ecp9

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by ecp9 8y ago
Everything on the web is converging to the same bland, middle of the distribution curve, unoffensive mean. Everyone has A/B tested to the exact same product, and it's a bad experience. The technology industry has become more about
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by ecp9 8y ago
On the web I can install ublock origin, privacybadger, and a vpn. Even if you ignore the phone's personal data aspect that's a 99% improvement over mobile.
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by ecp9 8y ago
I don't even bother installing apps anymore, I don't have time to research whether or not they are going to abuse my privacy or have some horrendous TOS. I got my core 10 apps and haven't bought a new one in a year.
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Ask HN: Is there any way to stop constant cloudflare captchas?
4 points by ecp9 8y ago|1 comments
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by ecp9 8y ago
If you're a hipster in a major city near fiber, sure, it all works great. For the rest of us, no, daily failures are the reality.
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by ecp9 8y ago
The points are nice, it would be amazing if the 90% of the web wasn't dumpster fire of inconsistent slow and hard to use sites.
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by ecp9 8y ago
Much networking equipment is not designed to handle malicious or bizarre traffic. TCP/IP is amazingly brittle, and often fails on me in surprising ways that the standards say should never ever happen.
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by ecp9 8y ago
This article is one of the most stupid things I've ever read, pretending there is some crisis of students seducing their poor, persecuted male teachers because of a reddit thread is not merely intellectually dishonest, it's just b
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by ecp9 8y ago
You're pretending people are rational automata who make decisions in their own self interest, which is rarely true in life. Very rarely true among political actors. I hope we can stop treating politics as a silly statistics game theory
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by ecp9 8y ago
manpages are such an inconsistent and often wildly disappointing experience that I advise everyone to give up on them and go with <any top internet tutorial> instead. There are like a half dozen really good manpages I can think of, so
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by ecp9 8y ago
I mean if you want to get into the history of any technology you can point out how archaic and horrible it was initially. We're still in that phase with the internet, in 50 years people are going to read about things TCP/IP and Fa
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by ecp9 8y ago
I thought pubg was a remarkable technical achievement, especially after years of tolerating bugs and jank in Arma.
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What Are the Yūrei Moji or Ghost Kanji?(sljfaq.org)
2 points by ecp9 8y ago|0 comments
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by ecp9 8y ago
This is so weird, I keep meaning to check out the brave browser but knowing it's tied into cryptocoin nonsense drops my interest level to zero.
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by ecp9 8y ago
Well I guess if it doesn't apply to us amazing, special techno mages then it's not really relevant and should be deleted. Who cares about the lives and silly struggles of those boring call center humans anyway?