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by hoophoop 5y ago
Don't be fooled by the rain of downvotes that some comments are getting: the HN crowd is incredibly biased towards hyped stuff and CV-driven development. I worked in FAANGS where simplicity really mattered over hype.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> there is nothing wrong with advertising per se, it's a natural part of a free market economy. There is plenty wrong. Even Adam Smith's purely theoretical concept of "free market" requires buyers and sellers to be pu
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> getting your app into repository isn't really easier than getting it into app store ... and good luck if you're trying to make money from the app. Good. That's why the quality is so high.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> when does it make sense to track anything against trader bonuses It's another a measure of the ever increasing inequality in some countries. Such topic that certainly impacts the life of people commenting on HN.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> Let's say people thought Bozo the Clown invented the printing press People write articles to provide information. Reader read the article and learn.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> When did tombert assume that poor = "crazy" = criminal? It's implied here: "I think being really broke greatly hinders your ability to think rationally." ...by putting that sentence out alone without clarifying
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> that's not why we remember him 99% of people believe that he single-handedly invented the press with movable type. Ask around.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
No, there are no backports of security fixes for the applications.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
Browsers don't block any homecalling either.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> I think being really broke greatly hinders your ability to think rationally. No: being really broke can cause a lot of anxiety that can lead to irrational behavior. But often a person has to choose between homelessness and crime an
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by hoophoop 5y ago
As a non-native speaker I might make other grammatical errors but not the ones related to phonetics. Often I found more difficult to understand English written by native speakers than by others because of that.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> Is it even possible to do anything else? I can’t imagine keyboards report their physical layout.. You can easily ask the OS what layout is being used or even ask the user.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
What do you need exactly? OS packages or tarballs are more than enough most of the time.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> #ffffff is the color of looking directly into the sun and absolutely painful bright, #000000 is the color of the deepest, starless night No. There's no definition of what they map to. That's why we need USERS to be able to sc
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by hoophoop 5y ago
Epub can do all sort of homecalling / user tracking using HTML or CSS or javascript. What's even worse - almost all Epub readers don't do proper sandboxing.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
This is what [big] Linux distributions are for: vetting packages and vetting the vetters.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> I understand that as a US citizen I have more freedoms than most people throughout history Maybe on paper or as long as you are lucky. In most EU countries such stories of police abuse are way, way less common. Including things like un
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> If it's "we the people", it's totally fair and indicative of a very progressive and tolerant society. Or something. This is a very dishonest framing.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
FreedomBox is the only one that security updates from Debian. And for more than five years. Without breaking changes.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
No. If Signal /was/ federated it would be a strong hint that the server code stays the same. And even if it's not the same, people would be able to run their own trusted servers.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
There's nothing morally neutral in exploitation.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
...the simple fact that there's no guarantee that either the server or the client would receive updates. That means hard-forking the old server and client and maintain them as an independent project forever. That's what's sto
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> It's a purity test and nothing more. Wrong. Publishing the server sources allow people to create a parallel and independent service.
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> So the client is open source and guarantees end-to-end encryption regardless of what the server does. Ok, then I honestly don't care. Why should I? You should because any successful centralized messenger is one update away from
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by hoophoop 5y ago
> Hollywood is based on their ability to create films that cut across all the cultures Hollywood is widely caricatured outside of the US for its disconnect from reality. Flat characters, childish good VS baddies dichotomies, bombastic ac
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by hoophoop 6y ago
Let's stop with the performative cynicism on HN. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that (mentally healthy) humans are pretty capable of empathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy > They motivate thei
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by hoophoop 6y ago
I fully agree - but the problem is not just in the tech industry. Everything you describe is about capitalism: putting profit before any other priority.
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by hoophoop 7y ago
But you can trust the large userbase of a popular Linux distribuiton, especially when big companies use it.
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by hoophoop 7y ago
That major point is plain wrong. https://sysdig.com/blog/friends-dont-let-friends-curl-bash/ https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b... These attacks can be mounted
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by hoophoop 7y ago
Not at all. Monorepo is merely a detail around VCS and it does not remove complexity and the need for versioning.

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