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dotsh

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    Comment #17235427

    I just can't wait for next years buzzwords and useless projects built around them.

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    Comment #17220101

    So many buzzwords but nothing interesting.

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    Comment #16722708

    Why no one talks about other victims of car accidents and their is about 6k per month on average in US alone. But Uber and Tesla are on headlines when someone dies and there is lik…

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    Comment #16719488

    Of course but imo it's not good strategy when you are dividing into hundreds of instances with 500+ users.

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    Comment #16719141

    People still need to pay for it. FSF would also die of hunger if it were not for people donating them money they have to earn first... so nothing is free.

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    Comment #16719103

    Yes, but so called "social media" isn't about installing anything to operate with. Twitter blow up the scene because it was super easy to start with and start sharing short sentenc…

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    Comment #16717159

    And who writes on Mastodon? Mostly devs or Trump? Maybe Obama? Ellen? No? So no one will use it, ever. I'm not against technology as it is great, but looking on this as a normal us…

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    Comment #16716867

    Yea, they sell culture and give away free food. As you can see[0], most devs at FB are eating, traveling, eating, going to cafes or eating some more. ;-) [0] https://www.youtube.co…

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    Comment #16716782

    So developers are building "social media" for developers with famous 30 minut install, make new instance or manage it by yourself kind of thing. Typical social media users will nev…

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    Comment #16706198

    Game limits, not wanting to share private account with some random folks used in games or for commercial purposes aka selling account later on and I can tell that this business is …

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    Comment #16704773

    Great thing about Elon is that he believes in everything so much he is probably laughing reading those articles. I understand that myself, would lough too. There will be no future …

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    Comment #16701930

    Yea, that is still a huge number, but for advertisers that use FB as a platform is a huge waste of money and FB could easily abuse that as well.

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    Comment #16701875

    This don't change my comment still many of them are fakes. I know people who have 5-6 accounts active at one time playing different games with 500+ friends on it. Many of those "fr…

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    Comment #16701750

    Probably half of that are fake profiles, profiles made by people for commercial purposes or bots. If you make fake account and you will start wandering in the endless facebook step…

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    Comment #16687445

    Yes: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/30/tesla-aut...

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    Comment #16685769

    Because normal users are not techies. They just use whatever they want and not getting into their company information, privacy or other things. World is about money. You have to re…

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    Comment #16669359

    Do we really need to go over and over with this again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16652387

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    Comment #16667060

    Kayako. No direct account deletion, they need to poke engineer to do it after many requests. They require your personal information and CC to use free plan. No direct downgrade but…

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    Comment #16662774

    > Oh, and EU users finally get the privacy they deserve. Of course we do. GCHQ will defend us if someone want to violate our privacy. ;)

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    Comment #16660608

    No matter what way of installing you choose they inform you via official website about pre-release version witch includes notice about sending automatic feedback. You don't need to…

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    Comment #16657515

    I'm not judging I wrote that everyone has it's own use case. My only point is don't use test version if you don't want to be tested or opt-out of it. ;)

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    Comment #16656933

    Yes, for stable version if they want to track something more. But we are talking about test version. You accept this when downloading "Firefox Nightly automatically sends feedback …

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    Comment #16656858

    Seriously they have to? Isn't this obvious enough? When downloading TEST RELEASE you willingly accept that it will collect anonymous data and send it to them. If you do not want to…