da_maire · HackerTrans

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I had a Charizard card, but I bought it from a local hobby store for some insane price with birthday money. I don't remember how old I was, elementary school I think, all the adults in my life told me it was a terrible decision but I had poor impulse control, wasn't one to listen to anyone, and my parents tended to let me learn my own lessons, so I ended up buying the card anyway. Ultimately all the card collectors at school worshipped me for having a Charizard, it was totally worth it and the lesson I took from it all ended up being 'don't listen to your parents' combined with 'money will buy you happiness' or something along those lines.

da_maire

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

HN may be user-driven, but it's heavily moderated, privately run and those operating it have a long established policy of banning and deleting content (or sometimes entire sources, e.g all of Gawker Media) at will for any reason they see fit. Same applies to discussion and the 'ghosting' of specific users with poor reputations. There's no guidelines for what's 'allowed' and 'disallowed' (at least none they've committed to) so bans are completely arbitrary and usually carried out with no official explanation or notification. This is actually standard operating procedure for any moderated discussion board and HN's particularly aggressive stance has contributed to it's success - higher quality content, higher quality discussion. Slashdot operated under similar rules and enjoyed success for at least a full decade despite the same complaints of 'censorship' coming up constantly. Slashdot eventually fell apart for unrelated reasons (shrinking/aging audience, failed attempts at modernization) but it's still a proven model with plenty of precedence. If you're concerned that you're being intentionally kept from reading about something, get your technology-related news from multiple sources. There's plenty of sites with looser guidelines to choose from.

One thing that annoys me about HN though is that I read it primarily through Feedly, and content often gets pushed to HN's feed prior to deletion, so I end up with a lot of annoying dead links to HN in Feedly.

da_maire

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

If you're serious about your equipment, avoid MikroTik.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Dnsmasq's bogus-nxdomain flag will do what you want, but it's not a good long-term solution. You'd be better off just using a DNS service that doesn't hijack responses.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Yep. I don't understand how terrible, misleading journalism like this makes it anywhere near the front page of HN.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I knew things were going south with Evernote when they added a store that sells fucking socks and backpacks while the Mac client still couldn't edit existing tables in documents. The table editing limitation was eventually fixed but much more serious problems have since cropped up.

Sync issues and the unusably slow iOS client caused me to drop it for personal use a few months ago, now it's relegated to only work notes with the desktop client. For this really basic purpose it's alright, it has a few major annoyances and the interface has gotten much worse over the years but it'd be too much effort to migrate to something else and keep my tags/notebooks.

This is not a healthy relationship I have with Evernote Corporation. I committed to their product but they didn't commit to me.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

The 'this' he's referring to is a quote from Apple's submission guidelines. I'm not just nitpicking; I was hoping there'd be some interesting information here, like maybe an account of his interaction with Apple regarding the rejection, but what I actually read was a vague post about how Pokemon apps shouldn't play Pokemon sounds or something.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Was Stefan's app actually rejected by Apple or something? That's what's implied by the title but the post itself makes no mention of it.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Any site viewed over plain HTTP is susceptible to content injection by ISPs, public wifi providers, employers, etc, basically anyone between you and the server. At best it's annoying, at worst it's a security hazard.

And as someone else mentioned, the session cookie is still transmitted in plaintext, which effectively compromises your Feedly account.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Phil Fish spends as much time trolling for headlines as he does making games. Please don't encourage him.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I have a cron script running on my MacBook to make sure the Dropbox client priority is always set to 20 (lowest). I also pause the client manually when moving to battery power. I really wish there was a better solution, like switching to a similar service that offers decent (or at least acceptable) software, but almost everyone else uses the same setup with terrible 'universal' Java/Python/etc-based clients that absolutely suck at synchronizing large amounts of data.

da_maire

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Looks like someone stole a noun from their post title too. Crazy stuff.

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