spurgu

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by spurgu 5y ago
> someone should comment something like "This video is garbage." or simply "Dislike" and the amount of thumbs up on that comment can be taken as video dislikes. The problem with Youtube as I see it is that these comme
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yes. I think you need 500 karma and it's only for comments.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yup. If I'm watching a positive review of a [insert-object] I'm planning on buying and it has 10k likes visible while hiding 2k dislikes I'm probably going to get horribly misled. While if it's a video of a political deb
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by spurgu 5y ago
There's still the issue of false hope. Every now and then I'm looking for something specific that I don't necessarily know what it's called, but I know I'll recognize it when I see it. So I try different queries, an
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by spurgu 5y ago
You could argue the same for racism or nazis or whatever as well. It's not like someone suddenly wakes up one days and decides to go to nazi school. It requires indoctrination just as religion. As a side note, indoctrinations are quick
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by spurgu 5y ago
Same. The world would feel quite dystopian without Tor, Signal and other similar software aiming to preserve your privacy. I rarely use Tor but I'm soooo happy it exists. Just started wondering: If Tor disappeared off the face of the e
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by spurgu 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they're working on creating public chats, readable without logging in, from the browser?
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by spurgu 5y ago
I recently accepted a position with 20% lower pay, because the work is more interesting, challenging and rewarding.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yup. Another issue is that there are still many things we cannot do with electricity alone, for example steel production, which accounts for 7-9% of CO2 emissions.
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by spurgu 5y ago
> There is no evidence ivermectin works against COVID Does that mean that there is no evidence that it doesn't work either? :)
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by spurgu 5y ago
And get harrassed? One of the benefits of the internet is (/was) that you can share data/information anonymously.
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by spurgu 5y ago
I'm more or less in agreement. What we need is a change of mentality/awareness, i.e. that everything you do online is being tracked and shared with other parties. Because it mostly is.
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Looks great design wise, but I still see some dark patterns like making the accept button green, and decline grey Since all the other consent forms are like this it makes sense to not change the established standard. I would for sure m
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by spurgu 5y ago
> After discovering that I'm "poly" Interesting. How did you come to discover this?
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by spurgu 5y ago
Oh ok, I stand corrected. Wasn't clear to me from your original post, but it actually makes sense now that I re-read it.
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by spurgu 5y ago
I don't get this kind of thinking? How does the why of what he's saying influence the what ? Or even worse, disqualify it? If it's factually correct then the reason behind writing it seems quite irrelevant, to me at leas
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by spurgu 5y ago
> The content of the message might be encrypted, but metadata can provide valuable intelligence insights. What metadata? Signal doesn't store anything about you aside the date you joined and the time of your last ping.
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by spurgu 5y ago
What kind of bugs (or fundamental flaws) I'm wondering? I used i3 for over a year (before switching to Mac due to work) and it worked great. I was annoyed at confirmation dialogues taking up half a screen but that's the only issue
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Most desktop apps are not designed for tiling I'd say this is the issue, not that of tiling managers themselves.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Interesting! The India sugar you refer to seems to be similar to "Nib sugar" or "Pearl sugar" in Scandinavia[0]. It's basically used for baking (decoration) here. For everything else we use regular "fine sugar&
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by spurgu 5y ago
Loved reading this. While reading I was thinking I should do a similar comparison for countries I've lived in (a handful of European ones) but it wouldn't be half as entertaining (differing). Toilet paper for pooping made me chuck
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by spurgu 5y ago
Has anything actually happened since the FB meta promotion/announcement, or is this just speculation about what Mark said?
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by spurgu 5y ago
I challenge them to link my accounts where I'm not using any real details for the Oculus one (aside from IP address). They're gonna accept the challenge though and I'd be safest not using any FB products at all aside from Ocu
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by spurgu 5y ago
Didn't you get the memo? The streaming industry fucked up, it's back to torrents again. Edit: On DDG, search "dune miniseries <file-extension>", the second result has a working magnet link.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Sure, I appreciate a healthy mix as well. Just saying it's unrealistic to expect a 50/50 distribution of anything, in any field, expecially so in software development. Curious as you mentioned degrees, do you know if the same rati
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by spurgu 5y ago
From what I've understood they're especially been enforcing it for Oculus. That said there are privacy controls. You interact with other Oculus users through a customizable username. And your Oculus activity can be set to be shown
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by spurgu 5y ago
Which is somewhat fine since you can use an anonymous prepaid SIM card. Oh wait, the amount of countries where you can still get a prepaid SIM card without ID is diminishing, all in the name of "fighting terrorism". The internet
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by spurgu 5y ago
I tend to just surf through MacOS releases. It's mostly just updates to the native apps which I don't use anyways, so I'm rarely affected neither positively nor negatively. Well, Big Sur made the notification widget/area
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by spurgu 5y ago
50% sounds crazy (and unsustainable). The women I've met in tech tend to, on average, have the same ambitions as their male counterparts - they chose this as a job/career, as opposed to having an actual passion for IT. A far cry f
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by spurgu 5y ago
Of course there are, someone needs to be there to nag about being no good and constantly correcting people. ;)

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