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jehb
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About jehb
Passionate about FOSS, right to repair, data privacy, and de-corporatization of the internet.
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Comment #38492743
I'm not sure I understand the question. Drupal is a headless CMS if you want it to be. Do you mean what would be a reason for using Drupal's front-end over developing your own? I c…
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Comment #38489373
Drupal is a great CMS framework. With Drupal and a capable development team, you can use Drupal to build an awesome CMS, and if you want to, also an awesome website on top of the C…
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Comment #38466667
I wonder how much the demand for this vehicle has changed since it was first announced. I was definitely on the bandwagon from this thing from the first time I saw it. Four years o…
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Comment #38433449
Can we please stop treating GitHub like it's an open platform? It's not. It's a closed, walled garden like every other one. The fact that they host a bunch of open source projects …
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Comment #38432512
> It’s returning money to investors I believe the parent commenter's point was exactly this. Giving money to the investor class and expecting it to benefit everyone is the definiti…
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Comment #38341468
I went on a microcrusade of sending correction requests last week after a series of articles (coincidentally, also in North Carolina and also about macrobiology) were published abo…
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Comment #38333944
> You don't intentionally buy food at the most expensive store just to make the store more sustainable/profitable, do you? I do, actually, because I want my local natural foods co-…
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Comment #38240244
I'm guessing this is to avoid running into licensing issues with the photos? Or just trying to make it easier for people to not have to use a different app to upload their shots? O…
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Comment #38179925
It's especially misleading with that $54M part; obviously when people see that and the word Oracle, they assume this was all from one database license. /s
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Comment #38141282
Interesting. I started on the other side, as a Google Music subscriber years ago and only realized how much I appreciated YouTube Red later on. Of course, as soon as my credit card…
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Comment #38117910
Yep. I meant now that Mint is going away, I won't have a tool to do that. For me the risk was acceptable because it was read-only access from a very small number of institutions. B…
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Comment #38116540
I came here to say exactly this. I don't need a budgeting tool, I need a single pane of glass that aggregates all of my accounts across multiple financial institutions and lets me …
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Comment #38102835
You're right, I phrased that too generically. What I mean is that they provide enough information to pair your first-party data with "anonymous" web traffic matched to the account …
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Comment #38102445
There are a lot of companies selling exactly this service. In some cases, they're able to do it pretty easily, because most people don't actually make any effort whatsoever to rema…
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Comment #38012283
I think a lot of people forget this long, slow rollout. Even after most major libraries were ported, it took even longer to be able to count on every dependency having a Python 3 v…
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Comment #37997953
I can't wait for e-paper to get cheaper for consumers, but I'm not looking forward to the inevitable increase in advertising displays this will accommodate when it does.
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Comment #37985296
> Those inducted are led to believe that they are on a righteous path, are part of a special few that have the true knowledge (while the rest of society are ignorant) and that the …
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Comment #37976371
Counter-counter argument: A person creating a personal homepage has no obligation to cater to any particular audience. See, for example, jwz.org [NSFW when linked from here, very m…
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Comment #37913468
I'm surprised at how many people took the bait to treat this as an either/or proposition. One criteria of evaluation is never sufficient to make a good decision - why not ask both?…