angiolillo

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by angiolillo 8d ago
> finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far better long term strategy It's worth pointing out that the original Document Foundation blog post ( https://blog.documentfoundation.org/bl
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by angiolillo 13d ago
Good questions! First, leaking a device's content filtering settings is not the same as leaking a user's age bracket. For example, if the server identifies a web browser that isn't loading tags annotated with "sexual-con
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by angiolillo 16d ago
> If you show this on the front page and it's 18+, it'll lock children out of the front page I don't understand why you think this is true when I specifically described a label that is applied to "an individual sectio
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by angiolillo 17d ago
Why must an age rating apply to an entire website? As one example, the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) (and to a lesser extent the prior Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSACi)) had a rating scheme that allowed sites to pr
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by angiolillo 19d ago
Neat! It might be useful to be able to configure the map viewing angle at the top and bottom of the frame, perhaps even the degree of curvature between them. I say this because I wonder if a shallower gradient (slightly more top-down at the
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by angiolillo 22d ago
> I had someone berate me for defending datacenter water use and their last post was literally a cheese burger. I can imagine raising issues with a specific datacenter in a specific water-constrained location, but I agree that being voca
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by angiolillo 29d ago
Too bad they didn't just require manufacturers to publish a rolling resistance efficiency score for tires, like the EU does, rather than a mandate with so many unintended consequences and loopholes. (That would be especially effective
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by angiolillo 1mo ago
Limiting temperature change by every additional 0.1°C is not really about comfort. Either way rich people will be comfortable and poor people will be uncomfortable or dead. It's about buying everyone more time to adapt. With respect to
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
> IOW: I predict we'll see a resurgence of reputation systems, to some extent I think you're right that reputation systems are the best solution to a low signal-to-noise ratio. Consumers (and the agents under their control) wil
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
> have just accepted that business people have neither the ability nor desire to ever be honest about anything Another plausible explanation is survivorship bias: if businesses that are publicly honest when things are going poorly are le
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
That's certainly part of the problem e.g. with airline seats. But there's also the issue that quality attributes can be difficult for casual customers to discern. Ethical attestations about treatment of workers, animals, and envir
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
Doesn't that depend on the form of government the state has? (For example, state ownership under an absolute monarchy doesn't seem like a proxy for public ownership.)
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
The video goes into slightly more depth, and at about 1:30 into the video they acknowledge that the participants were not representative and that they would like to conduct further research.
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
> Is only 10 people representative of the population of thunderbird users? For very narrow studies it is possible to get representative data with fewer than a dozen interviews, but in this case it is explicitly not representative. In the
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
To be honest it's also a little bit of rose-colored glasses. In the 2000s I probably spent the equivalent of thousands of dollars purchasing one-time commercial software licenses and I appreciate not having to save up for that any more
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
As evidenced by Rent-a-Center, automobile leases, and rental properties there are plenty of non-software businesses that cater to customers who prefer a subscription to a larger one-time transaction. > Why is software development any dif
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
At least in my case, when I lament the fact that everything is becoming a subscription I'm not judging independent developers who charge a subscription for their mobile or web apps. They need to stay abreast of an endless treadmill of
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
I once worked at a startup that did just that. Developed a system that was significantly better and cheaper than an existing legacy solution. One of the generals who saw the DARPA demonstration overrode the whole bureaucracy and brought it
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
> There is no such price, because there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions Such a price clearly exists -- in an extreme case you could charge 50x your annual subscription price and invest it with a 2% yiel
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by angiolillo 2mo ago
> What software companies need to do is sell versions, where the life time of the version usefulness is actually limited... Can the same not be found for many software products? Some of the enterprise software I've worked on has an
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
A majority of the parents I know are extremely concerned about the internet and social media and want tech companies to provide them with better parental controls. True, no one I know has lobbied for age verification specifically, but given
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
Agreed. Many parents I've spoken to want operating systems to provide a standard set of age and/or content flags that app stores and websites are required to respect. But various groups are deliberately conflating that desire for
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
> It’s not for the kids. That’s just the excuse. Is is an excuse for some, sure. But we will fail at pushing back if we ignore that there are a meaningful number of concerned parents who support solutions like this because they have beco
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
> Have apps and websites declare the objectionable content they have, and let the device decide if it will show it or not according to parental controls. That would have been nice. The RSAC (Recreational Software Advisory Council) had a
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
> No one sets the thing. Based on the surveys from the wikipedia page it appears that 15-20% of parents used the v-chip feature on their TV. For an optional feature that has to be manually configured that seems like an incredible success
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
> kids will always find circumvention pathways I'd consider this a feature. I'd be proud if my kids find a way to circumvent the parental controls on the family computer or use their own money to build their own computer like I
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
I've lived in a few US cities, but the example of NYC comes to mind. New Yorkers are happy to lend a hand if you're lost, struggling with a stroller on the stairs, or something falls out of your bag. And they're happy to chat
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
That is my experience as well -- most people are basically good. But my personal experience has also been that the sort of people who ignore social cues and try and chat someone up who is wearing headphones while riding public transit or wo
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
> It's fine to start a conversation with a women wearing headphones, just take it in stride and don't be weird about it if she isn't interested in talking. I do this (with men and women) a lot. Not sure where you're f
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by angiolillo 3mo ago
Different public spaces have wildly different expectations with regard to social interaction. Most people know better than to strike up a conversation with a stranger who is watching a theater performance, reading in a library, or walking b

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