owlbynight

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by owlbynight 5y ago
Of course I'm not okay with that, but I'm also not disillusioned about my lack of control over the technology in which I've chosen to build my life around. We parasites can't complain really complain that our hosts smell
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by owlbynight 5y ago
Has this person been in a coma? If I utilize a free service on the Internet, I'm trading for some kind of convenience with the knowledge that I am in some way being boned in the backend by teams of people, all of whom are likely more c
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by owlbynight 5y ago
Just kill me or give me cooler technology. Until then, this is all a pointless exercise.
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by owlbynight 5y ago
The US is going to end up tracking and assassinating these people, if we're not already. Messing with the old money usually doesn't turn out well for whoever's doing it.
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by owlbynight 5y ago
This looks amazing, thank you.
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by owlbynight 5y ago
Yeah, I miss it a lot.
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by owlbynight 5y ago
When I initially signed up for Notion, I did so thinking the API was already usable. It was used as a selling point for their premium service even though it wasn't implemented. This was a year and a half ago or so. I felt pretty burned
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by owlbynight 5y ago
Not how the Internet works
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by owlbynight 6y ago
I have severe agoraphobia, but I still have empathy, so it still sucks. This should be my time to shine but my friends are sad.
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by owlbynight 6y ago
When they decide it's in their best interest to do so. Perhaps lead a vocal protest against Facebook, spread it far enough, and if it gains enough traction maybe Facebook themselves will do it. They could do it at any point and be well
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by owlbynight 6y ago
I've been on the Internet since before it had pictures. Hosts have always had this power. It's not new. It's not free speech. You pay for a service, you adhere to their rules. You break their rules, you get booted. This argum
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by owlbynight 6y ago
Our political representatives are corrupt and generally represent whomever gives them the most money, namely large corporations. We, the people, are represented through our wallets now by the corporations that control our politicians becau
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by owlbynight 6y ago
There are literally dozens of posts
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by owlbynight 6y ago
It's like you're speaking directly to me. The only thing I ever use Firebase for is auth and it's cumbersome and annoying. I'm excited to try this. Thank you for having a sensible free tier. I'm a devops/suppor
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by owlbynight 6y ago
This is Orwellian bullshit. And I'll take it because I think the alternative is leading to a few greedy assholes using analytical data to successfully weaponize millions upon millions of uninformed people against logic and common sense
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by owlbynight 6y ago
I've been using this in conjunction with Svelte (replacing global.css) to make my life a lot easier. Most of the stuff I make is tooling for personal use or for a small team, so it's kind of perfect. I can bring simple apps up ver
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by owlbynight 6y ago
Yeah, this.
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by owlbynight 6y ago
Do you trust Amazon to remove fake reviews?
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by owlbynight 6y ago
Do you think that one person should be able to vote for a president 100 times by impersonating 99 other people? Perhaps if there was someone on the other side doing the same for the other party's candidate, we can find balance? What is
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by owlbynight 6y ago
When you order a product on Amazon that immediately breaks and then you find out that of its 10000 reviews, 9750 of them were fake, I commend your ability to put your personal feelings aside in lieu of the greater fight for free speech.
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by owlbynight 6y ago
What are your opinions of fake Yelp! or Amazon reviews being removed?
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by owlbynight 6y ago
You happen across a skyscraper with a politically charged message on its façade that you disagree with. You can either: A) Paint over it. B) Surround the entire space around the message with hundreds of other messages -- lies -- in the same
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by owlbynight 6y ago
I don't think people are too stupid to discern the truth. I think a lot of people are too overwhelmed by the minutia of navigating their own stressful lives to handle a deluge of lies designed by expert propagandists to be easier and m
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by owlbynight 6y ago
How do we know it's harmless for youth and young adults? You know what you've seen. Again, this is a novel virus. It's new. It could be setting up shop in your brain, heart, kidney, liver, semen -- wherever. It could be invis
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by owlbynight 6y ago
I don't believe that censorship from a 10,000 foot view is a binary state. You're thinking that I support redaction, I suspect; probably because it's hard to represent my beliefs in a few lines of text. My view is that attemp
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by owlbynight 6y ago
I was on the early Internet. I miss it greatly, but also, it was the wild west, which was awesome when I was essentially living in the woods secluded from the outside world. The freedom was intoxicating. It ended up shaping my entire life.
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by owlbynight 6y ago
But how do you take the power back? How do you yell shark and get people to listen when they've been desensitized by an ocean full of fake sharks?
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by owlbynight 6y ago
Is this solution possible with misinformation campaigns being waged against it from its inception? I'm not disagreeing with you on an ideological level, but this solution is pie in the sky. How do you propose this solution be enacted w
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by owlbynight 6y ago
COVID-19 is a novel virus. All information is misinformation until it isn't. I could say that the reason that some people are asymptomatic is that the virus is lying dormant in them like herpes. Can anyone credibly refute that? Logic w
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by owlbynight 6y ago
The idea of an arbiter of what is and isn't free speech is deeply repulsive to me. So is cough medicine. So is chemotherapy. I can't see every cell of the cancer but collectively, there's enough of it visible to shake me. Do

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