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The Signal desktop app is complete and utter garbage.

This is the fate of every online review site. Every single one. Including IMDB as I realised yesterday while trying to find something to watch.

The most egregious example I've found was that the Danish postal service had something like a 4,8/5,0 rating on Trustpilot. You'll be hard pressed to find a more inept, corrupt and universally hated company. So in an attempt to improve their public image, they decided to game the ratings, instead of actually delivering mail properly.

Anyone who consents to giving Discord their phone number, and installing literal spyware.

I don't know a single person who used Google+, unless you mean in the sense that Google forced it on everyone with a Google account.

When your flashing app starts getting bigger than the operating systems it's writing, you should start asking yourself some questions.

  ~$ du -h $(which dd)
  76K     /usr/bin/dd

Etcher truly is the clowniest Electron app of them all.

1.1 is enough.

  ~$ ping -c1 1.1
  PING 1.1 (1.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 1.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=7.89 ms
  
  --- 1.1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.888/7.888/7.888/0.000 ms

But a state financed news outlet is no better, because it invariably ends up being government propaganda, since that's the hand that feeds it.

>impulsive, emotionally-motivated

Yes that's precisely how I want infrastructure to operate.

If you own a danish domain name (.dk), unless you have protected address, all your info is a whois lookup away. Example lookup of ft.dk (danish folketing).

  Domain:               ft.dk
  DNS:                  ft.dk
  Registered:           1995-07-04
  Expires:              2027-09-30
  Registration period:  1 year
  VID:                  no
  DNSSEC:               Signed delegation
  Status:               Active
  
  Registrant
  Handle:               DATA REDACTED
  Name:                 Folketinget
  Address:              Christiansborg Slot 1
  Postalcode:           1218
  City:                 København K
  Country:              DK
  Phone:                +4533375500
  Email:                webmaster@ft.dk
  ID status:            ID verified via electronic ID
  
  Nameservers
  Hostname:             maleah.ns.cloudflare.com
  Hostname:             yichun.ns.cloudflare.com

This is why I've never posted anything from my own shitty website here. All of this is available from [myname].dk with my info on it. Also it's horrifying that our government is restricting access to its website behind fucking CloudFlare.

EDIT: I didn't redact anything from the lookup, this is the exact data I received.

>I feel like this should be the default.

The autorities do not, and the guy who "leaked" the CPR number of Mette Frederiksen was thrown in jail.

On an unrelated note, I recently read about voyage of the Mayflower across the Atlantic. It's a captivating piece of history.

Same in Denmark, and it really boils my piss. DR (Danmarks Radio) is 80% trash. If I was dictator in Denmark I would abolish it on the spot. I won't deny that DR produces things that are not trash or only mildly trash, but I have no interest in it. People who want it can fund it themselves. State financed reality TV is an abomination.

>east europeans

I was the Health and Safety Representative at a previous job site, with a lot of different nationalities. Of course I can't generalise all of them, but I noticed that eastern europeans usually had way more disregard for job safety than Danes. There was one guy from Hungary especially who I had to reprimand at least weekly for doing stupid acrobatic shit on ladders. And we usually weren't even under time pressure, he just had barely any regard for his own safety. It was maddening. I would have fired him if I had authority to do so.

Neither does the police stop murders from happening, but if your employer demands you haul around 50 kg of bricks around by hand, you have legal recourse.

>electrician turned dev

I did the inverse, and while I don't enjoy poo and fibreglass, I do immensely enjoy the days I work outside in the spring and summer. Easily worth a bit of occasional poo. :)

>job requires him to lift heavier things than he safely can carry

Civilised countries have laws prohibiting this. Here in Denmark it's arbejdsmiljøstyrelsen (bless you), and OSHA in USA.

Not only do I think it, I am an electrician - for about 20 years. I have a few thoughts on this article. However, my experiences are from a danish perspective, and I think trades education and the job market in general differs in important way. Still, I have a few thoughts about this article.

First, regarding job safety and health. As an electrician, safety is the number one thought in my mind at all times. It is never routine. Looking at a set of bare copper wires, even knowing the power is off, even if I did it myself, even if I can see the breaker being off, I ALWAYS test it with my meter, no exceptions. Maybe the breaker is broken. Maybe the breaker isn't broken but the circuit tees off somewhere and gets backfed in some bizarre way. Maybe it doesn't get backfed, but this isn't the cable you think it is. And so on and so on. Point being, it's not dangerous if you use your head. I wouldn't do this if I thought I could die at any moment. It's scarier driving home from work.

Further regarding health, I will argue it's worse for you to sit on your ass working for 40 years. My step counter is usually around 12-15000 when I finish the workday.

And this is a very individual feeling, but the things I do and build are things that last. During my apprenticeship I built a lot of summer houses, and I'm sure they're still around. The work I do now includes major sport events, ensuring everything runs smoothly, from the beer and hotdog stands to the stadium flood light towers and PA systems. It gives me immense job satisfaction to see an event finish with no problems, and people probably didn't even know I was there. If I end up on TV, it's not a good day.

How many apps and websites last even 5 years? Imagine being the guy making parking apps? Everyone hates you.

Due to strong unions, the trades are paid well in Denmark. And if you do good work, and are smart enough to specialise deeply, you can earn a lot. Start your own company and you can potentially earn very very well.

This immediately started playing in my head, before I fully parsed the headline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBES0jOmbCs

I don't want to buy an RTX 6000 just to play Sim City.

uBlock needs a slop filter post haste.

And I wish there was a SponsorBlock type, crowdsourced slop filter for Youtube.

It's certainly less true than it was. It depends on how Matt Prince feels on any particular day.

To a large degree, most of the internet today is ultimately controlled by a few people. If what you have to say pisses off these people, and someone is determined to keep you off the internet, you have a problem. Kiwi Farms is a well known example, and continues to suffer under regular DDOS attacks. Regardless of how you feel about KF, it's undeniable that a) this nonsense has streissanded the site enormously and b) it's speech you don't like that needs protection.

Also there was the whole covid "misinformation" garbage fire... I certainly do not want my government or some megacorp to decide what can and can't say or read.

And going beyond the internet, I just want to remind you Americans, that your 1st amendment is almost unique (to my knowledge). Enjoy and protect your offensive, hateful, blasphemous, extremist, and deeply unpopular speech.

It's amusing that this argument is repeating itself here, and is again stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc

The stupidest Wikipedia argument I ever had, was having to cite the fact that bread is sold sliced.

  > microsoft authored post
  > clickbait headline
  > slop writing
  > some kid

Yea it's another bullshit post on the front page.

>it is unreasonable for a company to support old hardware indefinitely

No it absolutely is not, and especially not for a company like Apple. A bunch of hippies make Linux drivers for museum grade hardware. The only reason Apple does this is to sell you new crap that looks and works the same as the old crap.

In the 90's and 00's a 10 year old computer was literally unusable. Today it's different, despite everything that web devs do to ruin it. My home file server is using 2011 hardware (except hdds).

Don't believe their lies.

>Why is this happening?

Turd polishing. It's easier than doing real work fixing and improving the browser. This exact scenario has happened countless times before, and it will keep happening. Mozilla "reimagines" their UI. There's huge controversy. Userchrome.css files gets published on github and then abandoned. Bugzilla reports are created and locked for being toxic (ie. disagreeing). /r/firefox mods work double shifts to silence dissent. HN has a >1000 comment argument. Some percentage of users flee to Brave/Vivaldi/etc., while the rest settle in to their stockholm syndrome.

v89 was when I got out.

I was like you once. I still care - but Mozilla just insists on sabotaging themselves, and it's too far gone now. Honestly at this point I'm just waiting for Mozilla to implode, so something better can rise from its ashes.

A Phoenix, if you will...

Every generation has their Reddit mods.

I've seen some chargers (non-Tesla) that support it, but only for CCS DC charging (which my Leaf doesn't have), not AC charging. Just tapping my debit card isn't much of an inconvenience, though plugging in and walking away does sound nice. However, I'm kind of suspicious of what data a car and charger is exchanging with Plug & Charge. In the privacy hell world we find ourselves in my guess is "all of it".

9 times out of 10, when I have problems with a public charger, it's with some stupid app. I avoid chargers that are app only, and target those where I can just tap my debit card to pay (an actual card, not more smartphone tomfoolery). See also: parking apps.

It takes all of my willpower not to go full Ted Kaczynski some days.