nukeop

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by nukeop 7y ago
Chinese have different sensibilities than westerners. It's completely normal and accepted for them. They have a word for self-important westerners who are obsessed with politically correct speech and behavior - baizuo. It's a diff
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by nukeop 7y ago
There's a section where you can download all the data Google has on you.
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by nukeop 7y ago
But Facebook also tracks people who do not have accounts, and people who pay for services. No way out.
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by nukeop 7y ago
I subscribe to a couple of newsletters that send the most popular repositories in several languages to my email every week. There's been a trend of increasing Chinese activity for months now. The problem with Chinese programmers is tha
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by nukeop 7y ago
The American society has progressed so far it managed to bring back indentured servitude, what an achievement.
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by nukeop 7y ago
Until you fall victim to clickjacking.
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by nukeop 7y ago
This exact mechanism is already used for linking scripts/stylesheets from third party websites.
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by nukeop 7y ago
Years pass, we have sci-fi level technology, and the main method of distributing programs to users on Windows is still downloading .exes from random sites and being on the lookout for the browser toolbar trying to sneak by when installing.
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by nukeop 7y ago
It's still no proof of existence of black holes. It's like saying that a lightning storm is proof of Thor, because the legends say he wields the very same lightning. The cause could be something entirely different (spontaneous spa
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by nukeop 7y ago
There is still zero evidence that there exists such a thing as a black hole with all its fantastic properties. We have a picture of a red-yellow accretion disk and that's it. Black holes remain a mathematical artifact of general relati
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by nukeop 7y ago
7 CSS declarations and you too can include a Google tracker in your website. No thanks. Host your assets yourself.
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by nukeop 7y ago
Mozilla is almost fully financed by Google. Any day now, Google can retract its funding and effectively fully consolidate its iron grip on the fate of the Internet.
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by nukeop 7y ago
The more websites use Google's "captcha", the more pointless it is to resist fingerprinting. And since that "captcha" is built into Cloudflare's "spam protection", it blocks you from half of the inter
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by nukeop 7y ago
The purpose of advertising is to manipulate you into buying things you don't need, not to inform you about a product that is useful. Turn on the TV, or the radio, or any website, and show me one advert that is purely informative.
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by nukeop 7y ago
The day jazz will reach the masses is when the reviews about it do not even mention the word "black". It's created by emacs users, for emacs users, it should absolutely mention that word everywhere and stress its origins, it&
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by nukeop 7y ago
This resembles orthodox rabbis discussing what is considered kosher. I half expected to see my music player on the list, given it's popular, GPLv3 licensed and has no tracking, but I have no idea what the approval process is.
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by nukeop 7y ago
My fingerprint is different every minute. That "very strong signal" is discarded by every surveillance engine as useless noise.
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by nukeop 7y ago
Just block scripts and randomize the useragent, here's your new fingerprint every minute.
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by nukeop 7y ago
On the new internet, this tired adage is already outdated. You're still the product even if you're paying.
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by nukeop 7y ago
I'd rather be surveilled by the Chinese government than Google/Facebook and other FAGMAN companies. At least I don't live in the Chinese jurisdiction, while the tech giants do whatever they can to slip their tentacles into ev
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by nukeop 7y ago
This doesn't matter, even if it were paid they'd still spy on you, because they can. The list of paid services that still do a ton of spying is neverending (Netflix, Uber, Spotify, I could list them all day).
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by nukeop 7y ago
Google is pretty much useless for anything older than a few years, as well as for many less popular topics. I can't even remember how many times Google decided to drop a crucial word in my query to show me something, anything, instead
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by nukeop 7y ago
BPA plastics? Bad diets? Roundup? Chemicals in the water that make the freaking frogs gay? It's funny until it happens to you.
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by nukeop 7y ago
The term "LAMP stack" is at least 15 years old and even RMS commented on it a long time ago. That's as mainstream as it gets.
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by nukeop 7y ago
It's because being the top dog feels great, duh.
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by nukeop 7y ago
Making videogames is a great hobby though. One of the traditional appeals of writing roguelikes is that you can spend minimal effort on graphics and related cruft and boilerplate, and jump straight into implementing any fun mechanic you can
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by nukeop 7y ago
Astonishingly it turns out that bad programmers are everywhere and aren't made any better by handling a different domain of problems. Truly shocking.
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by nukeop 7y ago
Using Dynamo is the worst thing we've done for productivity and costs in our product. It introduces onboarding overhead, unnecessary implementation time overhead, costs a lot, and is always a bottleneck in every operation. Using DAX re
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by nukeop 7y ago
And now you have to trust the plugin author that he won't steal your passwords.
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by nukeop 7y ago
Just use Bitwarden now. It has everything Lastpass has, used to have, and more. And most importantly, you can run your own server.

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