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Interesting, but not surprising considering all the pressure from governments regarding Libra. I wonder if Facebook will ever back down from Libra considering how popular it is, or if they're going to adopt a "rain or shine" attitude and go forward with it regardless of what happens?

ServeTheHome asked Oracle why it chose to create a cluster of Raspberry Pis instead of using a virtualized Arm server and one company rep said simply that "...a big cluster is cool."

Honestly that's a totally valid reason to make something like this. This is super cool.

A very interesting statement. The Hong Kong ISP Association makes a number of very good points. Much of Hong Kong's economy relies on the open internet (like most of the world) and censoring it would do it much harm.

I opted out of the redesign on my account. That way, I use the old design on my account, even if I'm not using old.reddit.

It is the worst redesign I've ever seen on a major website like this for a number of reasons. It's needlessly heavy on resources, it's slow, it's difficult to navigate, it's filled to the brim with ads, it's uninspired and takes away all of the charm of the old design in favor of making Reddit look like a more generic social media, it doesn't work with the wayback machine, and that's just scratching the surface.

It's such a awful design. I've explicitly opted out of the new design on my account, and I use old.reddit.com whenever I'm not signed in.

Samsung's SmartThings seems to be pretty similar. Not sure about it's security though.

It's super cool that the game is being updated 10 years later to effectively remaster it AND make modding easier! I wish more developers were like this, but I can see why that might be difficult (which makes this all the more impressive)

Just because you don't use or need those features doesn't mean that everyone feels the same.

Many people use any enjoy the features that steam provides. For example, I enjoy the ability to go to someone's profile and be able to instantly join their game. I enjoy the ability to organize events through events in steam groups. Many people I know use the Steam Workshop to share their fan-made content or the Marketplace to sell their items.

It's not just those features in the client though. Steam also has a number of integrations that developers can make in their games, such as achievements, integrating their multiplayer with steam (allowing for the aforementioned joining via profile), cloud saves, controller support, etc.

Right now Epic is missing many of these features and more. With that being said, what reason do I have to use Epic over Steam besides the fact that Epic has a few exclusives?

It promotes athleticism, teamwork, and is generally enjoyable to those around it. Sure, some schools may invest a little too much into sports, but that doesn't mean that schools should drop sports entirely.

This is a really bad post with a lot of completely needless personal attacks, with some coming right out of the gate.

This is really cool! I've always dreamed of something like Google Docs for programmers.

On one hand, this creates a platform that is more or less the standard of the web. On the other hand, this only gives Google more control of the web.

I really wish that instead of doing this Microsoft would just stick with EdgeHTML and maybe open-source it.

Find the one that is the most restrictive in what it protects and make that your policy. ;)

Pretty much. As an example, see how car manufacturers follow California's emission standards nationwide, because it's easier to just do it for every car than to make compliant cars just for California.

The Internet Archive has been doing great work lately, between backing up arcade machines, to Winamp skins, and now this in addition to all the other cultural works they've backed up. I highly encourage donating if you have the extra cash.

Exactly. There are often times where I get a blank page and have to refresh. Combine that with the fact that CPU usage is way higher on the redesign for me, and after about a month or so of testing it I reverted to the old design.

The fact that Reddit even considered making this the default design for logged out users is laughable.

I love this! It's really fun, and will be really useful for when I'm making something and can't find a specific color.

This outage lasted quite long. I hope we get a postmortem from Reddit as to why the site went down.

Here's an alternative article from CNBC since the linked article is having trouble loading: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/netflix-down-streaming-servi...

Damn. I knew this was coming but it still hurts.

He was one of the most respectable, honest, and hardworking people in this industry. His death is a massive loss.

I hope he rests in peace.

You laugh but that's probably what's gonna end up happening.

Yeah, that's what I want to know too. I'd rather not my purchase data be shared with advertisers.

Non-Mobile link for those on desktop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junio_Hamano

Discord is pretty alright. It has most of the features that I want (Video calling, search, server administration, etc) and the "gaming" features are pretty easy to ignore.

Somebody on GitHub made a epub version, which you can find here: https://github.com/pettarin/fsfs3

In the releases tab you can find a download for a zip file containing both epub and mobi files.

Signal is easier to use. I use it primarily as a SMS client but when I'm talking to someone who is also using Signal the conversation automatically becomes way more secure.

I'm just sitting here wondering how far YouTube will go to make the site "Ad Friendly" with all these changes lately. At this rate it wouldn't surprise me if the YouTube Partner Program went back to it's original form, where it was invite only for a select few creators.

But this also highlights the need for creators to diversify their revenue. Don't just rely on YouTube. Offer T-Shirts. Take sponsorships. Open a Patreon. Start streaming on Twitch. Try to get to that point where the majority of your revenue comes from sources outside YouTube.

Last I checked reddit's reasoning for the redesign was that their current codebase was difficult to work with due to "the lack of separation of the frontend and backend code"

Don't trust this, 2no.co is an IP logging service. See their website for reference. https://2no.co/

I'm a happy user of Bitwarden, but until it undergoes a formal security audit I'd probably recommend Lastpass or 1Password (assuming "non-technical people" means friends/family)

React is an open-source freely-licensed javascript library that you can self-host, so I don't see the problem with it just because it's maintained by Facebook.