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How is suggesting your kid might get into programming by modding a game a romanticized notion? That's one of the most common "how I got into programming" stories. It's completely non-controversial.

>> I take it you are not a parent. Or at least a parent of a more compliant child.

There are too many awful parents out there for me to believe having kids makes one uniquely qualified to make suggestions. Dismissing ideas with a variation on "you must not have kids" is a huge red flag. It's usually done by people who see kids as things to be controlled and made subservient instead of as adults in progress.

We were all kids once. We all had friends whose parents had different styles, and often we got to see how that turned out. We all have a set of relevant experiences to pull from on the subject. Maybe it won't work for you. That's fine, but maybe you could actually say something about what's wrong with the suggestion instead of issuing a blanket dismissal. Or do the polite thing and ignore it.

You can spare me the condescending "so you don't have kids" that always follows this and just move on if you have nothing better to say.

Did we watch the same show? The only drug-addicted person on the ship was well past millennial, and the various skills of the crew were what allowed them to survive.

It wasn't what I expected of Stargate, but it was watchable.

A proactive approach might get better results than a prohibitive one. Minecraft modding and making Minecraft videos seems like an obvious route for this given the interest.

Stargate: Universe spent its brief run exploring desolate planets and bickering while hurtling through uninhabited space. It didn't work too well.

Usury is not without controversy.

Whatever your perspective on Brendan Eich's views[0], anything he's in charge of is a powder keg waiting to blow up. Brave/BAT will never go far while this conflict remains.

[0] Which he refused to clarify, leaving people to make heuristic decisions based on available info and personal experience with homophobia. He is, of course, free to think and feel however he wants and not share details. Others are free to decide what to invest time, energy, and money in.

Only if the subgroup "people who are tired of all this privacy stuff" is representative of HN's readership. There are more people reading than will ever comment. That's true of any community.

I should have linked to the help page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-contr...

Atom was Google's answer to RSS back when they cared about an open web. As far as I can tell, everything that handles RSS also handles Atom, and they're exposed in the header in the same way.

Firefox users can right click on the browser chrome, go to Customize, and add a subscribe button that lights up when a page has a feed. It's not as snug a fit as what used to go in the address bar, but it still works.

>> Instagram celebs are either hot girls, or guys with lots of money to pay for promoted content.

Guys are hot, too. Not all of them need to pay for ads, and not all the women got there without it.

Mastodon generates an RSS feed for every user. Check out their web profile pages and look in the HTML header. Most popular RSS readers will just pick it up if you paste the profile URL in.

>> Evolved from bug detection and removal in the analog days to now encompass just about everything that can leak data.

Relevant: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/index.htm

>> "Especially given the wireless carriers are essentially a group monopoly (spectrum limitations)."

That's an oligopoly.

That's still generally seen as opt-in among marketing types, though I can understand the perspective where pre-checking the opt-in is a kind of opt-out.

You have to be smart enough to realize people will think you're trying to make an insinuation here.

It is opt-in if you pay for it, but almost no one leaves it unchecked. There's also the option to not require an email for free downloads.

Often these are people I've sent from somewhere else, and we talk regularly. It's not like with Facebook where it's a faceless corporation unless you're spending enough on ads to get an account specialist.

They generally knew me before they gave me money. I'm not collecting any data on them other than the email. I don't even run analytics on web pages I control. I wouldn't even know what to do with it that would tell me anything I don't already know, or that I couldn't get by just asking.

Bandcamp lets me download lists of people who've bought my music and of people who follow my profile. This is because they understand the business is mine, and they're simply a service provider for that business. Even their subscription system runs right through the musician's own Stripe account, so you can always take your subscriptions elsewhere.

I don't have any reason to trust that a VC-fueled monster like Spotify understands this. If Spotify bought Bandcamp, I would remove my music from it.

VC-fueled behemoths like to make people dependent on them. I can't trust my business to a company that gets most of its money from outside investors instead of the people who use the service. Their incentives are fundamentally misaligned with my interests.

Nostalgia has a way of creeping in without regular inoculations.

It's always fun backspacing one character at a time to surface the result I wanted, that showed some number of characters ago. Windows 10's search is especially bad about showing things that don't start with the characters I type until I land on (or chisel out) the right characters.

>> After collecting data, including from people who had engaged in trolling behaviour in the past, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil built an algorithm that predicts with 80 per cent accuracy when someone is about to become abusive online. This provides an opportunity to, for example, introduce a delay in how fast they can post their response. If people have to think twice before they write something, that improves the context of the exchange for everyone: you’re less likely to witness people misbehaving, and so less likely to misbehave yourself.

There have been times where HN got super slow or started erroring randomly, but worked normally in a logged out browser. I assume this is what's happening.

I'm also very glad for it because I know how I can get if there's no barrier between my annoyance and the post button. This has helped me be less annoyed and more self-aware in general.

Alt->Bookmarks->Subscribe to this page

It could be more prominent.

This is the whole basis of a confidence trick. It's harder to believe someone's duping you after they earn your trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick

I tried it again recently. The mobile app is just too slow to start, and I'm currently stuck with a phone with too little memory to not autokill stuff. I realize Chrome's apparent snappiness is probably due to some questionable and likely anti-competitive integrations by Google, like Microsoft in the 2000s.

I don't want any auto-playing videos, sound or not. They always seem to pop up next to the text I came there to read. I can't focus with that.

There's nothing to solve. Bandcamp is for finding music you'd probably never hear on radio or streaming.

Here's what you can do:

1: Find one album you like.

2: Click through the profiles of people who bought it (those icons under the album cover).

3: See what else they like.

You can also check out Bandcamp's blog and click through the tags on posts for genres you like: https://daily.bandcamp.com/

That sounds like vinyl crackle. It's such a sought after thing that people make entire sample libraries of it.

Reputation! And I don't mean some convoluted algorithmic scoring system.

Most people seem to find out about Mastodon from someone, and that someone suggests the instance they're on. That's why a lot of artists end up on Mastodon.art, for example. So far, the admin has a good reputation for being consistent about updates and keeping the community engaged.

People keep trying to find some technological heuristic to establish trust, like requiring legal names or some kind of scoring system. So far, it's even worse because people encode all their cognitive biases into it and none of the mental models or processes people develop for checking those biases.

I think this was what prompted the finer-grained federation controls. Most instances at least block its images now and/or mute it.

Unfortunately, real and legal are often conflated by people making and supporting these policies. Many of those names may in fact be real even if they don't match your expectations of what a real name looks like.

I can't use my real name on Facebook because I can't get a legal name change. So I don't use Facebook.