lawtalkinghuman

Yep. Panic have always made tools that are mostly aimed at front-end web devs. Coda, the editor that became Nova, was marketed as a "web editor". Nova specifically still uses that phrase "web editor".

Coda's main competitors back in the day included tools like CSSEdit and Espresso, tools that helped those working on CSS by giving a nice front-end where you could click around in the UI and it'd insert the relevant properties for each style without you having to remember the syntax, and then updating a live preview. All of which seems rather quaint now we have pretty good developer tools in most browsers, but back in the mid-to-late 2000s, that was a big deal for a lot of web devs.

And for web developers who are writing predominantly HTML and CSS (possibly with some kind of template wrapping), a bit of JS, and a teeny bit of PHP/whatever on the backend, "it doesn't support Rust" etc. is not a major problem for them.

> The governments are the ones out to kill you or otherwise materially destroy your life. Corporations just want you to buy stuff.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-ca...

"IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success. IBM Germany, using its own staff and equipment, designed, executed, and supplied the indispensable technologic assistance Hitler's Third Reich needed to accomplish what had never been done before-the automation of human destruction."

Good job, amoral corporations just wanting to sell stuff.

The whole point of misusing legitimate purpose is they're trying to end-run around consent. It's a bad hack until one of the national data protection agencies decides to say "no, you can't do that" and then it goes away.

> you cannot use all the free tools that startup founders outside of the EU can use.

You can use the ones that don't infringe on user privacy.

Hide My Email in iCloud.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210425

Yeah, I saw it had a subscription model for VIP users. I'm guessing they're not getting Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates level rich off it though.

> Does everything require a money motive?

On HN, apparently. See the recent thread on Wordle.

The reality is likely to be: they make a very small amount from ads and user donations that might, if they're lucky, cover the costs of hosting. The warez scene is a subculture and community for the people who participate in it.

It is depressing that HN participants are so often mystified by the idea people might be motivated by intrinsic or social factors to engage in peer-based production (whether legal or not) when so many of the companies they run or work for exist only because of peer-based production efforts like Linux and other FOSS software.

That's literally how things work now. ~99.99999999% of contractual agreements are not litigated. The legal process is there as a slow debugger when it all goes wrong. But most of the time, things don't go wrong and people work out their disputes without involving courts and judges.

The question is: does the legal framework override the results of the smart contracts and blockchain records? If so, you don't need the crypto. If the crypto cannot be overriden by the legal framework, you don't need the legal framework. Pure redundancy.

> If you know someone had to burn $10 of electricity to make an authentication, it hurts more to get banned.

Metafilter charges $5 to get an account. If you can't afford the $5, you can email the mods to join for free.

SomethingAwful charges $10 (and offers a platinum account, and a paid add-on to view old threads).

Both of these payments are done through PayPal, and both exist as a way to filter spammers and trolls.

I thought the whole point of decentralisation was that you couldn't be banned though.

> as for the banks and institutions and companies losing all of their money? that’s a new blockchain problem for sure

No, that used to be a real-world problem for banks until laws were passed that more tightly regulated financial institutions...

e.g. in the US, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking

mysqldump | sha256sum

So long as "number go up", nobody cares. The moment number start going down, there'll be a magic new buzzword (ICO, token, smart contract, enterprise blockchain, DeFi) for people to speculate on and distract from the fundamental problems.

Good thing crypto exchanges don't charge fees.

> it seems like it has some real advantages from a business perspective

Even if homeopathy is just placebo, homeopathy has better marketing.

OSM is making a volunteer-run open source GIS dataset, not an unregulated speculative securities offering.

DMOZ still exists but is now known as Curlie. https://www.curlie.org/

It's not very active though.

No.

Good thing Amazon have never specifically marketed Alexa devices for kids.

Oh, wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNdZAgij-K0

Insufficient consumer demand, and the economics of it don't work for publishers/creators. There've been plenty of attempts - Flattr, Coil, Dropp. If people want it, it could be built but there doesn't seem to be much market demand.

> The flaw is in thinking USPS is even slightly interested in innovating. They're not.

If the political system stops public sector organisations innovating, they won't innovate. See, for example, BT in the UK, who were looking into investing in fibre optic rollout in the 80s and 90s until Thatcher snuffed that idea out and we're only now starting to get fibre to the premises rolled out in significant numbers.

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-l...

> all it takes is... discipline

Just don't buy any cigarettes. Easy. Cravings? Pfft.

Discipline is hard, and sometimes solutions can be built that help make things easier. Vaping as an off-ramp for smokers. Screen Time on iOS as a way for the social media addicted to reduce their addiction to the 'gram.

While studying, my solution to procrastination was a moderately nice notebook and avoiding my laptop as much as possible. Pen and paper was really good technology to help me think and study better.

I can totally see Nintendo wanting to enable you to bring your collection of fancy, rare high-powered guns from Borderlands, carried by your favourite shiny Pokémon, into a no-holds-barred Mario Kart match so you could turn a fun all-ages racing game into an absolute bloodbath. Totally fits with their brand image etc.

Despite the likely bad PR, fiddly intellectual property issues, and the fact auctioning off high value gameplay items to the highest bidder turns games into tremendously boring pay2win experiences, the value in NFTs is that a game company might let players use assets bought or acquired in one game in a different game, even though they could do that already do that by just making private contractual relationships between existing game companies.

> Decentralized proof of ownership

I mean, the 'ownership' is as real as "buy a plot of land on Mars" scams.

An inefficient distributed database filled with assertions of legally unenforceable pseudoproperty rights seems somewhat underwhelming.

The original post did not use money laundering in the legal sense but in the ordinary language use sense of the phrase.

Regarding this week's SPLC report:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/585306-bitcoin-surge-a...

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/12/08/bitcoin-adoption-am...

https://gizmodo.com/far-right-leaders-are-raking-in-millions...

A random sample of previous coverage:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/24/bitcoi...

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-international-news-...

https://decrypt.co/80971/far-right-conspiracist-sent-60000-b...

Not really since it's true. It isn't markup, it's a configuration file format.

"<em>This</em> is a markup language" since there is text which is marked up.

YAML/JSON is a way to serialise fairly common data structures (arrays/lists, hashes/dictionaries, numbers, strings, bools, etc.)

Incidentally, if you can seamlessly replace XML with something like JSON, then you probably aren't using the 'markup' bit of XML.

> depressingly incremental step

Courts, by their nature, answer only the questions put to them to resolve a partifular case or controversy.

> grievance-driven person

Radical solution: don't discriminate against people at work and then they won't have any grievances.

The continued survival of the NATO alliance surely rests on whether people get timely updates about delays on the Hammersmith and City line.