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How about not using your servers for anything?

So we need a cloud service for "read receipts"? Interesting.

A vulnerability you know of and choose to ignore IS a backdoor. All the rest is fancy talk.

That's "mr Nobel Peace Prize" alright.

Clicking that link will automatically log you in as Viorel Alexandru (check out the top/right part of the page).

Maybe it was harsh, the idea is: You might write better when you don't know how many people read your articles. On the other hand, you might write better when you know. Plan accordingly :)

My two cents:

1. All local. Unless you don't want and a 100-200kb JS file is too much of a strain on your server bandwidth. Or are you serving 15Mb of JS files?

2. Screw Disqus. Screw Facebook Comments. Start thinking about your visitors, as someone said on another related thread, you are responsible for the tracking of your visitors by 3rd-party sites. Local comments or turn them off if you don't care about what others are saying. Don't save any information about the commenters except what they enter in the boxes. One-way hash the IPs if you need to compare for spam reasons.

3. If you need your ego stroked when you see you had xx visitors on your site, go ahead, use Google Analytics and screw us all. We're gonna block it anyway.

[1] This is a privacy policy I use and respect very much when interacting with the visitors/commenters on my personal blog.

1. https://vox.space/pages/106/privacy-policy

Google Analytics code is still there, so I guess, no ad networks were harmed during the making of this blog post.

All due respect for Leah Rowe and her work on libreboot, but this kind of drama only hurts the OpenSource (regardless of the name you like to use) initiative.

Stallman did the right thing I guess.

Exactly. The people that think Medium is innovative are the same people that think Farm From the Box (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13309610) is innovative. Some people just live in their pretty bubbles.

I wonder if you'd be this dismissive if an autonomous car kills your parents or children, and you'll still advocate "don't put anyone in jail".

Just wondering.

It's not a matter of GG being white or black (not racially), it's a matter of taking his opinions/writings with a bit of salt, but taking them nevertheless.

As much as Noahpinion is entitled to his opinion, so is GG.

Holy crap, the amount of libraries, uses React/Redux/Webpack and Firebase.

As someone who's been bootstrapping his own startup for the past ... 6 years and refused VC money (not for moral reasons), I have to take it. I still refuse to implement Google Analytics and integrate FB/Dropbox/Google in any of the projects I'm involved with.

Moralist? No, I'm just not into feeding the monster.

What problem is "Atom-in-orbit" trying to solve? Those times when you're always online and you can't be arsed to download a full-featured IDE, so you transform your browser into a memory-gulping machine?

I think we're just throwing solutions out there and try to find the problem to fix later.

"Everyone is doing it" sounds wrong on so many levels.

Aren't we going a bit too far with all this "political"-correctness? Are we living such harsh times that we need to take up a defensive stance when called an Emacs-virgin?

How were people communicating before FB? When you have that answer, you realize how futile is to depend your whole life & friends' + family's on FB.

Yeah, the guy's a fraud, just don't give him any attention.

There is no way to prove someone's guilt unless he's in Guantanamo? Every day HN teaches me stuff.

With your fancy words, you're missing the central point: everybody should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

Anything that raises a flag and makes people think and consider alternatives to FB, Google, printed money, etc, is good activism. Whether it's from the couch or the armchair, is irrelevant.

Why so quick to rush to his lynching?

So I guess you already trialed and convicted him?

and later edit: throwaway accounts seem to be the most rabid (sorry for the harsh word), I guess SJW-ing at its best?

So, basically three things to notice:

1. never click on links in e-mails. 2. if you're targeted by a nation state, you're screwed. 3. everybody is vulnerable to rubber-hose cryptography.

The guy said he doesn't trust Gmail (Google) with confidential emails and you recommend him Inbox?

I'm not saying people shouldn't play games, hell, I'm a gamer myself. But we have to compromise in life, and when I fire up my Windows VM, I understand all the implications that come out of it: I might get malware, I might get my personal information sent to various sites, my OS might be upgraded to NewWinOs or downgraded to OldCrappyOs automatically and so on.

And this is freaking unfortunate for everybody involved, except the big companies like Microsoft, Google, FB, Apple, etc.

I guess people shouldn't be speaking while debating if <INSERT-CURRENT-YEAR> is the year of the Linux desktop or not. The choices in life are usually (and i emphasize usually) simple, and this case is no exception. You either discard your privacy and maybe your security and go Windows, or you discard your usability (for some) and go Linux. Or go Mac, FreeBSD, hell, even BeOS or Hurd or whatever floats your boat.

But seeing people still bitching about how they can't go over Windows "because I have to play games" well ... it hurts. It really hurts.

We should know better.

Well said, random throwaway account. Shouldn't there be a presumption of innocence involved? /s

I know, and I don't want to sound naive, but weren't they supposed to protect us? (not an US citizen)