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by fouric 5y ago
I'm pretty sure GP was being sarcastic.
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> In conclusion, BobbyJo deserved it and it was a right thing to do. Disrespectful? Yes, that's the point. This is absolutely against HN guidelines, general common decency, and just pure logic. You do not get to decide who "d
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> Yet somehow Epstein and Harvey Weinstein run rampant among our own soil, all with open secrets. That's partially a product of the US justice system, which is among the more rigorous in the world, and tends to favor letting the gui
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"LMGT(FY)" is a disrespectful, counter-productive, and weaselly response. Please don't use it. If you make a claim, it's your responsibility to provide evidence (including links) to back it up, and anyone who has actua
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This is inflammatory, insubstantial, and I'm pretty sure it violates the HN guidelines.
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What "harm" did these people experience, exactly?
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by fouric 5y ago
Right - that's an argument to use a centralized payment service (which Apple Pay, Google Pay, Paypal, etc. (probably) fulfill). I (might have mis-)read that part of your post as being about micro-payment systems not being necessary. I&
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This is a little confusing to me. Isn't the main reason why people use (neo)vi(m) that they reject the Emacs approach of merging everything into the editor (i.e. integration over separation)? So, if you're going to give up on your
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by fouric 5y ago
Why just not use TRAMP to use your personal emacs to edit files on remote systems?
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> How would it work with not creating an account? Notice that they said "yet another account" - I'm pretty sure that they're not objecting to the idea of creating a single account for the micropayments service, but
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You're right, on further inspection, we may not be disagreeing. To clarify: I'm arguing against the idea of people not liking the mental transaction costs being the primary reason why microtransactions haven't been adopted
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I don't buy this argument, for a couple of reasons. First, for large classes of media, the energy required to consume the media is much larger than the mental cost of even an explicit microtransaction - e.g. the energy required to deci
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> No, it is neither absurd nor false. Alright, because you don't seem interested in making an argument about this, and merely responding with a "no": provide a commonly-accepted definition for "private information&quo
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I would be interested in this, if Nintendo wasn't such a user-hostile (heck, fan -hostile) company. Many of the Switch games (excluding BotW) are available on other platforms (including Linux!) and because I haven't gotten hooked
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> The definition of private information is anything and everything that the user does. This is absolutely absurd and completely false. It is not private information that I am running a copy of Audacity or Firefox or Emacs (quite the oppo
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Telemetry is not "looking over your shoulder", because that statement means that private data is being leaked, which is excluded by the definition of telemetry. Your statement is misleading and emotionally manipulative at best .
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> Crash reports contain memory dumps, and private information. No, they don't. You're ascribing characteristics to them that they do not have . Maybe your crash reports have memory dumps and private information in them, but
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> Its interesting to me that the discussion around ransomware attacks on HN is full of victim blaming. It is no longer interesting that there's a pattern of comments on HN that attacks some nebulous aspect of other comments on the
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by fouric 5y ago
I completely disagree with your definition of spyware. A crash report, absent any PII, is not spyware to me, and does not require my advance consent to be sent. You're entitled to your own definition, of course, but I hope that for the
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> That is spyware. I strongly disagree. The frequency with which I use my mouse to click buttons vs. keyboard shortcuts to invoke functionality in a program is not personal information, and a system that collects it is not spyware. &
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Your comment definitely implies that Audacity records mouse movements and is a keylogger. I encourage you to read and adhere to the HN guidelines[1], especially when using vague language to suggest things that are false and then reacting in
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> there is a point of view which says that you make good products through thoughtful and rigorous design, rather than pouring over databases of events to try and reverse engineer how people are actually using your product There are two p
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You want to shame developers for including "usage reporting", "automatic update[s]", and "crash reporting" in their software?
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by fouric 5y ago
I do not support this idea. The differences between the things they all group together under one umbrella is wild - ads, usage reporting, automatic updates, and crash reporting are all very different things and it's actively harmfu
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by fouric 5y ago
Could one get a fake Microsoft account with an email address and phone number tied to a service like Mailinator? Sure, if it were possible it would only be a temporary solution, but that's better than nothing.
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I can't read the article (because NYT paywall), but isn't there a second-order effect from cancelling student loans & medical debt, in that loan interest rates will suddenly jump because there's no guarantee the same won&
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Moreover, it explicitly violates several of the guidelines[1]: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community
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> which would be excedingly easy to do False. You would need to buy (or just randomly happen to have) a smart TV model that exhibits this characteristic, which would be very difficult to find, as there is a very wide spread of smart TV m
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by fouric 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27701977 which links to https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bpr6xs/if_you_choo... which is archived at https://web.archive.org/
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by fouric 5y ago
> Smart TVs are dumb if they aren't connected to the internet. Until manufacturers start selling TV's that don't work at all if they're not connected. Or, as is the case with my Samsung TV, they could just be arbitrar

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