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by pferde 6y ago
This describes also my "journey" within the homepage, to the letter. I see this often on similar small product homepages. Many of them describe the product for someone already familiar with it, and could do with taking a step back
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by pferde 6y ago
Unless the first step in MS Github's downhill journey will be to cut off APIs needed for those exports.
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by pferde 6y ago
Here's an anecdote: sharing a single X11 display on my two-display setup works just fine with Microsoft Teams, I use it almost daily. That Linux MS Teams client can only do read-only sharing (no giving control to remote party) is anoth
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Russia May Have Found a New Way to Censor the Internet(wired.com)
5 points by pferde 6y ago|0 comments
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by pferde 6y ago
Yes, that is true, although it all depends on what content people update, and how well they tag their photos. I can easily imagine a pixelfed instance dedicated to sharing high-quality stock photos, with strict rules about photo quality, an
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by pferde 6y ago
pixelfed.org is another great platform - and it's powered by ActivityPub, so you can host your own and federate it with others.
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by pferde 6y ago
The action desribed in that tweet would be illegal, but is the tweet itself illegal? Why should the tweet be deleted? I'd rather keep it for posterity.
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by pferde 6y ago
Pretty shitty to do this to anyone. The only scenario where firing someone for (legally) using a certain software should be allowed to happen is where it was communicated clearly in advance that using that software is not allowed in that pa
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by pferde 6y ago
In a world where people increasingly share one or two line console text output as screenshots, you are bothered by three extra characters being character spam? :) I see it as a harmless thing.
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by pferde 6y ago
That's something each of us has to determine for themselves. I haven't yet, in my many years of "being on the web" encountered a single website with the truncated password problem described above, so for me, it's a
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by pferde 6y ago
Fair enough, although as someone who uses a 60 character long home wifi password - and have had to type it out manually more than once in the past - I think it's still worth it, because such cases are rare. :)
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by pferde 6y ago
But that's a self-defeating attitude. If you are going to defensively assume that websites are broken in this way, the only logical conclusion is to limit your generated passwords to something ridiculously conservative, like six charac
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by pferde 6y ago
If you are using a password manager, then a (good) longer password is basically extra safety for literally zero extra price, so why not? What does it matter if you are copypasting , or letting the password manager autofill, twelve character
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by pferde 6y ago
Indeed - essentially, a container is a glorified chroot with a few (important) bells and whistles attached to it.
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by pferde 6y ago
A cynicist's take would be that "corporate America", what with its laser-sharp focus on remorselessly exploiting everything and everyone for own profit, is actually very much human, as that is exactly what most humans have do
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by pferde 6y ago
Indeed, Hearts of Iron series are in great part about managing your country's war production and supplies (including getting enough raw materials), setting up what hardware your military units are made up of and making sure they are we
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by pferde 6y ago
I like it. Although it goes against the centuries old "north is up" convention, which will probably mess with many people used to that - me included.
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by pferde 6y ago
That is how it is done in many European countries - elementary school has eight grades (used to be nine a few decades ago in some places), then it's 4-6 years of high school, and then optionally a college.
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by pferde 6y ago
Sure, a library has to handle errors differently than an application using that library. The library should "back off" by aborting anything it is doing and indicating failure without crashing or exiting the process (a return value
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by pferde 6y ago
I prefer it when a program just gives up and crashes when it encounters an unexpected condition, instead of trying to soldier on and later possibly corrupting some data or state I care about, because it was working under incorrect assumptio
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by pferde 6y ago
Alas, there is no misc.comp group. There is a misc.misc group, however, but the bad news again is that comp.comp group does not exist. :)
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by pferde 6y ago
comp.misc is still going strong. It has been "taken over" by people running away from Slashdot when it got "corporatized" some years back, and has some interesting discussions from time to time.
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by pferde 6y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7217 is one way.
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by pferde 6y ago
Yes, any Element user can report abusive or offensive content to admin of the Matrix server they connect to, and admin can remove the content locally and/or block remote Matrix servers from which the content originates. At their discre
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by pferde 6y ago
"Our department is suffering. Badly. So are others. Complaints to upper management appear to go on deaf ears, or with ridiculous responses (like: well we saw one of you on your cellphone so you're not really busy)." "And
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by pferde 6y ago
Good point, I missed the explicit reference to "retail investors". That makes the statement somewhat interesting.
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by pferde 6y ago
In summary, just a vague "we are watching" statement.
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by pferde 6y ago
The "manipulative" here refers to the UI actively or passively lying to you, and slightly nudging you towards doing something you do not want. Ads, or the way ads are presented can be manipulative too - e.g. articles which pose as
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by pferde 6y ago
That's entirely possible. I've seen a React tutorial that shows a simple example HTML snippet, and comments on it with "We’ll get to the funny XML-like tags soon."
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by pferde 6y ago
Not quite. It is not about reducing the program line count, but rather about reducing cognitive load for writing correct code. If you have to specify the initial count, then you cannot introduce an error where setting the initial count is f

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