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Cottonseed and Infertility(205.134.255.159)
1 points by mawise 5y ago|1 comments
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by mawise 5y ago
This is in my list of top 10 (ish) books I've read. If you've enjoyed it, He's got two more books in the Zones of Thought universe: A Deepness In The Sky, which follows Pham in his Queng Ho days before A Fire Upon The Deep (r
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by mawise 5y ago
I'll go even further and say that so long as the platform is run for-profit, this continues to be a problem. I'm pursuing the idea of trying to better enable self-hosting of your online social presence with Haven[1], but it's
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by mawise 5y ago
I'd love audio streaming suggestions too, I've been running Kodi on an old fire tablet to stream music from a Synology NAS but it's surprisingly flaky
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Facebook rebuts criticism by using its algorithm to promote itself(nytimes.com)
12 points by mawise 5y ago|1 comments
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by mawise 5y ago
I didn't get that comment either. I've doubled-down on RSS for this purpose in my side-project Haven[1]. Write your own private blog, share it with people who can then subscribe with personal http-basic-auth RSS links (or view i
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Firefox on Mac Still Doesn't Support TouchID for Authentication(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
2 points by mawise 5y ago|0 comments
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by mawise 5y ago
> The bandwidth rate is between 8-16 bytes/sec depending on the protocol parameters. How hard would it be to increase the audio bandwidth? Are there limitations in leveraging dial-up modem protocols?
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by mawise 5y ago
> The View app requires a Facebook account to log in
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by mawise 5y ago
Feel free to chime in on the open bug report for this missing feature. Maybe more attention will provoke progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536482
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by mawise 5y ago
Space Alert[1] (board game) is awesome for that sort of chaos. When I played with friends, we decided we needed a non-player captain to keep us on track even though it isn't in the rules. [1]: https://boardgamegeek.com&#x2F
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by mawise 5y ago
I stopped reading at "over the air updates".
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by mawise 5y ago
I'd love to see more sites skip out of GA entirely. If you use server logs for analytics you get better fidelity[1]. You can probably eliminate the cookie consent banner if you're only storing login or session-continuity (requir
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by mawise 5y ago
With the initial focus on families sharing news, this made me think about Facebook (or better yet, RSS!)
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by mawise 5y ago
What's the difference between this and an in-house centrally managed CA?
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by mawise 5y ago
If you're in the US, have you explored https://healthcare.gov ?
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by mawise 6y ago
I wanted an offline wall-mounted tablet driving music for my living room so that I could (gasp) BROWSE my own music collection. I settled on Musicolet after trying a few other options. The one missing feature I wanted was some sense of m
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by mawise 6y ago
For those who feel sketched out by a random "download" button, it appears to be a pdf of the entire article. > Change My Mind, LLC. is offering to purchase Facebook for its current market value, which as of March 2021 was appro
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by mawise 6y ago
Disappointing that they would mandate details about the opt-out process for selling personal information instead of mandating that it be an opt-in process.
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by mawise 6y ago
I would be very worried about customers finding out that other people in the same country got offered different prices. Here's an example of a story from the Atlantic[1] that describes it in a very poor light. Making sure someone alw
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by mawise 6y ago
I recognize this as a valuable counter point to the "move fast and break things" ethos, but I disagree with the framing. A while ago I learned about a model of "error budgets" from google[1] which really resonated with
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by mawise 6y ago
https://imgur.com/a/OjuWEKK It can be in a local minima of buoyancy without being a global minima. Similar to an un-sharpened pencil balanced on it's end.
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by mawise 6y ago
I don't know, the more I think about it the less sense it makes. I wonder if we can apply Hanlon's Razor[1] and say it was just a poorly researched article. If the author did some brief googling for things people have said about
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by mawise 6y ago
I don't get it. Scott's response very clearly lays out the ways in which the NYT article was misleading--so clearly that it seems obvious that it was intentionally misleading. But to what end? What are the motivations driving N
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by mawise 6y ago
> Normalizing against the M1 is an not very meaningful because ignores the fact that the price of a dollar is subject to demand as well. I was thinking exactly this. Is there any reasonable measure economists use for the demand for doll
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by mawise 6y ago
To some degree, the paid services (itunes) won out by making it so easy to use. There wasn't a viable paid alternative in the hayday of p2p file sharing. Do you know if anyone has explored the viability of smaller-scale file sharing?
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by mawise 6y ago
If you run email on your own domain, you get a lot of similar protections--you get to route your email to your provider of choice should anything happen. IndieAuth[1] let's you use dns-as-identity too and extends it to support authenti
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by mawise 6y ago
That would be awesome, thank you!
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by mawise 6y ago
Thanks for your support! You're spot on with every point you mentioned. I tried to make self-hosting as easy as possible since there is a spectrum of how much technical effort even technical people want to put in. I actually decided
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by mawise 6y ago
I'm using Rails Devise[1] for user auth, and http basic auth for RSS. RSS Basic auth credentials are always auto-generated, and don't give access to anything other than fetching the RSS feed. Rails uses the "master key"

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