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by uniqueid 6y ago
Ah good. So all I need to do is block Cloudflare /s Sigh.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
As far as the actual analytics product, is it provided via servers with specific domains? What would one look for if one wanted to block them?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
As far as I can tell, Apple abandoned the local Keychain a decade ago. The sole Keychain feature to which they give any love is iCloud. Managing multiple local keychain stores, in my experience, is now fraught with features that error out,
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Once the social taboo against violating the right to free speech is broken, dystopia becomes a possibility I keep this bookmarked to save time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I don't know. Whatever they did that warranted that $5 billion fine? We could fine them again, I guess, but last time it just pumped up their stock price.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
As long as you don't spend your weekends monitoring 8kun for Qanon "drops", fine by me :)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Yes, lets use censorship to improve our democracies. What democracies? Out of the three Western countries in which I have roots, only one is still a healthy democracy. Good idea! Let´s also put all those who disagree in priso
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by uniqueid 6y ago
If Zuckerberg is on the wrong side of history, its arc bends away from justice. And if millions die in the meantime, no big deal? people are crying out for the [etc] to become the "arbiters of truth" If I though
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by uniqueid 6y ago
best way to fight disinformation is to challenge it with true information. When it comes to pandemic disinformation, there's 200,000 dead Americans who would disagree with that. A better way to fight disinformation would be
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's a possibility. I can imagine a scenario where the issue bubbled up the chain a couple levels, with the junior employees not touching anything in the meantime, so as to avoid making things worse. Another possibility is that the e
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Very true! That undercuts my choice to use snake_case, but strengthens my overall argument to advocate for light color schemes (assuming they are indeed better).
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I can believe it. I once stumbled across a series of vlog entries, on Youtube, by some disheveled guy shouting in his pickup. They were all rants about how Youtube was blocking his content, and they got progressively scarier. Near the end h
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Are they correct? Computer science is not a field in which learners can reason about best practises for themselves. There is so much to learn that most of the habits we adopt are just articles of faith. For example, it took me 15 years to a
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Yes, that's the simplest explanation. Not that Instagram is above giving an existing nobody's account to a VIP, but they're not going to do that without wiping its content, and notifying the nobody first.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's my secret agenda ;) I want to see affordable tape drives! If the number of people who need a tape drive, but don't know it, and won't find out till its too late, knew they needed one, there'd be more competition i
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I think few would argue that big news outlets are free of bias and sensationalism. The questions is to what degree? There's a tendency, on the internet, to write off establishment people and groups completely, based on their all-time m
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Just want to say I regret the tone I used in my reply, which was not in the spirit of HN. You're correct that some level of skepticism is good. My actual view, if I leave out the hyperbole, is that in the current era, we've reache
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Examine what you read. No. Unless you're exceptionally intelligent, don't do that. I can tell you, the average person had a more reasonable picture of the world back in the 90s than today, despite the multitudes now "
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Fun! I don't want to stop... 22. Google tracks your visits, one way or another, on over half the pages you visit on the internet! 23. Google introduced Takeout in 2011, a handy service with which users can view the many terabytes of pe
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by uniqueid 6y ago
My take on the debate over internet censorship is that the "free speech" contingent badly wants to deal with it using elegant, consistent, universal principles. While a solution that meets those criteria should always be the goal
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Should Google remove medium.com from search results? Maybe. My question is: if we designed the internet and web from scratch, how would we deal with paywalled pages? It might be valuable, for example, to create a separate protocol f
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by uniqueid 6y ago
A tape drive is, as far as I can tell, the only reasonable back-up medium. Even then, where file format is concerned, our industry doesn't care about promoting a 1000-year format for file-storage. If you back up online, you delegate pr
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Complete tangent, but it turns out I was wrong about horses: apparently they become more agreeable with age, not less .
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Good catch! Apple would likely close off the most common avenues to provide such an app. There are nevertheless many ways a developer could make it available. Off the top of my head, one could distribute it as a webapp, or use an exploit t
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I see two ways in which Google Search is changing. Neither of them work for me . It is true that, as you point out, the majority of Google users probably prefer a less literal algorithm. Do the ways Google Search is changing benefit people
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I find Bing considerably closer to Google than a horse-and-buggy to an automobile. In some ways, Google is more like a horse-and-buggy, since, like an aging horse, Google Search increasingly ignores the user's instructions, and does it
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's another great point, and it does mean that users always have less to worry about when it comes to recent data. But when it comes to a user's old data... well, you see where I'm going with that :)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's probably an accurate take. I agree, your average internet user isn't likely to configure their devices to do such things. It will be the domain of techies, oddballs, and assorted edge-cases (eg: someone who wants to avoid t
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Alas, there exist photos of me wearing multicolored parachute pants back in my nightclubbing phase that I can never allow to come to light under any circumstances. So it's too late for me.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Yes, it will be almost exactly the same. The people leaving Google will be young users and techies. Google has plenty of smart employees, and they will eek out growth from the rest of the population.

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