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Apologies, but it feels so strange to me to see FreeDB framed as being "in competition" with anything. It was designed to do exactly one thing: continue a community-focused and technically-c…

It is a fools' errand to think we will ever be able to get 100% of humanity to agree on objective truth, because there is no such thing. The only 'truth' is the truth of majority, and t…

We're saying the same thing! A supporter of Trump or any other politician might think "their guy" is faultless, and I would probably disagree, but I wouldn't sit there arguing with…

Yep! It's been "stable" (>= 1.0) since 2015, has seen a handful of releases since, and will surely see more when the time comes: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?…

This seems needlessly hostile for something that affects you so little if you don't have a use for it. I have a huge digital (in the FLAC/MP3 sense) music library ripped almost exclusively f…

Updating FreeDB clients to use Musixbrainz used to be as easy as changing the API URL, but unfortunately Musicbrainz deprecated their side of that interface a year or so ago: https://blog.m…

If we allow a precedent like that it will some day inevitably be turned on somebody you think speaks objective truth. The past few years have shown me there is no such thing.

Sorry, would you clarify? It’s unclear what part of that statement you are questioning.

Declaring who is and is not a valid journalist is not a path we, or any society, should go down.

I believe what they’re trying to say is that the context clues in the top-level comment tell us that the comment author defines “faultless record” as “no retractions”. You, me, or any other person can…

They encourage you to recycle it yourself rather than send it back to them. From their support page: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3573 “Once your Sonos product has be…

We aren't disagreeing. I'm not talking about high-quality brands who happen to manufacture in China. I can't think of an example off the top of my head, but have you ever landed on a se…

These days when I end up on one of those Amazon search results filled with obviously-identical no-name goods it’s my cue to head over to Aliexpress instead. The product I’m getting is the same garbage…

They are optional. The option is just not visible in that UI. If you have Windows 10 Pro or higher, open the Group Policy Management snap-in, navigate to "Computer Configuration > Administrati…

This must be the "Account Security Issue" Twitter e-mailed me about last week. I was wondering when they'd release more details: https://i.imgur.com/yjzMtLB.png Transcr…

Bringing divisive political mudslinging to this issue will make it that much harder to collectively solve. Please don't do this.

You shouldn't expect unbiased analysis from anyone, about anything. Don't look at other peoples' viewpoints as something to either wholly adopt or wholly reject; instead as datapoints t…

That's why Ray Ozzie's comment on a previous submission is so significant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847189 …

Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846189 (June 2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291404 (2015)…

For me, Panther (10.3) was the last release where every new feature or addition was something I wanted. Spotlight and Dashboard in Tiger (10.4) were dog slow on my G3 back in the day and got disabled …

He's praising himself. Those are three areas _he_ explored.

It seems contradictory for you to say in your previous comment that Christmas as practiced in 2019 by Americans doesn't matter when discussing Santa because of the religious roots, and then follo…

I think technical limitations like this are the worst possible solution. The genie can't be put back in the bottle with any particular technology, and the lack of widespread access and awareness …

It is not an assumption or false statement that I had bitcoins in Mt.Gox and now want nothing to do with Mark Karpeles or anything under him :)

To be fair, the switch to mobile-first did more to kill XMPP than Google did. It's a lot better now a decade later with all the XEPs, but now there's nobody there to talk to so it's too…

Feelings often don't make sense, but you can't 'logic' feelings away that easily. Or I can't, anyway.

Yep, I agree. That's why I said it was perfectly defensible. Getting burned by Mark in the past causes me a bad _feeling_, though, and the world of feeling and the world of logic often don't…

The issue for me isn't Reader itself but what it says about the disconnect between Google management and us, the users of Google products. That seems to have happened around the time Google went …

I'm sure his role is perfectly defensible and his experience a valuable asset for PIA in this space, but I think the issue is the optics of such a hire and what it says about other decisions that…