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by apostacy 9y ago
Maybe we need a word that is more powerful than harassment, that isn't physical violence. I've heard people say things like "virtual rape". I think it's problematic to say that something that occurs in text can comp
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by apostacy 9y ago
Apps that let you manage video game currency often give you so much more control than your bank's app gives you over your real money in your checking account! It's an imbalanced situation, and I think there's a lot of room to
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by apostacy 9y ago
What I basically want, is to have more control. I want a similar amount of control as to what I have with paper money, or even virtual in game currencies. Right now, the scale is not tipped in my favor. I would be happy to pay for it. I und
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by apostacy 9y ago
I will check it out. I would love to be able to script my bank. Chase.com is an ongoing battle. There are plenty of projects to automate banking, but it's an uphill battle. I'm sure if I had a business account, I'd have more
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by apostacy 9y ago
When can I have direct control of recurring payments? I want to be able to "push" money instead of having it "pulled" from my account. This is a totally reasonable feature. If a merchant wants assurance that they will be
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by apostacy 9y ago
I honestly don't know. I think in general though, we should try to make information be as available as possible. Most of the justification for regulations about communications content comes from a time when most people had only three t
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by apostacy 9y ago
Of course there are tradeoffs. But the price of a free society is that some people will abuse these freedoms. I wish these values were more popular.
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by apostacy 9y ago
I love brew! But just be careful because it has a tendency to be unhelpful with its updates. Same thing with cask. That's the way they do things, and I understand that it makes sense for them. For example, I wasn't on El Captain y
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by apostacy 9y ago
I'm sure there are good security reasons. ssh is very conservative about how it is invoked.
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by apostacy 10y ago
One thing I've pondered a lot is where UX fits in the domain of software engineering. While we should certainly be open to new ideas, I think there is too much of a tendency to completely ignore the medium. Imagine if we did physical c
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by apostacy 10y ago
> I mean, are you saying that, if you personally knew neo-nazi stuff was suddenly being filtered out, you'd start to wonder if they were onto something good? Absolutely I would. Even if I would not have looked at it before. If the p
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by apostacy 10y ago
I think that if a company has enough of a monopoly on information that they become a de-facto governing agency, that they should be forced to uphold the principles of the 1st amendment. Facebook should be classified as something like a comm
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by apostacy 10y ago
Extension signing makes Google money because it supports their platform infrastructure. It supports things like Google Play. Microsoft also made money from Internet Explorer, even though they didn't charge money for it. They benefited
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by apostacy 10y ago
Well, maybe this failure should be taken as a signal that you're doing something wrong. Google will always beat you at this, always. They can afford to pay far more people than you have volunteering for you, ever. There is no justifica
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by apostacy 10y ago
Who exactly are you "competing" against? This isn't a competition. Linux is not inferior because it isn't Windows. The early days of Firebird were not spent trying to match the features of Internet Explorer! Internet Exp
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by apostacy 10y ago
I don't think it's logically possible to make Firefox as extensible as it is, and also "secure" as Chrome. Chrome is crippled in many ways. Extensions are second class citizens, merely along for the ride. They can be rem
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by apostacy 10y ago
Requiring signing of web extensions is still ludicrous. It makes sense for Google to do it. It makes zero sense for Mozilla to do it. Google wants to make money by developing a platform. Mozilla (should) want to make technology that empower
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by apostacy 10y ago
Thank you! Remember that Google is an advertising company. Chrome is an ad delivery platform, ultimately. Firefox isn't broken because it isn't like Chrome.
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by apostacy 10y ago
I route all of my mobile traffic through an older Android device that only connects to their 3G network. Maybe that's why...
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by apostacy 10y ago
Yes, you still can on Android. But Google has shown that they don't see anything morally wrong with using misleading updating tactics. And the range of what you have control over is shrinking. I commented about it about a month ago[1]
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by apostacy 10y ago
I guess it's a matter of opinion. If a university had some prime real estate, they could sell it to the highest bidder so that they could build a shopping mall, or they could donate it to a non-profit that would improve society in some
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by apostacy 10y ago
I think you are severely misunderstanding the situation. Google can do whatever they want. They've already demonstrated that they have no problem installing things on your computer that you never would have otherwise agreed to. That, a
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by apostacy 10y ago
> Even your comment about streaming, seems like mainly nostalgia vs reality as you kind of admit. Any modern streaming infrastructure works from behind a NAT since most people are behind one these days. If I tried streaming a conference
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by apostacy 10y ago
Obviously IPv4 addresses are useful, because people are offering money for them. My understanding of what they are used for, is to support clients behind NAT. But there could be some further application that I am not aware of. If IPv4 addre
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by apostacy 10y ago
Well, I'd love to use ipv6. In fact, I can't wait. But, what am I supposed to do? * T-mobile: ipv4 * Office: ipv4 * Verizon: ipv4 * University: ipv4 * Linode: ipv6 (but flagged as hostile) Google will not just
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by apostacy 10y ago
If the ip addresses really aren't useful to them, they can provide them to someone who could carry on their spirit of improving society. How about providing services to the general public in some way, then? Transfer them to a non-profi
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by apostacy 10y ago
It's not me that's fixated on ipv4. I would love ipv6. But why aren't ISPs providing it? Why aren't universities and other large organizations switching to it by default? ISPs don't care. They would rather everyone
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by apostacy 10y ago
IPV6 is all well and good, but I am not optimistic about it. Why should a university deploy it, and introduce all sorts of new problems? Mine hasn't. And I don't blame them. No, I think that our future is isolated carrier-grade NA
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by apostacy 10y ago
I tunnel all of my traffic through my Linode. I had to disable ipv6, because I was getting constant captcha checks from facebook, cloudflare, and google. No matter how many different ipv6 addresses I tried, traffic is always marked as suspi
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by apostacy 10y ago
I don't think MIT needs any more money. Universities are often endowed with special assets that others organizations are not. Yes, universities should dole out as many IP addresses as students want. Where else will students get an oppo

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