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EastSmith

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twitter.com 2y ago

DHH's dev setup for Ubuntu: Omakub

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twitter.com 2y ago

I'm no longer involved at Signal

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techblog.bozho.net 2y ago

Why Facebook's Lack of Customer Support Is a Problem

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twitter.com 2y ago

35 VC firms have signed the voluntary Responsible AI commitments

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twitter.com 3y ago

TypeScript sucked out much of the joy I had writing JavaScript

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imgur.com 3y ago

Cloudflare is breaking the internet by requiring "JavaScript and cookies“

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twitter.com 4y ago

DDG: We are not “purging” any media outlets from results

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www.ft.com 4y ago

Apple vs. Epic lawsuit twist as DOJ, Microsoft and 35 US states weigh in

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themarkup.org 5y ago

Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t

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www.wired.com 5y ago

Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism?

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twitter.com 6y ago

I just googled “App Engine Python getting started”

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docs.google.com 10y ago

React vs. Angular 2

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xooglers.blogspot.com 15y ago

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

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www.businessweek.com 15y ago

Credit Card Companies Woo Programmers

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Things Goolge can't do while building new product

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Tell HN: My Amazon EC2 billing problems

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www.firebirdnews.org 15y ago

Firebird 2.5 (final) released

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www.gsmarena.com 15y ago

Nokia N8 gets lots of stick in early reviews, we wonder why

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lifehacker.com 15y ago

Android Task Killers Explained: What They Do and Why You Shouldn't Use Them

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www.scripting.com 16y ago

My #blogpostfriday post

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Product Idea: Build browser plugin to encrypt Google Docs

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www.alistapart.com 17y ago

The Wisdom of Community

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datamining.typepad.com 17y ago

Twitter Url Shorteners Trends

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www.niallkennedy.com 17y ago

The anatomy of cloud computing

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battellemedia.com 17y ago

Twitter = YouTube

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jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com 17y ago

Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2008

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www.robertnyman.com 17y ago

Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension

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www.techcrunchit.com 17y ago

The Realtime Ping Server (FeedBurner is completely broken)

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blog.gnipcentral.com 17y ago

Gnip: Numbers + Architecture

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www.neoformix.com 17y ago

Twitter Venn Examples

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There are two things here:

Allowing Siri competitors. EU is 100% right to demand from Apple to give the same data that Siri has to any other app (competitor) that the user chooses to install, trusts and has granted access. The grant should be the gate keeper, not Apple.

User privacy, data retention, pii, etc - I am not 100% sure here - if you send user data somewhere to a LLM, it gets very complicated, very fast, and probably the rules should be revisited / simplified / relaxed.

I've used Windows since 3.11 and I am using macOS for 5+ years now for work (requirement).

Switched to Linux on my personal devices 2 years ago and using Ubuntu and PopOS! on two different laptops. I've had very small number of issues. Can't understand people moving to Mac - it is the same messed half backed OS as both Windows and Linux (flavors). With the llms these days, any linux issue is fixable within minutes.

With Linux at least I don't have to worry about privacy.

With OpenClaw we are seeing how the app layer becomes as important as the model layer.

You can switch models multiple times (online/proprietary, open weight, local), but you have one UI : OpenClaw.

Grok 2 years ago

Which is the only valuable thing Twitter (X) has left. reply

They have a very valuable user base (all kinds of world leaders for example), so the data is not the only valuable thing they have.

When they announced usernames I thought I will be able to install Signal on my TV desktop (linux) and send / receive messages from to it (links, files, etc).

Now that I know it still needs phone number I assume it will need to be unique so my use case fails.

For the record, I am still a happy Signal user and a monthly supporter, thank you very much.

Never buying a Sony device ever again. Got one 4,5 years back (3rd one for last 10 years). It had Google TV and I could not pass a screen and use the TV unless I agree a stupid EULA. Had to take it, because ... family, but they made me feel soo stupid.

Pair this with a horrible PS support and Sony is banned for life for me.

Hmm, I just gave it a try with https://fingerprint.com/ and each time I restarted the browser it says it is my first visit. This is really a nice surprise, as fingerprint.com tends to always recognize your previous visits.

Update: "In permanent private browsing mode, cookies and site data will always be cleared when Mullvad Browser is closed." It has this setting ON by default.

It is weird that you mention Elon Musk, but not Apple and Google, for example. These last two also push their employees to come back to the office, especially Apple. Every two months there is an article about Apple trying to bring everyone back working from an office.

We are moving to such cloud environment, and it makes me sick.

Maybe you need to dockerise Mongo, MySql and 5 other dependencies - I can get this, but I don't get it why the rest the code should still be running in the cloud. Python, Rails, Node? Why? Developers should be able to run 1 shell commands to install node.

Dev experience excuses are just excuses for a bad setup. So, fix your setup, please.

Not being able to run the project natively is big red flag for me and when I move jobs will be my 1st question.