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Be wary of Bluesky 5 months ago

Thanks, that's awesome! I will give it a try because I love idea of federated networks a lot. Just couldn't find my way in the jungle.

Be wary of Bluesky 5 months ago

It's exactly that. I have an account on Mastodon that I haven't opened in months. I use Bluesky a couple of times a day. On Mastodon I couldn't find interesting accounts to follow for weeks. On Bluesky I was up and running after an hour thanks to starter packs. Ease of use trumps (what a word!) philosophy for me. And probably most other people too.

BTW I already lost 10 years of posting on Twitter. Did not care for a second. Do people REALLY care about their postings on micro blog sites? It's not like a box of photographs that I would pass to my children on my deathbed...

I am just a typical Office user in a small company environment. Copilot buttons started popping in various Office applications. When I asked Copilot in Outlook to summarise mails from one of my contacts it happily searched the Internet and said it found nothing. AAA experience.

I switched to Qwant 2 months ago after using DuckDuckGo for 4 years and Google before that. I live in Poland - and Qwant gives me the best search results of them all. Much more relevant than DuckDuckGo and much less sponsored content than Google. I'm really happy about how it works for me.

But how are all those people supposed to know that beforehand? Call yourself whatever you want but don't expect anyone to deal with your name-fuckery. It's called first name for a reason.

Burn After Wearing 2 years ago

Exactly. Such a policy doesn't do anything to curb the amount of waste. It just shifts it to poorer regions and lines Mafia pockets with money

In my opinion writing that Microsoft fucked up where clearly other software puts bogus data in timestamp fields is laughable. Shit goes in - shit goes out.

I think MS should improve implementation in two ways: - ask known trusted sources (like their own servers) for SSL timestamp - use that timestamp only internally (as opposed to system-wide) to acquire valid NTP timestamp

Hey Mr. Know-it-all There WILL be a situation where you know nothing. Maybe your refrigerator would die and the technician would be scheduled two weeks from now. You would write about it on HN and some asshole would write:

So? It's not like shitty Samsung refrigerators is the only one model available.

I really do have to wonder about people who choose refrigerators using R407c refrigerant where temperature glide causes compressor valves to wear out prematurely. People apparently spent exactly zero minutes to try and find a solution.

That's insecure because if the password leaks from any site it could be trivially used by attacker in other sites. And your algorithm is not safe at all because password crackers could guess your algo and generate millions of its variations.