nehal3m

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   by nehal3m 1y ago

   I'm not usually one to respond with snark, but I'm sorry, your comment reads like what I imagine a stroke feels like. Can you please rephrase?
2. 212.▲
   by nehal3m 1y ago

   You’re assuming users affected by this bug have control over the VM running their mail server. I won’t argue that it can’t be done, but it’s probably harder than we think.
3. 213.▲
   by nehal3m 1y ago

   I explicitly do not, which is why my first response spells out that it’s hard to reproduce a bug when all your data is gone. If it is the case that the bug can be reproduced without user data (as suggested by the person I responded to, not
4. 214.▲
   by nehal3m 1y ago

   Then the developers can do it
5. 215.▲
   by nehal3m 1y ago

   Hard to do when all your data is chilling in oblivion.
6. 216.▲
   by nehal3m 1y ago

   The last giant impactor so far.
7. 217.▲
   by nehal3m 1y ago

   Microsoft Garage has a tool like this called Mouse Without Borders. I used it 10 years ago, not sure what the current status and platform compatibility is today: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.asp
8. 218.▲
   by nehal3m 1y ago

   It’s probably stretching the meaning of the word, I think obtrusive would fit better.
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   by nehal3m 1y ago

   In the case of advertising that is the million dollar question. Determining the relationship between ad spend and revenue is next to impossible, whatever bullshit ad companies feed you to get you to spend more on ads.
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    by nehal3m 1y ago

    This reeks of “communism is when capitalism” to me, because: >A publicly run search engine would not have those incentives and would be at if anything graver risk of a "tragedy of the commons" type scenario where the engine is
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    by nehal3m 1y ago

    That would remove all interpretability as a side effect, wouldn't it? I'm not religious either, but I imagine that would make all sorts of literal claims problematic as measured against modern ethics, and make it impossible for co
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    by nehal3m 1y ago

    I think you're overestimating the amount of stations we'll need (or maybe I'm underestimating it, let's find out). People tend to carry over habits from fossil fuel vehicles to electric ones, but there's a significa
13. 223.▲
    by nehal3m 1y ago

    That's just a loophole to justify exploiting loopholes.
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    by nehal3m 1y ago

    I agree with you, yeah. Burned and buried would be his final form then, is what I was getting at. Sorry for not communicating that clearly.
15. 225.▲
    by nehal3m 1y ago

    I don't think this even is their final form...
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    by nehal3m 1y ago

    I’m always tempted by the idea. I like the focus on attention span, compartmentalizing functionality (a phone is just a phone, not a notebook, camera, movie theater and encyclopedia) and less tracking by third parties. The thing is modern s
17. 227.▲
    by nehal3m 1y ago

    Huh, I thought that AI overview feature is powered by Gemini.
18. 228.▲
    by nehal3m 1y ago

    Sure, but don't you lose the app ecosystem then?
19. 229.▲
    by nehal3m 1y ago

    > However, unless you can align the needs of users with the revenue goals of the company I’m reading this as: The corporate internet is unable to fulfill the actual social needs of its users. >Most people (me included) have very littl
20. 230.▲
    by nehal3m 1y ago

    Thanks for the genuinely useful tip. I didn’t know that was a thing, but I can’t test it since I deleted my account almost a decade ago. I’m tired of adversarially wrestling usefulness out of a trillion dollar company.
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    by nehal3m 1y ago

    Remember when the feed was just a reverse chronological list of stuff you told Facebook you wanted to see? That was the peak. Once they started engagement farming using recommendation algorithms the site lost all of its appeal.
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    by nehal3m 1y ago

    How would you know if you don’t speak the language?
23. 233.▲
    by nehal3m 1y ago

    “Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.” ― Mark Twain
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    by nehal3m 2y ago

    Of course you're free to discuss. You're belittling the author's expression of grief because their job was 'routine maintenance' of 'some CSS spec (...) which tens of thousands of other people have been doing f
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    by nehal3m 2y ago

    A friend of mine simply forgot the term thirsty and told me he felt the urge to drink. We kept that one too.
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    by nehal3m 2y ago

    Not to disrespect you, but I don't think your opinion on the value of their work is relevant, the author's is.
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    by nehal3m 2y ago

    I disagree. This person apparently had a great time working this job and I imagine it’s difficult to end up with the responsibilities they had without being intrinsically motivated. It’s perfectly alright and valid to be sad about losing th
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    by nehal3m 2y ago

    If you follow Merriam Webster for 'transaction' it absolutely is: "a communicative action or activity involving two parties or things that reciprocally affect or influence each other"
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    by nehal3m 2y ago

    Following your axiom would imply advertisers would need to gain my consent in order to advertise to me. That would be a decent start.
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    by nehal3m 2y ago

    I flail between being in awe of the convenience and possibility modern tech brings and rueing the day the transistor was invented. There was an article posted here called Digital Echoes [0] a few days ago and it describes the sort of murky