waon

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by waon 6mo ago
European integration did not happen before WW2, because you know, Europe was at war. Moreover, criticizing FDR's response to the great depression while solely condemning Europe for its post-war policies isn't a great counterargume
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by waon 6mo ago
How telling that in your version of events, "massive democratic backsliding" happened right after the conclusion of WW2. Yikes.
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by waon 8mo ago
The person you're replying to doesn't abide by their own stated principles. It's a mistake to think that they're merely reminding you of the rules. No, it's an order. Just look at how many political comments they ma
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by waon 10mo ago
Periodic reminder that there are people seeking to derail discussions critical of AI and divert attention away from the actual substance of these issues.
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by waon 10mo ago
This is just like how Windows is turning into an "agentic OS." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920239 I wonder how many people installed VS Code wanting a text editor, only for it to become something else.
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Visual Studio Code – The open source AI code editor(code.visualstudio.com)
3 points by waon 10mo ago|1 comments
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by waon 1y ago
This is what Republicans do. It is their job.
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by waon 1y ago
Defense in depth only works if you put up meaningful security measures. As numerous people including GP has pointed out, you still retain the means to log user traffic. That's not meaningfully secure than the alternatives. More impor
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by waon 1y ago
The whole community fled from Freenode as a direct consequence of your actions. You aren't convincing anyone with your "debunkings," dear masterdebater.
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by waon 2y ago
I find websites punishing users over their choice of browsers to be questionable. But if they're going down that route, why on earth allow Chrome, a mass surveillance product made by the richest ad company in the world? The level of ha
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What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser?(lobste.rs)
8 points by waon 2y ago|3 comments
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by waon 4y ago
I wish the authors won't be demotivated by this if they ever see this top comment. Borg is such an invaluable project done by volunteers. They don't deserve the blatant abuse demonstrated by the OP. Even more so when the reasons a
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by waon 5y ago
I believe some of the Chromium folks are partly responsible for this. Though it's probably not a planned "campaign" of any sort, I've seen some prominent figures constantly direct hatred toward other browser vendors onli
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“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”(github.com)
280 points by waon 5y ago|348 comments
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by waon 5y ago
According to one of the new ops for the now unofficial Freenode #fsf channel, #reactos may have stayed. If true, the count would be four. > @freenode_CrystalMath:matrix.org > and i'm a reactos developer, though we're not on
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by waon 5y ago
> Worth noting that it's quite common for people to not be publicly listed as part of Github organizations. My bad, I didn't know that was a thing.
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by waon 5y ago
It's quite concerning that ailin-nemui, who made the prior commit migrating to Libera currently isn't listed as part of the irssi organization[1]. According to GitHub stats, this is the person behind most of the code in irssi[2].
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by waon 5y ago
I wonder if this is the official stance of the project itself, since this commit was authored by a person who hadn't made a single commit for more than 5 years. https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commits?author=Ge
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"Irssi does not take a political stance"(github.com)
49 points by waon 5y ago|28 comments
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by waon 5y ago
It's subtle misinformation that's designed to change how people unconsciously perceive PWAs. When people bring up PWAs, they commonly refer to a particular set of APIs which has a tendency of mainly being a Google-driven effort.
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by waon 5y ago
> HTML5 (which is now called Progressive Web Apps / PWA) This is clear gaslighting and is verifiably false. Progressive Web Apps is a Google thing, coined by a Google engineer[1] and promoted by Google[2]. The HTML living standard
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by waon 6y ago
> The fact that the read me provided examples specifically downloading RIAA relevant content is pretty damning. That's not a fact, that's baseless rumor. Here's the actual README: https://gitlab.com/ytdl-
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by waon 6y ago
The test cases only downloads the first 10KB for automated testing, as was mentioned beyond the first sentence of my original comment.
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by waon 6y ago
Did you actually read the README, or are you just spreading rumors? Because I did and have no idea what you're talking about. BTW the README can be found at https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl if anyone wants t
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by waon 6y ago
> Well, consider that if Apple were an open platform, this default would be set by most "for free". > If the platform invited the user to set a default, or was "biased towards their user's preferences", as mos
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by waon 6y ago
Please don't redefine privacy as "we know everything about you and we're going to exploit that information for profit but won't give it to anyone else except governments whatever their purpose may be because they only ev
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by waon 6y ago
For this particular feature, there can be no meaningful transparency whatsoever. Permission to use TCP or UDP is very, very different from permission to access location info. Any user can easily imagine the possible consequences of allowing
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by waon 6y ago
I’m not convinced because many of those “legitimate websites” don’t have a very good track record of respecting user security and privacy. Given past events, I find it hard to believe that the ad industry or the entertainment industry or an
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by waon 6y ago
Mitigated how? Websites are going to force users to click "allow."
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by waon 6y ago
This proposal would make ebay's job of port scanning their users a lot easier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436775

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