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nnopepeon Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

every passing year the platform gets more and more hostile to non-americans. I gave up trying to argue and deleted my account. No regrets, modern-day documentation is more than sufficient

nnopepeon Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet

>What does "pushing woke politics" mean?

Pushing for global use of the US's anachronistic racial science over more nuanced alternatives such as ethnicity/nationality

nnopepeon Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having

more naptime is a political cause worth fighting for

nnopepeon Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having

mastodons biggest shortcoming remains the lack of e2e encrypted DM's. Giving volunteer internet janitors access to your private messages is a recipe for disaster

nnopepeon How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind

I don't mean to be snarky but for someone born and raised in an irreligious majority nation, this does read as if written by someone who's lost their mind

nnopepeon Taking Lichess to the next level

I am unfamiliar with scala, which of it's traits makes it deserving of higher pay?

nnopepeon “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

as long as it's not homogenously american it'll be a good thing

nnopepeon Ad blocking is under attack (2017)

*Self reported MAU. With no-way of outside verification as brave doesn't have it's own user agent string

nnopepeon Ad blocking is under attack (2017)

HTTP is a request based protocol. I make a request and you can choose to accept or reject it. If the host breaks the social contract by polluting the connection with unsolicited content it's entirely within the users prerogative to block such requests.

nnopepeon Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty

kinda weird to see US demographics superimposed over amsterdam. Couldn't spot a single blonde/redhead

nnopepeon Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse

Given that their site thinks itself above GDPR I'm inclined to believe google

nnopepeon EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers

serve a modified version to rate limited IP's that only contains popular indian sites and I'm sure it'll be resolved in a day or two

nnopepeon 2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)

Why do they opt for such a silly scheme over improving the quality of local schools?

nnopepeon Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists

I randomly picked one of her contributions and it reads like a travel blog of a random canadian[1], a second pick brought me to a dead french woman[2] whos claim to fame is being "one of the first" to do something

By the sound of it Jess's reputation is so obnoxious people simply can't be arsed to contest her article creations anymore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_Farmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve_Hidden

nnopepeon Building the world’s fastest website analytics (2021)

These people don't have the inhouse skills to maintain a simple SQL server, let alone optimize their schema (MySQL being too slow to sum/group 11m records in a timely manner? Please.)

Attempting to make your own db while being ignorant of competing products would be an absolute disaster