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by tinus_hn 3y ago
This reads like whinery by someone who doesn’t know how navigation apps work. All the big apps have a way to designate streets and places as something they should never route through, either because it would make the app route people over p
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
A strange proposition, why would their privacy policy apply to websites scraped by their bot? ‘By being scraped you agree to be bound by these rules’?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
They also organized courses and certification which is super important in Enterprise
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Spend the resources and get the reward, or don’t spend the resources and don’t get the reward. That’s not bloat, bloat contributes nothing, it’s just waste. Here the reward for the developer is not needing to debug your operating system ins
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Google can just say ‘if you’re on this network, you only get poor quality video. Come to one of the networks that support YouTube properly!’. Remember that for a while they were just about the only site that could load Flash. YouTube is tha
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Unfortunately paying does mean there is no way to escape tracking, that’s even worse than the expenditure.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
As far as I know sunspot count is just a feature you can see on photographs, yet it is also very strongly correlated with this cosmic radiation detection data.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Do make sure that 100% of the input is from trusted sources because if not, writing secure Perl programs is extremely hard. The tainting system helps but doesn’t solve the problem.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You could allow driving but outlaw selling.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You are of course already allowed to not buy the phone if you hate everything it is.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
In the same vein: Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. Donald Knuth
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
And that is how you end up in an echo chamber where it looks as if your ideas are the only ideas and everyone obviously agrees with you.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If the hash in practice gives users the ability to download the content, yes.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So the alternative to Twitter is Balkanized safe spaces where you only talk to like-minded people.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
On the other side, recognizing what is ‘good enough’ gave us cheap commodity computing. Not perfect but good enough.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s not black and white. If you translate it, are you committing a crime?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Don’t worry too much. It’s a cycle, new sites will appear to fill the gap and they will go through approximately the same evolution.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I don’t know how much running the site costs, but I hope the people paying for it keep agreeing with that sentiment.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Call me cynical but I don’t see why the EU would push this apart from attempts to snoop and control peoples expenses.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Also localized csv files in a language where the comma is the decimal separator (and the field separator is ; ), column headers and unexpected character encodings. CSV is truly the worst.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The result is different when comparing to self-signed certificates. For instance, yes you should be careful with your key, but losing it makes your security as bad as when using self-signed certificates. Yes, you might be teaching some of y
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
And the free courtesy cigarettes that would be in little glasses on the table
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Yes there is, the reason is that this is just a difficult problem with a lot of trade-offs, and in a world where there is no strong authority deciding on the trade-offs everyone is going to make a different choice. So all the toolkits look
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I am really pleasantly surprised the field is kind of open and not drowning in software patents.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I wonder if and if so, how, they get around the notification iOS sends after an application tracks location in the background (‘Background Location Tracking Transparency’).
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Arguably this faux democracy is even worse than the authoritarian rulership that peeps through the cracks.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Yes, order with a credit card so when they scam you you can do a chargeback.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So if you are so well versed in the matter, what’s keeping you from starting a chat service that doesn’t require phone numbers? Apparently people are willing to invest a lot of money, that could be yours!
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Or it turns out that allowing people to host services pseudo anonymously is just not a sustainable business model because it’s a magnet for sewage, child porn, spam, botnets, you name it and taints the IP addresses as they become associated
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The balance is so lopsided a workable strategy is to just retract the complaint if it is answered by a credible threat of a lawsuit. It’s like stealing from the candy shop and if you’re caught, you just put back the candies you took that ti

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