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beertoagunfight

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beertoagunfight··on Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted
Is there a whole Mastodon like movement with Reddit that users seem to be moving to?
beertoagunfight··on Ask HN: How risky is it to go with a freelancer to build a website?
Could you elaborate on the extra layer of complexity that they're looking for? Perhaps it's already possible with the platform.
beertoagunfight··on Mastodon's federation model encourages specific instances with peculiar rules
Isn’t the point while point of the federated feed is that it cuts across instances?
beertoagunfight··on It’s not still the early days of blockchain
This. I have never gotten a satisfactory answer to how centralization is prevented in such cases.
beertoagunfight··on What's the Future of IDEs?
I used to do my share of vim in the past, but I really don't have time for this shit anymore. I just want something that works out of the box across languages, without having to tinker around.

Vim is a great text editor, and that is exactly what I want it to do. The IdeaVim plugin gets the job done for me.

beertoagunfight··on uBlock Origin review
What's DoH?
beertoagunfight··on Thunderbird 91.0
What is this talk about Calendar support? Does that mean we don't have to use the lightning calendar extension?
beertoagunfight··on Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
That page, is also an article from 2017 :-)
beertoagunfight··on Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
Here's what Telegram has to say to that: https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by...

Seems like an okay compromise to me, but I'm no security expert.

beertoagunfight··on Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
Telegram gets a lot of flak for this, but if what they're saying here is true, I believe that it's a pretty sane architecture: https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by...

Definitely a better alternative to WhatsApp in any case.

beertoagunfight··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
Fuck Facebook, I'm out.