infodroid

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by infodroid 8y ago
As HN has gained increasing prominence in mainstream media and the wider tech community over recent years, it has attracted a vocal and sizable mass of users that think it is fine to display a lazy and wilfully ignorant attitude. The existi
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by infodroid 8y ago
Over the past few years, the increase in zero-effort contributions have all but destroyed the quality of discussions on HN. And you aren't doing anything about it. HN is looking more indistinguishable from Reddit and I'll be damne
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Neon and corporate dystopias: why does cyberpunk refuse to move on?(theguardian.com)
2 points by infodroid 8y ago|0 comments
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by infodroid 8y ago
Why couldn't you just fucking google it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market Your inane rant disguised as a question doesn't add anything to the discussion.
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Guide to making your first command line project with ncurses(github.com)
2 points by infodroid 8y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla: Copyright Laws Stifle Creativity and Innovation(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by infodroid 8y ago|0 comments
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by infodroid 8y ago
It doesnt really matter whether you opted in or out. In the end, all that matters is whether the projected profits from abusing your data exceed the projected legal costs of doing do.
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How Microsoft stole my code and then spit on it(threadreaderapp.com)
92 points by infodroid 8y ago|53 comments
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Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn(bbc.co.uk)
23 points by infodroid 8y ago|22 comments
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by infodroid 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13348502 (2017)
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by infodroid 8y ago
If you like this, then check out Neocities, a free and modern Geocities reboot: https://neocities.org/ There are many fun sites to discover using the tag system, which emulates web rings: https://neocities.org&#x
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by infodroid 8y ago
A similar project is 'mocker', a "crappy imitation of Docker, written in 100% Python": https://github.com/tonybaloney/mocker
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by infodroid 9y ago
Like when Bill Gates called it his "new favorite book of all time".
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Mycroft – The Open Source Voice Assistant(mycroft.ai)
3 points by infodroid 9y ago|0 comments
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by infodroid 9y ago
What is often overlooked and misunderstood is that the bulbs were not only valued for their beauty, but more importantly for their use as commercial breeding stock. Since it was not possible to reproduce the best bulbs through seed propagat
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by infodroid 9y ago
This seems like bad advice because it doesn't address the legitimate need for keeping your browsing history private from overzealous, data-mining ISP's [1]. And even in the case of a known-hostile ISP that engages in invasive prac
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Tinode Instant Messaging - a replacement for XMPP(github.com)
3 points by infodroid 9y ago|0 comments
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by infodroid 9y ago
It's also useful for older versions of software to gracefully handle newer configuration files. If the software really is backwards-compatible, then this should come for free. Just don't throw a fatal error when processing an unkn
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A comprehensive guide to corporate online surveillance in everyday life(boingboing.net)
2 points by infodroid 9y ago|0 comments
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Building a privatised “smart city” by stealth(adrianshort.org)
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by infodroid 9y ago
Retaliating against the US assumes that the rest of the world doesn't want the same powers that the DHS now has, which is unrealistic I think.
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Mocker: A crappy imitation of Docker, written in 100% Python(github.com)
55 points by infodroid 9y ago|11 comments
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Global economic growth has peaked, says World Bank(ft.com)
2 points by infodroid 9y ago|0 comments
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by infodroid 9y ago
I don't think it would take very much to go from rosetta stone to a more comprehensive feature comparison. For example, the table could show the blank cell in a different color if it is a default feature, or if it an unsupported featur
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by infodroid 9y ago
The table doesn't yet distinguish between lacking a command line flag due to absence of a feature vs due to the feature being the default. This is similar to the situation with case-sensitive search in GNU grep, which ends up with a bl
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by infodroid 9y ago
The chart was created by Andy Lester, the creator of ack, who thinks that more open source projects should point to their "competing" projects because it's not really a competition: http://blog.petdance.com/20
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Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep(beyondgrep.com)
244 points by infodroid 9y ago|100 comments
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Dell launches 2018 XPS 13 laptop (this time it's even thinner)(liliputing.com)
3 points by infodroid 9y ago|1 comments
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by infodroid 9y ago
Swipe-based touch keyboards don't work for me. Compared to touch-tapping, I find I have worse accuracy. I also find them much more frustrating, because correcting a swipe mistake is a lot more expensive compared to tap mistake. At leas
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by infodroid 9y ago
Writing anything on modern touchscreen smartphones is so frustrating. I think the problem is that the touchscreen is always going to be an inferior interface to a physical button. I remember what it was like using PDAs and smartphones with

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