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Ask HN: What happened to the “Drop Dropbox” thread?
10 points by sroerick 12y ago|4 comments
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by sroerick 12y ago
Lets forge a path to FLOSS software, eh?
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by sroerick 12y ago
I "dropped dropbox" for privacy reasons a couple years before Rice joined the board. No option for this.
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by sroerick 12y ago
> The difference now is that we have free access via archive.org to much of the offensive and defensive literature prior to 1920s, mostly categorized under "occult" and "religion". Could you expand on this a little bi
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by sroerick 12y ago
I use i3. I don't think I'll ever go back to a floating window manager, tiling is just way too efficient.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Can anyone explain how this article has more upvotes in less time than the story about Beamforming, yet is two spots lower on the HN frontpage?
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by sroerick 12y ago
Me and a friend did this as a joke for a few days. I had never heard of the Leeds 13 trip. It's not an unobvious thing to do.
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by sroerick 12y ago
I did a similar thing with a buddy. As a joke, he put his MS paint pictures of Shrek on Facebook, and said he had gotten a job as a concept artist on Facebook. I used google image searches to search for LA locations. I got close to a dozen
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by sroerick 12y ago
fabulist is not arguing that this policy is a result of financial loss, but rather contractual obligation with RIAA/MPAA.
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by sroerick 12y ago
And how often do you think comments are manipulated as part of marketing and damage control? To be fair, this is a dumb error and I wish they would issue an honest correction rather than simply removing the incorrect part.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Well, simultaneous to that, it also describes Comcast asking the customer what it is exactly they were using Tor for. Since then, it does appear that phrase has been redacted. It would be nice if they published a correction, though.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Yeah, this is absolutely right. Most payment processors are immediately converting Bitcoin, due mostly to volatility. When it comes down to it, these businesses are going to have a tough time doing anything other than marketing to Bitcoiner
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by sroerick 12y ago
What would be a good distribution for playing around like you described?
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by sroerick 12y ago
> While there are certainly plenty of examples of abuse of knowledge, I tend to think of most "tracking" not as "stalking" but as "relationship building." Not to accuse you of anything, but I would imagine t
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by sroerick 12y ago
I'm starting to think that remix culture has been essentially stifled by licensing. Artists like Steinski, Danger Mouse, and Girl Talk have gained notoriety exclusively through word of mouth. Copyright and licensing prevent them from m
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by sroerick 12y ago
Holy living God. Solves my problem, then some. Also provides an alternative to search engines as the goto for internet browsing. Brilliant stuff. I can't tell you how grateful I am for your work on this. The only thing left is FLOSS ve
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by sroerick 12y ago
https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?can=2&s... The number of results returned is random. Some people report seeing videos watched on computers but not locally. One person says it works. T
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by sroerick 12y ago
I'm having a little trouble understanding your perspective. Copying films is good, letting bugs eat Van Gogh is good, but copying websites is bad? Well, luckily, with digital technology, we can copy things flawlessly with very little c
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by sroerick 12y ago
Hrm, then why offer the feature? I'm kind of still a beginner when it comes to APIs, but it seems disingenuous to offer an API feature and then intentionally break it so that it can't be used.
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by sroerick 12y ago
You're absolutely right. Maybe it's a fool's errand to try and hold onto the past. But many people consider those losses to be an immeasurable tragedy.
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by sroerick 12y ago
I'm interested in artists who release things under Creative Commons, or works that exist or are released into the public domain. These tools would work fine for me, without risk of copyright infringement. Just because you don't us
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by sroerick 12y ago
I tried this earlier. The result: [youtube:history] playlist Youtube Watch History: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)
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by sroerick 12y ago
I never said I was trying to save my entire web cache locally. Just bookmarks. I don't have Flash Player installed. Instead, I use youtube-dl for flash videos across many websites. I'm well aware of the storage implications of thi
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by sroerick 12y ago
I agree with you. My watch history is currently in the hands of Google. I'm trying to copy it so that I have it saved locally.
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by sroerick 12y ago
As someone with a teensy bit of film background, I have to disagree. The number of early Hollywood films that were lost is astounding. This is a massive part of our visual history that is completely gone. It will never be restored. With the
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by sroerick 12y ago
My second reply, but, I think that this is really important. We only need to look at early film history to know how easy it is to lose massive parts of our history. Going back to old pages, I frequently get 404 results. For politically sens
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by sroerick 12y ago
Slightly related to this, the other day I tried to download every youtube video in my watch history. Turns out it's pretty much impossible. The Youtube API only delivers about 20 results, which is a bug that has existed for about 2 yea
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by sroerick 12y ago
I think that this is the correct response. It's also worth noting, though, that the current situation has the potential to be more global and pervasive than all of those more localized historical examples. I seem to recall an intellige
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by sroerick 12y ago
This is a good point. I don't think this statement is necessarily a good and logically sound axiom, and I think it applies to social networks more than search engines. I view it as a sort of a zen koan, in the vein of "It can&#x27
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by sroerick 12y ago
Yeah, but who is making those decisions? Google? SEO agents? Large multinational corporations? Wikipedia is subjective too, that doesn't mean that they just give in and let PR people manage the thing.

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