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541.
by renaudg 10y ago
> we know they sell the data Sounds a lot like "we know global warming is fake" and "we know vaccines are evil" to me.
542.
by renaudg 10y ago
This sounds like the most likely reason, rather than the "Microsoft is a FB investor" conspiracy BS. Occam's razor, people.
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by renaudg 10y ago
Technically true, but blocking all Facebook domains breaks comments on many sites and the login feature on a few crucial ones too. <sarcasm>It also 100% breaks your social life, but maybe there's little of that left to disrupt an
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by renaudg 10y ago
Internet.org is an umbrella for several different projects, the one you're referring to that raises net neutrality questions is "Free Basics". But there's also that : https://info.internet.org/en/sto
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by renaudg 10y ago
If providing a free of charge platform for humans to communicate, organize, build bridges, nurture their close social connections AND their loose ones especially (which used to be much more difficult, you wouldn't phone everyone daily)
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by renaudg 10y ago
> Then I go on into long explanation how people don't go to facebook to buy products but to watch silly cat movies their friends upload, I'm never being listened to Maybe you're not being listened to because what you'
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by renaudg 10y ago
--tags and --start-at are your friends.
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by renaudg 10y ago
I used to work there a while (5 years) ago, and I don't think you understand how this company works. There are internal groups where features are discussed and debated all the time, and even all hands Q&A sessions with Zuck (weekly
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by renaudg 10y ago
Could you and the girl have shared the same IP address at some point (because of store Wi-Fi, or CGNAT with your cell carrier) ? Disclaimer : I'm a former FB engineer but have no specific knowledge of this area. I suspect that IP addre
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by renaudg 10y ago
I also used to be an engineer at Facebook. Definitely the corporate culture wouldn't allow anything like this. Believe it or not, many FB engineers have some kind of free software / civil liberties background in their past, and mo
551.
by renaudg 10y ago
The latest Ubuntu LTS 16.04 only has Python3 installed by default. For Ansible modules to run at all, you need to install Python 2 first (possibly using "pre_tasks" + a "raw:" command in your Ansible playbook)
552.
by renaudg 10y ago
I'm a developer who knows nothing about AI but is fascinated by the recent painting/music/"dreaming" applications of it. What would be some good resources for 1. getting the bare minimum knowledge required for using
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by renaudg 11y ago
What containerization options does Linux have running on bare metal, that a Linux VM running under OS X on a properly power-managed Macbook doesn't ?
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by renaudg 11y ago
I can't find a good reference for it right now, but GTD is starting to show its age and the latest research/consensus in productivity circles now seems to be "if you never commit to a time for doing it (i.e. put it in your ca
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by renaudg 11y ago
Let's assume everyone on this list is indeed here out of sincere and disinterested belief (I wouldn't underestimate peer pressure, or even more cynically : the subtle but real career brownie points one can earn at some organizatio
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by renaudg 11y ago
And the Amstrad CPC had 3 millions units sold. This just goes to show how regional the 8 bit markets were. You, and the guy mentioning the BBC Micro, are obviously talking from a UK perspective. I grew up in France and the Amstrad CPC (a Br
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by renaudg 11y ago
Cool. It is still free to use though.
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by renaudg 11y ago
This piece of "common knowledge" has recently been debunked : https://recode.net/2016/03/30/are-young-people-leaving-faceb...
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by renaudg 11y ago
This is a myth : https://recode.net/2016/03/30/are-young-people-leaving-faceb...
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by renaudg 11y ago
It is just as free to use as any other website with ads is.
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by renaudg 11y ago
The likely answer will be : "well, you could sign up to Facebook just as easily as you want us to sign up to meetup.com. Except, everyone is already on Facebook"
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by renaudg 11y ago
Even for read operations : forcing you to log in is the only way Facebook has to enforce the non-public privacy setting the content creator may have set. Conversely, anyone with or without an account can view public Facebook posts.
563.
by renaudg 11y ago
"Best" and "worst" is highly subjective. Everyone here is referring to the "politically correct discourse, America, 2016" definition of those words.
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by renaudg 11y ago
Incredible level of insensitivity. Sadly not every family today, or last time in Paris, is able to say of course my relative is safe. There is grief, broken lives and broken communities right now.
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by renaudg 11y ago
I think the bias is exactly the reverse of what you're saying. I expect a large part of those 50% still on Windows to be corporate devs, accessing StackOverflow during work hours on an OS they didn't necessarily have a say on. Man
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by renaudg 11y ago
The problem is, doing more on some days to make up for others when you did nothing is well known not to be as effective as consistent daily progress : http://jonkarpman.blogspot.co.uk/
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by renaudg 11y ago
There is one : http://us.zilok.com/
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by renaudg 11y ago
if history tells us anything it's that Facebook is rather compliant and doesn't take security seriously. Citation needed...
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by renaudg 11y ago
> - can't change the pin for my card online. I can't see a way for a chip card's PIN to be updated online, without physical access to the card.
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by renaudg 11y ago
>It doesn't help that cheap ubiquitous wires would outright destroy MC/Visa, who effectively get to tax all consumer spending by being the only system with live/online transaction processing for authorizations. Cheap (actu

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