JacobSeated

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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Interesting. How would this compare to making a while loop or recursive function, I wonder? And, what about switch statements? In theory it is said they should be faster, but I am not sure that's necessarily the case. Another option wo
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Consider yourself lucky, because often Bloatware is not so innocuous. Very far from it. It is a heinous intrusion on our devices. Take Lenovo, for instance, with its addition of utterly useless fn hotkey pop-ups that covers the screen when
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
You could install a basic setup with a "apt install x x x" one-liner in ubuntu, and it would not take more than a few minutes to configure everything with sensible defaults. The key here probably is, most people don't want to
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
It's the average per user, not a precise figure that fits on every user, but nevertheless I have seen no evidence to suggest that it would be inaccurate so far. Maybe you can find some?
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
You could just opt out by using another platform – or better yet, self-host your own instance of Nextcloud, Mastodon, or similar. It's not like you are out of options. Meta's services are far from essential. I personally use and p
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
That, I suppose, is why ad-companies typically invest in anonymization. It may not be perfect, but it is good enough in terms of reaching an acceptable balance between respecting privacy and someone being able to monetize an app or a websit
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Would anonymization change your mind? I am not saying it should be required, because I do not think that personally. But, anonymization with sufficient entropy should presumably invalidate any argument someone might have against targeted ad
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Apples and oranges. Eh? And yet, while completely rejecting my post so confidently, you somehow managed to miss a central point: We can have targeted ads and privacy, and to an extent we already do, so that is not the issue.
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
What specifically do you mean by "wrong end of the stick"? It seems you are just a troll incapable of engaging in meaningful discussions.
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Your comparison is quite disgusting and grotesque of course, but let os ignore that for a moment and address the false idea that users are "paying with their privacy"; such opinions is probably the result of a number of logical fa
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Not to devalue the tireless work of authors, but we must also recognize that students in particular do not have enough money to pay for all these books. At the same time, it can be argued that writing a single book, and selling it thousands
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
The part about search engine optimization is most probably highly inaccurate; you do not need special SEO skills to rank highly for low-competition niches, so that's that. The key part, I think: ...the business model focuses on quantit
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
I never ever smashed my phone. Why would I wanna do it? How/why can people be so clumsy? I think it is a symptom of having too much money.
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Regardless of the reason, of course not acceptable. We have to insist on complete transparency, and life-time bans should always be liftable through some sort of dialogue. It is impossible to have a productive relationship with someone that
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
The privacy argument is extremely important, also in regards to avoiding tracking via ads, but I do not think bypassing or blocking ads is the way forward. In the free democratic world, we really should aim to do better than this, and inste
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Thanks for this. It is similar to how I feel these days; I am currently learning vue.js, and working on 3 different components at the same time (I should probably have focused on a single component, but the boss kept finding things that nee
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
It is far more likely that it is due to numerous other causes, some even with proven links – there is, however, still no links to mobile phone use, and no known mechanism by which it could even happen. Non-Ionizing Radiation causing cancer
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Aspartame is still fine, and it is one of the most researched substances. This type of reasoning, that you are using, is down right unscientific, conspiratorial, and dangerous. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aspartame-and-
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
This is the expected, most intuitive, and only sensible behavior, and yet Microsoft somehow, for some reason, decides it is okay not to use the default browser? Wait a minute. Are they trying to cause me to have a complete meltdown? This is
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
And then you thought "æ" was an infamous danish letter. Oh well, those Æ, Ø, Å letters are still funny though (they typically have a funny pronunciation that is).
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Filters take a minuscule amount of resources. E.g. Even if you had to loop over a list with thousands of entries this would be unlikely to matter, and can in fact even be optimized quite significantly with various algorithms. However, becau
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Depends on how said material was purchased. E.g. Most YouTube videos would not be okay to simply download, since you did not technically pay money to obtain a copy. However, things you buy on YouTube movies really should be downloadable.
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Things rarely reach a 100% and that's okay imo – as long as I am still making progress. It's hard to find time and energy for dedicated work sessions on personal projects with a full time job. Small incremental improvements ftw!
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
If just taking pictures, it is doable with an iPhone, but you probably have to fire a series of snaps to get a decent one. I tried taking a picture of a ordinary garden ant at some point, and it came out surprisingly well. That's rathe
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Is that what you want? Because I never wrote that. Go back and read what I wrote. To be clear – I do want there to be an option to create anonymous accounts, but they have to be clearly marked as anonymous. Again, go back and read what I ac
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
Well, at least consent dialog blockers can get rid of some of it.
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
As I already discussed in my own thread, there has to be limits to people's anonymity online, because otherwise you are just allowing the bad actors to control the flow of information, and thereby also shift opinions simply by the shee
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
I happen have investigated vast amounts of spam accounts and content posted by people engaged in conspiracy theories, and in my experience the main propagators of this type of disinformation are fake accounts and people hiding behind anonym
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
I support the idea of anonymous accounts, but they should not be available easily to everyone. Perhaps they should start out in a sandbox, and of course, monitored more actively for signs of abuse. Other account types should really have a v
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by JacobSeated 3y ago
That's just inaccurate. Microsoft Office is one of the easiest things to replace; LibreOffice takes some getting used to, but it does what you need it to do. What's going to be harder is Microsoft Exchange, but if people work in a

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