uzoodoo

Another shadowbanned user here. Used to be an occasional poster, made posts if I had something meaningful to add.

At some point I noticed that I never got replies, but didn't think much of it, continued posting. Then, one day I looked at my profile while I was logged out, and surprise - the the posts for the last few months are no longer there.

Like OP, I went through a few accounts. They worked for a bit, and then responses dropped off. Eventually, I realized that apparently, my new apartment's IP is toxic.

Not sure who a shadow ban is supposed to punish since any spam bot can check just as trivially of they're banned. On the other hand, legitimate users have no idea keep wasting their time submitting their comments to /dev/null.

By now I have given up on trying to comment on HN. I can use my time on better things.

Ironic that a the site like HN can't get a proper quoting markup, can't fix the pre-block scroll, took forever to add support for mobile and comment collapsing, and used blanket IP bans...

That's a really strange phone you're describing. Did it have a single hole on the dial? Where are you from?

I too used rotary phones - I'm 28 (if it makes a difference) and I grew up in a former Soviet republic. The phone had a dial with 10 holes in it: 1-9 followed by 0 (just like on a modern phone keypad, by the way). You stick your finger in a hole over the digit and rotate clockwise until the the stop. Then, take the finger out and wait for it to rotate back to the original position. Then you dial the next digit.

The author is pretty well-known

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

You have to be naive to give a service access to a trove of your private data and expect them to just leave it there...

That's a good question! Has anyone ever met a male Russian programmer? I don't think I've ever heard of one! /s

Sure, as Congressman Sensenbrenner said, “Well, you know... nobody’s got to use the Internet”

http://wapo.st/2nPh3JN

My old manager wanted me to install WhatsApp. WhatsApp wanted to access my phone's address book so that it could upload all of my contact info to their [Facebook's] servers. I denied it, and it refused to work. I didn't want to share my contacts - I just wanted to communicate with a specific set of people. The only workaround I could find is back up and delete all my contacts before letting WhatsApp rummage through my address book.

I wouldn't say this practice is very "consensual".

Well, considering that was written a decade ago, it doesn't really answer my question...

http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=General_Inform...

But only for a very short period of time (4 seconds on average).

How does it compare with Claws Mail [0]?

I've always assumed Claws is the more full-featured fork of Sylpheed, but seeing that they've diverged over a decade ago and are both still in development I'm curious how they compare.

[0] http://www.claws-mail.org/

Twitter's character is the Fail Whale.

More like: "Non-living things don't move. The bus moves. Therefore, the bus is alive."

This is false because there exist things that are non-living but move.

Similarly, the original "not alive" => "doesn't need resources" argument is false because there exist things that are not alive that do need resources (such as buses), and so needing resources does not imply being alive.

> but the "ridiculousness" of this overhead is imaginary.

A few weeks ago:

VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014

Isn't that what I said?

A funny cat picture posted all over the place is called a meme, but not all memes are cat pictures.

Writing in first one won't save you since "in" splits by whitespace, not newline. If you really have to do that, use "find ... | while read file; do" instead.

The "Unixy" approach is called "worse is better"

https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

Source? AFAIK the ones that get people in trouble are "gravity knives" (folding knives that can be flicked open)

Narrator, not author

You should block GMX too, it lets you create/delete multiple addresses per account

https://support.gmx.com/email/settings/aliasaddresses.html

So is Chase, Citi, PNC, Schwab, TD, ...

Qt is LGPL, so unless you need to link to it statically or make proprietary modifications to Qt itself, you don't need to pay licensing costs.

Wouldn't work if you're using a bike share.

It's actually the reason why I don't use the bike share program, even though I have a station right next to my apartment building. I could ride it to/from the train station or the grocery store, but I'm paranoid about not wearing a helmet, and hauling the bulky thing around all day is a massive inconvenience.

I would guess in places where biking is extremely common (like Denmark and Holland), it's also a lot safer to bike (dedicated bike lanes, etc.)

Live free or DIE!

Well, if you remove "pre" from "прекрасно", you get "red-colored", so it doesn't quite work here. (Actually, it would make the first part of the sentence a bit too literal.)

My accounts at home keep getting shadow-banned... was wondering why suddenly everyone stopped responding. Tried registering a new one but it didn't let me.

Wonder if this one will show up after I log in from home...

There's Eikon from Thomson Reuters, which is considerably cheaper

Except the metric serving sizes are very inconvenient unless you like to do long division in your head.

For example, I have two yogurts, one has 18g carbs per 170g serving, the other has 34 g per 227g serving. Quick, how much more carbs would I have if I ate the same amount?

It's a lot easier to tell if you know one is 6oz and the other is 8oz, or if the servings were designed in metric sizes (e.g. 150g and 200g).