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In fact, many times they're even asked to do so by moderators when they think it'd be a good idea.

I can't believe it wasn't caught before but it looks like the search is an && instead of an ||. First thing I did was add my location and worldwide - no options found.

This is likely to be the best story I'll read all year. Simply amazing.

When you go down to regional variants of Wikipedia it gets even worse. In Latin America the editors that fully control political articles are hilariously aligned with government entities. You'd get unsourced phrases like "the arrival of president X started a movement of improvement after the crisis caused by the economic policies of president Y", in practically every politically relevant article. The tonal shift with English Wikipedia is massive, but the editors are so many and versed in such obscure rulings that it's enormously difficult to get anything that goes against their propaganda to stick, even if it's demonstrably true stuff.

The way you laid out the beats of your original comment made it sound sarcastic if you read it expecting the usual off-hand snark that's prevalent on the internet, so "makes perfect sense" would turn into "makes no sense at all" - therefore seeming like the product is useless or a step back when web pages already exist.

I looked into Sia since it's something I'd love to see working and I'd heard of them before. Last time I'd found that the biggest tutorial about how to practically get started had a big red warning and a huge manifesto about how Sia and its collaborators are the worst and should be dropped [0].

So now I went around just looking for old links to files on the network, on places like Reddit and old guides, to check if they'd survived a couple years. Sadly all of them timed out, even the first link on the 'video' category on the Sky App Store. I looked up the error ('failed to create Skylink') and nothing of help turned up to even realize what the problem is.

Hopefully things work out in the long term but I haven't been convinced yet of Sia's usefulness in practice.

[0] https://siasetup.info/concerns-about-sia-and-skynet

I literally have never met anyone who spent that much time daily with their family while also having an intense job. Taken at face value it's nothing short of marvelous.

I once thought git for humans would be a great idea but never got around to speccing it out. Later on, a lawyer friend showed me the software they used 'for backup' (that they paid thousands per month for) and it turned out everything about it was just exactly like SVN. The terminology was different, the UX was laser focused to the intended users, but at the end of the day it was commits, syncs, merging, pretty much everything but branches, just laid out with domain specific language instead, professional office UI and simple UX.

So, uh, yeah I agree absolutely with you.

That is precisely the same idea I ended up on, that feels like the best option. Basically, as a caretaker, nowadays it is most important to curate 100% the kind of media your kids have access to, as otherwise it is impossible for them not to be consumed by the algorithm and end up with a lot of psichological damage. Kudos for taking on such a hard job, hope you find a way to share your projects and results in the end, hope they work out well.

I'd like to thank Microsoft. Their constant bloating and nagging and hostility has finally convinced me to move to Mint and it's been just great. I don't think I'd have done it without their help, but now I'm glad I did and wish I'd done so earlier.

Like the article writer mentioned, this is a very important lesson, but if you're in the 10% of cases where you do require native functionality (like a chat app for example) you're screwed with Apple.

Do you know of any rehosts of the old Wordle code?

But it's a time bomb when you do that, your app'll expire and stop working after a short while. My dev friends who've never used an iPhone think I joke when I tell them that.

Your intuition is correct. According to [1] it can take 2 hours of browsing and interacting with transphobic content to get straight into neo-nazi content. Many people don't ever see such videos, and don't think it's on the platform - it does become a very hypertuned hyperfocused echo chamber.

[0] https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-algorithm-leads-...

I've had a reverse situation an interviewee where emails were written very enthusiastically and apparently technically competent, and then when the time for the interview call came, whoever picked up the phone was definitely not the same person. They would just shut up after any technical questions - after a while we simply asked if he was nervous and he said yeah that's it. When asked for any previous experience he'd just copy and paste links to websites which didn't work and couldn't elaborate on what those websites even were. At one point he just read the description written on one of them. We asked him for his GitHub account or anything similar and he said 'oh I know that one' (he sent a 404 link) and we just had to end the call right there as it was getting surrealistically hilarious.

The next day we got an email from the apparently competent one, claiming that this time the email was being written by a 'friend' of the candidate we talked to (same address every time), and that if we gave them a chance he'd be the 'perfect candidate with 100% qulaity' (sic).

We politely refused.

I was actually referring to developer story with that CV thing, sorry, but most importantly it's not clear to me how or on which of your websites to apply if I were, say, a Colombian developer, and how to filter for jobs who'd accept such workers.

Also on mobile there's a few CSS overlapping items, just FYI it hurts the image of the site a lot.

Is it UK only? I couldn't easily find how to filter by what I'd mentioned on mobile.

The loss of Jobs is terrible. I don't know of other platforms where you can easily filter for showsSalary && isRemote, has such detailed tech stack per job posting, such little friction to make a CV and apply - and most importantly, so many real postings from worldwide companies.

I can't fathom how they could not make a profit out of this, on freaking SO.

Millennials now nothing BUT inflation now. It's not a way of life, it's an agonizing, debilitating continuous death by a trillion cuts.

There is currently a mass exodus of professionals from the country due to it - massive, and I mean massive talent is spreading all over the world instead of helping at home. People have either given up or drank the Kool Aid, as there is absolutely no expectation of even a possibility of change.

It really is depressing, as even mild complaints are usually met with long winded explanations or insults about how things aren't actually bad and they could be so much worse you should actually be thankful and maintain the status quo. The democratic voting system inevitably gravitates to a two-party rotation with more in common than they allow traditional media and paid coordinated social media to admit - with the only ultimate goal of keeping a class of elites in power and as many people as possible depending on the state to survive, whether it's via subsidies, handouts, or straight up state employment so keeping things as they are becomes a matter of survival for them even more.

At least it's amusing seeing newspapers pretend such a thing is cute and quirky. This is very much a preview of the future road for an incredibly large number of economies all over the world, so read some of the comments here very carefully.

And never, ever, ever save all of your life's accumulated value in just one form. Be it currencies, stock, real estate, crypto, food, metal, whatever it is, never forget that any basket can break when it's holding all of your eggs.

I would be surprised if that's not the case already!

While talking to a lawyer is the best option, wouldn't this be one of the few cases where HR is relevant? You're specifically bringing to attention a potential liability/lawsuit from external sources.

That was a very eye opening article that also cleared up what was bothering me about Scott's style. Thanks for sharing.

There's also this website which I've used successfully with many bureaucracies.

https://www.scanyourpdf.com/

But that's not the case at all with Android and has never been. I don't think any of that would happen, the vast majority seems to stick with the default app store, while the rare technical user who wants to sideload has the freedom to do so, everyone wins.

It's sad but if you search for 'cereal', you're going to see the one with the awful title higher up in rankings.

But the question is why you shouldn't be able to sideload an app at all. Having a curated store is pretty cool, and you can have that while also letting users install their own apps manually (even with barriers, making it as hard as they like).

All I want is a browser with text reflow that's as good as Opera's, that's also not Opera. It's apparently a tall order and not many people ask for it, I wish I had enough time to do it myself or to make it part of my job but alas. Opera it is for the foreseeable future.

How does Visa List make money? I'm not sure I can find its business model besides ads, though that might be it.

- An option to not have a password at all and log in just by having a phone.

It's a 100% must have feature for a phone IM, most people will forget a password the very moment they are forced to create it.

> So now it only serves to create incompatibility issues and bugs for paying users. Even though it has been irrelevant for more than a decade.

Hey that's me! Every time I open a website that has DRM to the max like Spotify or Netflix, my second monitor goes black for like 10 seconds. Fun times.