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DigitalOcean API is not working, in my experience 4th time in last 2 weeks
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hericium
5y ago
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hericium
5y ago
List obsolete[1] in 3... 2... [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
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hericium
5y ago
Yes I do. It is a lesser evil when Mozilla is not changing my browser's default search engine to Google and when Mozilla isn't forcing my browser to open "We value your privacy" sites infected with Analytics or Tag Manag
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hericium
5y ago
Currently I see Mozilla as existing only to appear there is no monopoly.
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hericium
5y ago
JavaScript requirement for Markdown? Page views boost through terminal-unreadable documentation? Yeah... no. I prefer ASCII drawing characters/boxes, similar to mentioned in this[1] and following comments. [1] https://news.y
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hericium
5y ago
> And since I'm using a tiling window manager, the window is basically full-screen. Tiling wm works well for me with tall/narrow browser windows utilizing the "phone view". I rarely have full-screen browser window, it
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hericium
5y ago
Fully agree, especially during current instability. I think that everyone got used to constant "it's about to crash" news but the volatility and uncertainty are visible in recent months. I don't remember when inflation n
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hericium
5y ago
> More than half the population of Earth logged into a FB product at least once last month. (from parent's parent) My repeated product/company question was not a mistake. I cannot find any source placing the number of Facebook
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hericium
5y ago
Are you referring to FB as a product or company? I have no love for Facebook nor other products of its owner, Meta, but I am not surprised that the company introduces payments. Just that they chose to brand it as an attachment to the Facebo
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hericium
5y ago
Does Facebook, as a product, even has userbase for this? I find it weird that they used this branding. For some time now, FB has the "old people social media" label. Also would they create a new brand (or MetaPay or whatever), som
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hericium
5y ago
I would appreciate some Starship Troopers-like "do you want to know more?" link.
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hericium
5y ago
> the idea of micropayments actually belonged to the original conception of the internet. HTTP 402 "Payment Required" is "reserved for future use" and not that old[1][2]. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/id&
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hericium
5y ago
Whenever I see (ex) Google employees' comments (easy to spot, work there is usually mentioned in the very first sentence) with phrases like "Googlers", I do have a strong cult vibe. Another example of corporate cultism are HR
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hericium
5y ago
Could've been handled better. Mozilla is Google's bitch.
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hericium
5y ago
I don't know Australian law but in some parts of the world this sounds like a sweet future settlement. Lawyer up ASAP - before Monday, before they do anything. Seek support from a local professional to know how exactly to handle this s
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hericium
5y ago
I find this service good for one thing: if a hotel assigns you a crappy room (loud neighbors, loud construction site outside, similar drawbacks), they'll upgrade it with zero issues. I have never had an issue with getting room replacem
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hericium
5y ago
3000 seems very generous. Look how fast the dumbing down pointed out by the movie Idiocracy is progressing. It was supposed to be 500 years...
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hericium
5y ago
> Also, beautiful people are less likely to experience social isolation or estrangement, which would otherwise hurt EQ and health in general. Physical attractiveness fades and people who used it as a tool or built egos around it often be
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hericium
5y ago
Plugins tend to make browsers more unique.
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hericium
5y ago
There were studies showing/suggesting dopamine's relation to neurogenesis. Linked study mentions SEPP1 which can be found in dopaminergic axons so I maybe read too much from it but chained this as: exercise -> dopamine -> ot
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hericium
5y ago
Exercise also promotes changes in norepinephrine (noradrenaline), dopamine and few other neurotransmitters, some of which are known to affect focus and cognition.
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hericium
5y ago
I also experienced this feature.
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hericium
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princeton.edu post[1] on the subject was also discussed[2] recently. [1] https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2021/11/29/researcher... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29399828
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hericium
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I apologize. It seems that you entered your comment right where the other comment was moments before. I saw your comment already grayed due to downvotes and since the previous comment gained some downvotes, I wrongly assumed that it was edi
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hericium
5y ago
It's an engine pluggable with 3rd party signatures if one doesn't like default ones. I wasn't attempting to discuss its quality but oppose slapping "scam" label on every AV there is.
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5y ago
> Anti-virus is a scam. Most of the commercial industry is, but don't forget about ClamAV[1] and other open-source projects. [1] https://www.clamav.net/
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hericium
5y ago
> Google office there. The Googlers sitting around Seriously? You stated that you left the cult.
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hericium
5y ago
I can read the post with no JS what so ever.
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hericium
5y ago
Original source doesn't require me to run Cloudflare's JS and archive.is does.
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5y ago
> I have many thousands of machines running in multiple datacenters and even getting a ~4mb binary distributed onto them without saturating the network (100mbit) and slowing everything else down, is a bit of a challenge. You may find mur
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