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by pmlnr 5y ago
> "have it your way" nature of Python TMTOWTDI - There's more than one way to do it - is Perl's motto :) Zen of Python suggests there's just one correct way.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> stronger typing Please, don't. There are wonderful strongly types languages out there, so if one wants or needs a strongly types language, use that, and not Python.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
That is based on yet another shitcoin. IPFS is not.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
When I registered my first domains in Hungary I had to send the registrars a copy of my national ID. Apparently the process was ahead of it's time /s
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by pmlnr 5y ago
... and so they stopped using it. Oh, right. That's never what follows.
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Twitter is testing ads in replies on Android and iOS(twitter.com)
1 points by pmlnr 5y ago|0 comments
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by pmlnr 5y ago
You are intending to solve a people problem with a technical solution. The approach, sadly, never works.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28788821
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Yes. We know. Any ideas how to fix it?
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by pmlnr 5y ago
FB is not in any way a "Family Grocery Store", at maximum a self storage facility with glass walls. For the rest see sibling comment and the wheelchair analogy.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Are you some fb zealot? The API used to provide all these things, when suddenly FB decided people shouldn't have access to their own thing. No wonder they make workarounds, because they HAD that kind of access in the past.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
you mean automating through the api.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
LOL. That's never that easy. "A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy" (PDF): https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisit...
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Apparently you weren't there when FB had APIs, Farmville et al, and got rich on people developing things on their "plarform".
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> Pointing to a provision in its terms of service that purports to bind even former users of Facebook, Facebook also demanded that I never again create a tool that interacts with Facebook or its many other services in any way. The what
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> sufficient controls over privacy to its users He? By how, showing a cookie window in EU and not even respecting the settings in there?
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> People can be more informed Manipulated.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Phones - the old, analogue, direct cable ones - were self-sustaining, and kept running even when there was a power cut in the house.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
You do know the meaning or jokes and/or ironic comments, right?
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by pmlnr 5y ago
But it does. People need to learn to have fallbacks and backups, and the vast majority of them is only willing to learn this the hard way - see backups vs. losing something important.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Have you ever tried to remotely troubleshoot THROUGH another person?!
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of [...] Welcome to the brave new world of troubleshooting. This will seriously bite us one day.
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Social Media is NOT your portfolio(youtube.com)
5 points by pmlnr 5y ago|0 comments
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Do Not. Extend. Gemini. Period(github.com)
19 points by pmlnr 5y ago|2 comments
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Good.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
I ran into one of these many years ago. Reported them as obviously fake, nothing happened.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
It works just fine on tablets, just get the apk through Aurora, apkmirror, or something similar.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> losing control and making himself vulnerable to scams This! Thank you, this was the one thing I was never able to put into words.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> user-hosted instances of the Signal Those are called XMPP or Matrix ;)
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Why would I? The question was: for casual messaging.

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