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by sbarre 5y ago
If all you read out of that article was blaming, then you didn't read it very closely. The main takeway that I took from that article was the seemingly low effort improvement that could be made to the UI/UX of that action, which
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by sbarre 5y ago
I believe the world would be a better place if we all showed a bit more compassion towards each other, but let's agree to disagree.
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by sbarre 5y ago
Ok then. I hope others are less judgmental of you than you are of them next you make a mistake in life.
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by sbarre 5y ago
You really think that adding contextual information in a destructive modal (i.e. "You are about to erase 54,000 stars") is "beyond being reasonable" ? It seems like a pretty reasonable suggestion that doesn't feel
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by sbarre 5y ago
if you RTFA he did actually read the dialog box (which is where he found out that it would delete the stars) he just didn't notice the 1 line in a 30+ line generic modal. He accepts responsibility for what he did, but points out the ve
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by sbarre 5y ago
> From here on out, we'll see more and more outages like this in large companies with complex infrastructures, at least that's my prediction. I think part of this problem is that people set up complex fancy infrastructure at a
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by sbarre 5y ago
I see you have also lived in Funcouver!
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by sbarre 5y ago
^ This is what I don't get.. Everyday people who are worried about state-actor threats - an incredibly targeted and unlikely scenario for the average person - but are less concerned about their personal information being harvested for
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by sbarre 5y ago
ISPs don't have the best profit margins, especially ones in competitive markets.. If the big players are selling DNS data, I guarantee you there are companies out there approaching every other smaller ISP with a turnkey solution that m
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by sbarre 5y ago
I guarantee the ToS you agree to with your ISP gives them to right to do this kind of stuff, for "network stability and performance" reasons or some other reason.
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by sbarre 5y ago
A government-controlled way to protest is not a protest, is it? Nor is funnelling your voice through a private corporation, regardless of whether it is for profit or not. Thanks for re-making my point for me I guess?
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by sbarre 5y ago
And yet we've had demonstrations and protests that have drawn hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps millions, into the streets around the world to demand change or rally around causes. Where does that happen online, with the guarant
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by sbarre 5y ago
You are grossly oversimplifying the technical and governance effort required to do something like this.
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by sbarre 5y ago
Sure but who owns and runs that? Who is responsible for the infrastructure costs, the operations of it, the uptime, etc.. The government? Which government? The Internet is global, so would you have a public Twitter for every country? Ho
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by sbarre 5y ago
During the Trump administration, their vindictive treatment of the press and the selective removal of access to the White House by outlets not toeing the line more or less amounted to quasi-censorship in practice.
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by sbarre 5y ago
So while this one-liner comment seems to be drawing ire, I do think it brings up a difficult point. As more and more of our civic discourse moves online, there are no "public spaces" online where the rule of law and public interes
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by sbarre 5y ago
Wasn't the semi-official reason that Valve teams can work on whatever they want, and no one really wanted to work on a Half-Life 3? As a VR owner I am super grateful for Half Life: Alyx and kind of consider that to be the replacement f
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by sbarre 5y ago
I feel like this argument is in line with people who are against unions and tell employees of huge corporations "you can stand up to your employer on your own!". The idea that even a fraction of YouTube's global audience woul
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by sbarre 5y ago
Who makes that decision?
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by sbarre 5y ago
I swear I set my email to private on Github years ago, and I just checked and it was not set to private, which definitely explains why I've been getting these emails too. Thanks for bringing this up, if only to prompt me to double-chec
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by sbarre 5y ago
I think this is a really valid point. I've been in the software development industry for over 25 years now, and things that were acceptable, even encouraged, 20 years ago would get you written up with HR today, maybe even fired. Is tha
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by sbarre 5y ago
Wait what? Sooo.. you want to work in an environment where there are no rules, and people should just suffer discomfort while trying to do their jobs? Am I misunderstanding you here?
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by sbarre 5y ago
I just recently started reading his book Fiasco (more precisely an English translation) and it's so different from other stuff I've read but I am loving it. First book I've read by him. Other than Solaris, any recommendation
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by sbarre 5y ago
I will admit my DNS knowledge is a bit out of date, so I am sure folks much smarter than me have indeed figured this out. I am also curious about how this gets mitigated.
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by sbarre 5y ago
Curious how you imagined handling TTL and response caching in this kind of scenario? In my experience, ISPs (particularly residential providers) sometimes ignore/override the TTL in authoritative DNS records and aggressively cache resp
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by sbarre 5y ago
I think a dude buying a pickup truck they don't need, and a dude deciding to drive drunk have strongly overlapping areas in the venn diagram.
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by sbarre 5y ago
I watched a video earlier today that touched on this, and suggested that the amount of metrics and data that Valve is allowing folks to pull out of their Steam Decks will 100% be useful when the Deck 2.0 comes out because we'll all be
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by sbarre 5y ago
Yeah any artificial limitation on strong encryption would be on the decrypt side, not the encrypt side.
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by sbarre 5y ago
I have also found that non-profits can become a home to "useless zealots", a perhaps unkind but in my experience accurate term. They work there because they really believe in the non-profit's cause, but they are not good at
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by sbarre 5y ago
Sure but you said that when viewing documents side-by-side a 16:9 would give you more space, when really it's the same amount of pixels, and a trivial amount of physical difference (less than an inch on a 27" panel). I was just cl

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