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uzoodoo | 8 years ago | on: Analyzing HN moderation and censorship

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...

uzoodoo | 8 years ago | on: 999: The world's oldest emergency services phone number

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.

uzoodoo | 8 years ago | on: Uber CEO Plays with Fire

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...

uzoodoo | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How has Facebook figured out my family doctor as a friend suggestion?

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".

uzoodoo | 9 years ago | on: When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged

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.

uzoodoo | 9 years ago | on: Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015)

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.
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