unsungNovelty

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by unsungNovelty 16d ago
What he exposed was found illegal by US courts. And the govt had to stop it. What more evidence do you want?
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by unsungNovelty 16d ago
Not sure. You are talking about a Snowden in 2013 who looks around and see Chelsea and Assange NOT free. He made the decision based on that and what has happened before. I also think what Snowden exposed is far far far bigger.
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by unsungNovelty 16d ago
No. It is pejorative in the way it is used. Context is important.
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by unsungNovelty 16d ago
"doesn't have a public interest defence" . Can't be serious.
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by unsungNovelty 16d ago
You could literally watch the snowden movie alone and get half of facts right. Don't have to even read good journalist pieces. Just a movie. Come on.
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by unsungNovelty 16d ago
Snowden has repeatedly talked about why he wouldn't return to US cos the trial won't be fair. He wanted to be able to talk. But due to his role, the trial would be a muppet one where he can't even talk. Or am I wrong? At the
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by unsungNovelty 16d ago
He didn't "flee" to Russia. His passport was renounced/revoked/disabled while he was on his way to the original destination. He got stuck in the Russian airport for a freaking long time in a small room while the gov
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by unsungNovelty 18d ago
Haha. Gave me a good chuckle!
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by unsungNovelty 18d ago
> Would you say it's worthless, because the senior architect didn't care to write it? Lemme ask you a counter question, the senior architect writes the proposal and the junior writes it. Which one do you think client likes bett
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by unsungNovelty 18d ago
> despite having spent no time or effort in thinking it up yourself. I mean, how can you say that he didn't think it himself? I thought this same thing and realised apparently I'm not the first. You have no idea how many of my
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by unsungNovelty 19d ago
But when it comes to GUI toolkits, which of them are efficient? React Native, Tauri, Electron. I don't see a efficient one other than Native toolkits. Even they have their own problems. PS: Loved your website's ( https:/&#x2F
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by unsungNovelty 23d ago
Privacy is hard because the definition of privacy differs depending on who you ask to. And people think companies have your data, so "what's the point?". Data economy which survives on privacy encroaching practices depend on
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by unsungNovelty 23d ago
I did a quick try. And would've liked a human saying the voice over than AI. Thought it broke the organic flow this app is trying to create. But it's morning here, so.. That is the only feedback I have as of now.
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by unsungNovelty 23d ago
Gonna try it. And also share it with my friend if it helps me. Interesting idea. Thanks.
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by unsungNovelty 25d ago
Exactly. It's not about us NOT having the knowledge, understanding or capability to solve the issues that we have. We just don't want to do the right thing. That doesn't get fixed even if we invent time machines.
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by unsungNovelty 25d ago
We already know why most things happen. But beat around the bush. That is the problem. We don't care. When a severe security bug crops up, one postmortem tells where we messed up. Someone somewhere didn't do his job. Maybe they pr
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by unsungNovelty 1mo ago
> Meanwhile, the over thinkers on Hacker News come up with convoluted reasons to hate on Firefox every time the subject arises. It makes me wonder if it’s a bot campaign by Google — except, why would they bother? Not bots. Am here. Not s
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by unsungNovelty 1mo ago
Virtue signaling the hell out of all posts and stuff saying we are for the people and doing everything against their interests gets super tiring as well.
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by unsungNovelty 1mo ago
I hate. Absolutely hate that you can't say anything directly anymore without sugarcoating stuff in HN. Downvotes follow. I mean, the hell is HN for then? Even the most obvious stuff needs to be said like... I don't know... but it
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by unsungNovelty 1mo ago
... Which gitlab already had before github. And still does.
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by unsungNovelty 1mo ago
Fond memories of playing CTF mode in a demo cd which came with digit magazine. I bought UT 2004 a while ago from Steam before they removed it. And I play it from time to time. Still fun!
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
OK. After reading the post, it doesn't seem so bad. Although I still don't like their ban on analytics on websites. Otherwise I could've de-googled most of my personal life.
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
Sure. But it will be trickled down into project by google which will effect us all and we won't have a say.
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
Why should there by any reason to look at the above ones? We are talking about this B2C company which effects a lot of our lives. The discussion isn't about that or this. The discussion is about JUST this specific company.
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
It's google. They are good at engineering. Not at creating trust. After the bizillionth time they have broken trust, there is no need for benefit of the doubt.
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
Been talking about it for a while now. U need to let ur brain absorb all of the things you are consuming. Let it marinate. https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/04/2025/you-dont-need-ai...
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
Checkout OpenStreetMap. You can add a map snippet using leaflet. It's trivial. Just that it won't be Google maps which people might be looking for.
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
Perfect. Will keep this website bookmarked. Thanks.
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
Would love to filter this by states so that I can go to the interesting temples in my state first before trying out other places. Would make it more functional.
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by unsungNovelty 2mo ago
> If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user. I wanted the information and I have no way of getting at it without investing my ow

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