mehdix

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   by mehdix 7y ago

   I love that they have moved the whole address bar to the bottom of the screen, where my thumb can reach it easily.
2. 212.▲
   by mehdix 7y ago

   I was also looking for a Google alternative and recently discoverd them on pons.com and am very happy with the results which are often DE <-> EN.
3. 213.▲
   by mehdix 7y ago

   Thanks to Soli now it can track your moves even if you cover the screen and camera.
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   by mehdix 7y ago

   I go everything working under Arch except the sd card reader.
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   by mehdix 7y ago

   One can see the world more realistically without being depressed. Depression IMHO isn't necessarily a byproduct of a pessimistic worldview. If anything, nihilism (if we consider it a pessimistic worldview) had helped me to be more real
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   by mehdix 7y ago

   I agree that the distinction is not so clear; contrary to my statement. However, I think the distinction gets clearer over time. Nowadays, I try to prioratize agenda-free software over agenda-driven ones as much as possible.
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   by mehdix 7y ago

   > we don’t have a marketing department or a management team of people who decide on a feature that is then pushed down to the users, as has been happening with RealPlayer and BS.Player. So, when we add a feature it’s because people actua
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   by mehdix 7y ago

   This is a common observation in Iran, specially regarding governmental activities. The whole country is littered with ads and propaganda.
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   by mehdix 7y ago

   After switching to Archlinux and putting Windows 10 in a Qemu VM my life got way easier. One is driven by the corporation behind it to form and change user behaviour in order to make more money, and the other is made by like-minded hackers.
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    Assuming that this is a Cuba, Iran or Syria problem is misleading, even though it renders most of things that I've made in my free time useless. Having free access to open source code is important. As a developer I'd try to self-h
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    Is there any business out there that does not use email?
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    > companies' tradition of rewarding management incompetence over technical competence I witnessed this and moved out of the large rich corporate to a small startup to keep my sanity.
13. 223.▲
    by mehdix 7y ago

    Cheapest VM on Hetzner has 20TB monthly traffic and costs only 2.9 euro.
14. 224.▲
    by mehdix 7y ago

    Does it mean that renewal prices for currently owned .org domains will sky-rocket?
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    Thanks for quoting Vaclav Havel. That was exactly what I was looking for. My father was a revolutionist. The amount of harm and distress it caused to him and his children is beyond imagination. It damaged us beyond repair. That's somet
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    Crushing a nation under brutal sanctions isn't a legitimate tool to move one's agenda forward.
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    > How could you possibly expect to control people saying things about your blog on a remote webserver? You're right. My point would make sense only in case of an opt-in solution.
18. 228.▲
    by mehdix 7y ago

    How one would actually pay their server bills with data except by selling that to third parties [replace with your favorite agency]?
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    You're right. However, it only enables the original authors to edit their comments. A moderation is about a third party being able to "moderate" the posts.
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    A true decentralized solution would have no moderation, no edit, no deletion. It would be basically a 4chan on every single page.
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    I stopped using it as I moved to Firefox a year ago. More important, they didn't provide a link to download my data at least in that time.
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    The technical problem here is way easier to solve than the social one. You'd want to avoid having hatespeech or some attack being planned on URLs of your blog. This is by definition a tricky problem. Should moderation follow us to the
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    These are the highlights IMO: > Avoiding monoculture preserves the motivation for consensus-based standards processes rather than single-party control > there shouldn't be a "LLVM libc", or any one library implementat
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    I'd guess FB is also targeting micropayments. They are already ubiquitous on many websites so why not let their users pay for content with fbcoins? It's 2019 and micropayment is still an unsolved problem.
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    Not directly related but here is my story. Some years ago I was still a student in Iran. I was watching a satellite tv show as an Australian military officer appeared on screen and looked into our eyes and in an intimidating way told in Per
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    I use WhatsApp for one single reason: it is not yet blocked in Iran so I can talk to my loved ones. Signal and Telegram for the rest.
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    by mehdix 7y ago

    I remember when I read that article. It was a great idea. When they sold WhatsApp to Facebook however, I realized that this is potentially the fate of any for-profit business.
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    by mehdix 8y ago

    Open source has won the software, however it mostly runs on closed-source and proprietary hardware. Perhaps open hardware is the ultimate answer.
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    by mehdix 8y ago

    It's now close to one year that I have completely switched back to Firefox. For performance reasons and also fear. Fear of Google having full control over browser market and pushing forward their own agenda. Their revenue is mostly ad-
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    by mehdix 8y ago

    It made me laugh out loud in the office!