O2F2 · HackerTrans

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Since there's quite a few of these dark mode extensions with very variable features and compatibility/robustness, I feel like there's space for a comparison chart type thing. With side by side screenshots of how they handle certain websites and how they influence performance (that might be tricky). If someone want's to steal that idea go ahead, otherwise I might whip something up somewhere over the next weeks.

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In my very personal opinion, anyone who willingly decorates their home with networked IoT devices, especially those talking to a external service, has already lost. With the increasing number of gizmos it's more or less inevitable that one of them (or rather all of them) ships with a gross, easy to exploit (an definitely wormable, because you know it'll be) oversight compromising your network because you're one of a million people getting owned by a bored skid. You want less timeboms in your home, not more. It's silly. Scale back, stop trying to mitigate around it and just don't buy this crap. You wouldn't keep a hand grenade with a toothpick for a safety pin on your desk because it'll be fine as long as everyone is really careful with it. But like I said, that's just the very angry voice in my head shouting into the void.

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I see the religious part of this CoC as purely incidental to the source material (it being 15 centuries old and aimed at christian monks). It's clearly not meat to be taken serious, even though I'd agree with a lot of the common sense points listed. Now, being a bit annoyed at the religious implications is not being really angry and blowing things out of proportion. Being annoyed still leaves room for discussion. What I meant is the major poop flinging through major publications that will undoubtedly follow over the next few days, activating large swaths of those people I mentioned. Those who thrive on nonconstructive anger. In general I'd agree with you, just leave religion out of it, even when it's (or especially?) in a joking manner. Edit: Typo

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I don't think any of this is meant to be serious anyway. This is literally a set of rules meant for a order of ascetic monks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict

Although, religious aspects aside, there are many valuable tenets to be found in there, which will be directly opposed by those who want to get angry about it.

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Yes, it's meant as a joking stab at those who seemingly cannot live without having a CoC everywhere. Especially in projects they do not actually participate in. Now watch as this gets blown out of proportion, because this will make some people really, really angry. Id be very surprised if this stays up actually.

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Tracking is just one of the many reasons why it should be considered common courtesy to communicate in plain text (and attachments if necessary).

My email based workflow and toolchain has been plaintext only for years and I think I've been better off for it. The recent efail vulnerability just made me shrug. Plain text mail is all around more reliable, more accessible, less obfuscated, more to the point by the nature of the medium, easier to implement [...].

O2F2

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Did that in my childhood on wooden stairs in my parents house. Rounded edges, kid of hazardous in general but great to slide down like this. Kind of want to try this again, but I also value the integrity of my bones.

O2F2

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Take a look at my reply, we're doing the same damn thing! It's probably rather common.

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I've done two at time descending for the longest time until stumbled over another fun way to do this. One at a time, but you let one leg drop free while you pull the other leg forward to hit the next step. Somewhat hard to describe in a manner that makes sense. Think of hitting a drum with sticks. Only works with shallow stairs though. You know it works when your legs just kinda do their own thing and pull you forward. Obligatory don't try this in public warning.

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I'd like to point to statement number six and tell you I'm definitely more prosocial than the other guy.

Jokes aside, I do like to help people out but won't go out of my way to seek opportunities to do so.

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  1 False, there is no persistence in the absence of power
  2 False, the hidden/unknown has no transformative effect unless it is revealed
  3 Missing information, what are 'irrational facts'?
  4 Highly debatable, situational
  5 False, creativity is not bound to either health or tolerance but modified through their experience.
  6 Flowery way to say we like to shift perspective unto flaws that are not our own? We certainly have a track record when it comes to this behavior. Still not universally true.
  7 You cannot be forced to learn. Context dependent.
  8 Universal observations? Movement as in 'through life' (experience)? Our observations are contextualized by past experiences. Unsure about this sentence.
  9 The person who has never tried anything literally died in the womb.
  10 Missing context.
  11 Being in pain is painful, 'imagined pain' makes no sense.
  12 What, missing context.
  13 What is 'the inherent experience of the universe'? Can the unexplainable touch anything?
  14 Correct, being temped can be interpreted to be done unto you, not falling for temptation is the act of resisting it. There is *a difference*.

edit: typos

O2F2

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My personal believe is that neither work out in a way we'd like it to.

Censorship can, under the right circumstances, be effective but requires either a very delicate hand and be more or less invisible or oppressing the opposition until it exhausted itself one way or another. Sometimes it seems to work out only to end up reinforcing believes, leading to a deeper internalization and radicalization.

Education requires focused, continued, honest effort. It requires rolling that damn boulder up the hill until the hill itself starts to erode under your feet. It's a excruciatingly slow process. And it's so easy to forget that it needs to be a dialog no matter how much you think you're right.

I'm a strong advocate for the latter, but it's easy to see why so many gravitate to the former.

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A corp establishing a effective monopoly on a share of everyday life should be held to the same scrutiny as a government. Especially if it intermingles with it. edit: word

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This can not realistically end up as a addon and also will not gain any traction as opt-in option, it needs to be opt-out. So it's either going to be abandoned or end up baked in.

So, unless a considerable part of the userbase is "throwing a tantrum", this will be yet another thing I have to remember to turn off on fresh installs.

Not fighting this kind of erosion tooth and nail at every step endangers the only viable, fully featured, alternative to the Googles browser. Yes, Mozilla needs to be held to a higher standard, the alternative is the inversion of what it stands for.

I have honestly no idea how one can look at this and go yeah, that seems like its in tune with our values.

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