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by pityJuke 3y ago
I'll always be skeptical of the claims. Much less of a trust but verify, but a "you have to verify every little thing" [1]. The analogy that came to my head is how Elon always says self-driving is coming right around the corn
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by pityJuke 3y ago
> a bug related to cookies You're probably talking about this HN comment [1], but he was typing in the command wrong, and thus not querying it without a User-Agent (important, as Twitter has known different behaviour with different
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by pityJuke 3y ago
Could this be explained by the UA derived redirect behaviour described in this other comment on the thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130982
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by pityJuke 3y ago
They do at least credit HN. > The Post’s analysis found that links to most other sites were unaffected — including those to The Washington Post, Fox News and social media services such as Mastodon and YouTube — with the shortened links b
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by pityJuke 3y ago
Wonderful, thanks!
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by pityJuke 3y ago
You're right, woops. Memory is a fickle mistress.
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by pityJuke 3y ago
Completely unrelated to the parent topic: oh my god, they added warning signs on top of 11"8+8, and people are still messing up? EDIT: Nope, my memory is bad, the "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" sign was always there.
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by pityJuke 3y ago
Is there a way to get an RSS feed for just "The Signpost"? Really interesting read.
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by pityJuke 3y ago
> It seems to have enough people that it has some legs. My view too. Not the best service ever offered, but allows me to continue distancing myself from Twitter. Would I much prefer it if Twitter was a public company and/or ran by a
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by pityJuke 3y ago
As Nilay Patel from the Verge put it [1] >Your regular reminder that the biggest threat to free speech is the government. > Complaining about social platforms moderating content according to their whims is just how politicians distrac
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by pityJuke 3y ago
That's absolutely fair. Would love to see someone try to empirically prove what these defaults are, but I imagine this is hard. If this already exists, someone please link it!
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by pityJuke 3y ago
> They continue to push so much coombait on IG. Personal experience, is that this is extremely user dependent (it is a fair argument that 0 is the correct number of these accounts to ever see). Much like TikTok [1], Instagram zones in on
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by pityJuke 3y ago
They have made a concerted effort to build up the groundwork - UI elements that make no sense if you aren't federating and the sign-up prompt explictly mentioning Mastodon. Hell, you've got engineers and management over there stil
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by pityJuke 3y ago
So my option is to choose Elon's right wing echo chamber? (Of course, one doesn't have to pick Threads - the ultimate outcome on Twitter's traffic is the same.) The Blue echo-chamber* is so, so much worse. * Because Elon has
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by pityJuke 3y ago
> The “town square” analogy for social media is another one of those crap ones that somehow got traction. No one actually wants a town square. They want a cafe at the edge of the town square where they can chat to their mates and watch t
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I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience(internettalk.substack.com)
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by pityJuke 3y ago
The legitimate ones should probably be more mad about FOSTA-SESTA, and the fact that it killed places such as Craigslist. The ones that spam feeds can go away, as far as I'm concerned. But trust me, it isn't like Instagram isn&#x2
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by pityJuke 3y ago
The standard is that 3rd party apps must be in the format: "X for reddit". So, Reddit Sync became Sync for reddit, and Reddit News became Relay for reddit.
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by pityJuke 3y ago
> then not enforce any trademarks (assuming that was what the deal was for) I don't think that's true - "Reddit is Fun" rebranded to "rif is fun for reddit".
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by pityJuke 3y ago
> Shu also tells me that RIF was paying a “sizable revenue share” to Reddit beginning in 2012, which was during Yishan Wong’s tenure as CEO. Shu says he says initiated the talks with Reddit to create the agreement, which allowed for the
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by pityJuke 3y ago
Here is a GH repo about two (now patched) MW2 exploits: https://github.com/momo5502/cod-exploits .
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by pityJuke 3y ago
Community servers are a built in feature to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, accessible for regular users via the main menu. Many of the professional scene exclusively use them (via MM services like FACEIT, and training servers like Brutal
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by pityJuke 3y ago
I love CS:GO, but the Source engine has been a leaky faucet of critical bugs, and the developers haven't taken them seriously enough over the years. The disclosure timeline in this blog post seems to be the norm for them. For this tran
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by pityJuke 3y ago
> However, I feel like this will be a net negative for humankind. The sinking feeling hit me too. I'm well aware of how my usage of computers and technology, despite how well they've served me professionally, have absolutely c
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by pityJuke 3y ago
> Also, twitter shows the comments from "verified" handles on the top of other comments. This is the exact main problem with paid Verification. Blue tweets surface to the top, disproportionate to the attention they actually rec
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by pityJuke 4y ago
There used to be a low violence mode where players didn't die, they surrendered.
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by pityJuke 4y ago
Oh, the Bing button does have an opt-out. It's a Registry Option or a Group Policy option (or create a custom shortcut with some launch argument). Because of course they have to make it as annoying as possible, and impossible for a tra
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by pityJuke 4y ago
a) Apple TV is not necessarily a service I use. Neither is Apple News. b) Why does the ads being first-party suddenly make it more acceptable? Ads are ads, and I don't want them on my device, even if they are ads for my computer manufa
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by pityJuke 4y ago
Wow, this project progressed quickly. In 5 months it convinced pandas and SciPy to convert? Impressive!
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by pityJuke 4y ago
Interesting, the status page blocks Mullvad (Edge reports: It looks like api.twitterstat.us closed the connection). Twitter itself works fine. Doesn't seem to be an Atlassian thing, given that Dropbox's status page works fine.

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