felindev

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by felindev 1y ago
As the saying goes "optimal amount of fraud is non zero"
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by felindev 1y ago
> We’ll trade away the last scraps of online anonymity and build a legally required censorship machine, all for a promise of safety that's always just out of reach. Good example would be EU's proposed "chat control" r
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by felindev 1y ago
While it is annoying, reddit at lest gives you option to see original text.
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by felindev 1y ago
This change has really been annoying me and as far as I tested, no extension worked. Quick look through network activity and it confirmed that it was done server side, no original titles were supplied anywhere. Only option was display langu
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by felindev 2y ago
LTT made a video [0] where they tried "5G blocking paint" in real world scenario, this is always an option if you like black. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5BOFsiDpYQ
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by felindev 2y ago
One very important factor is creators. Unless you got people to create on your platform, it isn't going anywhere. As far as I know, Youtube has best ad-revenue split of all platforms
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by felindev 2y ago
While people might attempt that, it's going to be an arms race, just like ads vs adblocks. There's already multiple crawlers that present fake user-agent when their original one is blocked. Temptation of more data is just to irres
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by felindev 2y ago
> the company launched an official eBay store that sells refurbished drives. [...] However, this store only sells in the US One could make a joke that seagate did start selling refurbs in EU, just without telling anyone. Why is it alway
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by felindev 2y ago
There's multiple projects that attempt similar thing with SQLite, most recent one being Tag Studio. Seems like tag-based file organization is better solution but required mental cost/effort of upkeep is what keeps it from gaining