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by nfoz 12y ago
Do you remember when hand-written HTML was common and encouraged for librarians, teachers, and other public-service workers?
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by nfoz 12y ago
Genuinely curious, what "amazing stuff" have Microsoft and IBM done for the web?
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by nfoz 12y ago
"Moving the web forward" has always been the push of content designers to have more control over what happens on the user's machine; to control the exact display and interaction. Designers always wanted the power of flash --
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by nfoz 12y ago
Alternatively, we could collectively fund the development of high-quality non-profit software. Via taxation or crowdfunding or some other means.
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by nfoz 12y ago
*her skills
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by nfoz 12y ago
I appreciate your comment. I should have been clear to separate my opinion that "availability of rifles on planes make them less safe" away from the argument that "less-safe planes should not be a passenger choice becaus
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by nfoz 12y ago
I agreed with you more before this post. Let's consider the advantages of centralization: (1) A single agency can have within its mandate, expertise, and budget the security apparatus, which requires full-stack authority: airport desi
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by nfoz 12y ago
Why would the airlines have incentive to provide good-quality security? Terrorism events are rare and it seems unlikely that a reasonable amount of security infrastructure that the airline could provide would result in a substantial decrea
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by nfoz 12y ago
"Saving" vs. "Downloading" is not a duality we should entertain either. If it is downloaded, it is likely saved to a permanent storage, and maaaybe some process will eventually delete it. In any case this should not be
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by nfoz 12y ago
This supposed duality is nonsense. A change of cache settings in your browser amounts to the same result. There's no such thing as a "temporary transfer", and I think we should not entertain the notion.
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by nfoz 12y ago
Why is "deep learning" so hype nowadays? They seem like just another AI tool that will be prone to over-fitting datasets and provide an analysis that is difficult to mathematically characterize and understand in a reliable way. N
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by nfoz 12y ago
They don't know what the word "download" means. This statement is nonsense.
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by nfoz 12y ago
The infrastructure for censorship/surveillance is the infrastructure that gives you ad revenue. This train can't be stopped.
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by nfoz 12y ago
You can't like a video on Youtube without being logged into a Youtube/Google+ account.
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by nfoz 12y ago
That's almost happened to me by following google maps too closely. Always be aware.
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by nfoz 12y ago
> Please be advised there was an intermittent technical issue with one server during the closing minutes of a few auctions on Saturday, August 2nd. You were involved in one of these auctions, > As a result, in fairness to any b
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by nfoz 12y ago
For what it's worth, I was browsing with Iceweasel on Debian-stable.
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by nfoz 12y ago
> Your browser doesn't support all of the features required for this demo. Please consider using the latest version of Chrome. I guess "today's web" is not an Open web, and has a single-point-of-failure hard-dependenc
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by nfoz 12y ago
Publications that use "pay-wall" websites. It's antagonistic to the type of web I want to support. I eagerly contribute to online publications that use other types of business-models: wikipedia, democracynow, TVO, individual
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by nfoz 12y ago
Why don't experts write articles? Why do I see "my first experience with x" so much more frequently than "I've written large complicated systems in x, here's how I use it"? I'm in no way criticizin
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by nfoz 12y ago
> What if the bots weren't bots and were actually people. Just every single person would see every user with a randomized user name and no special 'user layout', and no identifying profile information. So, the early Intern
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by nfoz 12y ago
I appreciated the comment because I do not want to bother navigating to a paywall'd page. And I'd be happy if these publications didn't stay in business.
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by nfoz 12y ago
The will of industry has such a strong influence on political outcomes that it seems rational (though perhaps unfortunate) for people to oppose big projects as early as possible.
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by nfoz 12y ago
This looks fantastic; self-hosted email is too hard. Can't wait to try it...
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by nfoz 12y ago
Why?
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by nfoz 12y ago
I don't know, I strongly prefer the explicit "IMO" where correct. Most people do mix up, in their writing, statements of opinion and statements of fact. It's really annoying to leave the burden on the reader to figur
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by nfoz 12y ago
That's "easy to share" which is a much greater hurdle than "publicly accessible". I want strangers to be able to use my wifi in the middle of the night from outside my home. I want devices to connect without any q
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by nfoz 12y ago
I find it extremely difficult to avoid interacting with Google products: - a LOT of the web employs google analytics to track you - very many of my contacts use Gmail, so perhaps the majority of my email ends up on their servers - Friend
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by nfoz 12y ago
I think the technology confuses two things: 1. Encrypted traffic between device and wireless hotspot 2. Restricted access to the wireless hotspot (you need a password or it won't give you service) I want to allow anonymous access, but
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by nfoz 12y ago
Many of the first release of Apple Macbooks had a "random shutdown syndrome" problem with their heatsinks. The laptop would randomly hard-shutdown and then be unable to turn back on for some time. This is widely documented. I wa

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