joecot

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by joecot 2y ago
If you're running a community you want to actually grow, you don't have much of a choice besides be on discord. It's replaced both Facebook and Meetup for events and building Internet groups. Even open source projects moved t
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by joecot 2y ago
There are numerous cases where stuff does not work in Windows. The difference is the support. If your device doesn't work in Windows, there's usually a help line to call for it. They might give you the runaround for an hour, but
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by joecot 2y ago
> I have yet to find anyone outside the tech industry who actually knows or gives a crap. Lots of school kids who get mocked for being "Green Texters" with crummy images and videos in their group texts. They really want their p
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by joecot 2y ago
They almost certainly would have standing. Banning their app from the app store clearly directly affects them. But they could instead just allow people to login on the mobile site and install it as a progressive web app, instead of forcing
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by joecot 2y ago
The #1 cause of me remembering I have tinnitus is seeing articles about tinnitus.
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by joecot 3y ago
They made the same calculation with Google Play Music and "merged" it into Youtube Music. Not to worry, they migrated all my music over! Except most of the Youtube "Music" was people's personal uploads of dubious qu
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by joecot 3y ago
> Every new open source company should start with these anti-Amazon licenses from day one. Then it's not open source software. Either your code can be viewed, used, modified, and redistributed by everyone, or it isn't.
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by joecot 3y ago
Yeah, it's going to be an easy sell to regulate VPNs more strongly when Nord and others actively advertise that they can be used to avoid regional licensing of content.
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by joecot 3y ago
I tried to leave Spotify. I tried to switch to Tidal, which boasts better sound quality, and most importantly, better payments to artists. I switch between listening on my phone, my computer, other computers, and my google home devices all
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by joecot 3y ago
Build baby build doesn't work when Black Rock and so many other private equity companies are content to buy as many houses as they can and then hold them to raise prices further or rent them out. 44% of all Single-Family Home Purchases
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by joecot 3y ago
The point of a company should be to benefit the people who work for it. Reinvesting money into a company can help with growth, but as they say, it's a risk. The point of the company is the workers, so there's nothing lost by jus
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by joecot 3y ago
> single digit percentages used to be a thing on platforms before Valve moved the Overton window with Steam I think people really underestimate the customer value of Steam. I have a library of 20 years of game purchases. From numerous di
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by joecot 3y ago
Snaps are self contained packages of software. They are mounted as a separate isolated file system when they start. The good: Snap packages run on almost any Linux distribution, so they're an easier target. Distribution specific packag
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by joecot 3y ago
As someone who uses self-checkout machines effectively, this happening is fine. I have a moment of confusion, then find the code, then move on to the next item. What is terrible is when instead of the self-checkout machine throwing a warnin
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by joecot 3y ago
It's not. The entire purpose of Tor was for US spies overseas to be able to make anonymous secure communications. They opened it up to the rest of the world, because if the only people using Tor are US spies, it's pretty easy to t
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by joecot 3y ago
That could keep track of feeds you're subbed to, but the problem is keeping track of which posts you've already read. Once you're having to sync all of that, it might as well be a web app.
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by joecot 3y ago
Also pressure from middle management. Many managers have no skillset beyond "walk by people's desk and see if they look like they're working." Once workers were home, they couldn't keep track of whether they were pr
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by joecot 3y ago
There are also plenty of websites that either won't accept webp images or don't handle them very well. For example Facebook will not accept webp on mobile, on desktop most of the time it thinks it's a gif. While jpeg works ev
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by joecot 3y ago
I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic about traffic jams of EVs as far as the eye can see being an improvement.
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by joecot 3y ago
I have an ad blocker and it didn't stop me, but I got 2/3rds of the way down the page before it stopped me and said I had to join to read the rest. Basically the same sort of tactics that they're complaining about Youtube usi
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by joecot 3y ago
Open source projects are made and managed by software developers. Not by graphic designers, not by UI/UX experts. Developers will make something that works, that scratches their itch. But it can take years if not decades for a project
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by joecot 3y ago
If you spent 30 years struggling, and now everything's running well, do you really step away in the hopes that the next person doesn't immediately bring it crashing down? Because the fastest way to destroy a company is the wrong C
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by joecot 3y ago
Making websites into single page applications / dynamically javascript powered separated the frontend and the backend, and made the backend significantly easier. But it made the backend easier by pushing a ton of those previously backe
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by joecot 3y ago
It can't be proven, which was the entire point.
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by joecot 3y ago
I think back to Ellen Pao at reddit. Ellen was brought on as CEO, and was the face of a number of very unpopular decisions. All those decisions had one purpose -- jettison the things that made the site rough around the edges, and find ways
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by joecot 3y ago
There are multiple class action lawsuits and settlements with Nissan over their CVTs. My Versa with a CVT started dying around 70k miles. It had all its scheduled service. I brought it to a Nissan dealer, and paid for a transmission inspect
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by joecot 3y ago
1) I expect a lot of people saw the site and didn't realize it was satire, 2) as a Leftist tech person who reads Hacker News, whenever there's a discussion on here that is even slightly political, and I see the responses from a lo
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by joecot 3y ago
Privacy.com works like it does, giving consumer protections, because the consumer with the bank account is the customer. Plaid works like it does, letting companies take your money with no restrictions, because the company is the customer,
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by joecot 3y ago
In the US, it's because of federal subsidies. Air travel is federally subsidized, to get airlines to maintain air travel to less populated areas. Otherwise the flyover states would literally just be flown over. Air travel is subsidized
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by joecot 3y ago
> Having a tombstone on Reddit pointing people towards a specific instance is good but it’s still hard to be the definitive community when the namespace isn’t as restricted any more. Maybe that’s better? I don't think that's mu

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