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by foxfluff 5y ago
I wish there was an extension that would search simultaneously on different engines and present them in columns side by side.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It's always fun checking Google's ad settings and seeing what they think I'm into. Apparently now I'm into baseball, flowers, boating, celebrities, country music, credit cards, geology, event ticket sales, fishing, and w
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> People use Google to search Reddit because Reddit has terrible search. Hey why don't you prove your assertion. > Your other assertions would need to be proved more rigorously. Not just for Google, but for any search engine. The
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yes, that message is, but the rest of the thread isn't.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> You’re missing the point - a popular sites own lack of internal search would explain the use of external search. Sigh. The point is that 1) Google gives trash results by default 2) users know there are good results out there on the we
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> This seems too handwavey - what concrete metrics would you use to evaluate the quality of a search engine? How about the metric in TFA? > Reddit has even more garbage than Google. Well, people disagree, and that's why they&#x27
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by foxfluff 5y ago
People could certainly run hand-curated indexes and search engines seeded by such. I think marginalia.nu search behaves somewhat like that. I'm really interested in the idea of decentralized search where everyone has the power to choo
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Last night while doing a search, I found myself pondering the fact that recently I've been using DDG more than before.. and it's not because DDG has become so good, it's because Google has become so trash. Ironically, only a
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> What’s the connection between Reddit being searched for and Google dying? Google returns page after page of seo garbage. You often have more luck finding what you want on reddit. > Might as well say that GitHub is dying because Dis
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I'm hoping I could find a community interested in.. I don't want to say exactly "low tech" computing but I guess the idea is pretty close. Cheap microcontrollers today are incredibly powerful.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> E.g. there was a client (I forget the details - sorry) that introduced the concept of a unicode "favicon" and a few people lost their shit about it. Here's the whole story: https://github.com/makeworld-th
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Free services are fantastic, until they break. Or until you get banned. There's people who get their Microsoft banned for no reason, without notice. It's not just free services. Big hosting providers are taking a similar app
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It was about five minutes of filling a form with the national authority. There are some responsibilities that you get along with it (e.g. you're supposed to do risk assessment and document your approach to risks and security, etc.) but
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Indeed, there are a million things they could do other than suspend the entire account. It's just lazy admins on a power trip retaliating, doing the easiest & cheapest thing they can think of. Hardly different from blocking an ent
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Notice the difference between organizations and private individuals (which the quoted UK regulations seems to protect). I don't know if it's EU wide but Finland also requires banks to provide service to private individuals.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Should we own the free stuff we pay for? We should own our own stuff. Your email is your own data. No company should have the right to arbitrarily destroy or block your access to your data. Whether that service is free or paid for i
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Write into a uart looks like this: write(fd, "hello", 5); write into a connected tcp socket looks like this: write(fd, "hello", 5); Sounds like you have what you want?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
write() and read() work on a connected socket fd just as they work on a uart. So I don't really understand what the problem here is? Of course you have datagram protocols and recvmsg() & co, which are useful precisely when you&#x2
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by foxfluff 5y ago
If people wanted features, why was Opera always so niche? It used to be so far ahead in features. I guess Brave today has quite a few features. Maybe Vivaldi.. I haven't looked really. I think the real issue is that the vast majorit
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by foxfluff 5y ago
For the consumer market I agree. It's not fair to force consumers to accept a one-sided unnegotiable contract. I think the silly interpretation of copyright law (that any transient copies made by your computer when you install or run
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It's not that complicated. For a basic TCP socket application, you need a couple dozen lines of code. Explaining how it works isn't going to require a 1000 page book. Of course networking and network programming is a deep topic
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yep, that would be fun , and could obsolete DNS for some use cases. Though having variable length addresses in headers would be a headache for a lot of things.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> In an age where most lawyers and judges, like everyone, mindlessly click-through "agreements" and shrink-wrap EULAs .. That's an interesting problem. I'm a little disappointed that the route we've gone is havi
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Anyone care to comment if the fall into either group? I know a thing or two about networking and didn't really learn anything new from the article. And I don't really like the style, but I don't feel like my expertise wi
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> With a coming revision the code density with the compressed extension is even better than ARM Thumb I'd love to read about this revision and understand how it achieves that improvement. Do you have a link handy?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
As far as I know the c partition is always the whole disk, regardless of what you have (or don't have) in MBR or GPT. If you want to image the whole disk with dd, you'll reach for rsd0c, always. But I still don't understan
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I find it disappointing. For whatever reason, Mozilla VPN is not available in my country. And they don't support anonymous cash payments, like Mullvad does. It's more expensive than Mullvad, except at the 12 month plan. So wha
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by foxfluff 5y ago
What distinction are you trying to make? The disklabel utility can be used to install, examine, or modify the label on a disk drive or pack. The disk label contains information about disk characteristics (size, type, etc.)
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by foxfluff 5y ago
That doesn't really match my experience. When I read the docs and don't find what I want, I've gotten useful help from the community. Either they help me or they point me to the piece of documentation that I somehow missed.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> The problem is the advertising industry, not advertising. Mmm, I guess we just can't agree on that. > Run a thought experiment quickly, let's say you wanted to start a pro-privacy/anti-malvertising/anti-flashing-

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