m3rc

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by m3rc 10y ago
The real fight isn't proving that the data is there, it's proving that people should even look at the data. Climate Change Denial doesn't come from a scientific place and it doesn't have a scientific answer really.
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by m3rc 10y ago
He's one of them
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by m3rc 10y ago
How is choosing not to work for someone fascism?
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by m3rc 10y ago
What's that law of title writing, if your article poses a question in the title it can almost always be answered with "no" and the reader can skip your article?
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by m3rc 10y ago
I never took data down but I'd say most are in the 10 to 12 range, with a couple outliers above that. Next to no kid below 10 has touched a keyboard. I don't live in a tech-y area either, and the kids come from a lot of diverse ba
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by m3rc 10y ago
Huge help he's giving his son by teaching him basic security practices, but also how to type on a damn keyboard. I volunteer with an engineering education camp over some summers and kids are totally unable to do anything with a normal
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by m3rc 10y ago
Ideally people would be much better educated on wiping devices before they hand them over, but that probably won't happen. Of course I don't know of a better alternative so... who knows.
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by m3rc 10y ago
Concise, yes. Believable, not so much
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by m3rc 10y ago
Yeah the part about windowed desktop environments gave me some pause and then sure enough further down there was more "if you're doing something other than what I'm doing, you're doing it wrong"
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by m3rc 10y ago
A team I work with has a similar sized dataset (started off larger but growing slower) and we have it wrapped up in an Elasticsearch database. I can't speak to it being a better tool for your uses since I don't have any experience
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by m3rc 10y ago
In the wise words of frank Reynolds "When I die just throw me in the trash"
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by m3rc 10y ago
Stop trying to make "allowing ads" equivalent to "paying creators". It's not in any way the same thing, and it's just an attempt to paint everyone who disagrees with you with a big brush of "asshole".
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by m3rc 10y ago
No, if I want to support the creators i'll pay for the app. If I don't want to see ads, I'll block ads. It's a false equivalency to conflate support with willingly subjecting yourself to ads when other options exist, and
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by m3rc 10y ago
I'm entirely willing to see business fail until we get to a place where ad-based revenue models are no longer financially viable.
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by m3rc 10y ago
I don't remembering mentioning forcing people to visit particular sites, I remember talking about telling people they weren't allowed to ever block ads. I also don't remember saying this was unique to pornhub, or mentioning p
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by m3rc 10y ago
I do block all JS content by default and have to whitelist individual sites. I consider that in tandem with my adblocking. I'm not going to give up either.
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by m3rc 10y ago
I try in all possible situations to only visit sites that I think aren't causing damage to the landscape of the internet but again, that is a separate issue to me choosing to block all ads. When I browse a content aggregator or a frien
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by m3rc 10y ago
I'm not "hiding" behind anything, and trying to imply I am doesn't help your argument. I probably would stop using that site, I think it's important to support sites that make meaningful progress possible. But again
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by m3rc 10y ago
So it's the automation itself that bothers you? If I kept uBlock origin installed but told it to block nothing by default and then went through and manually clicked block on every ad on a new page you'd be okay?
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by m3rc 10y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say. My reasons are irrelevant because you disagree with the outcome?
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by m3rc 10y ago
I don't frequent sites with lots of ads, but that doesn't preclude me blocking any and all other ads.
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by m3rc 10y ago
That's an incredibly strange viewpoint. Would you get mad at me if we were watching TV and I muted it when a commercial break came on? Would you demand that I watch closely?
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by m3rc 10y ago
Well then I guess we have 2 data.
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by m3rc 10y ago
No one is talking about specific malicious sites, people are talking about entire ad networks being infected, something that has happened multiple times in the past. When every site gets their ads served from the same central location and t
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by m3rc 10y ago
Am I supposed to find every single website I might ever visit in the future and preemptively pay for their no-ads plan? How is that the answer? What about sites which don't offer such a plan? And why should people who can't afford
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by m3rc 10y ago
Maybe because me clicking some link and getting loaded into a site is in no way a tacit agreement to be exposed to security concerns? I don't owe the creator of a site anything by default.
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by m3rc 10y ago
You are making very strange false equivalencies the likes of which I haven't heard since those MPAA ads telling me not to download cars... Are you saying that blocking ads on a website is somehow the same thing as hacking the website a
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by m3rc 10y ago
Because people use it as an alternative to email? They obviously weren't saying "Slack literally took away my ability to email" they were referring to how everyone is actually using Slack to talk to each other
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by m3rc 10y ago
"ironic" is one word for it, "hypocritical" also came to mind, along with "shameless lying" and "disgustingly misleading"
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by m3rc 10y ago
workarounds exist sure, they aren't replacements for that app's workflow

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