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by rolandog 5y ago
> It's the information that I want to send and nothing more. In some cases, it is... But I think, most times, it's the equivalent of getting something you ordered online, encased in a large blob of jello. You can look at it, b
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by rolandog 5y ago
Oh man, this could have been my case... I have sometimes accidentally up or down voted links or comments (switching hands to hold the phone, for example). Now that I think about it, one of the last things I had upvoted was a comment that ad
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by rolandog 5y ago
In my experience, this is the case for the Netherlands as well! I was at first perplexed when reading all the different requirements; it was hard trying to understand how to first approach 'the problem' to satisfy the circular dep
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by rolandog 5y ago
Indeed. I've been trying to find or come up with solutions that don't jeopardize personal safety (think journalists, or citizens living under an authoritarian regime) but that also allow freedom of speech (but not democracy of tr
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by rolandog 5y ago
You're totally right. It's like there are multitude Battlefields on a War of Opinion & Truth. In my case I may have compared 1 year ago a certain world leader that was sending minority demographic to specialized facilities to
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by rolandog 5y ago
> Perhaps you were banned for upvoting your own content from another account? This will result in a ban for both accounts. If not, it could be a number of other reasons that have nothing to do with cancellation or governmental criticism.
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by rolandog 5y ago
Well, I recently was permanently suspended on Reddit, but I've been unable to determine why (also, no previous announcement). I haven't been permanently banned from any subreddit (no message in my 14 year old history indicated thi
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by rolandog 5y ago
The people who push fearmongering on UI are those who would be affected if we had the benefit of being able to pass on harsh or dangerous conditions if that meant being able to eat plain oatmeal for free; it's preferable for them that
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by rolandog 5y ago
Totally agree. I was happily using WhatsApp (and had even paid beforehand when they were only charging what they needed to operate). I invested a lot of effort to onboard family members. Everything was fine, until Facebook purchased WhatsAp
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by rolandog 5y ago
Or, have we become boring? I've noticed I have outgrown some things I loved as a young adult, like most videogames; though I don't know if it's just me being anti-commercial stuff, trying to avoid becoming a pay-to-win custo
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by rolandog 5y ago
Let's not focus on either/or. I feel that that causes division, and we waste valuable time. At this point of the crisis we need as much help as possible. We need to do both. I've been biking and using public transport for lon
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by rolandog 5y ago
No kidding! I copy/pasted my HN comment verbatim, as it was also a question to verify if a tracker that runs constantly that isn't able to be blocked by domain counts as a Dark Pattern. Edit: Here is a link to that comment [0]. [0
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by rolandog 5y ago
I confess that I don't really understand what is going on with the script running constantly behind the scenes in the PlantUML login page [0]. It seems to be constantly sending GET requests to a tracking pixel with data passed through
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by rolandog 5y ago
I didn't know they were trying to de-Google. Would that have anything to do with user concerns about privacy?
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by rolandog 6y ago
That's the case of for me as well. I always leave a comment trying to explain to my future self where I learned to do stuff that was not intuitive. Bash, Make, non-standard Python libraries, E-Lisp, and Fortran. Also, it's been qu
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by rolandog 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. I still don't understand why that is a thing, though. As a consumer, I want the least amount of friction to buy stuff... As a gamer, I care---if I spent time and money in 'unlocking achievements'---that
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by rolandog 6y ago
Back when I was single and had more disposable income, I remember being very upset after not being able to purchase songs for one of the Rockband games on my PlayStation 3 (that I had bought in the US) while living in Mexico (either through
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by rolandog 6y ago
Agreed. The manner in which people treat developers is appalling to me, and definitely gives me pause before considering releasing something to the public (if I will be beholden to serve at the whim of a belittling bully / choosing beg
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by rolandog 6y ago
I've come to appreciate so many old FOSS tools that are incredibly well built and thought of in their design. Emacs and org-mode (and many things GNU) have started to make more and more sense to me in this day and age.
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by rolandog 6y ago
I'm a bit pessimistic that it might become a public company.
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by rolandog 6y ago
Agreed; I don't like to jump in to be playing devil's advocate, but I usually don't pay much attention to things that don't pose much of a risk to me, while I'm driving. The only reason I would think about paying at
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by rolandog 6y ago
Thanks for replying; it looks really great! I just purchased it, and I hope to play it over the weekend!
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by rolandog 6y ago
No kidding. After spending so much effort on verifying that the code I'm running comes from trusted sources and that I have a decently secure system, I can't help but feel dirty after allowing some sort of weird DRM/anti-chea
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by rolandog 6y ago
Would you mind sharing the name of your game? I'm saving up to buy some games soon, and I'd like to support cool devs like you!
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by rolandog 6y ago
Your workflow and infrastructure is amazing. Great work!
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by rolandog 6y ago
Not to mention, that there are countries that ask you to renounce your other citizenships when taking theirs (Dutch citizenship comes to mind).
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by rolandog 6y ago
Agreed. If I remember correctly, the infighting because of the 2 vs 3 debacle didn't help much.
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by rolandog 6y ago
Hopefully, they can preach by example. They need to recognize their bad actions, compensate the affected parties, educate their people, AND call on other governments perpetuating crimes against humanity.
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by rolandog 6y ago
One of the features I think is unmatched in other browsers is Firefox's ability to search open tabs on your other devices, and also to almost instantly send a tab to another device. I mainly use it from mobile to desktop (when I stumbl
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by rolandog 6y ago
I agree! In my case, I additionally use NoScript as well with both the mobile and desktop browsers. It's such a great experience.

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