coatmatter

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by coatmatter 8y ago
> Find a better solution, or accept that you're driving away eyeballs/revenue. Let's approach this from another angle for a moment - a hypothetical provider with no numbers/revenue; zero, zip. Where should they start?
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I think there'll be many people who would find a comment like this suspicious and question its overall validity. There's a lot of stuff the US government (and NSA) touches that isn't suspect - do we need to start making a l
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by coatmatter 8y ago
Either way it's probably good for Google's reputation for them to roll their own. After all, they don't exactly have as high a standing as Apple appears to have for some things?
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by coatmatter 8y ago
This reminds me of Twitter mixed with a dose of slave-wage Mechanical Turk labour. Although with Twitter, the signal to noise ratio is much lower than 1% but I think you get my drift. Granted there are "gems" to be found anywhere
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by coatmatter 8y ago
https://speedof.me remains my favourite, although I still find myself using Speedtest at times because that's what everyone else uses and it's useful to pick a server that others are testing between on any given day. A
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by coatmatter 8y ago
His group hasn't been the first, nor second nor even third to be on the scene.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
He's doing it for free? Where did you read that?
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by coatmatter 8y ago
The repeated stories so far have suggested that there's a passage that's too narrow for both a tank and person to fit through at the same time.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
There's less oxygen available with a face mask. It should also be noted that NASA has an inflatable module that's being tested against space, but I don't know if there's any similarity here.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> imoral acts should be condemned What defines immorality and how should that condemnation take place?
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by coatmatter 8y ago
An "incredible" company thanks to asshole methods. Being an asshole was a prerequisite in that case and cannot be separated.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> Do you take a horse and cart to work or are you an average person who drives a car or catches the train? Neither thanks. I ride a bicycle with an internal gear hub (IGHs, which are a technology that are over a century old,and put mod
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by coatmatter 8y ago
What perplexes me is that there are now even more competing messaging services than ever before. This suggests to me that none have won.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I'm being semi facetious, but what does Matrix offer that I'm not able to get from my 24/7 tmux+irssi virtual private instance? Please don't say more notifications or addictiveness.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
It's probably just relative. I would think the proportion on IRC is now more technical than ever before. Twenty years ago, you would need to know where to plug a cable in to even have a computer turn on. For better or worse, the barrie
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by coatmatter 8y ago
The best private conversations start by branching away from a public space. It's that juxtaposition that makes each half all the more special (think noisy club/bar vs outside). I think the biggest failing of IM is that it's e
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by coatmatter 8y ago
What to you defines a social network?
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> In a way, IRC let people show the worst of themselves, and I didn't stop using it because new technologies were better, I stopped using it because 90% was silly politics and power struggles. This sounds vaguely familiar and I&#x
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I think this is getting aside of the topic of what privacy really is for most people. IRC by default does not encourage endless selfies or oversharing that the modern social networks promote. I've never seen an ircd cloak instruction p
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by coatmatter 8y ago
Having open ports directly to the internet (by default) with dial up modems (before routers and NAT) used to be such a common practice. Things have changed, haven't they?
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> Additionally not being able to share images as a feature? I guess everyone will do the three step upload to imgur first. That's a feature for me. If I wanted to be constantly barraged with images, I would have stayed using Faceb
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> I don't think people want IRC for the lack of functionality. I do, and I think it's a good constraint (better than the 140/280 char Tweet restriction). No excessive notifications by default, no impatient people (at lea
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> I guess there are valid reasons why Apple don't ship new Macs with FileVault enabled from the factory. Should we assume that when it could also be likely there's no good reason? Especially given common practices like this -
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I thought it was the default too but now I'm thinking I've just been conditioned into accepting it as a sensible default* and might have automatically enabled it on my own accord after reading the instructions. Of course I like
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by coatmatter 8y ago
As far as macOS goes, you can point the default screenshots location away from your iCloud drive. I did that fairly early on because uploading every random screenshot I take on a 1 Mbps upload connection is insanity.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I'm fairly sure the default file explorer in Ubuntu/Fedora (nautilus) offers a preview spacebar function but I don't use it enough to know whether it's limited to images. I haven't looked to see whether there's
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I'm in Australia and the statutory warranty doesn't specify 24 months - it can be longer (whatever the customer thinks is reasonable and is willing to push on). The 24 months that Apple provides is really a minimum as far as the
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I'm fairly sure the lower resolution display of the Air helps with battery life.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
And Apple has never been closer to being worth $1 trillion in market value.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> Sure, they have fixed each issue for free, so that's fine And how much time did it cost? I suppose like me, you have a backup computer to go to?

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