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Tell HN: Netgear Orbi support is atrocious
2 points by blowski 4y ago|0 comments
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by blowski 4y ago
From a GDPR or commercial confidentiality perspective, it doesn't matter what OpenAI say they'll do with your data, you can't share it with them. Let's say your doctor enters sensitive info about you, and despite having
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by blowski 4y ago
As in you think it’s a load of curious but bullshit stories?
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by blowski 4y ago
Somebody decided to put chilli powder on a processed chip, and then somebody else has taken the credit, including having a film made about them. Thankfully, it seems like we're back to having Slow News Mondays.
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by blowski 4y ago
If the user can use reasonable measures (such as different settings, or an alternative browser) to access the content, that's not at all the same as asking a wheelchair user to drag themselves up the stairs. There is absolutely no lega
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by blowski 4y ago
So because they cannot look at the design, that's discrimination, even if they _are_ able to access the content itself? Why don't you take legal action against them?
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by blowski 4y ago
Where is the discrimination here?
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by blowski 4y ago
Which law? Show me.
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by blowski 4y ago
This is a pretty pointless conversation. They're going to keep the design. I'm going to be happy about that. You're not.
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by blowski 4y ago
I don't resize for every window, but I'm also not bothered about having to resize it if and when it makes sense. It takes longer type in a domain name, so it's hardly a big deal.
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by blowski 4y ago
No. They are sarcastically saying that people making those complaints are doing so figuratively, not literally. Find one person who has genuinely suffered a surprise headache after looking at this site and you’ll have a stronger argument. A
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by blowski 4y ago
Can you give me a concrete example of somebody who is unable to access the content, albeit using Lynx or with settings changes to Firefox?
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by blowski 4y ago
Should the vast majority of the world who do not have those health issues be deprived of its glory, because there is a minority who - very sadly and unfortunately for them - cannot look at it? Should Picasso not have bothered painting since
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by blowski 4y ago
I suspect they would reply with "resize your browser window".
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by blowski 4y ago
My son is 9 so I’ve looked around for similar activities in the computer space. I also run a code club for 9-11 year olds. Turing Tumble teaches you to build a binary calculator using marbles and bits of plastic. At her age, it will require
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by blowski 4y ago
It will likely balance out as ML/AI will also provide more sophisticated tools to deal with scams, exploitation, spam and fakes.
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by blowski 4y ago
Musk does have the tendency to make "motherhood and apple pie" sound like nuclear war. It seems more about attention seeking than running a business.
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by blowski 4y ago
I run Mastodon on a $5 VM. If I hit HN homepage, my site will probably be slow as well. I don’t see how that reflects on Mastodon though.
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by blowski 4y ago
Perhaps they've optimised for the normal levels of traffic they receive, not unanticpated spikes. That's hardly an embarrassing choice.
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by blowski 4y ago
I found that it recommended poor imitations of books I liked. I’d rather read the best in a range of genres than all the books in a specific genre.
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by blowski 4y ago
Corporations are the aggregation of thousands of individual agendas being compromised semi-publicly as you watch. Having some scientific-sounding bullshit support your agenda often works.
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by blowski 4y ago
The Overton Window works as a concept when we all talk to each other. But we now have three separate echo chambers - "Left", "Right", "Center" - and they each have their own Overton Window.
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by blowski 4y ago
> Does it matter? I’m torn. The content seems like a good summary of what you’d read elsewhere in pop-psychology blogs. It stimulates comments here which are themselves very interesting. And the internet isn’t going to run out of space j
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by blowski 4y ago
> I listen to an unpoliticized radio show of 2hrs In Our Time from the BBC is great for this.
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by blowski 4y ago
Everyone _should_ also have 100% test coverage, canary deployments, and local dev parity. Unfortunately, the real world gets in the way and means we don’t all work with optimal setups.
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by blowski 4y ago
My attempt at a Seth Godin aphorism: > Success is often hidden in the gaps, and you must pivot purposefully in order to find it.
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by blowski 4y ago
I heard about this on Tom Scott's Lateral podcast recently.
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by blowski 4y ago
In 2019, coastal defences were significantly improved in Bacton, which is just up the road from Dunwich. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58919791
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by blowski 4y ago
Yes, this is how I feel about it. Between climate change, obesity, GM foods, mega-viruses, insects dying, extreme solar flares, and now AI, I’m surprised I’m still here anyway. Just perhaps AI will actually help solve some of those problems
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by blowski 4y ago
To me, that all sounds like you need to be careful.

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