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midasz··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
That's absolute nonsense
midasz··on Telegram publishes users' locations online
This comment is downvoted but as a person in the EU I can wholly agree with it. It's not that I never use american made/hosted products but it is definitely a consideration when making a choice. It's not that I don't like Americans, but your government and government agencies have verifiably proven that they don't care about the things I care about.
midasz··on Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
> but it's no problem if I want to just spelunk in ancient dwarves ruins for a few months instead

And that's exactly why I loved it haha, but I do understand the grievance with it

midasz··on Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
Teams videochat works flawlessly on my linux worklaptop as well (native though), I get disconnected from video calls a lot using Slack... If Teams fixes their chatroom issue I'd definitely be willing to make the switch entirely.
midasz··on Airbnb S-1
Not for a holiday though, only when you're planning on living here - which does makes sense.
midasz··on I enforced the AGPL on my code
What a weird reaction by that company. The time it took them to discuss it, investigate, and respond could've easily been used to comply with the license. I'm already happy with my current hosting but they've been added to my shitlist either way.
midasz··on What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)
We have to support both MySQL and MSSQL so Hibernate has been mostly great for that. For really simple queries it's also nice to be able to write "findAllBySomethings_IdAndPropertyIsNull" etc instead of writing a SQL query. Been there, done that.

Though I have to admit I do check what queries Hibernate produces to make sure it's not doing some funky stuff that's not really needed (as a result of a mistake of my own, mostly)

Edit: It has come to my attention that it is ofcourse Spring Data that offers those named queries. Still see nothing wrong with hibernate since I still only have to write it once and I'll be relatively safe supporting both db systems.

midasz··on One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
Hacktoberfest spam killer - An Amazing Project
midasz··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
So you made a mistake, namecheap made an exception because they understood mistakes happen, and then you moved to a different registrar... where you wouldn't make that mistake? Agree it's not a good look to let the customer think the order was failed and then it proceeding anyways, but I can think of a situation where it was a desired outcome - like you wanted to extend the domain and they moved to do that.
midasz··on KLM to Lay Off 5k Employees Due to Covid-19
Thank you for the explanation! I was really wrecking my head trying to understand it haha.
midasz··on KLM to Lay Off 5k Employees Due to Covid-19
what?
midasz··on Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop
gab and voat lmao
midasz··on Quit Twitter (2019)
HN is good because of the moderation and 'niche' audience I think. Any place with a relatively specific topic and passionate userbase can either shift to very good or very bad, the decider is moderation.
midasz··on Quit Twitter (2019)
Reddit is still the best for specific topics imho, I wouldn't mind switching to a forum but if I want to read about and discuss football (soccer), news about my country, old school runescape, and stuff like /r/IdiotsInCars there's really no alternative for me (since I haven't used FB in years).
midasz··on How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser
I also need to test on IE (since our biggest client uses it) so I have to spin up a Windows 10 VM and test it that way. Absolutely worth the time, time spent increases exponentially if a bug is found later in the process.
midasz··on Medium is not the home for your ideas
Yeah this is honestly the biggest reason for me not to use medium. I genuinely cannot help selecting text and clicking the paragraphs (highlighting them) while reading. God knows how many mice have died in my care. I think it might have to do with ADHD or something, but I've never been tested.
midasz··on Medium is not the home for your ideas
Also happens in the Netherlands, for example Anne fleur Dekker -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Fleur_Dekker
midasz··on Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
We wouldn't be having this conversation if they had won the war - my family would be dead and I would never have been born. Excuse me for not protecting their right to speech (which leads to action).

Nazism isn't a point of contention anymore. We know what their rhetoric leads to (because they were allowed to rise and showed the world what the consequences are). That's why I said they lost the war. It's imho a pretty strong argument to draw the line right there, to ensure the sacrifices were not made for nothing.

midasz··on Wiki.js
> Wiki.js, straight up doesn't load without Javascript

I'm sorry but it's right there in the name

midasz··on Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
> There isn't always a line

Yes there is. The line is Nazis now. There was a war, they lost. They're not welcome anymore.

midasz··on Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
He's just seen (at least by the ROTW) as very unstable and prone to lashing out. He might not order a war but his inability to govern with rationality and diplomacy does give credence to the side effect of relations worsening to the point of armed conflict.
midasz··on Riot is now Element
Or a basically finished joint
midasz··on Google to Invest $10B in India
For now
midasz··on I Am Deleting the Blog
> The latter of course even had "socialist" in the title

Ah yes and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is also democratic, please...

midasz··on Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform
> So it's always the left attacking and it's always the right being attacked, but never attacking back.

Please tell me this is satire. Because I don't think being calling eachothers bullshit out on the internet is an issue. The problems begin when people take actions on it. You talk about 'attacking' but I can give you 2 examples from 2019 where right-wing extremists literally attacked. Those ideas were perpetuated in right-wing echochambers and eventually led to the deaths of many.

- Christchurch mosque shootings

- El Paso shooting

Both had right-wing extremist motivations, citing garbage such as 'the Great Replacement'.

But yeah, go ahead and crawl into the victim role because we don't want to read racist bullshit.

midasz··on Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
Ah so now they are "people"? The people who loot should be arrested and tried. Once you start using force many innocent people will be caught in the crosshairs, this will only further escalate the situation.
midasz··on Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
> Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!
midasz··on Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting.

Please tell me how I am inverting the situation? Or should I use your translation book to make sense of his tweets?

midasz··on Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
Wow. This man needs a lesson on how to deescalate a situation properly. Will this heavy handed approach really make people less angry? I doubt it..
midasz··on Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity
(I'm willing to catch some flak for this, since I know this may be controversial but it's how I truly think about this)

What to you may be just another opinion is another's legitimacy of them being them.

Maybe it's because I see myself as a progressive, I understand why people were mad at Eich and petitioned his removal. Him being the face of one of the biggest tech companies in the world actively working against your best interests must be hurtful. In my bubble it's absolutely normal to be gay, gay marriage is also nothing to be frowned upon, my country (NL) was the first in the world to legalize it. I realize a large portion of the rest of the world sees it differently, but I'd place it in the same category of a CEO donating money to the KKK or other extremist groups - should black people just think well hey he's doing a good job right? Who cares he's funding a group that actively detests me not for who I am but the color of my skin? Just like gay people think he's funding a group that detests me for something that isn't even my choice?

I followed the SO debacle and what I gathered from it was that there were a couple of individuals who made some very very poor decisions, ruled with an iron first, and any dialogue was not only suppressed but the mod in question was booted in such a despicable way that the rest of the community followed. I don't think they're comparable.

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