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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> or (for highly technical users) notice that ReCAPTCHA is at fault and interact with enough Google services to raise your score before trying again Or, for absolutely everyone: pretend you're blind and click on the audio captcha op
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Do you know something that FTC does not? From the article itself: > Facebook monetizes user information through targeted advertising, which generated most of the company’s $55.8 billion in revenues in 2018
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Dropbox's cheapest plan that I see on their website is €11.99. My VPS costs me $5 per month and runs Nextcloud with no arbitrary usage limits, as well as tons of other shit I need for different things. I assume it's the same for O
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
AIUI the whole point of this drama is that a lot of these conversations were obviously "random", as in: not triggered by the wakeup words.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
ActivityPub requires an account on a server of some sort. RSS is client-only, so the "friction" is much lower. Of all the people who listen to podcasts through some kind of an app, how many of them have created an account anywhere
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Yeah, good point. I often find myself wanting to follow what some people are up to (friends or not), and it's always frustrating how it requires you to be a part of a certain platform to do that – you can't follow anyone's in
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Any other form of communication – email, IMs, phones etc. If you're not having a conversation but just "like" each other's photos it's not "maintaining a remote friendship" anyway.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> they're always listening in exactly the same fashion. This is how always-on "Hey Siri" or "Okay Google" works Afaik it is not, actually. The devices are taught to recognize the wakeup words (like "ok googl
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Devs are the ones selling the keys that Steam issues to them when they ask. So they are the actual seller who needs to deal with the problem, not Steam. G2A doesn't care because they're not the ones hit with the fraud report.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Stripe. We moved most of our payment processing from Paypal to Stripe last year, they're unbelievably more competent (an extrapolation from the quality of the tooling and APIs) and actually respond with meaningful input when a problem
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Those are all Perl 5 techs though – somewhat usable (or partially reimplemented) in Perl 6, but having written both for a living the Perl 6 ones are still way, way behind.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
All the examples in the post are written in Perl 6 though, which does not lack it.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> but if you’re not using Apple products, why would you want iCloud Drive? I think that's the point though: some of apple's products are quite appealing, but really only make sense if you buy into their ecosystem entirely. I co
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> At the top left of your Firefox browser, you will see an icon that looks like an i inside a circle. Click on it and then click on Content Blocking ...did anyone figure out what the hell that is supposed to be, or look like? Why wouldn&
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I honestly find everything I want there. It's still the only sensible place to obtain stuff I want to check out (no, I don't want to dish out 20€/month to see one film once) and I ne
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
> even if you listen to CDs on your computer the media player is still collecting your data and behaviour I'm not sure what OS or media player you use(d), but implying that it's somehow inherent to playing music on your compute
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
I think that's where CDs come in: for a lot of artists this is the only way to buy an album and end up with non-DRMed, not watermarked plain MP3 you can listen to on whatever you want. You end up with unnecessary plastic waste on your
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
I guess the CDs are the symbol here more than anything else. I do a similar thing: I buy CDs, smell the paint, rip them into mp3, put them on a shelf and never touch them again. Everything nicely managed by MPD.
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
Sure it is, but I can see why OP looks down on it – just like their web rendering engine, it may be open source, but it's Google holding all the cards and ultimately making all the decisions. It may be opensource now while it's us
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by tadzik_ 7y ago
I did some small-time editing, I gave up on Openshot because of its stability and the lack of all the effects that Kdenlive provides over it. Mind that it was a good few years ago, so if openshot has massively improved since then it may not
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
> Grammar and spelling blind spots don't compromise the security of thousands of people Neither does useless use of cat. Or am I missing something that I couldn't read because of a deleted comment?
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
Not sure what's on that site; I hopped right into firefox's reader mode on the first popup that... popped up, and it all seems pretty good now :) It's hard for me to imagine browsing the web without it anymore, and I assume f
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
The problem with their APIs is that they're broken and/or stupid in surprising ways the moment you look beyond the most basic things. An example: the REST API allows you to create a billing agreement. You can make the customer app
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
Sure it is: but how do you know if it really is the source code of Signal ? For all we know, both the Signal network and its client are a half-baked "secure" and "private" chat, and the source code they publish is an el
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
Fair point; I guess too often I expect "free software" when I see "open-source". I don't think I'm the only one though, at least to a degree. When the only thing you allow your users is to read the source code,
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
I don't think I'm confusing them – but I do think that their "open-source"-ness is virtually worthless, as the only thing you're allowed to do is read the source yourself and hope that it's the same thing tha
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
Please, please don't. Open Whisper Systems is a company that uses "open-source" as a marketing term while bullying the people who choose to take advantage of it. You can build your own client, but if you start to distribute i
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
Welp, it's hardly a phone if you can't call from it. A mobile device, perhaps.
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
Speaking of CalDAV, the only thing I care about is the actual support of the calendar. Every time Thunderbird updates the Calendar “addon” loses compatibility and I'm without a calendar for a couple of weeks. Come to think about it, I
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by tadzik_ 8y ago
I'm glad you asked, since this is something I'm currently working on (I'm a developer at Runbox). So currently our backend for contacts storage is home-baked, and pretty much exclusively accessible to our webmail. This works

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