Ballantara

he's never going to move on to anything meaningful, he's fully cooked

When GNOME 3 came out, it felt like they had this vision of a Better way to Do Things and didn't see why all their users wouldn't be excited to change their workflow. How they responded to criticism definitely makes sense given those thoughts about Identity.

This. How much lost time, panic, and rage did carelessly deleting these folders cause? It was a dire mistake.

Well, there's a tension between the right to collect/collate/record naturally public things and being concerned about how that info’s being used by others.

Does it seem reasonable to have law enforcement go through your curbside trash for evidence when you're suspected of a crime? How about when a private investigator hired by a competitor in your industry looks for discarded documents? Or when an unfriendly journalist counting how many liquor bottles you've tossed? The trash is naturally public in all those cases.

To play devil's advocate, how do you feel about this statement?

My DNA is not a secret. The traces that shed from my body are not my property. Anybody is welcome to capture these traces if they come into that person's possession, whether it's fallen strand of hair or a DNA profiling system in an airport.

The expanded scale raises concerns - avoiding secure locations that scan your face is less burdensome than refraining from public air travel, and a homeland security-curated traveller face db would have a wider reach than a secure site's records.

Whether it's a revenue source or not, fb still owns the biometric data and is using it for god knows what (and asking "evidence?" like this comes off as a way of avoiding the point)

It lets you quickly see which search results you're walking toward and want to check the details on. You could get the same info from reading a result list, but if this takes less attention it's a good presentation.

It sounds like rebasing this way ensures branches will not overlap at merge time. This presumably pushes the "combination of changes" into the rebased-before-merging branch, which (if nothing else) makes sure that one committer owns the bug, not two.

Their Polari bible translation has "unto the homie" == "to the man", so Polari for "man" is "homie"! I think the modern slang homie comes from "homeboy", so that'd be convergent etymology?

s/barley/weed/gi

The fun images may have seemed like a way to lighten things up, but here they're a distraction from the content.. even as still images, every section break doesn't need a happy monkey or Poison Ivy.

Discussion from Jan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528599