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by baeaz 4y ago
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070821-01/?p=25...
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by baeaz 4y ago
If can dismiss what he said because it's one data point then we can dismiss the original argument altogether.
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by baeaz 4y ago
I was under the impression that, like chicken, cows became less edible as time passed?
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by baeaz 4y ago
I disagree that this is a social media, I don't even look at the names of those who leave comments or those I reply to. It's like I'm reading and talking to the hivemind.
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by baeaz 4y ago
If I had to guess, I would say that the designers who have been in charge of Windows for years are twenty-something year olds who have never used Windows in their lives.
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by baeaz 4y ago
It's not a moral problem, the morality angle is an excuse, these are just artists who don't want to be out of a job because of technological advances
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by baeaz 4y ago
You have to have some big balls to run a Mastodon server on AWS. You are just one pissed off guy away from a bill that will cost you dearly.
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by baeaz 4y ago
Given that practically every family has at least one car, I don't see how this is useful.
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by baeaz 4y ago
I don't know if things have changed but the last time I tried SL the client was so rough and awkward it seemed like an alpha. Even moving was laggy and annoying.
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by baeaz 4y ago
They don't mean someone should put a fence to stop people from leaving obviously.
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by baeaz 4y ago
Seems logical if you disproportionately treat poor and old/retired people you have to spend more per capita than a healthcare system that treats much younger and therefore healthier people.
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by baeaz 4y ago
That's not a problem as long as people exist outside the US.
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by baeaz 4y ago
I have always wondered why "x" and "conspiracy to commit x" are different counts.
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by baeaz 4y ago
That's false. The api was called friends permission and was public. There are references to it everywhere in the web. For example here you have a rando asking about it in SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/639
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by baeaz 4y ago
>An informed consent from users who's information is going to be collected. That consent was granted the day they accepted/sent the friend request. Once the friendship was established, the other user had access to the profile i
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by baeaz 4y ago
>An informed consent must be required. While I don't know what the prompt exactly said, I bet it was specific enough. The fact that people just click Accept without reading it shouldn't make it less binding, that would be infan
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by baeaz 4y ago
Sure - if you give a 3rd party application API access using your account, they can see whatever your friends have made available to you. This is as if my friends sued Facebook because I gave you my password and you used it to snoop on them.
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by baeaz 4y ago
Let's remember that this is because Facebook had an open API that a 3rd party developer abused with the consent of the users. In case you wonder why nobody bothers to have open APIs for anything anymore. (cf. Twitter 10 years ago and t
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by baeaz 4y ago
I suppose you are being ironic because that sounds quite close to...
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by baeaz 4y ago
F-Droid is infamously known for taking weeks to build a new version of any app.
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by baeaz 4y ago
That makes me think - would it be possible to have a runtime or build time option for cpython that removes eval() ?
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by baeaz 4y ago
If you don't like them then don't visit them or visit them with an ad blocker on. Don't deprive users from the content and don't deprive staff from their jobs.
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by baeaz 4y ago
How will ad-supported sites function without ads? Government subsidies?
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by baeaz 4y ago
They don't care about users who don't pay the bills.