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Anyone else read this and think "Celibate Touch"?

It's worth noting that last time I tried, you can't use this character to tweet a seemingly blank tweet. Twitter correctly disallows this as it would if you tried to tweet a normal space character and nothing else. However, there are plenty of other non-printing unicode characters that you can still use to tweet a seemingly empty tweet.

Hacker News also disallows this in its comments. YMMV with other non-printing characters.

Kudos to the submitter. It got me to watch WarGames again. (Even though tic-tac-toe is the metaphor used in the movie, not rock-paper-scissors.)

I understand this meta-strategy on an intellectual level, but I'd find it easier to fully understand with a concrete example or an interactive example. It mentions that this meta-strategy only works if your opponent's strategy is consistent. I'd like an interactive version to play with to show that. Also, I'm curious how this strategy fairs against itself.

The only winning move is not to play. ;-)

Perhaps the title should include (2016) as that is when this archive snapshot is from. It's unclear when the page was originally created.

This is interesting. It reminds me of the API behind JSX. But I'm not sure what problem this is seeking to solve exactly. Is it showing that HTML and s-expressions are technically interchangeable?

That's true. I also thought of something like state secrets where a government agent might show up one day and make you disappear.

But that type of information is only indirectly dangerous. The actual danger is the government agent or your personal actions based on misinformation in the case of antivaxx.

I was thinking more in terms of information that is objectively dangerous. Just ingesting the information alone is enough to cause damage.

I was also reminded of an article I read recently about artists and animators who worked on the newest Mortal Kombat game suffering from PTSD due to the graphic nature of their art and the reference materials they had to use.

I disagree having read about people who work as content moderators for websites like YouTube. They frequently suffer from acute forms of PTSD having only passively consumed information. If information can cause PTSD, I would consider that information dangerous to one's mental health.

This article conveniently sidesteps the fetish aspect of slime, I see.

I found the URL addressing scheme of Redox to be fascinating, if perhaps slightly less user-friendly compared to files and file paths.

https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/url/urls.html

Thanks for tresorit. That was the only one I hadn't heard of. Their pricing structure is a little hard for me to grasp, but I'll be keeping them in mind.

Thank you. This does explain quite a bit.

That's true. But I support socialist policies around things like education and healthcare. Heck, the public education system in the United States /is/ socialist. But good luck getting a politician to admit that.

Anyway, my point is that systems like single-payer healthcare is certainly a socialist policy, but I don't think calling it a communist policy would be accurate.

I could be wrong, but it seems like socialism is more about the application of tax dollars towards social security programs, whereas communism is a form of rules and organization imposed on the private market. I'm probably oversimplifying it, though.

I don't understand why I'm being down voted for this comment.

I'm confused by the seemingly interchangeable use of the words "socialism" and "communism" implied in this piece.

The original blog post from Steiger did seem suspect to me when I read it earlier today when this story broke. What's still unclear is what the motive would be to make up or exaggerate such a story.

OP is in the wrong about message contents. Message contents were never compromised to my knowledge. The issue was specifically metadata like login times and IP addresses. Also possibly mail server logs, such as that a user sent a message to a Gmail account, although I'm not 100% certain on that last point. Once again, when using the proper settings in ProtonMail, the message contents cannot be retrieved without a brute force attack thanks to end-to-end encryption.

As with many of the other commentors here, I wonder how many programmers truly believe these things. Maybe as recently as the 90s or 2000s. Maybe developers who are fresh out of school.

But we've had search engines as a major part of our lives for about two decades now. Most of us use one at least daily. We're familiar with the complexities of search engines and how they differ from simply searching a document for an exact string or even a regular expression. Many programmers like me work with tools like analytics and log aggregators that expose the complexities of search to us in a way that's more intimate than the veneers of Google and Amazon.

Maybe I'm just lucky in that my experiences have dispelled these notions of search being easy or simple. But I hope I'm not alone.

Also, there's a disparity between what search is and what your users expect. Technically, I could make a really simplistic "search engine" that amounts to a SQL LIKE query. It may not be good or what users might expect coming from Google/Amazon/etc, but it would be a search engine. (Oops. Looks like my pedant hat slipped back on when I wasn't looking.)

I wonder if that one was meant to be controversial as it was the first item. My pedant sense started tingling immediately.

Search engines don't work like your standard RDBMS with SQL and whatnot. You can't just make a SQL query with a LIKE operator and just call it a day if you want modern, featureful searching.

But a search engine is absolutely a database. Lots of things are databases even if they aren't RDBMS and can't be queried with SQL.

Although, as a side note, I have seen some interesting projects that allow you to query things like file systems and operating systems using SQL, or at least syntax largely inspired by SQL.

I wonder if that's aimed at permissions-based stuff or, like, search bubbling?

Thank you for the clarification. I was waiting for an official statement as this site does seem a bit suspect.

I've heard lots of horror stories about self-hosted mail bouncing as spam. I'd only consider that a last resort, personally.

I have almost completely moved my email from Google to ProtonMail. Now this. It makes me sad. I'm using ProtonVPN as well.

So, what are the alternatives?

The original title on HN used the word "rebuttal". It appears to have been changed.

Doesn't seem like much of a rebuttal at all, does it?

The scroll snapping one doesn't appear to be working for me on Firefox for Android. Unless it is working and I just don't understand what it's doing.

EDIT: I just tried it on Firefox Focus, where it absolutely does work. That means it's broken on Firefox for Android.

I agree. This has been a problem for decades. The only difference now is that it's much more obvious since we now have a more complete, centralized catalog of all the stuff that exists.

Of course, I could get on my intellectual high horse and talk about things like chaos theory and market complexity and the value of redundancy and competition. But I won't do that because I completely understand where this article is coming from on a human level.

I feel the same way. I've been watching this project for months. I really want to support it, but I don't think I'd get enough use out of it to justify the cost.

Although I'm sure Howey is technically correct, I don't think what amounts to semantic quibbling is actually adding anything to the discussion.

Okay, so humanity won't be eliminated. But there will be a dramatic increase in death and suffering and overall quality of life will be drastically diminished except for those already in the top 1% of wealth. How does that distinction change the overall discussion or the importance of fighting climate change?