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by sipos 6y ago
Wikipedia cites a articles that show a number of examples of the company Twitter acocunt saying anti-semetic things, for example https://web.archive.org/web/20181031162843/https://www.cnn.c... . I agree w
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by sipos 6y ago
Fundamentally, whether you use Firefox or not, having an organisation that has user's interests at heart, and is not a major global corp, developing a major browser, is something we all need. It ensures that the evolution of the web is
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by sipos 6y ago
That is true, but, equally, you are underestimating the time you spend trying toi do something that your no-code framework can't do, and the extra cost of working with it.
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by sipos 6y ago
So, this didn't help me with Virgin Media in the past (though I did get it sorted by finding someone relatively senior and bothering them until they got it sorted), but it usually does, as you say. In general, I don't allow compan
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by sipos 6y ago
When I cancelled my home braodband contract a while ago (because I was moving), I eventually ended up with a debt collector after me because they had kept billing me. They had also disconnected me, connected someone else at the same propert
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by sipos 6y ago
Why are So Many of the Words in This Comment Capitalised? Is it a Title of Something?
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by sipos 7y ago
Customer service for G Suite us terrible too. We have a file on Google Drive that cannot be opened, and have been waiting months for support to resolve it. We have backups independent of Google, but, without them, we'd have basically j
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by sipos 7y ago
Surely if they planned to, they would say that when asked about this?
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by sipos 7y ago
Were there lots of pre-ordered, or are they just launching slowly? The fact that pre-order customers can not invite friends immediately, who do not need hardware, suggests it is about limiting users to avoid overloading servers/support
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by sipos 7y ago
This. I would buy games on it in a heartbeat if they did this. The problem is that, to move them to a new platform, for example Steam, they need to pay the platform's cut of the sale price. To give users the option to do this in future
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by sipos 7y ago
> - Search (was once good, now just "marginally better than Bing") It isn't noticeable better than DuckDuckGo, which is a better alternative for privacy reasons.
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by sipos 7y ago
What else can you use the controller for? Is it a standard HID?
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by sipos 7y ago
Yes, all 7 of them are very happy with it.
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by sipos 7y ago
IMHO, the modern left has become very harsh in condemning people, showing very little compassion, and engaging in witch-hunts. I think t his is extremely unhelpful. I think this has arisen out of a feeling of righteousness as a result of ha
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by sipos 7y ago
The question is, why do this? Is it for fun? If so, great. Not my cup of tea personally, but I can imagine how it could be someone's. If not for fun, what is the point? It presumably isn't to create a usable ray-tracing system. Pe
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by sipos 7y ago
To be fair, the article begins by linking to a previous article by the same author about the problems with JSON. He is an equal opportunities opponent :)
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by sipos 7y ago
Despite this, they are completely clueless when it comes to technology. I think only a tiny minority of their staff know that they maintain a fiber network, let alone what that means.
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by sipos 7y ago
In my experience it doesn't make much difference whether you pay the bills or not. They sent me to a debt collector more than a year after I had closed my account, for something I didn't owe them (it was a bill for services after
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by sipos 7y ago
Files? If my experience of Virgin Media is anything to go by, they are probably writing them down in crayon on bits of paper that they keep in a very large box, probably outside and open to the weather. Actually, it wouldn't surprise m
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by sipos 7y ago
Database migrations are not hard when you have hardly any data, when you are still building something, and they aren't that hard unless you have enormous amounts. On the other hand, having data where records have different attributes
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by sipos 8y ago
DRM never really works. The best implemented DRM makes it hardly any more inconvenient for people to use it, and people accept it most of the time, Steam for example. It always puts some people off, who end up pirating it when they wouldn&#
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by sipos 8y ago
Agreed, mostly. Money and effort spent on reducing the use of single use plastics, would be better spent recycling plastics in the western world, improving traceability for plastic containing waste exported to the third world, and improving
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by sipos 8y ago
You acknowledge that biometrics have some issues they don't solve. Not being easy to steal is one of them. The problem is that you leave your fingerprint all over the place, including all over your phone, there are likely multiple pict
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by sipos 8y ago
On the other hand, it's easier to not have to think about it, even when it doesn't matter 99% of the time, and run the exact same container as you tested locally on the server. I feel like this shouldn't matter really, but pe
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by sipos 8y ago
> If MongoDB Inc is successful, it should be because they run a good document-database-as-a-service people want to use Unfortunately, something that is good, and something people want to use, are not the same thing. People will use AWS&#
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by sipos 8y ago
It sounds like it came up as a result of their Project Strobe audit. I would guess they launched this project precisely because the penalties were about to get bigger and they knew they had skeletons.
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by sipos 8y ago
Open source is a technical term (and I believe a trademark) with a specific meaning, defined by [The Open Source Initiative]( https://opensource.org/ ). It does not merely mean that the source is available. As you hint at, be
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by sipos 8y ago
> at least the plugins/addons are still available for small companies to use for free so it's still a step up from the typical OSS freemium model where they sell the plugins. This doesn't allow any companies (except not fo
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by sipos 8y ago
Even Microsoft doesn't think that anymore.
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by sipos 8y ago
> Some are seeing that corporations are the ones making all the money on the back of open source software. This is true of everything. This isn't a problem with open source, it is a problem with society generally.

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