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by dave2000 11y ago
Whenever I'd had to use irc I have a horrible flashback. I used to have to install really shitty software. Now I can use a browser. Not that this is perfect, but it's one less hassle. Then I have to find the server which is runn
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by dave2000 11y ago
When I read that sort of thing i'd like I'm reliving the 1980s, where everyone had that sort of "they live" (the movie) paranoia that they were being controlled. You can easily transcend all of that. Not the fact that yo
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by dave2000 11y ago
Surely if you're using software you should be capable of operating it properly? That's probably what might getting people into trouble. If you can't figure out how to send an email properly then you're flagging up to po
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by dave2000 11y ago
> It's the one thing I hate about Android. The UIs of Google > apps have gotten consistently worse over the years, mainly > because they've been prioritizing aesthetics over > functionality/ease of use. Care to
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by dave2000 11y ago
Heh, Google killed Reader so I could consider any alternative to Google before using their products. So it's been DuckDuckGo, Firefox, box.com, other OpenId providers etc. I still use gmail, because i only use email for boring stuff
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by dave2000 11y ago
Whatsapp?
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yeah, I used to think that way. Thing is, while you're sitting at home feeling superior because you don't use that horrible mainstream website that all those terrible peasants are using and would stop using if only they knew how
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by dave2000 11y ago
Ah, but not everyone eats fast food, so there must be a way to resist them.
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by dave2000 11y ago
It's not really all that interesting, is it? It's what every business does; to try and make money from you. They make films you want to watch, books you want to read, music you want to listen to, and websites you want to read.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I think everyone other than you understands that slack is substantially different to irc.
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by dave2000 11y ago
We're definitely not getting rid of the free plan. Well, not until current management leaves, we do badly, get greedy, get bought out...
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by dave2000 11y ago
I was too busy being upset by how awful the site looks on mobile devices.
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by dave2000 11y ago
"Why the downvotes?" Dunno, but I winced at "in the bot space". I hate anything that smells of marketing/management speak. Going forward/we reached out... just use normal language like a normal person.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I had a nightmare trying to free up space for an iPad software upgrade. I couldn't see what was backed up. The apple site had placeholder text in the area devoted to this topic. There was some way of syncing a folder with the contents
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by dave2000 11y ago
The camera app on Nexus devices just has none of the features any vaguely competent photographer needs, and that's ignoring the crap API Google has made available. OpenCamera should be the stock app (well, with a slightly more sane se
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by dave2000 11y ago
I thought the article was going to be about how a lot of software seems to be dumbed down so that less technical users can use them but that the more tricky stuff is either hidden away or just not present at all. I was wrong.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yeah, but i'm not getting how they're doing anything wrong. It's their site/service; they can make any changes they want. It's like developers having to keep up with changes to Android, for example. The UI can ch
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by dave2000 11y ago
Wouldn't you be performing this work because you believe it will facilitate the transfer of traffic to your site? Aren't you comitting to make changes as and when ifttt change their API so that you can continue to receive their c
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by dave2000 11y ago
I'm a fan of experimenting with voting systems, and as this never happens, i'm always disappointed. I think it would be great if the order of comments was always random and scores were never shown (I don't care what people t
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by dave2000 11y ago
In precisely zero cases are companies "shut down".
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by dave2000 11y ago
If "politically correct" means reasonable and respectful then it's not easy to see how that can be described as garbage. Given access to enough Twitter accounts and enough time the chances are good that eventually an ai bot m
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by dave2000 11y ago
Google could place ads based on what the user was typing prior to sending, or reading reading post decryption. It would be no more intrusive than any website knowing what users are doing whilst surfing.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Surely the idea that all email providers/clients/services will all suddenly work together and solve the ui and technical problems inherent in PGP use is a bit of a dream, and in fact the answer is to just not attempt it and instea
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by dave2000 11y ago
Stuff should be secure by default. No default passwords. No open by default. Temporary dialing down of security should reset itself to secure mode by itself after a short time. Etc.
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by dave2000 11y ago
That not locking the door stuff was simply because back then people didn't fetish objects, and also because they were too poor to have anything worth stealing. Rich people always made sure their stuff was protected (from the poor).
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yeah, really the takeaway message from much of the news coming out of the US over the last year or so is pretty much that everyone is treated both equally and fairly. I don't understand anyone who complains about racism, the ever widen
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by dave2000 11y ago
Don't know about this features thing. I use Firefox everywhere because it lets me use plugins on android. How does anyone surf without plugins? How are you blocking ads, whitelisting sites for JavaScript, blocking trackers etc? Bizarre
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by dave2000 11y ago
This is nonsense. There's a direct link between wealth and life expectancy, likelihood of surviving surgery, likelihood you'll be killed by the police, sentenced to prison etc.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Oh yeah - lol - email clients. I remember them. No, the solution has to work seamlessly with gmail, yahoo, hotmail, outlook, whatever clients people are using. It needs to be everywhere or it might as well require a different protocol&#x2
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by dave2000 11y ago
No, I'd certainly not compare a web service which nearly everyone uses - and for many is the only reason they have an internet connected device in the first place - with an encryption technology practically no-one uses. Someone here su

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