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This is what I find difficult about these things, we (mostly) intuitively know that some cases it's okay to use information about users to tweak their experience, while we also know that what Facebook/Google/etc are doing is absolutely wrong. The big question is, where do we draw the (legal) line?

don't browsers send a header telling the server what language they expect? I live in Belgium where there's 3 national languages, and my preference isn't even one of them. Please us whatever language my browser tells you to (English)

I think the correct analogy would be that there's a corner in the screen where advertisement is playing constantly while whatever show you're watching runs. Obviously the advertisement is going to distract you from time to time, and you won't have your full attention on the show.

"We designed this service to reliably hold a huge amount of data. This setup will serve you best if it’s used to store compressed data archives or backups." "Do you offer backups with this service?

Unfortunately, no. Users have to regularly back up the data themselves. " That sounds a little contradicting

I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I feel HTTPS everywhere does not belong in that list. Secure by default doesn't sound evil to me, and Let's Encrypt made it easy enough to get free HTTPS certificates (and for non technical people, almost all hosting services I've seen offer it out of the box)

I see that they allow you to search through your messages across all platforms. How do they achieve that, unless they're somehow storing all my messages in their backend (which I'm not really a fan of if that'd be the case)

I've been loving Elixir for the past 2 years now (off-and-on). I try to build most of my personal projects in it (as I'm still trying to get better at it) My latest project is a Discord bot library written in Elixir, seemed like a good fit as the Discord backend is written in Elixir as well

My only complaint is IDE support, though VS Code works well enough for me (and for HTML I use Webstorm, as I find the Jetbrains Elixir plugin is a little better for EEx)

You are being outright negative about Elixir throughout the entire thread, generally without providing good reasons why outside what seems to be your personal bias. No one is forcing you to drop Erlang for Elixir

I've been diving into Elixir and Erlang, writing a library to build Discord bots with. I've been toying with bots for a while, but building the library myself gave me some interesting insights in Discord all while learning Elixir myself.

I'm trying to make it so that if you spin up multiple nodes it automatically balances the sharding over all nodes, monitors traffic and attempts to balance the work evenly.

At work one of our most commonly used libraries prints it's connection string (including the plain text password, username and database) in the log files on debug level (which I often see as the configured level). When I pointed it out they told me it was intentional, and that attackers wouldn't go to the log files anyway if they could acces the system. I gave up on the discussion at that point