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Re:Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @05:15AM (#34566713)
every passing year the platform gets more and more hostile to non-americans. I gave up trying to argue and deleted my account. No regrets, modern-day documentation is more than sufficient
A couple of wikipedia's pro-reality positions for your consideration:

Hitler is the only person on all of wikipedia not allowed to self identify his religion.

Mohammed's proclivity for prepubescent children, despite being one of his primary associations, remains nowhere to be found on his main page.

Historical Jesus is asserted as fact.

>What does "pushing woke politics" mean?

Pushing for global use of the US's anachronistic racial science over more nuanced alternatives such as ethnicity/nationality

Re:Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:35PM (#33398992)
more naptime is a political cause worth fighting for
Re:Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:34PM (#33398983)
mastodons biggest shortcoming remains the lack of e2e encrypted DM's. Giving volunteer internet janitors access to your private messages is a recipe for disaster
I don't mean to be snarky but for someone born and raised in an irreligious majority nation, this does read as if written by someone who's lost their mind
Re:Taking Lichess to the Next Level on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:12AM (#33382344)
I am unfamiliar with scala, which of it's traits makes it deserving of higher pay?
as long as it's not homogenously american it'll be a good thing
Re:Ad blocking is under attack on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:06AM (#33358662)
*Self reported MAU. With no-way of outside verification as brave doesn't have it's own user agent string
Re:Ad blocking is under attack on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:25AM (#33357137)
HTTP is a request based protocol. I make a request and you can choose to accept or reject it. If the host breaks the social contract by polluting the connection with unsolicited content it's entirely within the users prerogative to block such requests.
kinda weird to see US demographics superimposed over amsterdam. Couldn't spot a single blonde/redhead
Given that their site thinks itself above GDPR I'm inclined to believe google
Re:EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:27PM (#33266786)
serve a modified version to rate limited IP's that only contains popular indian sites and I'm sure it'll be resolved in a day or two
Why do they opt for such a silly scheme over improving the quality of local schools?
pls watch the minority empowering mozilla irl podcast

firefox funding will decrease until viewership improves

I randomly picked one of her contributions and it reads like a travel blog of a random canadian[1], a second pick brought me to a dead french woman[2] whos claim to fame is being "one of the first" to do something

By the sound of it Jess's reputation is so obnoxious people simply can't be arsed to contest her article creations anymore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_Farmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve_Hidden

Re:Building the world’s fastest website analytics (2021) on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:05PM (#33215960)
These people don't have the inhouse skills to maintain a simple SQL server, let alone optimize their schema (MySQL being too slow to sum/group 11m records in a timely manner? Please.)

Attempting to make your own db while being ignorant of competing products would be an absolute disaster