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theanonymousone

7,150karma·1,094submissions·September 27, 2021
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I guess(?) you are in the US. Is their product available anywhere else?
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Isn't it written in 2022, hence requiring the year in the title?
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I fully agree that CSV is king and am quite happy about it. But the comma character was probably one of the worst choices they could make for the "standard", IMHO of course. Tab makes far mo…
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Not so irrelevant question: Is Internet Archive "sustainable", particularly in the long term? Is it possible to keep a history of the Internet forever? If yes, how?
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> whaddaya gonna do bout it? This is, IMHO, probably the only factor that matters: We let them dump into domination, and now we cannot "do anything about it", it seems.
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Is it wrong to expect an apology? (Trying not to be rhetoric, but instead know more expert opinions)
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Do you have any such "alternatives" in mind, apart from Desktop GUI software?
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> In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app's limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. Do we now also c…
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Hi and thanks for the effort. Is there a roadmap for supporting GUI applications?
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Thanks. I see many frameworks use hash(ip+ timeFrame). I thought it is to detect sessions, but it seems also to be about anonymisation.
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Many thanks. What about "fingerprints" such as browser user agent, country, ...? They are not exactly PII, are they? And regarding anonymisation, is it enough to remove the last two parts of…
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I was always confused by GDPR. What are the minimum requirements to avoid the banner? Anonymising the IPs and not keeping anything else, or you can keep anything as long as you don't share them w…
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This brings back memories! There was a period of time, in mid-late 2010s, when I was hopelessly looking for a web-based IDE that supported programming in Java. There was cloud9 for web programming, bu…
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Driver yes of course. But regarding software, I think now we can have a very decent and usable machine if it can only run Firefox/Chromium (but perfectly so).
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My friend worked on this for his Msc thesis (2010-11). I went to his defence presentation but still couldn't figure out what these "things" are :-| These and Monads will bite me forever…
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Writing GUI apps is painful, and being probably the most thankless area in Software engineering doesn't help either.
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Does that mean Threads users can also follow Mastodon account?
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Blocking RSS fetchers which are "bots" by design, intent, and definition, is really bizarre! Seems the poor indy bots scraping price pages once a week are totally out of lock then.
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Well, I adopted String templating in one of my code bases. It seems it is stuck now in Java 22 :(
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Someone should try to compile it to a Javascript web application with TeaVM.
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I always thought it's Persian, but it may be older, and it does certainly have cognates in Sanskrit too. Wiktionary is amazing for such information.
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Persia doesn't exist anymore, and I referenced to the country as Iran, if you check a bit more carefully. The language, however, is spoken by roughly 100 million people, so I believe it is safe t…
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