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s777

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About s777

Email: hackernews@ethanreece.com

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    Comment #49163607

    > However, if I were to guess, I think less than 1% of people actually review, let alone modify the open source projects they use. I've done this a lot when trying to squash bugs

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    Comment #46212747

    My parents gave me really shitty smartphones that were barely powerful enough to do important things but was an awful experience for Instagram/games/etc until I bought a better one…

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    Comment #45696069

    The online editor is extremely useful for quick projects with other people where real-time editing works better than git, and where people don't want to download tools.

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    Comment #45442449

    If you're from a well off family, you can be oblivious to everything and still have what you need to live so in my experience things were a lot easier. For me once I became self-aw…

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    Comment #45441959

    Not sure, it's just my experience and I was diagnosed autistic at an early age

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    Comment #45441651

    > like railroading whether to skip breakfast or not. I can relate to this in that I barely have any energy in the mornings to do anything no matter how early I set my alarm, then e…

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    Comment #44967486

    How is VC funding not political?

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    Comment #42422177

    There's no doubt that internet-connected devices are distracting and can cause all sorts of health issues (and as a college student, my frequently browsing various communities on m…

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    Comment #42283320

    I know people personally who recently graduated high school and went down the 4chan rabbithole because they wanted to be "edgy", then they got comfortable with the extremely racist…

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    Comment #36980868

    Disabling JavaScript also works. I have it disabled by default through uBlock Origin so I didn't come across the block message until I enabled it.

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    Comment #36965039

    I'm not sure how paid Gmail handles data, but at least Fastmail is not from a giant ad company that wants to basically DRM the internet with WEI and generally has an incentive to c…

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    Comment #36961687

    For the free versions, they are pretty similar, except ProtonMail supports PGP which works with people who don't use ProtonMail, whereas Tutanota uses its own encryption which only…

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    Comment #36903128

    Hi, I'm also interested in an invitation if you have any left (my email is in my profile)

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    Comment #36743832

    The Libredirect plugin also redirects to various instances you can select (although not automatically with error responses), both with Teddit/Libreddit and a bunch of other service…

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    Comment #36717368

    Sadly the quick refresh is no longer working for me, and going through all of the instances on Libredirect, they all seem to be constantly down now. It appears that they are trying…

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    Comment #36546834

    I'll take an invite please

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    Comment #36455704

    I currently get about 5ish hours SoT on full brightness and a million browser tabs open, which is quite bad compared to what I've heard from other people (and honestly a bit disapp…

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    Comment #36455649

    I daily drive Asahi Linux on my M1 MBA for CS in college. Currently, it's usable enough for that, coding, and casual web browsing, but for other use cases it still has a ways to go…

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    Comment #36231740

    Ironic considering how this post is about Cloudflare flagging users.

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    Comment #35430078

    It is, although then the next problem is getting Monero in the US with their clutterfuck of cryptocurrency regulations, so you have to find an exchange that works with Monero and a…

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    Comment #35429929

    I use LibreWolf (hardened Firefox) with Mullvad VPN and in my experience have hardly had any issues with Cloudflare (occasionally I might get a single Cloudflare captcha but this d…