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Re:Do No Evil – An OSS Pledge on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:31PM (#29910010)
Feels like the wrong solution, having devs self-censor more is probably going to lead to more bottled-up situations
What causes this level of exaggeration? (which seems to be across all indian news sources talking about such topic), especially considering india is strong on compsci, right?
Re: on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:22PM (#29755483)
> The underlying assumption made by this policy is that if straight white men (the only group not mentioned in the allowable group) are allowed to apply, it will unfairly hurt the chances of those mentioned because they cannot compete.

Why is the assumption being considered incorrect? Go to your local toys store and tell consider what the effect of the STEM focused toys being next to the toy soldiers, and not next to the barbies and kens, is going to have on future students

And consider the effect on STEM toys usually being priced higher (for valid reasons) than other toys is going to have on children from demographics that generally lack financial freedom?

Not understanding a core concept of systematic whatever-u-wanna-call-it, before writing this article, makes it very unconvincing

I mean, we have better with https://webauthn.guide/#registration and the such, which is able to use any TPM for a given system
not web 3 exclusive

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> Guaranteed 256bit Operability

> This one isn’t exclusive to Web3 in the sense that it’s not possible on Web2, but rather, it’s not feasible on Web2.

> You can design, on web3, with the assurance that every user is guaranteed able to participate in 256bit-key features.

what does this even mean, is it just to say everyone has a privkey?

Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on HNS? on Monday December 13, 2021 @10:16PM (#29547773)
intentionally didn't scope itself within the pre-existing concept of domain name infra, but wants to be a first class alternative

tlds being owned by singular people under hns don't exactly fix the issue, do it

Sorry to be rude-ish

Probably should be able to do the same with just:

    systemd-inhibit --what=idle --mode=block sh -c read
or the more easier ways

https://github.com/eonpatapon/gnome-shell-extension-caffeine https://github.com/coadmunkee/gnome-shell-extension-espresso

Or via api, which everything leads to

https://people.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-session/docs/gnome-se...

Noting other apps generally will inhibit via stuff sent through X/Wayland afaik, so this doesn't cover all methods

Re:Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests on Monday December 06, 2021 @07:43PM (#29467797)
> so maybe we're all off the hook! :)

Or maybe its entrapment!

Same as when accepting a job, never trust someone who says a section of their contract/terms won't be enforced.

I might need to start looking for another provider...

Re:W3C – Not Fit for Purpose on Saturday December 04, 2021 @06:52AM (#29440293)
Re:W3C – Not Fit for Purpose on Saturday December 04, 2021 @06:51AM (#29440289)
> We estimate that our supporters work with more than 21,000 advertisers and nearly 6 million individual websites in more than 65 countries, jointly serving over 320 billion advertising impressions each year, and having over 63 million subscribers. The companies have a combined workforce of over 40,000 employees and combined revenues in excess of $40bn.

+ https://www.reuters.com/technology/googles-browser-cookies-p...

A lobbying group with a pleasing name, wanting to weaken recent privacy-improving changes around cookies et al.

Also I'm left wondering how many people are behind this, I've counted a total of 2, the media contact, and the lawyer filing the court proceedings

https://getmetastream.com/ is an also-FLOSS alternative, instead of a server, it syncs site interactions (e.g. opening up the same video on each person's browser, and then automatically hitting play, seek, etc)

So, pros and cons of each approach

talking to them
Re:Ask HN: How do I play Doom on Linux? on Saturday November 27, 2021 @06:46PM (#29364771)
unintuitive to learn how to do things the first time, but

Download the windows version of a given application, and then use https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ (check your package manager) to extract the game files from the executable, and there will be your WADs

then for any third party engine, following the instructions provided to find where to put those WADs

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Alternatively, if that still doesn't work:

https://flathub.org/apps/search/doom flathub has a bunch of engine options, including those based on free WADs

And flatpak is fairly easy to add to a system https://flatpak.org/setup/Ubuntu/

easier reselling things because reselling things sometimes involves regulation and by saying fuck regulation it makes it easier?

Not really the most convincing argument

also selling a, um, "Greg will lead three 90 minute sessions live over the course of the week." for 650 USD through to 6500 USD, and providing zero ownership of that while also calling it "shared ownership", well it ties in with the general perception of NFTs being near meaningless, doesn't it?

If web3 is tickets-for-rich-kids, then I'd still rather just buy normal tickets

does the idle power change?
Re:Why I didn’t apologize for that Yale Law School email on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:09PM (#29002179)
> The Yale administrators did not believe I had been racist by using the phrase “trap house.”

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> an email was sent to Yale Law’s entire second-year class “condemn[ing] in the strongest possible terms” the “pejorative and racist language” in the invitation.

==

Yale Law administration was happy to lie to their entire second-year class.

If true, then the administration was more interested about protecting their brand, than caring about the health and wellbeing of any of their students

Re:“ Introducing Worldcoin, a new cryptocurrency” on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:08AM (#28975140)
Seems a great way to shit on people without eyes (either through damage or genetic issue resulting in operation).

Just imagine receiving a sales pitch along the lines of "A new, collectively owned global currency that will be distributed fairly to as many people as possible, except that small minority you are part of"

Extremely gross

Re:DNS – The First Distributed Database on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:42PM (#28914312)
But what advantages does this have? the replication is arbitrary and unreliable, if a TLD server messes up for a minute? ok no problem, if more?

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/q38p8x/entire_clu...

I wouldn't call several layers of caching "distributed", there is still ever only X owning servers for each record, and usually all X are owned by the same group

Re:Ghost CEO lectures locked out customer about empathy on Saturday October 16, 2021 @07:02PM (#28892340)
HN isn't just for news

Its a startup, business, and tech link aggregator

This covers the ramifications of poor customer treatment (business practices), and also acts as a warning to startups that might be looking at ghost as an option for their company's blog

I don't believe trying to shame or "neg" other developers is an appropriate thing, so I do not intend it to be a positive taste

If I see abusive approaches, I will call it out, this time I called it out with an article listing the ramifications on others, of such approaches

Why ask a question if you don't care about the answer.
Could you post all of your interactions with steam in regards to the build that got your game retired? That would probably help people to know what they are fighting for, if they choose to fight for you

I see two staff responses, and an escalation in progress, is that correct?

I never said that the poster said that.
yep thats okay, thats kinda how a business is ran. Most people call them "co-workers" not "colluders"
Its disingenuous to state cases which arn't applicable to this case (humble selling keys when they also sell full games without keys) (itch having free games when they also have paid games), and then using that as a strawman of what I'm suggesting
One support agent? eh maybe? Multiple support agents / Escalation? yes. I think that's okay.
> but maybe most all of their backs are already broken and they just take being treated like that?

https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/negging

Itch comes to mind, Humble is another
You already posted about this

And yes, as a company offering to help manage the promotional/sales/etc side for you, they can reject you as a customer, there is no rights that suggest you can force them to sell your product.

Just use a different store front

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Also aside, I believe they have pulled at least one title by Atari, I could look for more but I can't be bothered

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