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by hnarn 5y ago
> Would it make sense to try to get infected No. Never.
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by hnarn 5y ago
> When I write Javascript or Python, I have complaints and issues, but I enjoy writing code. I think PHP, for many programmers, including myself, is just a hostile and unenjoyable experience. Surely JS has at least an equal amount of foo
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by hnarn 5y ago
> people don't give millions without any expectation of return Perhaps you're not aware but Signal is developed by the Signal Technology Foundation, which is an American non-profit organization. So yes, people do "give mil
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by hnarn 5y ago
Ok, but Telegram isn't Instagram. It's not even a social network, it's an IM. And while you can talk about lock-in effects with IM applications, I honestly think there's only one where it makes sense, and that's Wha
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by hnarn 5y ago
McDonalds is only "home" for Americans. As the parent comment says, it's "consistent", but it's absolutely not "home" for me or anyone else I know from Europe. And for anyone who has tried McDonalds o
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by hnarn 5y ago
They’ve broken their “no ads ever” promise by implementing this change, so clearly their promises are useless. That aside, this is terrible product strategy, because everything any normal user will hear is “Telegram has ads now”. Personally
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by hnarn 5y ago
Pavel Durov is a dollar billionaire, so that’s something.
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by hnarn 5y ago
I don’t know what you’re implying and your question isn’t asked in good faith. What is your definition of “the long run”? Because apparently seven years is not what you consider long enough. It’s apparently also “clear” that optional donati
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by hnarn 5y ago
If they actually go through with this, most likely I’ll just switch to only using Signal rather than both. Most of my friends use both anyway and the remainder won’t be too hard to convince, and I think we’re not unique in that we already s
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by hnarn 5y ago
I more or less stopped using find the day I discovered mlocate.
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by hnarn 5y ago
Installing the tools you prefer is not always an option, but I agree, ripgrep is great.
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by hnarn 5y ago
> So think of PHP less as a "bad language" and more of a code smell. Surely that depends on when the PHP in question was originally written.
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by hnarn 5y ago
The point of my comment was "this is not good general advice". The point of your comment seems to be "it can be good advice in some cases", which makes no sense to me. Obviously it can be good advice in that exact case w
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by hnarn 5y ago
To me, that’s enough exceptions to not generalize about “Europe”.
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by hnarn 5y ago
Source?
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by hnarn 5y ago
You shouldn't say this to people like it's some obvious truth. There are many cases in which this action will land you in trouble due to it not being a legally valid termination of the contract (which of course may be different by
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by hnarn 5y ago
This isn't "Europe", it's Germany. Germany is still well known for using fax for government and corporate communication, and there was heavy criticism for how the Covid pandemic was initially handled because faxing recor
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by hnarn 5y ago
> the scandinavian character (oslash, ae) may be nice to have Those are Danish or Norwegian characters, they are not "the Scandinavian characters" as they are not used in Sweden (using ö/ä).
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by hnarn 5y ago
Or: http://archive.today/2020.06.11-123202/https://www.theatlant...
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by hnarn 5y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but as I alluded to in my comment the reason I gave up wasn’t really the invite system, at least not primarily. Observing some of the discussions that were held on IRC I just didn’t like the vibe. I wish I could
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by hnarn 5y ago
The content of lobste.rs is pretty good but I found the overall mentality pretty elitist to say the least. I spent a few weeks in their IRC channel but after a while I just left without an invite because I felt that it wasn’t really a group
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by hnarn 5y ago
That’s exactly my point, which is why nobody will invade you in the first place even if your arsenal is “inferior”.
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by hnarn 5y ago
> Get rid of the requirement that there is only one stable (minor) version of a package in the distribution at one time. I’m not exactly sure how it works but I think I’ve heard that newer releases of Enterprise Linux (EL8+) support mult
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by hnarn 5y ago
Air superiority and ground control is irrelevant when major cities of your country is being nuked. A pyrrhic victory is guaranteed which is the entire point of a nuclear arsenal.
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by hnarn 5y ago
https://archive.md/2021.11.13-023640/https://www.firstthings...
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by hnarn 5y ago
That their force is “not that great” would maybe be true if we were still in the era where wars are won with infantry and tanks, at least comparing Russia to NATO and mostly due to poor hardware and not a lack of manpower: but this hasn’t b
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by hnarn 5y ago
I love reading about JS in a context where I’m not expected to understand everything about every single obscure abbreviation from the past 15 years. Great post.
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by hnarn 5y ago
> Disallowing explicit `root` login makes it harder for attackers to guess the usernames (...) Technically correct I guess, but isn't password logins considered bad practice anyway? So if you have passphrase protected, key-based aut
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by hnarn 5y ago
What do you mean “prepared”? If you break your hardware by installing custom software on it, that has never been covered by your warranty (although companies may still replace the hardware out of good will or being incapable of detecting th
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by hnarn 5y ago
While not impossible, this seems like a huge amount of work for an independent developer. I don’t think any old controller is plug and play as soon as you remove one if clause disabling them, there’s probably a significant amount of work in

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