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jehb

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About jehb

I don't speak for my current, past, or theoretical future employers. Neither should you. Stop defending corporations, including the one you work for.

Passionate about FOSS, right to repair, data privacy, and de-corporatization of the internet.

Recent public activity

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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?…