ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: The Web We Have to Save
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ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
On the web I can install ublock origin, privacybadger, and a vpn. Even if you ignore the phone's personal data aspect that's a 99% improvement over mobile.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
I don't even bother installing apps anymore, I don't have time to research whether or not they are going to abuse my privacy or have some horrendous TOS. I got my core 10 apps and haven't bought a new one in a year.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
If you're a hipster in a major city near fiber, sure, it all works great. For the rest of us, no, daily failures are the reality.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: The Elements of UI Engineering
The points are nice, it would be amazing if the 90% of the web wasn't dumpster fire of inconsistent slow and hard to use sites.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
Much networking equipment is not designed to handle malicious or bizarre traffic. TCP/IP is amazingly brittle, and often fails on me in surprising ways that the standards say should never ever happen.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
This article is one of the most stupid things I've ever read, pretending there is some crisis of students seducing their poor, persecuted male teachers because of a reddit thread is not merely intellectually dishonest, it's just bizarre.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: US Coast Guard won't see paychecks due to government shutdown
You're pretending people are rational automata who make decisions in their own self interest, which is rarely true in life. Very rarely true among political actors.
I hope we can stop treating politics as a silly statistics game theory simulation for every actor and decision, because two decades of thinking like that has clearly not worked out for us. New ways of thinking, including consequences for bad actors, are a way to move the needle forward a bit even if it's not Spock's ideal solution.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels
manpages are such an inconsistent and often wildly disappointing experience that I advise everyone to give up on them and go with <any top internet tutorial> instead.
There are like a half dozen really good manpages I can think of, some others might as well be written in Mandarin
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
I mean if you want to get into the history of any technology you can point out how archaic and horrible it was initially. We're still in that phase with the internet, in 50 years people are going to read about things TCP/IP and Facebook and Comcast and won't be able to stop laughing hysterically at how bad and flimsy it all was.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018
I thought pubg was a remarkable technical achievement, especially after years of tolerating bugs and jank in Arma.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
This is so weird, I keep meaning to check out the brave browser but knowing it's tied into cryptocoin nonsense drops my interest level to zero.
ecp9 | 7 years ago | on: Wells Fargo shifts many jobs overseas following layoffs in the US
Well I guess if it doesn't apply to us amazing, special techno mages then it's not really relevant and should be deleted. Who cares about the lives and silly struggles of those boring call center humans anyway?
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The technology industry has become more about marginalization, to the point of nonexistence, those who don't fit in the middle of the curve. Might as well not exist if you're outside the 90% intervals nowadays.