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The solution to a social problem can be social in nature.

If you apply this to the OP blog post you can see that the desire to get away from IRC to "safer" products comes from the desire to deal with the social problem in a social way, but in a hidden way:

The technical solution will supposedely make it easier to apply the social solutions, i.e. the barrier of entry for undesired participants will be higher.

An undesired participant can be someone who questions Mozilla on a fundamental level (i.e. on the topic of meritocracy, privacy, inclusion, activism, etc.)

The proposed solution is reverting to a "safe space", i.e. something that promises to automatically protect against undesired participants, because Mozilla has long ago decided that it does not tolerate being questioned on a fundamental level.

This ultimately results in a reclusive filter bubble, where a significant part of the audience is no longer allowed to exist.

Since Mozilla does not seem to want to invest in moderating these spaces in a democratic and open way, which is very costly (but human relationships are always costly), the proposed solution is to build a fence between "us" und "them".
I haven't received an e-mail, I've got multiple docker-hub accounts.
A VPN service that cannot be blocked: https://www.tunnelhero.com been using this guys in China l, turkey and UAE works like a charm.
To be fair, it is "frivolous eye-candy”. But that doesnt change the fact that you are not going to reach the people which rank eye candy higher then functionality.
It's in the public interest for legislators to consider those views alongside the views of the general public. Unfortunately the latter does not have the resources to lobby as effectively as Microsoft does…
Vision can't see through obstacles at blind intersections like side radars can.
It seems so weird. If they had the backing at a reputable bank all along, what was with the constant song-and-dance show around not providing a simple external audit proving that point.
I just looked at github OAuth scopes ( https://developer.github.com/apps/building-oauth-apps/unders... )

honest question, what's the point of using OAuth when the Authz is so coarse? Why not augment to have scopes per repo? Is it considered bad practice to have have a variable (repo name) as a scope?
> - Email is hard to get right. There are many subtle configuration mistakes you can make, and it's pretty hard to detect those mistakes (hence one of the reasons why I started Mailhardener)

It's not that hard if I've done it right. ;-)

Jokes aside, yes, it's a bit overwhelming at the beginning, but I don't find it that cumbersome to keep it running. That is, it wouldn't be if Google was not actively being malicious in this regard.

> - Your users will have high expectations. For email to be used effectively users expect email to work on many devices, have a webmail client, calendar integration, a good search function, good spam detection, infinite backups, ability to have huge attachments, etc, etc.

From my experience, these aren't that hard to set up.

If you're a corporation, your users are your employees. This is a bit different than if you were an email hosting company where users were paying for your product. In the former case, it is your responsibility to handle this well to serve the company's needs. It either serves you well or it does not.

> - Your spam filter is never going to be as effective as that of the big email services. They have ML based spam filters that are constantly evolving. Even if you were to have access to their ML models, you wouldn't have enough data to effectively train that model.

I'm not convinced by this argument. As others have stated, I've also had very bad experiences with Gmail's spam filtering. It has a very high false positive rate which often makes email go unnoticed until it's too late. I have a basic SpamAssassin setup for my self-hosted email and it works marvelously. It very rarely lets spam through and I haven't had a single false positive yet.

> But for >99% of organisations, it just won't make any sense to run their own email.

Perhaps, but the solution is decidedly not going to the monopolist. Hiring an email hosting company instead of doing it yourself is reasonable, though.
What about amp for email as network effect?
> How can one automatically determine whether a page is unique or static?

They crawled it for years and it never changed? It is a blog post.
Up here in Newcastle I'm yet to meet an Uber driver who knows their way around, and it's a tiny city. My favourite was the guy who had no idea how to get to the airport despite it being literally 15 minute drive from the city centre. One of the roads was closed(and Google maps of course had no idea about it, it's completely useless), so the driver started asking me for directions to get to the airport - and my only reaction was "dude, seriously? You drive a taxi for a living and have no idea how to get to the only airport for a mid-size city??". Literally every Uber I've taken so far was both useless at navigating and borderline criminal with their driving ability(driving too fast, too aggressively, not paying enough attention).
Draft legislation in Washington is publicly available. Anyone (including privacy groups) could submit a redline markup. To the extent that the legislature might prioritize the views of Microsoft isn’t corruption, it’s common sense. The EU created a heavy handed data privacy law because it would be American companies that would feel most of the compliance burden. When you are Washington state and one those companies is in your own back yard, the calculus is different.

This is the exactly sort of scenario where lobbying is important. “Privacy” sounds good in the abstract. It’s like “think of the children.” Who could be against more privacy? But what’s going to be the impact on local businesses? On the products people buy?
It's way too much to ask a driver to risk driving in some gang land area or pick up riders that in way too many cases are violent criminals.

If you pick up random strangers in "bad" neighborhoods as a private person you are insane. Somehow taxi drivers are bad persons when they don't.

Do these things full time you will sooner or later get in trouble.

Going after drivers is going for the symptoms rather than the cause and quite selfish. If I wouldn't do it myself I don't want anyone else being forced because they have lower income than me.
FWIW, I don't think these apps used undocumented APIs. They merely used (or abused, depending on your viewpoint) publicly available MDM APIs for parental controls.
May I contribute with an hybrid optimization. Some workers were tasked to remove duplicate in excel files by hand. They'd have to create filtered view for each entry, Excel being slow it took hours. Some woman had a 3000 lines spreadsheet and was about to lost it. I wrote a 8 lines VBA to count duplicates, just enough so she could filter anything that had count > 1 and then delete things on her own. Turning multi-day job into a two clicks operation. Probably my most happy lines of code in my entire life.
Not even worth one star: Reacting constructively to App Store reviews
Have you looked into WildDuck.email? I find it very nicely made for people who wants to run their own email. Still in Beta. FYI, I'm just a js developer not related to them.
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Really? How does it matter who wrote it? Who voted to force that shit on the people?

What about the corrupt moron legislators elected and paid to do their job and work for the voter?

Enjoy your democracy.
Given the mischaracterisations and both personal and nationalistic slurs in this comment, we're clearly beyond being able to have a respectful discussion on this topic.

But for the sake of setting some points straight, and correcting a mistake on my part:

- Australia's basic human rights are inherited from British common law, which is argued by some (generally conservatives from what I can see) as in some ways preferable than rights encoded in a constitution or bill of rights. Reasonable people can and do debate that, but for however much this counts, the (hardly left-wing) Cato Institute rates Australia as 4th in the world on its freedom index [1]).

- I don't support selective enforcement; the article I linked showed that the law was enforced, it's just not a heavy-handed enforcement, and thus the spectre of jail is overblown.

- You're not forced to vote; you can lodge a blank form. You are just required show up (or send in a vote by post), or pay a $20 fine. Which, I agree, initially seems like a heinous impingement on freedom, until you realise it's the best protection we have of a more important freedom: that everyone has the right to vote without interference by political operators who would seek to manipulate the system to arbitrarily prevent certain people from voting.

- I was slightly mistaken about prisoners voting; prisoners on sentences greater than 3 years can't vote. So, murderers or other serious violent offenders aren't voting. But the potential for governments to manipulate elections via excessive incarceration is vastly reduced, which seems like something that should be important to people who worry about government intrusions on freedom (of which I'm one).

- I'm with you on the profound importance on free speech; I just think people who want to send a strong protest to government would be better off finding another hill to die on.

- "Moderate" and "balanced" are important concepts in political decision-making, and "reasonable"-ness is a core concept in common law.

Ultimately, systems should be judged on their outcomes.

I was previously (indeed quite recently) of the ideological persuasion that saw things like compulsory voting as an unconscionable breach of civil liberties.

I now recognise that virtues can only be measured in relation to other virtues they either impede or promote, and that in practice it turns out that, this particular infringement of civil liberties leads to a far more important benefit: a democratic system in which nobody is denied their right to vote, and a society that is widely regarded as being as free and well-functioning as any.

Which is not to say I make great criticisms of the U.S. I like the U.S., and whether I do or not it's not for me to say it should change.

I'm just pointing out that the odious spectres people invoke whenever compulsory voting is raised, turn out not to be problems in practice in Australia.

[1] https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-i...
Its worst problem is the inability to request scrollback from the server. I don't understand why that extension wasn't written, like, 20 years ago.

You also need a "de facto official" client that includes a small list of default servers, and big friendly buttons for /JOIN and /PART - in fact the user should not be required to type a /COMMAND at any point.
Seriously, who wants to work for a company which acts like that?
“But that is your job”
Apps use undocumented APIs to track which apps you’re using and prevent you from opening certain apps, Apple realises this is a potential security/privacy problem, so builds screentime into the OS so it can plug the security hole.

What they should have done is allow apps access to the screentime data if the user gives permission to the app to manage screentime.
Is there an Android App with etymology? I have seen few websites, is there a "recommend" website for this dictionary?
Well, my father died of pancreatic cancer three years ago. It was detected in the last stage due to very strange positioning. He only had a few months to live at that point.

I really wish we had better methods to detect that cancer. Maybe before it metastasised he could be saved?
I was not aware of this, but found a similar solution that is available almost on any computer: On Linux (my main work environment) I use the English International with AltGr Dead Keys. This gives me a lot of European (and other) accents by combining AltGr+<Accent simulation key> <Letter on which to put the accent>.

Examples:

ä - AltGr+" a (the double quote looks visiually like 2 dots)

ç - AltGr+, c

õ - AltGr+~, o

and so on. I found this solution very practical, even if quite late in my life (went from German QWERTZ, to French AZERTY, to end up with QWERTY), because QWERTY is available everywhere, even if I have to work remote through Windows computers, and it is much much friendlier than AZERTY/QWERTZ. Additionally it gives me to write with the same layout German, French, Portuguese, etc. And it is very easy to remember how to get the accents, because the used signs are visually close.
From what I see, I don't think these apps are using undocumented APIs. Also, your "solution" doesn't meaningfully improve the situation we have currently.
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There's quite a lot of issues there! So I'll just leave one more comment with you for now.

When I look at a Merge Request ( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/27776 ), the primary thing I do is look straight at the code changes.

It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to find where the code changes are in the UI. It seems like the actual content of the MR is the most important part and should be up at the top with the title and text description.

I think if I had to summarize my take on Gitlab UI, it would be claustrophobia (sidebars closing in on me) and information overload (what am I looking at or what _should_ I be looking at).

Thanks for taking the time in this interaction! :)
> for the too many people that want to have fun while pretending to communicate

It's exactly this kind of flippant dismissal that is why IRC is dying, because there are too many people who equate modernity with frivolity. That is, unless our requirements strictly adhere to your arbitrarily-defined notions of that which has merit, our voices are left unheard.

And IRC's greatest defenders wonder why everybody jumps ship.

Whereas, for the rest of us, we just want the same features I've been using on other platforms not just since the rise of Slack, Discord and its ilk, but other platforms besides, both before and after the rise of Web 2.0 and social media.

I find it pretentious that anybody could consider the following features "having fun while pretending to communicate", showing their profound lack of understanding for what communication can, perhaps should, be:

- the ability to modify one's own messages

- the ability to delete one's own message, and have that deletion propagated

- the ability to delete other peoples' messages, and have that deletion propagated

- simple but flexible role-based permissions systems that can be defined on a per-community basis

- collections of text channels in one community/guild/server that can be ordered, and that ordering propagated and standardised for all participants in that community (for the sake of consistency)

- usernames and nicknames that don't collide, using a normally-hidden primary key for each user that is associated with an account rather than ever-changing hostmasks that can be hidden, making bans and ignores ineffectual

- automatically-created community-based moderation logs

- the ability to create private group discussions without needing to create a text channel

- the ability for all participants in the community to see messages in the same format, including code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, video links, and web embeds

- a contacts list that travels across sessions, regardless of client, sign-in location, etc., and associated direct message history

- the ability to read missed messages while offline without needing to set up a bouncer (either necessitating a home computer be left on all the time AND be accessible via the web, not always practical; or every individual user paying for a bouncer, something that should be considered vastly unnecessary)

- everything just working

Instead of thinking "everybody just wants to send silly emojis and video chat, what a waste of time", the IRC crowd would do well to listen to what people actually want, need, and have come to expect from online communication, rather than derisively and condescendingly covering their eyes and putting their fingers in their ears.
And electricity your computer and printer used. And so would you if you'd fill electronically.
>why offload the variable resolution to the client side when it can be done at compilation time?

So I can use Stylus to override one CSS variable and change the appearance, instead of having to save the website's entire css file, find all rules set to the "variable value" (aka a particular font stack), and redefine every rule to use my personal font stack.
It seems to me people use terms like "pro-market" to mean two different things:

- we should make sure goods and services are allocated using competitive markets

- we should let for-profit corporations do anything they choose

The EU may be doing a better job than the US at the former, but I fear they are lagging a little in the latter (only a little, though).
You can authorize specific orgs your account has access to vs your whole account if that's what you're looking for.

Also not sure what access permissions you need but deploy keys are repo level.

https://developer.github.com/v3/guides/managing-deploy-keys/...

Machine users are another option.

https://developer.github.com/v3/guides/managing-deploy-keys/...
> They merely used (or abused, depending on your viewpoint) publicly available MDM APIs for parental controls

Same difference. Most consumers don't understand the implications of a third party provider fingerprinting their App usage (and then likely selling the device ID + app usage to advertisers)
I figure probably 80% of my rides are as you describe. But I don't know what it is about airport pickups. I guess it's easy to start a conversation with "where are you flying from?" maybe, and then they don't want to stop after I give a terse answer.
Keep an eye out for improvements on mobile.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/04/26/mozilla-outlines-pl...
Yup, been bitten by this a number of times. You can't keep it set to C for daily use these days however. Modern things like Python have a bird.
Did you read the rest of the review? Here is an example quote:

"Scientifically, The Case Against Sugar suffers from a condition Steven Pinker has called the “Igon Value Problem”. This term describes the tendency of certain science journalists to arrive at obtuse conclusions due to a superficial understanding of their subject matter"

and later

"Taubes argues that sugar is the only factor that reliably shows up when a culture develops Western noncommunicable diseases, supporting the point with examples of cultures that adopted sugar-rich diets and became ill. Yet he makes no effort to look for a counterexample that could refute his argument: a traditionally-living culture that has a high intake of sugar and does not suffer from Western noncommunicable diseases."

These are just two examples. My understanding (from those two reviews only!), is that you will come away LESS well informed when reading this book. Now, if you provide me with an expert opinion in favour of the book, I'm happy to change my mind.

FYI Apart from moments where I try to recover fast (1-60min) from a near max physical effort, I avoid sugar anyway. I do NOT promote eating sugar.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-act...
I abandoned about halfway through when I realized it wasn't going to get to a discussion of backpack design and I had no idea what the actual point was. You're not alone.
Not if there aren't enough drivers there, period. I'd much rather a driver unfamiliar with my city who needs Google Maps to get me to my destination if the alternative is I have to wait 20 minutes for a car.
Anti competitive legislation in the US exists but seems impossible to enforce when the would be subjects of this are major campaign contributors as well. Presidential candidates talk tough but start doing their donors favors as soon as they get elected. Political campaigns are big business and most of the elected officials do so on the back of lots of corporate sponsoring.

The EU has its own issues when it comes to free markets. One worrying trend is that the same companies buying influence in Washington are also donating to EU parties in Brussels.
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I haven't received one yet either.
I'm going to guess that if someone in a bad part of town is pulling a gun or even a knife on your brother, they're not going to just lazily stand there staring at him as he fumbles to find a gun under his seat to defend himself.
What happens to a dog that bites a human? In many countries they get euthanized.

Cows as we know them wouldn't exist without farming (for leather, meat, milk). As meat eating reduction is something that will never happen over night, they simply are going to become protected, nearly extinct species that live in few sanctuaries (charity).

Without artifical insemination numbers are very manageable. Remaining, existing population would be eaten till numbers are low enough.
I think "monopoly/not monopoly" has always been the bad criterion to judge this problems (when I say "always", I include the "Sherman Antitrust Act" of 1890).

The problem is more generically when some company use is its power (company size in a market as buyer or seller, technical possibility to block competitor, etc ...) to disable competition instead on fighting on quality and price of their product and services.
While like Wireguard a lot, it won't displace Openvpn completely, for the simple reason that it only works over UDP, and cannot work over TCP, unlike Openvpn.
So... you're saying that the entire market is currently churning out legal ponzi schemes? Or is it that the entire market is itself currently a ponzi scheme?

Either way, I get the distinct impression that I've seen this movie before and I didn't like the ending.
Because all the current technology which doesn't require surgery provides only a one-dimensional interface (the same amount of options as a keyboard with just one button) and requires too much time to modulate\activate (in the tens of seconds). It just isn't practical.
Negotiating for everything is not the most efficient way of conducting business for society as a whole. Negotiating offers the benefit of price discovery, but it also consumes resources in the form of opportunity cost with other things that could have been done with that time and effort.

Yes, we can expose the reality that most people aren't economically worth enough right now to demand parental leave or living conditions, but what is the benefit of exposing that?

It's not like figuring out the true price of a product is low because it's low quality, so if people stop buying it then the producer will stop making it. The people that aren't worth enough, whether it be because they are lazy, stupid, came across an illness, born into a poor family and never had the opportunity and mentors to teach them, should we just let them rot away?
Then what?
Who maintains it?
Initially I guess it'll be used for places where there are a lot of people and the extra bandwidth is needed. Stadiums, airports, convention centers, etc.
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As a non-Apple user, I see no reason to see the government interfere with Apple.

There is no reason for me to use Apple products(Except when I need to hit Compile on my Javascript apps)

There is plenty of competition, its that Apple users want the government to fix Apple for them. Its easy, stop buying products that are anti-consumer.
I'm not saying don't publish for iOS. Sure, there are good reasons. Just that this quote:

> “They yanked us out of the blue with no warning,” said Amir Moussavian, chief executive of OurPact, the top parental-control iPhone

Means they haven't been paying attention and they should've been prepared for this since at least September 2018. This is their warning: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-screen-time-ios-12/