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by elondaits 2y ago
Governments sometimes work around limitations by using private third parties that aren’t bound to them. e.g. if they had to pay to use httpd, they would just start paying a commercial hosting company that exists solely to provide http servi
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by elondaits 2y ago
The problem with “non commercial” exceptions in FOSS licenses is that there’s no good definition of “non commercial”. Interpretations sometimes includes “anything that involves money / payments” even if that’s just distribution costs,
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by elondaits 2y ago
I agree, but would like for a way to pay for an article, or a single day, week, or month of access. Just like I could buy a single one-off issue of a publication a couple of times before starting a long term relationship with it. Not all pu
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by elondaits 2y ago
Same. I get really obvious phishing emails on the “priority” part of my inbox at least once a month (although usually it’s on a burst of 3-4 on close proximity).
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by elondaits 2y ago
With JetBrains IDEs (e.g. Webstorm) it’s posible to point the IDE to a central installation of ESlint (independent from the project you’re working on). I use that for smaller projects where I don’t want to include a full installation of ESL
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by elondaits 2y ago
That’s not real. It’s a parody, from an Adam Sandler movie, about selling out. Here’s a clip with the part that comes after the ad: https://youtu.be/NZ3o4dgD6qY?si=X1vZdCGtkkuqOmtq
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by elondaits 2y ago
I don’t think it’s rose colored glasses. Google saw the value of forums as a source of information when it bought and indexed Deja News’ usenet archive. A lot of pop and early Internet culture resided there. This was then turned into Google
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by elondaits 2y ago
I worked with manual memory management for a decade (24/7 systems) and don’t miss it. It’s not per-se hard, it’s not scary, but if you’re dealing with structures that may contain reference loops, or using an architecture based on event
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by elondaits 2y ago
It’s not said enough: Screens = tiny mass produced lights Paintings = A masterful mix of usually expensive substances carefully selected for the unique way in which they reflect light.
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by elondaits 3y ago
Yes. I used Google sheets as a database to build a website and ran into this issue. The worse part is, if you come across the limit there’s not much you can do but wait or rate limit. Another problem I had is an API change one year in. I wo
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by elondaits 3y ago
It's not mentioned in the terms of service either. I would recommend removing this because it's against the GDPR... and even foreign companies have to comply (for the protection of European citizens, wherever they are) if they off
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by elondaits 3y ago
100%. I recently had to research scuba diving centers in a city I’ll visit soon, and part of my criteria was to check how recent their Google Maps comments were, and how active their Instagram was. Some diving centers are the center of a co
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by elondaits 3y ago
Because discovery, consumption, and metadata are completely different for both mediums. Part of the reason Apple has a separate app for classical music.
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by elondaits 3y ago
In Argentina a “flato” is a flatulence, and flatito would mean a little fart.
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by elondaits 3y ago
Agree. Also, I live in a “cheap” country… so cheap for food and rent. Expensive for clothes, very expensive for tech, rather expensive to travel, etc. So anyone paying me in relation to the cost of buying food is abusing the asymmetry.
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by elondaits 3y ago
I’m 46 and been working professionally since the late 90s. There was never a time in the history of the web when storing user passwords in plaintext was OK. Encrypted passwords were already well established in UNIX.. although I remember usi
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by elondaits 3y ago
The GDPR does not require a pop up or banner… but it does require explicit consent through opt-in (or no tracking). So this is literally worse than nothing.
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by elondaits 3y ago
That style of bullet use is recommended by the Plain English campaign: https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english...
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by elondaits 3y ago
I had an external audio interface with occasional horrible bursts of white noise. I assumed it was the CPU not being fast enough, because there was a correlation between work and the bursts… but in the end it was a power supply that wasn’t
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by elondaits 3y ago
I came to say the same. ResEdit was true tinkering... you could swap images, change user visible strings, menu items... I even managed to remove copy protection from a game (which I didn't have any way of purchasing due to being in a d
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by elondaits 3y ago
Calling your company "Bending Spoons" is like calling it "Stealing Chickens" (Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_bending )
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by elondaits 3y ago
Cookie consent popups are not mandated by the GDPR (the EU privacy law), they’re just a stupid (and often infringing) reaction to it. The GDPR disallows tracking without consent, but more in the spirit of “don’t track” than “get consent”. I
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by elondaits 3y ago
I agree, but it shouldn’t be YouTube’s decision, because they can change their mind when the numbers are red or the CEO changes. Your government should establish those limits, so they apply in perpetuity and across all online and broadcast
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by elondaits 3y ago
Yet, the GDPR states that private information should only be requested to provide a service that requires it and with “No strings attached”. My understanding (IANAL) was that the GDPR explicitly forbids asking for private information to pay
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by elondaits 3y ago
A text column the whole width of your screen is readable on phones and tablets (portrait) but unreadable on notebooks and desktops. So columns are necessary… Also firm design usually is better if labels and fields are inlined. That’s just t
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by elondaits 3y ago
Was sync to iCloud and Dropbox through a single file? Because there’s no chance to merge databases if they get out of sync. Proper cloud support can handle this.
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by elondaits 3y ago
The conversation is hard because we’re thinking about being able to copy and distribute an old game… and some authors will be thinking about not losing rights to their original characters, music, story, etc. … so maybe it would be useful to
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by elondaits 3y ago
Anatoly. Very fun channel on YouTube.
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by elondaits 3y ago
* Phil Spector.
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by elondaits 3y ago
> But in an effort to keep it as cheap as possible, the decision was made to go with a design that, in theory, would give users a 50/50 chance of plugging it in correctly They overlooked the statistically significant case where it t

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