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by ikt 4y ago
> I nearly exploded from my nerves Why? Why not just calmly explain the situation? Why let your emotion get the best of you? I saw you disregard someone else's advice as well earlier, I think you're forgetting that you have to
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by ikt 4y ago
> The users all went back to Twitter It was just the Indian users that went back to Twitter, as per: https://mastodon.social/about 83.7K active MAU The greater group of people on mastodon.social stayed.
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by ikt 4y ago
I've been self hosting email for 10 years now, don't have an issue with spam/blacklisting, I would say claims of self hosting emails death have been greatly exaggerated. The main thing is to have a regular TLD, not something
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by ikt 4y ago
> It seems like Mastadon or a 3rd party would have to come up with a novel, effective solution to the issue of content discover that no one else has found yet No ty! Very happy with my home timeline and 'local' timeline, don&#x
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by ikt 4y ago
Is this a joke?
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by ikt 4y ago
> Then I tried the fediverse, and it was worse, except that it was much weirder overall and posts mostly concerned extreme fringe topics and opinions. I'm on fosstodon.org and don't really see this, I get presented with mainly
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by ikt 4y ago
> needlessly gendered term that perpetuates stereotypes. The stereotype that mothers... are... computer parts...? I don't get it, what's the stereotype?
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by ikt 4y ago
> I find it surprising that hardly anyone uses it though. Same! I use it for searching reddit all the time.
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by ikt 4y ago
> BTW, if you wanted a biased platform, just use Google, its significantly better in every way. It's not to me, when was the last time you used it? I haven't used Google in around 4 years now and I'm getting on just fine,
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“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG(fosstodon.org)
470 points by ikt 4y ago|216 comments
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by ikt 4y ago
You have made 6 comments advertising you.com in a day? But for some reason you didn't bother to use your own search engine: https://you.com/search?q=youtube-dl&fromSearchBar=true https://yt-dl.org/
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by ikt 4y ago
It's interesting that Qwant never comes up in these discussions, they have their own engine and are privacy focused, looks very similar to Google but just never seems to be brought up?
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by ikt 5y ago
I think it's because metric is logical, makes things easier to understand and is used practically everywhere except the US. English has been adopted as the international language (largely thanks to American TV, Movie and Music exports)
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by ikt 5y ago
which is odd because Rogan made most of his money from Youtube which is also Google, youtube was his biggest promotional tool. So I imagine you don't watch youtube either?
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by ikt 5y ago
Yeah it's very buggy, same thing is happening for me
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by ikt 5y ago
Woah woah woah ... woah Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City.[2][3][4] It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owned by the Fox Corporation
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by ikt 5y ago
> Unlike when I trialled ddg, and found about 90% of my searches ended up being !g How long ago did you try DDG and do you have some examples of searches that didn't work on DDG but did on Google?
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by ikt 5y ago
ok this has to be a troll
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by ikt 5y ago
what would you expect? sympathy for people who should know better?
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by ikt 5y ago
this is the most painful thread I think I've ever seen on HN
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by ikt 5y ago
Honestly loved it when I read it at the time, I can't think of many times a feature not being included I've cheered at.
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by ikt 5y ago
> Call me old and grumpy, but I would much prefer to go back 10-20 years. The web was a symbol of freedom, decentralization, and so forth. Strange that no one has brought up hosting a peertube instance
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by ikt 5y ago
Very similar to me, I went nexus 5 > 5x > pixel > pixel 2 after the 5/5x/p1 broke in different ways, but the Pixel 2 I used until it ran out of support and I was annoyed at having to replace a phone so quickly because it
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by ikt 5y ago
> I was in need of replacing my aging Pixel 4 > Released 2019, October 22 How is a 2 year old phone aging?
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by ikt 5y ago
> There are checks in place to make difficult to buy an SSL certificate for the official domain of a bank. Who said it needed to be a real bank? > At least Chrome tracks malicious websites. That's not TCP/IP, the chrome equi
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by ikt 5y ago
> Does this mean I have to check every transaction I enter to run arbitrary code with full access to my wallet? No, for the same reason you don't check the code on every website you visit, if you want to be even more secure then jus
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by ikt 5y ago
Think of all the scams happening over TCP/IP every day! They built this thing where anyone can pretend to be a bank website? No checks or security? It's laughable. I'm in disbelief. And this is the web?
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by ikt 5y ago
> Instead, because academia is not free from biases of its own, a condemning, shaming, loaded term was coined for this side of things. I don't believe it started with Academia, it was a social term that came into use, I'd proba
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by ikt 5y ago
Did you just make that up...
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by ikt 5y ago
> Rogaine also has plenty of sexist schtick[1] to rival Stern Do you have anything from him later than the late 1980's?

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