joeblau · HackerTrans

3 months agodiscuss

We used this in 2011 at the startup I worked for. 20 positive and 20 negative words was good enough to sell Twitter "sentiment analysis" to companies like Apple, Bentley, etc...

joeblau

7 years agodiscuss

Yeah, this is pretty much what a few people brought up. Consumers seem to actively want to give their data away for "features" which usually aren't worth the data they are giving up.

joeblau

7 years agodiscuss

I have an TV and I feel like Apple is doing a decent job of trying to prevent selling user data by any means.

joeblau

7 years agodiscuss

I was talking to a few people in a slack channel the other day about the potential market for a whole set of "dumb" appliances. At the end of the day, we came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be a able to reach mass market because the mass consumers seem to care more about price than security.

joeblau

7 years agodiscuss

If you buy a smart TV, disable these features, disable network connectivity, and then plug in another 3rd party box you should be fine right?

joeblau

7 years agodiscuss

I totally agree with this and this is actually something that my Engineer Brain and Product Brain are constantly in conflict about. I ran gitignore.io for 6 years and it was not "hard" to run. It was two commands on a web server. The problem was when I was on vacation or at work and AWS/Heroku crashed and I got flooded with GitHub issues/Tweets telling me the service as down[1][2]. All of a sudden, I have to go take a look.

Martin Fowler said something in a talk a few years ago[3] and I think it speaks to this exact mindset. This post is lacking any economic reasons for people to run their own mail server — tell me why me running my own mail server saves me time and/or money.

As another tangent, I'm actually looking at running my own mail server. For me, it's privacy which coincidentally is not even mentioned once in the article.

[1] - https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io/issues/369

[2] - https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io/issues/2

[3] - https://youtu.be/DngAZyWMGR0?t=460

joeblau

7 years agodiscuss

If I wasn't an iOS developer, I would probably switch back to Linux as well.

joeblau

9 years agodiscuss

I've already got that covered[1].

  …/~ cat /etc/hosts | wc -l
  50773

[1] - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

joeblau

9 years agodiscuss

I can't even get to Facebook anymore on any of my devices. On all of my Macs, my `/etc/hosts` file includes:

  0.0.0.0    facebook.com
  0.0.0.0    www.facebook.com

And then to double down, I have a custom 1Blocker rule to prevent accidentally opening up any Facebook links on my iPhone:

  https?://([a-z\.]*)?facebook\.com.*

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