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If you happen to review few places on Google Map you are holding superpowers. Idk if that works for new accounts too. But yeah, at least if you do some activity then you report a place as closed, they are "checking" it for 1h, then you get the e-mail that the place got removed from Maps.

I use that for good purpose - I fix a lot of invalid information on Google Maps around my home town, and they apply the changes without batting an eye. This is good for society. But I can clearly see how that could be used for abusive purposes.

Another reason why good old KeePass file, synced via Google Cloud & backuped twice a day is better approach to passwords.

I appreciate many online services, but I don't like them being the only owner of my data and/or abstracting away the fact that my data are files in the end.

TOS is not a law

I'm not an expert but Dosbox can be run in browser.

I've seen entire oses in browser too, but that would be too much CPU to waste. Anyway, if your game is dos based that could help you.

well, this is how Linus Tech Tips Youtube account was taken over.

I do. Which is a surprise for me, because nobody else close to me seem to do it.

And who says it?

A site that first try to trick me into letting them sell my data for ads, then displays up to 8 ads at the same time on a screen (there are more if I scroll), then wants to install a constant advertising script into my computer (allow notifications popup) and when I wanted just to close this thing it advertised me their newsletter.

And they have courage to reproach others for adding advertisements to their product, lol

Is the algorithm known to produce all theoretically possible hash values?

Imagine a simple algorithm that should hash a string to a number 0-3, but due to an extra condition it actually cannot produce "3", pseudocode:

``` Sum = sumOfAsciiCodeOfString(input); Rest = Sum % 4; Return Rest === 3 ? 2 : Rest; ```

Or due to a bug (replace `% 4` with `% 3`).

Can we prove that md5 doesn't suffer from such issues and it actually can output ffffffffffff or deaddeaddeaddead ?

Please fix your accessibility

https://i.imgur.com/POLlQnR.jpg

Two images, few lines of text - yeah, let's make it a JavaScript only app!

Almost nobody cares about the value to the user anymore. Value to the owner/seller of the product is what matters.

This results in poor UX, apps spying you constantly, useless features and easy to fix bugfixes that aren't fixed in years.

As a software developer I'm disappointed in this approach. If I can I try my best to produce the best experience for the end user, but in the end I can only get satisfaction in open source...

But open source is sometimes hell too!

Just recently I found super popular open source library that earns $200k each years from donations, but the its Github is filled with issues and PRs. Author doesn't care, the money flows anyway. It hurts to see most major issues are already fixed by PRs, but the author doesn't even bother to merge & release.

Sad.

I like the just talking approach. The best jobs I had when the interview was just talk.

But on the other hand so many people totally lie about their experience I can't believe it. People tend to have misleading cvs and overexaggerate their responsibilities very often. It makes me sad, because we can't just hire and continue the project, we need to spend few months getting people into the project, "giving a chance", to finally discover they just can't code, until we finally find the right person.

2/30 is still AI :)

AI only wasted my time. It cannot really solve anything beyond basic StackOverflow questions and it even fails on super simple questions too. So I wasted hours to discover the fact.

I work as long as I want in theory, but I try to work 8hr/day, which is expected from me, but of course at least 2hr/day is spent on meetings. Sometimes I don't "work" at all (I mean coding), usually I get around 2-4h to think and code.

I'm not worried about layoffs, while I usually don't believe in myself I feel I still have a strong skills that are needed on the market and the worst that can happen is a little smaller salary in another company.

Long vacations aren't helping much with burnout and depression related - that's what I read just today and I totally agree. I'm fighting this thing for years.

If you can lower your hours/day AND if you can take few days off much more frequently - that should help in the long term.

I used to work for a while with blind people. The boss of the local blind people community was shooting dad-like jokes about blindness all the time, I loved that attitude!

It helped to make connection with these people and we needed that, because I was developing some app that main audience was blind people and to actually understand their needs and problems you need to make a connection with them.

Removing comments from exising conversations if they don't contain sensitive data is rude IMO.

Somebody may want to read the conversation in the future and now they will experience missing comments

Browsers could use `.well-known` file if defined by a website and if there would be one standard defined in the first place (like there is one for changing password!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI

I wish well-known would be actually more... known and used by both websites owners and browsers

Google. Only searchpage.com is close to Google for actually returning me something I look for, but I'm just used to Google so I continue to use it.

Ads are hidden for me, so I just get the results and usually when I cannot find something it's just because it doesn't exist.

it doesn't work for me. The only threads I can find on reddit are those that are dead and unanswered :(

No, I don't use it for anything but fun. It's useless for me, because it's just a fancy text generator and I'm not writing a book

I use the same name everywhere I care for the content, if not I have a second username used for forced registrations.

I was shocked few years ago to discover my e-mail was set in my profile to be publicly visible. Just in case verify it's not the same with your phone number.

Quick list, because noone has time to read anyway:

- I'd build entirely DIY smart home - I'd do a lot of woodworking - I'd make an awesome garden

Oh... and one more thing: I'd finally make Linux desktop be useable

It won't work anyway, content is spread around so quickly by people that you don't have much control over it anyway. Something you mention you want to keep away from AI will be copied to a place where AI is allowed and your work will be used to learn algorithms anyway.

Treat your work like your private photos - you don't want something on the internet, to be freely used by anyone for anything - just don't post it. This is the only safe way, no matter what you believe.

I pay for Netflix and Prime Video.

I pirate stuff when it's somewhere else or when it's not available anywhere (surprisingly that's 50% of cases, but maybe that's just my country). So the spread availability is one of the problems, but not having a chance to watch something legally is another.

The same problem is with videogames. Some of them can't be bought anymore (excluding used physical copies on CD/DVD, but that's not something I prefer).

Pirating movies is even legal in my coutry - it's legal to download a movie that's already shared - I just can't share it. So at least they can't jail me for this sporadic crime.

Do I feel bad? Partially. I'd prefer to pay, I love paying for stuff that's even free (donations), but I don't want to feel like I'm an animal that predators want to lacerate.

Have you ever tried startpage.com?

I can't use anything else then google for more than a day - for me every other search engine returns worse results than google, especially in my native language (polish), but startpage seemed to be best choice if I ever had to switch

never seen that before. It seems nice, I may use it some day.

It doesn't solve my Lua issue unfortunately - I need several versions of lua - and fengari seems to implement lua 5.3.

Also the lua thing is just an example. I had many of such "not trivial, not too much" + "i don't really care, i need an answer and never go back to it" situations. I still long for StackOverflow with money offer for a solution.

Such website would surely require a good terms of service and some kind of moderation to avoid any shady events from happening.

HackHands was acquired, I will take a look at what PluralSight is about, but it's not definitely a QA website with a price listed near the topics.

I may be wrong but I think finding a person for micro consulting should be quite easy even now.

And for LUA issue and why I think it's easy thing to do. I found at least few solutions for running Lua VM in a browser with emscripten. I read about running ffmpeg in browser.

It's all about changing some configuration and compiling the code to be used with web assembly. The solution for what I need is a single command. But knowing nothing about c++ I find it hard to compile lua compiler instead of lua VM. And because I need several versions of lua - fengari is not an option, but it's sure an interesting project I may use somewhere else.

Domains like .tk will be pushed down in Google results, you will have issues when you will try to send mails from such domain, etc. If something is free and attractive it's usually abused.

If you don't care about such things and you can easily move to another domain without any issues (people still accessing old domain, maybe finding a scammy website after domain is being taken from you, your mails no longer being delivered to you) then go for it.