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mockindignant··on WireGuard for iOS
IVPN does. Ars did an article on it semi recently.
mockindignant··on MeMeTeSt.OrG – AdVaNcEd MeMeOrY DiAgNoStIc ToOl
Is writing it in mixed case really necessary? Really doesn’t make me want to click the link.
mockindignant··on Ash HN: What is your must-read audiobook?
Great book. Great casting for the audiobook. Scott Brick is great, but Simon Vance steals the show for me. Highly recommend this to anyone that wants to get into audiobooks.
mockindignant··on Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’
Which companies do you refer?

I am fine with other companies facing public backlash for their actions just like Facebook is now if they are doing things as shady as Facebook.

mockindignant··on Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Based on Family Photos
Are you implying the recent NY Times piece or this patent are not news-worthy? Or not technically relevant?
mockindignant··on So some people will pay for a subscription to a news site. How about two? Three?
I currently pay money to Ars Technica, Wired and kottke.

I would pay money to The NY Times but the last time I did, they required me to call to cancel and it felt really shady so I won’t pay them until this is fixed and publicized.

The rest fall into 2 categories: sites that I would pay for but that are asking too much (any site asking for as much or more than NY Times is delusional) and sites that are just not worth any amount of money. For the former I sometimes feel like I am missing out on content when I hit their paywall, for the latter I just move on without feeling like I missed out on anything other than the few seconds it took to click back.

mockindignant··on Apple blackballs popular crypto podcast after it shot to #4 in rankings
I consider any and all links that have “crypto” in their title, that refer to cryptocurrency but are otherwise ambiguous to be clickbait.
mockindignant··on A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer
I am set to start treatment with Keytruda on Friday. I was fortunate that my tumor marker burden (TMB) was/is sufficiently high enough to get me into the clinical trial. I was equally fortunate that 1.) my oncologist is knowledgeable about all of these cutting edge therapies and 2.) my insurance will actually cover the cost.

Without the possibility of trying this my options would probably be dying slowly over the next couple of years or doing a very risky surgery that involves opening up my abdomen, cutting out as much of the disease as they can see and flooding the cavity with broad spectrum chemo (HIPEC.) Obviously, immunotherapy is much more palatable as the chemo was not pleasant.

Overall I am hopeful. I guess I don't really have a reason to post any of this, other than it helps to get it out there, so please excuse my rambling! And thanks for reading.

mockindignant··on Facebook now adds fbclid query string to URLs, busting CloudFlare’s cache
I found a slightly better one that also blocks google UTM trackers as well, here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-tracking-...

and source here:

https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper

mockindignant··on Facebook now adds fbclid query string to URLs, busting CloudFlare’s cache
What is the best way to deal with this as an end user?

I see there is a Firefox plugin here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nofbclid/

But perhaps it is better to deal with at a lower level, like on the firewall. Any advice would be welcome.

mockindignant··on Conservatives at big tech companies believe diverse opinions aren't welcome
Coming from Fox News where we know diverse opinions are definitely unwelcome, is this not a case of the kettle calling the pot black?

I mean one of their own talking heads was campaigning for Trump/GOP last night. So I am not sure what this is all about, and why it’s even posted. I, along with most people here are not going to click a link to foxnews.com.

If this idea has any merit, someone should post it somewhere that is not on a garbage site like foxnews, dailycaller, breitbart, etc. Because I am not going to give those sites the clicks.

And for the record I would feel the same way if it was posted on the liberal equivalents: shareblue, etc.

mockindignant··on What's coming in Go 1.12 [slides]
This site is horrible on mobile. Probably the worst I have ever seen. Totally unusable.
mockindignant··on Google is down
Working fine for me.
mockindignant··on Google search server error
Working fine for me in Portland, OR.
mockindignant··on Tesla Autopilot steered into a stationary object again – the driver is suing
Does this happen to other cars with auto pilot? I am just curious what the fixation with Tesla is. I see a seemingly unending stream of articles on everything Tesla does, but I have not seen a single article about the other car manufacturers having similar issues. Do other car manufacturers not have similar auto pilot features? And if they do, do they just not have accidents?
mockindignant··on It’s not too late to “break in” to crypto
FYI: the author is referring to cryptocurrency when they say “crypto” and not cryptography, making the title somewhat ambiguous and from my point of view disappointing and sort of clickbait-y.
mockindignant··on How Facebook's Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement
Somewhat surprised that the article contains 0 screenshots of the app.
mockindignant··on Ask HN: What is your favorite programming font?
Adobe Source Code Pro: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
mockindignant··on The success of Go heralds that of Rust
I stopped reading when it became clear the author just wants to hate on go.

This topic has been discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13430108

That comes across as a much more open minded discussion, and far less biased.

mockindignant··on Some Amazon Workers Fear They’ll Earn Less Even with a $15 Minimum Wage
Some probably will. But won’t most see a raise? Are we now vilifying amazon for doing exactly what we asked them to do because of something that might happen?
mockindignant··on Facebook is using your personal data, here’s why it’s fine
Says a guy whose job relies on this data. OK, digital marketer guy.

My counterpoint is that the majority of content out there does not deserve any monetization, for example: the associated article.

mockindignant··on Show HN: Your offline-enabled Notepad
What exactly is the value of this? Not trying to be snarky, it just seems to solve a problem no one has.
mockindignant··on Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML instead of .doc as Word doc format?
A few answers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949299
mockindignant··on Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML instead of .doc as Word doc format?
The doc format predates HTML by a decade or thereabouts.
mockindignant··on Sublime Git is a clean code editor for merge conflicts
The product is called Sublime Merge.
mockindignant··on Soundcloud has closed access to their API
January, 2018. Not really news now.
mockindignant··on Fixing your terminal Unix History
Thanks for posting this, this makes history so much better and I have only been using these changes for 20 minutes.
mockindignant··on $99 Pinebook Gets KDE Neon Port
It has been discussed several times here, all of which can be found by typing “pinebook” into the site search box.
mockindignant··on Show HN: Show HN: New Universe, deep strategy MMORPG, universe location gameplay
It requires a Facebook login? Hard pass for me.

Sounds neat though!

mockindignant··on Immunotherapy for Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain (editorial)
Paywall and no abstract.
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