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by icc97 9y ago
Big obvious problem with WhatsApp is that it's owned by Facebook and seeing as WhatsApp is free they're most likely using it as a data collection / tracking mechanism. Signal is much more based around privacy, it's open
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Firefox on both mobile and PC. Works almost perfectly. Sometimes when trying to send a page from one synced device to the other it doesn't work, but you can just sync the history as a backup.
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> Also, I've found the cognitive burden to be significantly less using my beam library than writing SQL. I find this confusing. You still have all the cognitive burden to figure out what SQL you want to write, but then you have to t
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Perhaps this is just a depressive thought. But I don't see any of these services taking over Facebook or even making a slight dent. What might happen is that Facebook dies a slow death and none of my friends keep in contact on there. B
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I did say 'probably'. If someone can speak more than 12 languages they're a hyperpolyglot. You'll probably find as many living Nobel Prize winners as hyperpolyglots. Plus I live in Belgium and my partner speaks 5 languag
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Ok, that does make sense.
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Someone who's bilingual can have meaningful conversations in both languages. Beyond that they can see the connections/differences between the two languages and gain a deeper understanding. However someone who's learnt 15 can
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I think there's a quote from Paul Graham somewhere along the lines of 'T-Type learners': > Like paint drops rolling down from a paint stroke, the breadth is there but at certain points the paint rolls down creating deep li
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I do, I bought a refurbished T430, core i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD and run it dual-boot with Windows / Fedora. Works brilliantly, I do all my work on it. I brought a second one of the same spec for my 5yo daughter out of curiosity. Think
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> * It does in fact turn on. Genius. I was seriously doubting how it was possible to be this cheap.
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You could try a browser extension to rewrite [www|np].reddit.com to i.reddit.com [0] But yeah when ever you don't follow the path that the major sites want you to go down you have to keep jumping around Similar with Gmail, all links in
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Minor niggle - but I don't understand you and the github readme point to readthedocs rather than just 'show me the money' of https://chat.zulip.org/ Perhaps you want to give more context, but I did nothing on
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Use them all in combination. Containers are nice way to divide up your tabs even if you don't want to be tracked.
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Perhaps we need a specific Tor shell Facebook app. Then it's just a wrapper onto the desktop site. Just force your kids to use that on mobile and use Tor on desktop with Facebook as the homepage. You can tell your kids that 'Tor&#
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Putting in my year of birth to 1911 (but the same month/day so half friends don't send me wishes on the wrong day) used to mostly destroy their targeted advertising. It was all adverts for arthritis medication. They're steadi
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I don't know if you've come across i.reddit e.g. [0], I only heard about it a few weeks ago, but it's an old mobile site from reddit with nice simple styling and all the shite taken out. No popups for the stupid app. I don&#x
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Excellent post, pretty much exactly what I was thinking of > Of course, it still raises questions about how it’d be financed or supported. No investor would back a service that couldn’t be controlled at all and could lose most of its use
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Yeah when it's a pristine beautifully structured code base people are more cautious about weighing in because they can't code as well. When it all looks like shit no-one worries about hacking their own. WordPress has both it'
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Stack Overflow has the 'active' sorting. This is similar to bumping a topic with any activity to the top. This is the default as opposed to new. The mentions there work nicely too, I never get swamped with inbox messages, you can
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Even Facebook allows avatars. The ability to express yourself in all it's unprofessional ways is important. It's a way to show you're not Facebook. Each topic is built up from the colours of the people that participate there.
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Tragedy of the driving commons. In such situations I just drive slightly under the distance I would normally keep, but then just back off those that do barge in.
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The skeptic in me thinks that this story is Volvo trying to counter the bad news of their car killing a pedestrian with good news of how many drivers haven't died. Although it's not their fault for the crash, celebrating the safet
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Disqus is a centralised data harvester and no better than Facebook as far as I can tell. Discourse is just another forum software, but it's open source and you can setup your own. Jeff's taken some of the ideas from StackOverflow
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The reddit model is more centralised than I'd imagined. Each forum could still have their own domain and installation. Ideally it would be in some way compatible to existing forums. Perhaps better integration of forums via RSS. One thi
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Actually that makes a lot of sense, it's not that we need to have RSS replace Facebook, we need a resurgance of forums to take back from Facebook. Perhaps if forums could talk to each other you'd have an experience more like masto
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This is a benefit of using Vim (versus GUI editors) - you have a full history of all the commands you did
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> Companies providing operating systems is a clear conflict of interest. I think based on your argument that Redhat and Ubuntu are reasonable reasonable counterexamples.
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A rather prescient quote from Alan Kay's Dynabook paper in 1972 [0] > For many years it has been a tradition to attempt to cure our society's ills through technology: "You have slums? Let's build low-cost housing!&quo
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Wow, that was amazing. I'm off to go build a living model

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