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Whenever I read comments on big subredditss I'm convinced ~95% of them are astroturfing bots Real question is who pays for 'em?

Depressing to see people trusting M$ over literally anything else...

What is HN's obsession with JS frameworks? There's 4 big ones (React, Vue, Angular, Ember (arguable if Ember still counts)) that have been in use for the better part of 2 decades at this poi…

I also don't carry a gun at work with which I can end someone's life. I don't want my comment to be taken as anti-cop because I'm not, but an office worker being monitored all day …

I can only speak for the company I work for, but that's more or less exactly the mindset the C-suite has about AI. The CTO nerds out on it so wants to work on it for the sake of saying he works w…

My worries about AI are more about the societal impact it will have. Yes it's a fancy sentence generator, the problem is that you already have greedy bastards talking about replacing millions of …

Agreed, oftentimes the truly zealous AI pundits act as if our modern day LLMs are completely, 100% equivalent to humans, which I find utterly insane as a concep. For example any discussion about copyr…

IIRC, Steam famously had to implement their refund system after the Aus government threatened legal action against them. They ended up making the refund system global rather than Aus-specific, so chee…

Steam's DRM is optional (edit: by this I mean it's a checkbox that the devs can tick if they want Steam DRM for their game) and extremely lightweight to be fair, and it's been cracked f…

Yep, GabeN has always been right on the ball with this. I stopped pirating games altogether and have like 900 games on Steam at this point. I still pirate music, shows, movies and software quite liber…

That's also not legal though, and there's been moves to make DNT in browsers be enforceable as a user explicitly not consenting. The laws themselves say that rejection should NOT be more dif…

What does Spotify gatekeep? Or are you saying that Tidal, Apple Music & Deezer should also be targeted by DMA? Netflix isn't being targeted either, so it's obviously not purposefully tar…

Plus DNS-level blocking is also better than nothing and works just fine on phones. Not affiliated just a happy customer, but I have NextDNS on my work iPhone and it manages to block most of the really…

Right, so let's just give up on every random online entity stealing all your personal data! Perfect shouldn't be the enemy of good. I don't like that gov't agencies do it either, b…

> The legal cost of dealing with a few _mistaken_ (or fake) GDPR complaints can wipe you out. No, they can't. It's not an automated system that automagically fines companies if they get f…

Every time I see people proud of ChatGPT all I see is it being wrong. Is this really what people are so hyped about? Cookies are fine if you're just storing user preferences, no banner needed if …

> I wonder if EU citizens feel well-served... Yes, because I can tell them to fuck off from harvesting all my data and have an easy, legally enforceable way to tell them to delete whatever data the…

Disperesed between TS, JS and test suite and Vue files yeah, around a million LOC. Comically massive legacy app with lots of things that need removal, I'd say 30% of the code isn't even used…

I mean you can't really use Tailwind if you don't understand at least some of the underlying CSS. It's not like it does anything magical for you, it just gets rid of having to give clas…

> I'm still anti the newer frameworks though - and i think most are like me because of the ridiculous complexity these days, the sweetspot for me was around Vue 2, Angular 1. But it's the…

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In the Netherlands, a lot of schools only communicate with parents via Whatsapp messages. How are they supposed to avoid Meta in this kind of situation? I've personally never touched a Meta produ…

What the options should be: A) Pay the 10 euros a month, no ads, no tracking whatsoever B) Don't pay the 10 euros a month, get ads, but no tracking if you don't EXPLICITLY consent to it. A…

I think the worst part is that I don't trust the parasite that is Meta to not still track paying users anyways. If anything, they're probably more likely to be tracked even more invasively a…

If your company can't exist without infinite free access to user's data, then your company shouldn't exist. > This is one of the dumbest things about GDPR and one of the reasons why …

You can have ads, just don't intrusively track your users and harvest all their data en-masse. Ads != Tracking, as can be seen literally everywhere that isn't the internet where ads exist.