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While that may be true (and I'm sort of disappointed to find this out), I don't think there's any server _at all_ that I'd trust if I'm worried about certain governments snooping in on my email. That level of communication would prompt me to use PGP.

TIL Fastmail is an Australian company. I wonder if this bill applies to data hosted outside of Australia for international clients by a company based in Australia?

I'd really like to know what they have to say about this.

Over the past two years, Australian and New Zealand's governments have become great examples of how statism can take over so quickly. As an outsider, I feel really sad for people in Australia and New Zealand.

Newsflash: most of your data is reaching a US based company anyway

While I agree with you, unfortunatley that is still technically considered the tech-savvy crowd, amongst others at least.

Get yourself a PiHole&PiVPN or NextDNS and never look at ads on any of your devices again

The fact that it's so low (yes imo 58 is pretty low) speaks volumes to the attitudes of the "tech-savvy crowd" towards tracking and data mining.

If what the article says is true, this is the definition of authoritarianism.

It's not the support that I find appalling, this is fine in a free-speech society, but the issue i have with modern HN is that any sort criticism of censorship as an act regardless of the content or who's the person on the receiving end gets a tremendous amount of downvotes (almost instantly), which makes me think that the majority of people here (or those who read comments) believe that censorship is OK depending on the topic. For example: censoring Alex Jones is OK no matter what the context is, but censoring criticism of North Korea is not ok. So they clearly understand the concept, they just choose to apply it selectively and think that's fine. This varies depending on the person and the circles the go in.

Almost every single comment I make with that sentiment gets instant downvoted or flagged.

This looks like pure Github Action abuse basically.

Sounds like a recipe for a housing market collapse...

That sounds strange, what's in it for the landlord?

Again, dumb luck might have given you the opportunity, but dumb luck didn’t keep that thing going, you either consciously cheat or you’re working hard to keep the thing that dumb luck gave you the opportunity for.

The point is we all get dumb luck opportunities, not all keep them though

Not to be that guy, but a very small percentage of people might get lucky to get an opportunity at something, not to keep it. Time and time again I've found that what people refer to as luck (aside from inheritance or lottery) is sheer hard work and discipline.

Great to see blind fanboy-ism up and at it again.

Not really imo.

It may make sense in the short term, but in the long term these websites are losing customers, ie money. Online advertising is a failed business model. All those companies that started like this and succeeded quickly realized this and are constantly trying to pivot or have done so already.

I'd say the main reason for the crap web we have nowadays is: lazy people trying to get rich quick. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money online, like people selling books, educational courses, retail in general.

What pisses me off are people who want it quick and with no work. There are literally millions of people who think that they can just throw together a website (read shopify account), enable drop-shipping through some magic shitty plugin they neither know or care anything about, and suddenly bags of money will descend upon them while they're drinking coffee, eating poached eggs at some hipster coffee shop, and posting trash on any of the grams. This fails of course and some give up while others resort to scams. This is where scummy marketing people shine. They "run the numbers" and decide to buy some bullshit fivver SEO service that litters the shit out of some keywords or engage in some other so dark of patterns that make those million-and-one cookie consent boxes seem innocent. Now take this and multiply it by hundreds of thousands of people over the last decade and a half (probably even more) who are stuck in a loop of seeing some bullshit "success story" on facebook of some random dude who's now a millionaire from selling wallets from china, wanting to do the same but are lazy and know nothing about any of the fields involved, try to scam, mostly failing, and repeat.

Totally agreed with this. I do turn on dark mode from time to time (when reading longish text or code in a dark env) but I absolutely hate defaulting to dark mode. Worked in a couple of gardens over the last year and on my laptop screen it was horrendous. Had to turn it off one by one.

The aesthetic is fine if you want it, but websites should stop cramming it down everyone’s throat.

While I’m at it, stop it why the freaking wave emoji in your profile.

Thank you for your informative contribution.

That's a pretty naive and reductive way to describe the situation. The relationship between early al qaeda days and various US agencies who armed and trained them is very well established.

I'm not knocking down anyone's decision for how to earn money or spend their time, but the porn industry in general (corporate or indie) is notorious for exploitative attitudes and behavior, whether it's Pornhub exploiting unverifiable nature of some videos and favoring turning a blind eye to the whole thing until tension mounted, or a someone being in a relationship with someone else and doing videos together because god knows how much fucked up shit they've been through by the time they became 18.

I'm not in favor of big corporations, but in this case, the rules made by Mastercard seem sensible to me, and I'm not surprised that the Pornhub/Onlyfans are gonna position themselves as "being forced by the big companies to abandon the creators they support".

> UFO Mania Is Out of Control. Please Stop. Sorry to disappoint you, this science writer says, but there’s zero evidence of aliens.

Great example of (argumentum ad ignorantiam / appeal to ignorance) fallacy:

> This fallacy occurs when you argue that your conclusion must be true, because there is no evidence against it. This fallacy wrongly shifts the burden of proof away from the one making the claim.

There's of course no evidence that there are aliens, but this dude needs to find another hobby because the way this article is written oozes bullshit and clueless pretentiousness.

The cherry on top, from the wikipedia page of this "Joel Achenbach" character

> On January 10, 2018, The Washington Post suspended Achenbach for 90 days because of what it called "inappropriate workplace conduct" involving current and former female colleagues.[4] After the conclusion of the suspension Achenbach returned to work as a reporter for the Washington Post.

Somehow, just from reading the first couple of a paragraphs of this article, I got a feeling that this dude is a sleazeball.

If you use an extension that auto-approves, it's on you. I'm not familiar with adblock that blocks consent dialog or auto uncheckes all possible and clicks "ok"

The "not much hanging out, just focus time" is precisely the part I think is dystopian and personifies a sad future. The whole idea could be an episode of Blackmirror tbh.

I'm not arguing against some finding it useful, I'm sure some (like yourself) do, I don't know how sustainable that is though, or what it means about our society as we move forward, but in my opinion it's ominous.

Also it's way more difficult to parse than CSV. I'm not saying that CSV is better (or worse), just that to each it's job! Wtf is this about retiring a format because it doesn't fit someone's expectation!

Meh. Author probably messed up some important deadline or emailed (or got emailed) some crappy CSV file and then threw a temper tantrum and decided to write this.

Every single one of their points are extremely subjective and very wrong. If you have an excel sheet full of equations and colorful cells and then to decide to export it as CSV and open it in Notepad, you really can't complain that that CSV is bad. I mean it's obvious that to each format a set of strengths and a set of weaknesses, and also obviously what could be a strength to someone is a weakness to someone else. The fact that CSV is so simple to parse (almost every modern language can very easily read/write a CSV) makes it a fantastic data transfer format for every single usecase I had (this doesn't mean that other formats are less important of course). Sure you'll lose your Google Sheet or Excel metadata, but this is NOT what CSV is for.

What I find fascinating though is that the author decided it's a good idea to make a blanket statement like "Time to retire?" just because they themselves have an issue with SOME use case. I mean the idea that having your personal needs not met to justify arguing that we should ALL stop using CSV is so very bizarre to me, like it's way beyond selfish.

Don't mean to pick on this product specifically (it does look polished), but in general, does anyone else think this whole idea of opening a video camera and microphone (even if muted) for long sessions while people work on different things is kind of dystopian and sad? It makes sense when you're looking and working on the same thing, maybe even if it's like a shared desktop where each is working on a separate part of the same document for example, but each working on their own unrelated thing and still get on this? I know remote work is becoming more and more of a thing now, but it's usually the whole idea is to be: 1) async, 2) less distracted, and not revert back to another version of "office". I get pretty creepy vibes from this idea. Maybe I'm out of touch and/or old, but I can't ever see myself wanting to "virtually hang out" with coworkers or strangers with an always-on camera, verges on creepy imo. I can only imagine something like this with some family members.

It's tiring to argue with people who think RSS is dead so I just stopped. People who appreciate RSS still use it, those who provide it know their users/readers like it. Most Swedish news websites, TV, and radio still provide RSS. BBC provides RSS. Most blogs I follow provide RSS. If you really think about it there are only a few (but huge) companies that don't provide it, honestly, fuck'em.

The most beautiful thing about open standards is that they never ever die. There are gopher services (and revitalization attempts) all around.

If you think RSS is dead. Keep thinking that, it's your loss.

Github didn't even feel the need to include contributors' names...

> But dismissing improved UI/UX as "makeup" is not helpful.

It would be if the UI/UX is presented as a feature. I agree with you about the style but I disagree that this is dismissive, it's constructive but coarse.

Not to mention that the actual Git release note includes the names of new and returning contributors, which the Github post just replaced with numbers.