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"new paradigm", "ground breaking". Yet I remember using JSON backed forms in back around 2010 and there's lots of them since. You've added a few handy UI features on top but it's h…

Upgraded my account today unfortunately, using a UK address and card details. All payment and upgrades went through smoothly.

I don't know much him nor have I read that entire transcript, but one of the main jobs for a CEO is to set the direction and tone for a companies services. They can say/do whatever…

Not to mention they got caught rewriting your URLs to add their own affiliate codes, which is even worse than traditional tracking imo. https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-browse…

I think the expectations of e2ee have been greatly stretched in this case. e2ee means that the data is encrypted from device to device only and that's it, from one end to another e…

I can't remember the source so take this as you will, but WhatsApp are appealing such a large fine because the privacy policy was in the middle of being updated during a transition…

Jesus Christ what shitty and inaccurate things to say. But just for some background, he had many different doctors throughout his life including Dr. K. in both the public streams a…

Just to add some context in this particular case, Byron had seen many different recommend and self sought doctors over his life. Dr. K. in both private paid sessions and the public…

Out of curiosity, what makes you skeptical about the evidence?

Owning and actually having access to are two entirely different things. At no point has Andrew had access to, read or write, or log, in any way shape or form, any private Snoonet d…

Please don't spread false info. Andrew has never had access to the Snoonet data or servers and there has never been any logging. Anonymous "sources" for IRC drama are usually anony…

Apologies for coming across angry, it's been an interesting few days on this topic :)

KiwiIRC has not been sponsored by PIA since 2019. This point is often brought up to drag me into this drama but it has had no bearing for some time.

I haven't been employed or sponsored by any of rasengan projects or companies for some time. I have no plans to be involved with any despite offers since then (and not related to t…

And that it was actively imploding or crushing itself due to pressure differences.

I don’t understand this view. Do you think that the moment you become wealthy then you’re not entitled to feel any type of suffering in life?

That’s the website that has manually enabled a feature if it requires Javascript. Cloudflare does not require Javascript out of the box.

Blade is literally part of the laravel framework, it’s not a third party thing like react is to Next.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

I'm a fan of Elon but he did not bootstrap the first electric car company. Electric cars have been around since the 1800s with a resurgence in the late 1900s. Musk got into electri…

The standards are created by many organisations, not just Google. And then more than one major browser must implement and provide feedback on a proposed standard. We just hear more…

Sure, that was back in 2017 as per the date in the blog post itself. Then this month from Kape themselves I've described here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614447

From a quick search: http://investors.kape.com/~/media/Files/K/Kape-IR/reports-an... announces the proposed acquisition of LTMI Holdings Freenode was bought under LTMH. Confusingly…

PIA and freenode have different parent companies, but what are these suspect activities? The network would be in an uproar if they existed.