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by ploum 4y ago
Corrected. It was a youtube frontend I use to make youtube lighter and less invasive.
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by ploum 4y ago
I was completely astonished that this submission as nearly as much vote in a few hours than another, a lot more interesting, about trying to go to disney world without being spied. It took me a while to remember that, despite its very light
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by ploum 4y ago
I feel that the most successful con the spamming industry managed to do was to rename themselves "marketing email" or "mailing". Could we just go back to "spam" which it is and has always be.
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by ploum 4y ago
so you mean that marketing mailing is either a nuisance (for tech-savy people) or an abuse (of the others) ?
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by ploum 4y ago
Bill Hicks nailed it… https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0 What I find still completely baffling about marketers is that not only they have no shame, but they still seems proud of it to the point on posting on
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by ploum 4y ago
I feel you are not really understanding the point privacy advocates are trying to make. Yes, you feel that you benefit from less privacy now in the current context. Using a burner phone only when something should be really hidden is like
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by ploum 4y ago
Maybe it’s more about the client. Toot is a good CLI client. I may add mastodon support into offpunk someday.
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by ploum 4y ago
One of the achievement I’m the proudest about Offpunk is being able to blur the line between web and gemini and do what you explain on the web. With more than one year of full time browsing using offpunk, my cache is around 15Go, which is n
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by ploum 4y ago
What I do expect is those chat starting leaking private data that started slipping into their training. Remember that Google is training its "reply suggestion" AI on all of your emails. https://ploum.net/2023-02-15
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by ploum 4y ago
In all honesty, this is exactly what the Gemini network feels like, especially with capsules like Antenna, Midnight.pub and probably others. Let me advertise my own CLI browsers which will turn the whole web, including pictures, into a text
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by ploum 4y ago
Could we imagine that those notes were taken on a different material which was thin enough to let some trace on the book? I know they didn’t had paper but maybe they had some kind of tissue on which they could clean their stylus, doodling i
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by ploum 4y ago
So you need to setup a bank that both the sender and the buyer will use. That’s one order of magnitude harder to do right.
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by ploum 4y ago
We had a similar story in Belgium. Politicians decided that houses could now safely be built in flood zones because "we had no major flood for the last 20-40 years". (and it could safely be assumed that at least some of them benef
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by ploum 4y ago
Do you realize how far we have come if not wanting to install an app that track your movements/voices/actions on your phone and not wanting pictures of your children in shady databases is seen as "dysfunctional quirk" ?
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by ploum 4y ago
The "don’t go" is also very telling because it might not always be possible. What if those principles are extended to, say, public transports? Public services? Shops? Stadium?
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by ploum 4y ago
The point is not to be paranoid about what will happen if data leak, the point is to stick to "I don’t want my data shared without my consent" and see what happens. We badly need more experiment like those because this tell a lot
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by ploum 4y ago
Could somebody explains or points out a ressource explaining how GNU Taler solves the double-spending problem ? Or what the design is ? In the traditional model (banks/credit cards), you simply sign a transaction that the receiver bank
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by ploum 4y ago
I was also confused by this. It’s literally writing the email in a text editor. But this probably means that the poster has no knowledge of what the CSV format is. (which is sad to see that we created a system in which someone intelligent a
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by ploum 4y ago
Chris DiBona is quite an Open Source old-fart. Authored the book "Open Source: voice from the revolution" around 2000 and managed lot of open source program at Google (Summer of Code?). So, yeah, he fits into "open source lea
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by ploum 4y ago
Same here. That’s how I follow HN. Would definitely follow paperlist if there was a RSS feed.
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by ploum 4y ago
"This video has been removed because of youtube policies". This is the exact same thing: shitification. Make a cool product at a loss then make it shitier to use to bring as much money as you can before enough users exit to break
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by ploum 4y ago
I already do.
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by ploum 4y ago
They went completely crap on every single aspect. See the source code of a page that call itself "minimalist". Then see their business model… (I wrote about it 6 years ago: https://ploum.net/an-open-pay-wall-has-me
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by ploum 4y ago
There are tools to help you with that. Like https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
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by ploum 4y ago
But then some people are selling BTC against tether. And, at some point, want to exchange tether with USD. So I understand that Tether is shit if it’s true but it has nothing to do with bitcoin.
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by ploum 4y ago
how?
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by ploum 4y ago
So the central argument is that whales manipulate the price by buying bitcoins once the price is low. Isn’t that the definition of a market? Could you imagine an alternative where this does not happen?
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by ploum 4y ago
Install only one extension: https://farside.link/ - https://sr.ht/~benbusby/farside/ Enjoy distraction-free, spyware-free and CPU-friendly Youtube, Twitter, Medium, Reddit and Imgur Warning: like
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by ploum 4y ago
Exactly my reaction. The article made me think of the Gemini/Gopher/Smolnet space I like so much as a counter-culture. But then it defines "counter-culture" has having a significant impact. This is a bit of a paradox to
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by ploum 4y ago
Yep. But it was told otherwise. Most that a manager should be a salesman. You should always sell the work of your team (to other team, to upper management). Inside my team, I should put more pressure on the underperformers. For him, it was

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