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by dmitriid 4y ago
Why not Solid/Marko which seem to be tailor-made for these kinds of things (mostly static, with interactivity spliced in)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
"The insulin stock price story should be: “insulin should be free”, not how much valuation was reduced. You know that, right?" https://twitter.com/janl/status/1591394005593497601
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Come on, GDPR does bot supersede other laws. E.g. if some law requires a company to retain certain data for longer periods than stated in GDPR, that law still applies.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> the web being worse is not caused by the law being bad. It’s caused by it being badly enforced Because that's the truth > The fact is that the cookie pop ups would never be necessary if the GDPR hadn’t been passed. Show me exac
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You make a strawman here, as that was not what was claimed is impossible. Tell us how it is possible to use Shopify See this comment on who is responsible for user data and how it's relevant when chosing third parties for your bus
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> We can all see the results of it. It made the web experience worse for everyone This bullshit again. It wasn't the GDPT that made the web worse. This is is entirely on the companies who took a look at GDPR and said: no, we'
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by dmitriid 4y ago
That's not what the article shows. The article shows the use of third-party solutions none of which are GDPR compliant: not the cookie banners, not the data storage, not CDNs. And every step of the way the authorities explained all the
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The author of the submission? Or the person claiming it's ugly? "Human activity is a complex thing and no law can describe it with 100% accuracy, news at 11". I doubt anyone arguing against GDPR read it. Or read recitals. Or
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by dmitriid 4y ago
When there's a will, there's a way. Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566243
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Between "no, we don't want either US companies or US government to have full unlimited access to any data they want" and "EU requires you to be extremely careful with user data, not siphon it willy-nilly and not transf
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It's a law that deals with privacy of data both online and offline. As a result it's only 11 chapters written in a surprisingly simple language. As laws go, it's fine.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Oddly this argument feels familiar - like we've sparred in the past over GDPR on another hacker news article. It's possible. Because every GDPR discussion is this: emotionally charged "gdpr is the devil" sold to gul
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You're just incorrect here. I was expecting you to show where I'm incorrect. And yet, it's the same emotionally-charged "omg moat, large companies, impossible to run a business". Which doesn't disprove wha
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> When you make common practice illegal, you invite corruption into your system because selective enforcement of the rules becomes the new normal. Child labor. Drugs and radioactive substances in medicine. Water pollution. The list of pr
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> GDPR is ugly. The only thing it allows you to do before you get confirmation to process PII is to show static page requesting for permissions. That's basically it. You can't do any "cloudy" stuff prior. No, GDPR is
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by dmitriid 4y ago
CSS purists will tell you that you shouldn't tie your CSS to specific structures in your code, and it should be as generic as possible :) > Whereas with Tailwind or HTML < 5 you name you elements based on what they look like. &qu
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You skipped "fuck semantic HTML and CSS, we use Tailwind now." If look at Tailwind's website and examples, you'll see that it's one of the very few CSS frameworks that properly uses semantic HTML everywhere .
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The value in property based tests is that the original libraries (Quickchwck, both Haskell and Erlang) try to find the smallest reproducible error sample, and then display that sample to you. And that (Quickcheck at least) has a bunch of
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Google bought Orkut. Shut it down Google had Google Wave. Shut it down Google had Google Plus. Shut it down. ... If Google unveiled a Mastodon instance tomorrow, why would people believe that Google had any interest in developing and maint
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It worse with cities and countries. Every city converges into the same bland concrete-metal-glass devoid of any detail that you can't tell the apart.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The question isn't "should or shouldn't". The question is how . Web standards are supposed to be based on a) consensus and b) at least two independent implementations. As an example, let's take a recent Chrome-only
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Netflix competes with YouTube content producers, TikTok and it even said that one of its biggest competitors is Fortnite. It competes with these for screen time , not for content. Meanwhile Disney owns how much content (movies, series
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Netflix doesn't have enough content, so they resort to these tactics. All major content providers left them years ago and started their own Netflixes. So they're left with a few movies from ten years ago, a couple of recent-ish re
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> If people want to revoke trust in the bank or the law or AWS, they're probably going to need technology to shore up the gaps made by the loss of trust. So. Back to the question about NFTs and DNS, which is literally about trust:
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Are four actively-developed, open source, mainstream browser engines enough? I think so, given that we haven't seen a downside to a relative monoculture We have a near-monopoly with Chrome, a very distant second Safari, and a near
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> And my answer is that you don't. If you want content moderation DNS isn't content. And protection against scammers, squatters etc. isn't moderation. It's funny how even the most primitive societies had rules, and la
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Well that's a shitty thing to do, and a limitation of the technology, but it doesn't make all uses of that technology Yes, it's a shitty thing to do. And yes, it's a limitation of technology. I never said anything a
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It's strange to see people downvoting this when three days ago App Store on MacOS literally defaulted to searching iOS and iPad apps for me https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1589179351572312066
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You don't. But if you choose to use an nft domain it's probably What if I chose NFT domain to scam people, impersonate someone or squat? > I want to be able to tell users of a service: you can pay me $5 per month for acces
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Jobs was more opinionated on “principles” - Cook is more than happy to sell what people will buy. Well, the current "principle" is "iOS is enough, we're going to run iOS apps on MacOS, and that's it". Rose

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