rainingcatndogs

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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
> Infact, most of the high ranking people in his cabinet are self-made men like him. We hear a lot about how the current government is less corrupt and less dynastic. But their actions say otherwise[1][2][3]. [1] https://m.the
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
But unfortuanately(as a side effect?) policies like this hinders the operations of goodwill nonprofits like Amnesty International[1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/amnesty-to-hal...
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
Yes, that seems like a feature.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
I recently read a book which explores these patterns using real data: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480734-dataclysm
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
A "tech stack spoofer", that would be cool and it can have applications beyond that like for security by obscurity.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
When was the channel unblocked? It is disheartening to know that a company was able to silence legitimate criticism on all major platforms and even on places like LBRY.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
Their videos got removed from LBRY as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jsuows/all_my_videos... I had no surprise when I heard youtube suspended him. But I'm very dissapointed that a pla
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
I haven't used them but I think the most important benefit is collaboration (sending pull requests etc...) is done via email and thus is less centralised platfomr than github/gitlab which uses their own mechanisms.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
You can try this plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwa...
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
I recently watched the social dilemma from netflix, they touched the serious matters and presented well but what disappointed me was the lack of awareness about these alternatives. It would have been of great help if they provided reference
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if these mentioned apps comes with google's dns resolvers baked in, in that case routing through pihole doesn't help here.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
What settings is that?
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
>Can I fork the codebase somehow? You can try: https://github.com/sebst/pythonic-news/ or https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
And unfortunately, cloudflare is everywhere. This trend will make it even harder for projects like a new search engine to enter the game.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
I belive you can blacklist that driver if needed.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
> They don't know why they've been banned. The absence of reason makes me wonder a lot of possibilities. Maybe google bans people who use ad-blockers, maybe they didn't explicitly set that way but some of their algorithms
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
And it made me download a lot of MIT OCW courses which I watched and might watch from youtube. In case there will be a situation when we cannot download videos anymore from youtube, I'm gonna host a Peertube instance and upload all of
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
Definitely easier to get back a gone domain(unless I missed payment) than a gone gmail/other free account.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
I did have my phone number linked to gmail and I was able to reset my password using otp code, not 2FA though. As you say, it might not happen if I enable 2FA but I've had enough that day frantically trying to get my ~10 year old accou
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
Last week google did something like that to me. It said "device not recognized" and "suspected activity detected" and won't let me in even after I reset my password. That was my reality check. Fortuanately, I was ab
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
They probably have a list of phrases that will be sent for manual review.
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by rainingcatndogs 6y ago
It is definely true for platforms like Quora which aggressively guards user contributed data and even blocks the internet archive's crawler. But stackoverflow and such have content under creative commons and it is actually good that an