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  1. ccakes parent
    Giving the benefit of the doubt, could it be being used as a translation tool?
  2. ccakes parent
    > Cloudflare isn't one of the good guys here

    Came here to say the same thing, post was interesting until I got to that point.

    > nuisance captchas

    Try using the internet outside of the western world and major hubs. Cloudflare make it so painful with captchas and browser integrity checks

  3. ccakes parent
    This is a great project! I like and use Wayland but the portal protocols and extension mechanism does leave a lot to be desired. Wayland is still quite a way behind Windows and macOS in terms of what productivity users need

    An X11 rewrite with some security baked in is an awesome approach. Will be watching!

  4. ccakes parent
    I use Firefox personally, where do people who care about privacy go? For those of you who’ve already given up on Firefox (I can understand why..), where did you go?
  5. ccakes parent
    > If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so.

    The point is that it doesn’t matter. A single site going down has a very small chance of impacting a large number of users. Cloudflare going down breaks an appreciable portion of the internet.

    If Jim’s Big Blog only maintains 95% uptime, most people won’t care. If BofA were at 95%.. actually same. Most of the world aren’t BofA customers.

    If Cloudflare is at 99.95% then the world suffers

  6. ccakes parent
    Don’t mess with perfection
  8. ccakes parent
    Definitely fair but for the candidate considering this, it's a numbers game. They're just looking to get their foot in the door for a new career path. You care, and you're right to care, but there will be others who don't.

    Then next time, it's no longer a lie and they can (in theory) get by on merit

  9. ccakes parent
    Lie on LinkedIn, get a foot in the door and explain in the interview
  10. ccakes parent
    Mac only but if you want a local only version of this (which has been mentioned in other comments), Dayflow[1] looks decent. I think I'd actually love something like this but can't quite bring myself to run it.. even with local models

    [1] https://github.com/JerryZLiu/Dayflow

  11. ccakes parent
    Yes but many of us also complain about the lack of quality journalism. We can’t encourage good (presumably) people leave the industry and also want the standard of reporting to improve
  12. ccakes parent
    latitude.sh do bare metal in the US well
  13. ccakes parent
    I’m using Monal and it’s decent. Agree reactions are a big thing missing, but notifications etc have been flawless which was a harder requirement for me
  14. ccakes parent
    If you're a normal person in a country that Cloudflare considers "scammy" - your internet experience is very different from someone based in the US. Your personal online behaviour is irrelevant
  15. ccakes parent
    Sort of, I was probably a bit flippant in the comment but there’s also a short game that can be had even in a potentially hostile environment.
  16. ccakes parent
    Because money is the priority for those people. If they can make more money by operating in a different regime then they will, the moral or political stance of that regime isn’t really relevant
  17. ccakes parent
    Different book/author, but if you haven’t seen A Scanner Darkly then give it a go
  18. ccakes parent
    I kind of think this is correct but not for the reason you think. To most engineers, users are the annoying thing on the other end of a ticket. They “don’t know how to use the product properly”.

    I’ve also had great success dropping engineers directly in front of customers. I think it’s just because it humanizes the person behind the ticket

  19. ccakes parent
    Is that a bug.. or a feature? Probably the latter
  20. ccakes parent
    I think most would say that’s configuration, not feature flags. The differences can be subtle but I at least don’t think they’re the same thing
  21. ccakes parent
    The Nordics aren’t struggling at all in this area, they also have incredibly generous parental leave and subsidised child care systems.
  22. ccakes parent
    Not really. A random app I download from Github Releases can easily ship my ~/.ssh/id_rsa off to some server and I'd never be wiser. That's very hard to do on a phone.

    They're not the same thing and treating them as if they are is somewhat naive.

  23. ccakes parent
    I guess this is the result of the free market at work. A link to multiple articles was posted but the consumers (HN users) voted with their wallets (upvotes) and here we are

    Is it not the system working as designed?

  24. ccakes parent
    If you’ve never stumbled across the older OkCupid blog posts or Christian Rudder’s book (Dataclysm[1]) then I can’t recommend them enough. Super interesting content delivered by a smart and engaging writer

    [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480734-dataclysm

  25. ccakes parent
    Roughly single-digit cents per megabit
  26. ccakes parent
    Looks super cool, congrats!

    Monodraw[1] is a similar product delivered as a standalone macOS app. It’s a classic pay once-type license and very polished software. Cannot recommend enough! I’ve always wanted something as good on Linux though, will definitely give this a go!

    [1] https://monodraw.helftone.com/

  28. ccakes parent
    This is a fun one I picked up while living in Sweden. I didn’t realise we differentiated like this in English until I was taught that many is många if you can count it or mycket if you can’t, then a Swedish friend pointing out to me that they learn English the same way

    I’ve eaten too many apples. I’ve got too much time to kill.

    Less & fewer work the same. Language is fun!

  30. ccakes parent
    I haven't! I just did a quick search, is this[1] what you're talking about.. or something else?

    [1] https://discogs-data-dumps.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index....

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