responsibility? * Does moderation require neutrality? From the Wired article, it seems like #1

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