bgbntty2

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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I'm not a good programmer by any means, but here are some ideas that have helped me along my journey: * pick a language. It doesn't matter which one. A popular one will have more tools already built for it and a bigger community;
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
About 10 years ago I was regularly withdrawing small sums of money every month, looking a bit poor, with old clothes, sometimes a bit torn or dirty. The bank teller just offered to give me a pair of winter shoes. I felt uncomfortable so I d
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I think school ruined fiction books for me. I had to read long boring books about stories that didn't interest me, with useless sentences describing what the scene looked like or what someone had for dinner. Most of the stories and the
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
This is a (very) rambling comment since I added things to it as I watched the video. I think the state of the current Desktop UX is great. Maybe it's a local maximum we've reached, but I love it. I mostly use XFCE and there are ju
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Pretty much for everything, except for things that are already tied to my real world identity like email and a few sites that know who I am. It accomplishes 2 things: * I'm not tracked as much. Less data points for the companies to gob
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
A better metaphor would be that Tor and VPNs are like wearing a mask in public. It's obvious that you're trying to be anonymous, but you're still wearing a mask, so no one knows who you are. You may be denied entry to certain
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
You mentioned "on your phone". Is it only for phone OSes? A depressing "download from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store only" app? Are UK citizens required to have it?
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
> Doctors prescribe "sildenafil," not "Viagra". Depends on the location, I guess. I've had doctors prescribe trade names, which I don't understand if there are alternatives with the same dosage, route of adm
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Facebook has never had a consistent policy with what's allowed and what isn't. They haven't banned several obvious scams I've reported, but have banned a post that contains a picture of dog medicine (a blister of pills).
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
It's different. You show an ID card to a human if you don't look old enough. They look at it and return it. The ID card doesn't get scanned or tied to all your future recreational drug purchases - you don't have an accou
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Empathy towards what, in this case?
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I think there's no "you", just an illusion that there's this uninterrupted "you"-ness from birth to death. It's a very useful illusion for the most part. I view life (in the philosophical sense; consciousn
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I agree it's not an effective ad for most people and will likely damage their brand. Shitty ad from a business perspective. One more reason to like it.
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
As much as I hate McDonalds and think they should go bankrupt, and as much as I hate ads in general, I enjoyed this one. It's funny, it has lots of small clips of things going wrong one after the other. Compared to the standard corpora
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I agree - the statement could've been much more convincing. But it's above the threshold for me. Although I agree if the new maintainer had some creds, it would've been better to use them in a similar reassurance like in your
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Seems like a statement to reassure users who don't necessarily have any trust in the new maintainer. And even if the users trust the new maintainers, it's better to have the reassurance of previous maintainer on top. Trust is not
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
> You get backups, file synchronization, real time collaboration. Shouldn't backups and file sync be handled at a higher level of abstraction? Unless every employee is only dealing with Microsoft Office documents and nothing else (d
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I've been using LibreOffice Calc and Writer for years. I've used Microsoft Office Excel and Word, too. I can't say I've ever suffered from my choices or that I missed any features. As for "polish" - that's
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
It doesn't sit right with me that a government body has an ad account in a centralized for-profit service in the first place. Even having a free account seems wrong to me. The European Commission could post news, updates on its work an
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
Precisely - they view security as just one part of many of their business, instead of viewing it as one of the most important parts. They've insured themselves against a breach, so it's not a big deal for them. But it should be. T
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I'm not well-versed in compilers, so it was a bit surprising to see how it optimizes all the add_vX functions. What I most enjoyed, though, was how the guy in the video (linked at the bottom of the article) was typing - a mistake on ev
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by bgbntty2 10mo ago
I'm a bit conflicted about what responsible disclosure should be, but in many cases it seems like these conditions hold: 1) the hack is straightforward to do; 2) it can do a lot of damage (get PII or other confidential info in most cas