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by veave 3y ago
All the charts started counting 40 years ago. In other words, they are extremely misleading.
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by veave 3y ago
reddit never cared much about performance, they blame it on IO but they chose to use cassandra, they used it as a key value store, then they put python on top of it, with the result that most pages would take seconds to generate and the web
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by veave 3y ago
Appeal to authority.
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by veave 3y ago
"Nutrition has made no progress. It has discovered no stable facts. Everything nutritionists have said, they have said the opposite ten or twenty years later (if not much sooner). They literally know nothing. After a century of countl
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by veave 3y ago
https://fdn2.mobgsm.com/vv/pics/kyocera/kyocera-duraforce-pr... I don't want my phone to look like that by law.
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by veave 3y ago
>According to research by high street bank TSB, 80% of purchase fraud cases reported to the bank come from platforms owned by Meta, which includes Instagram, as well as Facebook and WhatsApp. Well obviously since those are the most used
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by veave 3y ago
That's impossible. You can't see comments you made in private subs, therefore you couldn't have deleted them.
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by veave 3y ago
Maybe so, but stuff you post on public forums is not PII, neither by the American nor the European definition.
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by veave 3y ago
Nothing ever came close. I simply stopped using RSS altogether.
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by veave 3y ago
What I did when I used firefox was using the ESR version. It also comes with ads but you can disable them and you know they won't reenable them. And at least you get security patches.
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by veave 3y ago
He was given a huge megaphone because of his expertise in a certain field and now he thinks he has important insights about everything in the world. A story as old as time itself.
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by veave 3y ago
I use this along with https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win , which allows me to mount ssh filesystems as windows network shares, and it's awfully slow. So slow that when doing operations that involve opening several
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by veave 3y ago
I like porkbun.com for the same experience.
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by veave 3y ago
Letting users create a database of knowledge with the premise that it will be available and then massively deleting (or hiding) that knowledge is abusive. The admins of reddit haven't done so (yet). The day they do it I will call them
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by veave 3y ago
I hope the admins of reddit will start taking control of the closed subs and opening them up. The content of each one of those subs has been written by the users and it makes no sense that a handful of mods are taking the content and holdin
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by veave 3y ago
Lately I have been trying a new LLM called Falcon that was supposedly created in the UAE but it was mostly trained on conversations with ChatGPT... the result is that if you ask Falcon who created it, it will happily say OpenAI. I found tha
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by veave 3y ago
Better at adapting to regulations is not the positive point that you think it is.
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by veave 3y ago
I knew that someday reddit executives would close old.reddit.com and that that day I would have to stop visiting because of how shitty the new interface is. What I never could have imagined is that it would be the actions of mods that would
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by veave 3y ago
They want to "send money" (ie launder it to keep it) or replace the government or whatever. For that they need the public support for intervention.
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by veave 3y ago
Ask a busker
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by veave 3y ago
No, DOCSIS is not better than PON. PON has been flawlessly delivering 10/10 Gbps for years. What is DOCSIS doing? DOCSIS networks are much more expensive to maintain (in terms of electricity expenditure, copper literally rotting away..
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by veave 3y ago
That doesn't work. The video URL is not in plain text in the HTML. They send you encrypted data and you have to decrypt it using javascript that they also send you. It is, therefore, an encryption measure, which is illegal to break und
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by veave 3y ago
They say that they hold up to 120 kilos but I find that simply impossible to believe given how thin the frame is and the joints being made of plastic.
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by veave 3y ago
There is no API call that returns a direct link to the video file. To get it, you have to defeat encryption measures, and that is illegal under the DMCA.
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by veave 3y ago
Why should he be in charge of changing the system?
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by veave 3y ago
It's easy to prove, this is the code change that added the moderator invitation system: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/db7b531a7180...
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by veave 3y ago
>"You don't need an engineering degree to understand that's a bad thing," says Jonmichael Hands. Someone without an engineering degree will say it's a bad thing because it seems like pointless waste. Someone with
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by veave 3y ago
>A federal judge has rejected Apple's and Amazon's motions to wholly dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit, one that accuses the tech giants of colluding to eliminate all but the highest-price Apple products in Amazon's onl
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by veave 3y ago
I read this and I can't help but think the CIA is involved.
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by veave 3y ago
Doesn't take much to assume that a Source game is full of RCEs.

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