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by noirscape 4y ago
I do agree with you completely there, it's just that HN doesn't tend to take well to pointing out that particular stripe of awfulness and that makes it a non-starter as a reason. He's definitely a case where I would broadly r
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by noirscape 4y ago
I would advise against soapbox actually. The developer got kicked off the Pleroma project after badgering other maintainers[1] (which he admits to doing) for reverting a technical decision he forced through after it was deemed to be not ver
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by noirscape 4y ago
Very little actually. Depending on how the shutdown works in practice, the impact is basically nothing. Other instances just stop receiving updates from the instance, which just results in the users in the closed instance being cached artif
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by noirscape 4y ago
There are plenty of other choices. Pleroma[1] is probably the biggest competitor and is lightweight enough that you can deploy it on a raspberry pi. It's written in Elixir which takes a bit to set up, but the devs offer OTP releases th
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by noirscape 4y ago
It's mostly large if you make it large. I run a single-user Pleroma instance, my fediverse network is relatively small and for the most part I can keep my timeline clean purely by reaction. Even having around 20 users or so is still re
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by noirscape 4y ago
Aw man. That sucks but it's totally understandable. Mastodon.technology was the first instance I ever joined back when someone told me what the fediverse was. I eventually left because I wanted to selfhost, but the general warm recepti
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by noirscape 4y ago
Gaining arbitrary code execution. Modern game consoles (but lots of other devices, including Apple's iOS, which used to have one of the most restrictive environments to develop applications on - it's slightly better these day - as
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by noirscape 4y ago
I'd rather recommend something like noip's free tier over Freenom btw. They're an incredibly skeezy company and if memory serves me right actually are one of the extremely few ccTLD registrars to get fined for mistreating c
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by noirscape 4y ago
Wikipedia "works" as a non-profit but they are also 100% the Kings of deceptive marketing to get way more funding than they need to operate and blow most of it on stuff unrelated to Wikipedia or to an ever-growing endowment that s
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by noirscape 4y ago
> I know for a fact that this isn’t true. Some Australian companies that used a VPN service that had a Russian exit node got hit with termination notices. There were a couple of reports from people in the UK and the US as well with simil
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by noirscape 4y ago
The problem isn't the decision itself. The problem is all the context surrounding it. Namecheap is a Californian company with it's support staff outsourced to Ukraine. Cutting off Russia on it's own already subjects a bunch o
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by noirscape 4y ago
Really glad I moved my domains to Porkbun recently. This is Namecheaps second blunder this year in terms of being a reliable service provider. First engaging in politically cheap racial discrimination (their ban on Russia seemingly having h
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by noirscape 4y ago
DESCRIBE TABLE is a command that pretty much does exactly this (explain what a table contains) and it's a part of MySQL. If you use PostgreSQL then you can use \d instead. I'm sure the other RDBMSes have their own equivalent (exce
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by noirscape 4y ago
You can like, just normalize the input on the backend when scanning for spam. Every spamfilter I've ever used that's worth a damn does that. Sometimes you get slightly odd syntax (I once configured one that replaces A with a 4 so
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by noirscape 5y ago
The person in question here probably didn't get banned for being a sex worker. The actual reason is fairly easily understood by examining the second tweet of the original chain. She tried to order DoorDash for someone in LA that she wa
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by noirscape 5y ago
It depends (as with everything) on your goal and purpose. Static sites have their uses (and there's a surprising amount of people who do run more complex blogs as static sites, me included), but they're a very different design goa
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by noirscape 6y ago
> As mentioned before I don't want him in the driving seat of FSF, but at the same time I don't think he should be cancelled from the Internet. I think this is the only part of the reply worth focusing on; we're in agreeme
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by noirscape 6y ago
> For one he managed to keep the whole GNU project true to its values by being someone people listen on the subject. How many other people do you know you can guarantee not to "monetize" and sell out such a huge project to a hi
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by noirscape 6y ago
What did he do in the past 15 years outside of starting petty feuds that nobody cares about (the Linux name debacle) and being a horrible public speaker (there's heaps of stories of him being a dickhead to convention organizers, othe
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by noirscape 7y ago
I tried to switch over to DDG 6 months ago but wound up reverting to Google. I sometimes end up browsing fora with poor search tools, and that is commonly when I use a search engine (that or if I'm fact checking stuff, but that's
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by noirscape 7y ago
Difference in approach to libraries and the standard library. NPM/Node is very much a "we only provide the bare minimum for a language, everything else must be implemented on your own." The JavaScript stdlib is very small (no
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by noirscape 7y ago
Honestly, I was suprised to learn he still used to be around there up until recently. Kinda undermines the entire heroic "Stallman left CSAIL to start GNU" story that is often cited as the origin point for GNU.
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by noirscape 7y ago
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun... https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_Janua... Stallman has (several) pages on his website where he shares his poli
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by noirscape 7y ago
It's _meant_ to do that, but from personal experience (and one that from what I've seen others share), keeping old Reddit enabled is extremely finnicky (apparently it's an issue with the way their server handles the old/
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by noirscape 7y ago
Whilst it's not an endorsement to do any of this, from experience, they only take action if another user reports you or if you start spamming their servers with requests.
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by noirscape 7y ago
Ah, that is good to see then! (sorry it took me a bit to respond, I'm not on HN all that often.)
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by noirscape 7y ago
It's a decent client, but be aware that you might want to increase the file descriptor limit, the client at the moment doesn't properly close files from my experience in using it to upload a fairly large folder structure. A simple
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by noirscape 8y ago
I miss Apples native RSS readers (Safari and Mail used to have native readers, with Mail being configurable to send you RSS feeds to your inbox). Sadly they dropped them with Lion if I'm not mistaken. RSS is/was nice to be able to