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by apostacy 6y ago
I used to do that, but I switched to wiki-style [[links]] instead. But I can go back and forth with a regex. There's some really interesting discussion about interlinked notes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by apostacy 6y ago
Having spent my teens and early adult life with undiagnosed ADHD, it can manifest itself as depression and anxiety from constantly feel frustrated with yourself from not being able to focus or achieve your goals. Getting treated for ADHD ma
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by apostacy 6y ago
I highly recommend checking out this thread about stimulant medications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16033574 As someone who has ADHD and has taken stimulant medications for a long time, I would like to share my ex
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by apostacy 7y ago
I've worked with both over the last few years. Git LFS is really not p2p like git-annex is. And it is less flexible. But maybe more stable, and git works with it out of the box. You really have to pay for specialized LFS hosting, and y
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by apostacy 7y ago
Yes, what I've been saying is that we're moving back to where we were 20 years ago. We're moving back to a hosting model where you can not completely rely on any hosting company to get the job done. Big tech companies changed
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by apostacy 7y ago
What big tech is doing so clearly violates the principles of free speech that I can't see an argument for it. It goes well beyond people expressing unpopular opinions, to the point of interfering with markets and elections. Twitter has
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by apostacy 7y ago
> Well, yes, it is unfair to the strangers that you're favoring the people you personally care about when others are worse off. Being unfair doesn't necessarily make it wrong. You're free to help whoever you want—with your
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by apostacy 7y ago
> b) when an individual or organization is removed from the platform based on an written policy, known by the users of the platform in advance and verified by a second team. Upon request an explanation of why the account was deplatformed
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by apostacy 7y ago
Because forcing everything to be evergreen means that they only have to support the latest version. They can also corral users away from less common and older platforms. One thing I really don't like about it, is how it forces you to s
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by apostacy 7y ago
It used to be much harder to knock someone you didn't like offline. You used to have to organize a DDOS attack. But now, all you have to do is organize a much easier mass-flagging attack. We need to update our threat models to account
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by apostacy 7y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned datalad/git-annex. It might be relevant. It stores references to binary data in a git repository. And depending on the backend, like bup, it benefit from differential compression. And it is highl
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by apostacy 7y ago
The first thing I always do is disable auto-updates. Auto updating does not deserve the level of trust we put it in it. Just a few months ago, Google's creepy invisible updater rendered people's Apples unbootable if they didn&#x27
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by apostacy 7y ago
Anyone care to respond instead of just downvoting?
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by apostacy 7y ago
> If it's fairness you want, telling companies to hire locally isn't going to cut it. That's the opposite of fairness, really—you would be subsidizing local workers whose wages are already higher at the expense of foreign
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by apostacy 7y ago
> Steve Jobs (paraphrased): The customer doesn't know what they want, until we've shown them. Systemd aside, I really dislike the whole "Henry Ford said users would want a faster horse" Can we please stop trotting thi
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by apostacy 7y ago
> Great design isn’t superficial, in the least. A great user experience is a great user experience... it doesn’t mean compromising because something was hard, and it doesn’t throw away how the product is used or has evolved. I don't
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by apostacy 7y ago
But, Apple is going above and beyond to coerce users into needlessly updating. I was actually forced to update my iPad because I forgot my pin[1]. Everything Apple has done has had the effect of slowly bricking your iPad, bit by bit. And th
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by apostacy 7y ago
About 10 years ago, I was able to get a scammer to run a malicious Java applet. I just insisted that if they really wanted my money, they were going to have to use this fake bank portal I made. Greed is a powerful motivator.
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by apostacy 7y ago
> This is why lists of "elderly owned" phone numbers go for so much on the black/gray market. My grandmother started developing dementia about three years ago. What is really disturbing, is that the scammers somehow figure
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by apostacy 7y ago
I don't mean to pile on, but could you please explain this a bit more? Why should the baby be thrown out with the bathwater, just to chase cosmetic trends? Can you give a compelling technical reason why this would be good for users, wi
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by apostacy 7y ago
Does anyone know what happens if you send in fake id? I have heard of people's accounts getting hijacked with fake passport scans. Is Facebook really able to authenticate IDs?
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by apostacy 7y ago
I really hope that my extensions are not broken. It would kill Thunderbird. Nobody is going to come along and replace the library of amazing extensions that have been built up over the years. Unlike a web browser, email has not changed much
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by apostacy 7y ago
I'm sorry to hear that so many of you are agonizing about this, but it is totally unnecessary! Storage space is so cheap and free now. And none of you have more emails than could fit on a $4 jumpdrive. You can even just go to Google Ta
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by apostacy 7y ago
If an indigenous land acknowledgement is so commonplace, then the institution should simply make the decision for its teachers and require its inclusion in their documents. Being compelled to include something you may not actually agree wit
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by apostacy 7y ago
> * A declaration of instructors’ pronouns and a request for students’ pronoun preferences. - Asking for students' pronouns is good practice and the professor should use them if provided. It is unreasonable to demand that professors
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by apostacy 7y ago
> I'm also impressed by the focus of the maintainers and their willingness (really, enthusiasm) for saying no and cutting features. We need more of that in the programming field. Homebrew is unashamedly solely for running the standa
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by apostacy 7y ago
> The hacker can probably still compile one by their own, but at least it will makes them pain in the ass. I've compiled a branded build of Firefox myself, and it is as simple as setting a single flag at compile time. Almost trivial
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by apostacy 7y ago
This would not have protected your father from any of that. If hostile code can inject an extension into your Firefox profile, it can also install a keylogger or read your unencrypted Firefox password store. There is almost no protection ag
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by apostacy 7y ago
The point of my post was that there should not be such a hard delineation between regular users and developers. A developer edition is not a helpful solution.
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by apostacy 7y ago
Even with infinite storage, having lots of blobs can make a repo unmanageable. In order to get an 8GB repo onto github, I had to make temporary branches and and push them incrementally. I highly recommend git-annex. It is like git-lfs but a

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