jackjeff

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by jackjeff 4y ago
I don’t use straws every day but I like them. They’re not a necessity by any means. No more than this web site, or computers, or reading novels are… But if you have very cool beverage with floating ice, it’s nice not too fight against the i
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by jackjeff 5y ago
> I'm sympathetic to website operators who want to support their free sites using ads, but these ads are often malicious, leading to installers for malware like the one described in this post. Agreed
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by jackjeff 5y ago
I really hope the UK does not imitate this. I moved from France to the UK over ten years ago. According to geography, France and the UK should be on the same time zone, but in practice France is using Germany’s time zone. In France thanks t
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by jackjeff 5y ago
I was looking at doing something similar a while back. But all the “Spotify Podcasts” I saw were using DRMs and just getting rid of this (legally by calling the same stupid Widevine plugin to ask it to decrypt it) was a huge task… and I bas
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by jackjeff 5y ago
If that ever happens, the next thing that would pop up is a crowd source website with all the answers.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
Yeah. It’s like Google explaining how they help us by having “relevant ads”. The only ad that’s relevant to me is the one that I don’t see. I must be in a minority though, considered how successful ad businesses are.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
But then again. If it was an interesting product, Facebook would be the last place on earth where it’s advertised. Don’t know what it is but I’m predicting it sucks.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
The sign up is more complicated but once you’re in, it’s much easier. Pretty sure I can re-order on most app in less time it takes someone to answer the phone.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
There’s a time and space for shitty code. Something you write once, as quickly as possible and throw away. Anything else, that ships to any kind of production environment, needs to be reliable and maintainable. Shitty code is a false econom
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by jackjeff 5y ago
The situation of African Americans nowadays is nowhere near comparable. The issue are the “jail looking” camps which are officially “education centers”. Forced labour happens there, which is basically slavery. Western companies don’t want t
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by jackjeff 5y ago
They’d better apologize for the apology… or else…
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by jackjeff 5y ago
How is France (or the EU) going to enforce their extra territorial law on a US company with no business interests in the EU? > Enforcing fines on companies without an EU base does present a regulatory challenge, however. Understatement o
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by jackjeff 5y ago
The Chinese are denying it. So either there’re lying or incredibly petty. Either way, not a good look. Either way, they’ll claim it’s western propaganda.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
JSONC. JSON with comments. And even if your favorite parser does not support it natively it’s not so hard to add with a very simple pre-lexer step. JSON schemas exist and they’re ok for relatively simple things. For more complex cases I fin
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by jackjeff 5y ago
Amen. For someone who programs every day but frequently has to type in French, Spanish or German I could not agree more. The Mac is awesome at typing everything.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
I grew up in France and I hate the PC French keyboard with Alt Grrr with a passion.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
Nah. The Nazis were too busy creating Facebook :)
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by jackjeff 5y ago
Can’t answer for music, but as a developer a sure way to waste a lot of RAM is to run a bunch of virtual machines, containers or device simulators. I have 32GB, so unless I’m careless everything usually fits in memory without swapping. If y
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by jackjeff 5y ago
To take the counter argument. Modern technology has enabled me to avoid advertising bullshit. I live in a world devoid of ads. In the 1990s, I used to watch TV and there were lots of ads. Now I have Netflix and the ad blocker takes care of
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by jackjeff 5y ago
I don’t think the outcome is that surprising. Regardless of the merits of this person’s complains toward Apple, it’s hard to see an employer put up with this kind on incessant broadcast to the public place about sensitive matters. The adult
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by jackjeff 5y ago
Yes. iCloud backups are the easiest way to get the messages in clear text. But honestly you don’t need it. Even though iMessage is end to end encrypted, Apple mediates the key exchange. It’d be trivial for them to do a man in the middle att
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by jackjeff 5y ago
You can’t fight racism and sexism by using “reparative” racism and sexism. Going after straight white men because of their identity is as abhorrent as any other form of racism/sexism.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
I found that quite impressive. Where I live in the UK (flat, semi-rural area peppered with small towns, 30mins away from a large city), there’s lots of spots where 3G is the only thing that works… if you’re lucky.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
Exactly. Is that even legal?
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by jackjeff 5y ago
But the only penalty is “seeing” personalized ads. It’s not exactly a problem for most people. Even I who’s privacy conscious don’t particularly care I block ads with ad blockers anyway.
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by jackjeff 5y ago
There’s been a lot of things going on with Freenode lately. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-...
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by jackjeff 5y ago
Typically homeless people would collect them in places where returning the bottles was impractical. Trains stations are a good example. I remember many people would also leave the bottles on top of the bin rather than tossing them inside, t
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by jackjeff 5y ago
I’m always reluctant to generalize. If I remember correctly most people from our generation (the author and myself) were pretty bad at using computer. Computer Geeks were a fairly minority. I see the same thing in my son’s class. There’s a
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by jackjeff 5y ago
Fair enough. But to what extent would the algorithm know about you if you clear cookies/storage data though? I also imagine changing IP addresses help… does Google use IP as a source for profiling?
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by jackjeff 6y ago
I’ve used this for years and it’s brilliant. I really don’t care about cookies because I pair this extension with “cookie auto delete”, so whatever these cookies do, they would disappear. The only downside is that some sites are broken by t

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