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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Yes, but hopefully done a bit better than before. Maybe the wheel will actually come out round this time? :) Of course none of this would be needed if we could just use a programming language that wasn't shit, but before that's po
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Signal app is also canonically distributed by Google Play/Apple Store, which are US entities under US law. When push comes to shove, an app update may get distributed to select individuals that will happily gather and send all their co
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Scroll is looking interesting – reminds me a bit of Brave, but with a more specialized “websites renderer”, so to say. Is there a list of sites they support available somewhere, so that I can see if it's useful to me?
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
You can also use tweetdeck.twitter.com to pretty much the same effect.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
It's empowering the users while providing minimal control for the content provider – no wonder for-profit companies avoid it like a plague.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Nay, nay, nay. I don't like text that looks differently for everyone depending on the platform they're on. Emojis have shown us already that vendors are willing to change their appearance depending on current trends or political c
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> when you can't get your work (...) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast I always assumed that the publicly hosted version of gitlab is basically a giant demo version of the enterprise edition you buy
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Check out the Cookie AutoDelete addon – it can be configured to keep cookies from select, whitelisted domains, and delete everything else every time you close a tab. You can have the cake and eat it too :)
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
With Google being a tracking company, I expect that $10/mo gets rid of the ads but still does all the possible tracking it can – I'm not surprised if anti-tracking people don't buy into it. Product-first companies seem to be
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
I expect nothing less from someone from a company called "TrustX, a member of DigiTrust". Just like with any other scammer, when someone uses a word "trust" excessively, you know that you shouldn't. Why is the compa
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Just as a counterbalance, my experience is the exact opposite. No client yet succeeded at making me work more than 20 hours a week (and even that I agreed to after heavy negotiation).
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
To me personally, any time something is advertised as "written in X" makes it seem like it's not really worth the attention, as the "written in X" is apparently its primary selling point.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
I like to think of it as virtual jewelry. Some people buy expensive watches, cars, clothes etc only to be able to impress other people who care about that sort of thing. When your circle of friends exist in a game, and they care about that
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Wrong thread? :)
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Can't speak for System76, but I got the AMD Thinkpad (A485), and I'm honestly disappointed as hell and now I understand why you don't see the Ryzens on laptops too much. The power management is an absolute joke (the thing has
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> That makes one wonder about who else is still using Perl? if any? Can’t remember the last time I’ve heard about it. Perl, like many other languages, has its own bubble. I'm using Perl daily at work. I used Python for a while, but
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> There’s a tension in e-book pricing generally between consumer expectations that a digital file will be less expensive than a physical copy and the reality that very little of the cost of making a book is tied up in the physical format
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Looks nice, but I'm a bit surprised to see "No web bloat!" and then Webkit in dependencies. Is the UI built in web technologies, just not in Electron this time around?
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Interesting. Are you using some sophisticated plugins, some unusual platform? I've aliased vim to neovim a few years ago and it has not crashed once for me.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Absolutely. And I think there were actually studies on the effectiveness of TDD, and I seem to recall them confirming it.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Well call me crazy, but imho the reason for that is that for the most part, software engineering is not engineering. We're not fighting laws of nature, we're fighting other people's style and decisions. That's why our wo
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> Those who live under free regimes should not deny those of us who live under oppressive governments the right to privacy of our communications And those who live under oppresive governments should not be an excuse to force those who do
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Not OP but I have a similar workstyle: I work half-time for one client (remotely), 4 hours a week for another (also remotely) and occasionally take side gigs like teaching or something. The remote work is mostly in Norway, I live in Poland,
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
No – I'm saying that I don't have an answer for you if I never encountered what you're describing.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Perhaps – but I'm pretty sure there's some that don't even receive emails either. It's as if someone was just creating a "standing army" of accounts in preparation to unleash something. Spooky :)
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
I delete all cookies outside of a few whitelisted domains every time I close a tab, which is why reCaptcha is so annoying to me in the first place. Still, at least for me, the audio fallback is always there and much less annoying.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Never happened to me. I've been getting "point out the hydrants" over 5 times in a row sometimes because of the amount of anti-tracking I have set up, but the audio option was always there letting me on the first try.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Curious. Do you have any example of a site using it? I noticed that reCaptcha has become much, much worse recently and I assumed that this must be this v3, but I've never encountered one that would actually have no fallback and prevent
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
An email provider. Interestingly enough they don't even send anything. They just... sit there. And who knows why. Not really doing anything harmful afaik, but obviously fradulent so our support still kills them in bulk just in case the
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
We use it to stop bots from opening thousands of trial accounts. We don't have bots anymore, but instead we have humans who open hundreds of trial accounts hourly. I guess it's an improvement.

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