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by pferde 7y ago
Sure, I fully agree here, in general IM can be useful, if used correctly. We were, however, discussing a particular scenario where the choice is between e-mail or waiting for both parties being free for a phone/video call.
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by pferde 7y ago
If I send them an e-mail, I can drop the topic from my head, because I dumped all the relevant context into that e-mail, and am done with it for the time being. I can focus on my other work while waiting for them to reply, which can be 10 m
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by pferde 7y ago
You're completely correct. Epic store is just a bare-bones program, it lacks features which we consider completely basic and natural in modern online marketplaces, such as a shopping cart. Yes, you have to buy and pay for games one by
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by pferde 7y ago
Any sport ("e-" or not), playing professionally on a high level, will put immense strain on your body and mind. Pick your poison.
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by pferde 7y ago
I fully agree with you, but thought that the words "out of Syria" are not really reflecting reality. According to Wikipedia[1], only about a third of the migrants originated in Syria. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by pferde 7y ago
You are right, it would probably be a long shot. I am basing this on some assumptions, such as that the truncation happens after Gmail's content sanitizing has already happened, not before. But even omitting the security aspect, such r
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by pferde 7y ago
Is it still a clickbait if it's true?
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by pferde 7y ago
Not if the bug happens only when the truncation happens at the "right" place. As far as we know, no other e-mail client truncates e-mails exactly like Gmail.
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by pferde 7y ago
The thougts on this article should not be about necessity of big e-mail messages, but rather on the heavy-handed and flat-out broken way Gmail truncates the messages. I mean, really, cutting right through HTML structure? That's just on
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by pferde 7y ago
Big media has always had a lot of power to influence election. This is mostly about FB being the new kid on this block, and traditional big media not liking it, and firing at FB from all barrels. I do not like Facebook at all, but I can rec
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by pferde 7y ago
> Humans are actually very adaptable to all sorts of climates. They've lived in the arctic and in the Saharah. Lived? Yes. Thrived? Not so much.
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by pferde 7y ago
I have utmost respect for anyone who can safely and responsibly drive a huge vehicle full of people, day in and day out, on cramped city streets with precision down to centimeters on some complicated turns and crossroads. If anything, good
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by pferde 7y ago
Where in my comment did you see any opinion being expressed? I merely described something that I encountered many, many times. You do not have to believe me, that is up to you. Not everything is an adversarial thing about two opposing group
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by pferde 7y ago
But the two MS Office versions both have a Microsoft logo on them. People will grumble, but get used to the new version, whereas if you give them something with a different logo, they will scream bloody murder and demand that you get rid of
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by pferde 7y ago
This exact mindset of "here's a feature, I'm sure nobody out there on the Internet would use it maliciously" is what brought us several decades of Microsoft software vulnerabilities.
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by pferde 7y ago
My take on it is that the real problem is email software not making it clear-as-day to the user that the message they are about to open is in fact a webpage, and that they will be actively connecting to the World Wide Web to load it, and po
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by pferde 7y ago
Defining a unit of weight in terms of a unit of time and a unit of length. Explain that to your grandma! :)
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by pferde 7y ago
Yes, the Internet has made spreading fake news easier, but let me reiterate my argument - the Internet has made communication as a whole easier, so it's only natural that fake news spreads easier. However, that is not the fault of an
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by pferde 7y ago
Any communication platform that is easy to use and easy to reach people on, and will therefore be popular, is great channel of dissemination of fake news. Well, guess what, it is also a great channel for communicating nonfake news, and talk
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by pferde 7y ago
Looks like Arthur C. Clarke guessed correctly in his sci-fi novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fall_of_Moondust , where a moonquake causes problems to a "sand-cruiser" full of tourists.
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by pferde 7y ago
I wonder if/when a C or C++ bindings to this library will be made. It would be nice to have some alternative to GpgME.
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by pferde 7y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765074 for a bit more context from author of Wireguard.
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by pferde 7y ago
I said that two or three times at work just today, where something technically trivial (set a Linux sysctl tunable or adjust some application parameter) would be at the end of a long bureaucratic adventure and difficult convincing of people
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by pferde 7y ago
If that 2-5 second animated sequence is smack dab in the middle of an article I'm trying to read, because the author is trying to be "cool" and "in with the internets" by including some popular animated meme macro?
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by pferde 7y ago
Sadly, in this day and age, a good, usable search engine that does not enclose you into your own bubble is magic.
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by pferde 7y ago
Actually, being able (or not) to plonk a user on your own, instead of relying on moderators, is a night-and-day difference in experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet)
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by pferde 7y ago
Have you tried just starting threads on what interests you? Just start talking, the people you are interested in might pop up, and a group might eventually self-select. I've actually never been on reddit, but that's how it has wor
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by pferde 7y ago
It's not about what it's supposed to do. Any time spent among people and communicating with them affects your interpersonal skills, whether it's work, family outings or kindergarten. And human beings have thousands of years o
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by pferde 8y ago
Inefficient as it may be, it is something I simply need for my use case - connecting home from a certain network which only allows outgoing connections on a handful of TCP ports.
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by pferde 8y ago
While like Wireguard a lot, it won't displace Openvpn completely, for the simple reason that it only works over UDP, and cannot work over TCP, unlike Openvpn.

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