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   by nfoz 7y ago

   Sounds like a huge burden on the root nameservers and basically a refutation of the whole merit of DNS right? I mean how can that be feasible. There are ~350 million domains registered so far, of course every one would want to be a TLD in
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   by nfoz 7y ago

   > If it's unlimited we can treat domains more like phone numbers and rely on 'contact book' style systems for personal reference instead of memory. So then we can throw out the DNS and just use IP addresses or some IPFS-es
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   by nfoz 7y ago

   .pics .pictures .photo .photos .photography ICANN jumped the freaking shark and made an irrevocable mess of internet naming.
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   by nfoz 7y ago

   Any recommendations for mind-mapping (or really, just graph-drawing-and-rearranging) software? I'd be interested in that as a tool for organizing and reevaluating thoughts and sorting out patterns, whether it's regarding self-ana
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   by nfoz 7y ago

   Literally, a mansplaining bot. Nice!
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   by nfoz 7y ago

   In many social contexts it would be seen as weird to have changed from the voice's default (perceived) gender. The default is the only thing that matters really.
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   by nfoz 7y ago

   That's nice, I like that. Related, if you want more of a csv-style, see JSONLines. aka "newline-delimited JSON" http://jsonlines.org/
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   by nfoz 7y ago

   HTML5 undeprecated the <b> and <i> tags. https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags And I think the history here is pretty hilarious. - Classic html: <b> and <i> mean bol
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   by nfoz 7y ago

   To find modern dumb TVs, you usually need to look at the "commercial" or "business" lines (sometimes called "digital signage). Companies make them hard to find. I have a 55" 4K LG dumb tv and I'm very hap
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    I'm not the parent, but IMO the end-user should be in control of the computation on a computer... and that concepts of "ownership" don't really apply to data. So when you say "their data", it is very unclear
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    I use the GPL and I long for the day that it is no longer needed -- when we finally abolish copyright. I GPL to help virally encourage an ecosystem of software that will not abuse my freedom via the tyranny of copyright, in the meantime.
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    "Progress" is an opinion/propaganda term -- you use it to paint whatever actually happened in a positive light.
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    I definitely agree that your wording change is a big improvement. Why can't Riot "check my address book to find other Matrix users" without sharing it to their server? Could the client make a one-way hash for each contact an
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    This is a fantastic read. Thank you for investigating this and writing about it in such a clear way.
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    I agree, but even the younger generation of nerds seem to not care as much about privacy issues, Free software, and other social/societal implications of computing, the same way that we used to in the Slashdot era. Seems like a cult
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    The default search engine on Safari was switched to DuckDuckGo, for this reason, wasn't it?
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    > Be aware that the famous "tank man" was not actually run over. I've never heard anyone say that he was.
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    If everyone has a key, it’s not really locked. I guess a key is a legal metaphor and not an actual physical device. Huh.
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    He looked in the window of a car and saw tons of users' personal information -- visible through the window! Any criminal could walk by and copy the info, privately, without anyone knowing. Maybe some criminals already have. I think t
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    To fund them more, so that they have the capacity to handle this type of request?
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    This looks fantastic. Thanks!!
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    Your example (and all the SEML documentation it seems) is missing marked-up text. For example, how would you represent: <p>This is a <b>really cool</b> sentence.</p> Your solution will probably ha
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    Really depends which niche you're in. Matlab for example is also a major player.
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    It's not just about hackers though. The tape over my webcam has been a lifesaver when joining a business conference call using software with aggressive "everyone should be sharing their webcam" defaults. A (male) coworker e
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    Now if I could just get this slider onto every website, and keep it locked at 1993. :)
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    Like it or not: in the era of Unicode, emoji's are plaintext.
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    Cool, looking forward to the "Show HN" for your proposal!
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    by nfoz 7y ago

    Clearly there's some component of UEFI that's in firmware, right? I don't really know all the terminology and such here, so please correct my understanding, but -- even if you don't have a disk, you'll get some UEF
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    by nfoz 8y ago

    Has anything changed? This sort of crass humour is still on TV. Has the percentage of the population that disapproves of this type of humour really changed? Maybe the nature or visibility of "outrage" has changed? even just by
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    by nfoz 8y ago

    > Walk into any coffee shop in America I consider Dunkin Donuts a coffee shop, which drastically changes this picture.