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Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by zohch »

ArgyleSound wrote: post #23
zohch wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In Norway, everyone's income is public information. > Other countries could do the same to make things more transparent. What verifiable tangible benefits does this have?

Knowing what people employed in similar roles to you earn helps you bargain for an equivalent salary

In theory, not sure this translates to reality. I don't even have anecdotal evidence that this works. Employed in similar roles does not mean equally valuable to company. I live in Norway and I don't think I would ever tell my employer they need to pay me the same as someone else, I also know there is significant variability for pay in the same role at places I worked (without ever checking public tax records).

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by y4mi »

TicklishTiger wrote: post #49
An0n1m1ty wrote: post #29

This site is subject to severe XSS via the post mechanism. Just entering alert(1) works. So be careful when going to links. See https://hacker.thoughts.page for a demo

This is not called XSS. This is just user generated html on subdomains. Github does the same on github.io. Everybody can make a theirname.github.io page and alert whatever they like too. So does Gitlab on yourname.gitlab.io, Wordpress on yourname.wordpress.com etc. It is a common practice.

Agreed.

That's only an issue if this is possible for comments. The current behavior is working as intended I'd say.

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by wombatmobile »

zohch wrote: post #20
londons_explore wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Norway, everyone's income is public information. Other countries could do the same to make things more transparent.

> In Norway, everyone's income is public information. > Other countries could do the same to make things more transparent. What verifiable tangible benefits does this have?

Traffic fines in Finland are proportional to the offender's income.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/nokia-boss-gets-116-000-spee...

Simple, elegant and fair?

Mathematically perhaps, but people are people...

https://www.automotive-fleet.com/10481/nokia-executive-fined...

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by zohch »

wombatmobile wrote: post #53
zohch wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In Norway, everyone's income is public information. > Other countries could do the same to make things more transparent. What verifiable tangible benefits does this have?

Traffic fines in Finland are proportional to the offender's income. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/nokia-boss-gets-116-000-spee... Simple, elegant and fair? Mathematically perhaps, but people are people... https://www.automotive-fleet.com/10481/nokia-executive-fined...

> Traffic fines in Finland are proportional to the offender's income.

Don't need everyone's income to be public information to do that.

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by 0xbkt »

Did anyone else notice the reflow hack(?) using JS on the H1 title as well? As a backend guy, just curious whether this JS-assisted way of responsive Web development is commonplace/best practice, and if this is how it is usually done today.

I guess it is to keep the title and navbar buttons level on wide screens.

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by selykg »

iechoz6H wrote: post #24
tinyprojects wrote: post #12

I'm a big fan of these tiny minimal websites. I've built something similar lets your create an online blog from your paper journal. I use it daily to write down my thoughts and I'm weirdly very consistent with writing knowing others are reading my stuff. Wondering if OP has noticed the same thing. https://paperwebsite.com

And your "Most Popular" user type signs up for the GBP10/month account rather than the Free account?

Pricing seems high, but it does grant them a custom domain option so it's not a shocker someone would sign up to get that feature.

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by tephra »

Delk wrote: post #44
randomlurking wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never heard of it, can’t really imagine how that would work out in other countries. Is it a somewhat new regulation? Is it easy to access the information?

I think it's a Nordic thing. Tax records (including recorded income) are also public in Finland, and apparently Sweden has something similar. [1] In case of Finland, the current legislation that makes tax information public was originally introduced in 1999 but I can't remember whether the records were also public (based on some other regulation) prior to that or not. In any case, it's not that recent. The Reuters ar…

To give the Swedish story. In general all documents, decisions, etc. handled by a public agency are by default public (i.e you can call/email the agency and ask for them).

So when the tax agency makes a decision on your taxes that becomes public, i.e we can see what taxable income you have. One way this is used is by newspapers to look into the income of politicians (and other famous people..).

The right of public information is taken quite seriously by the courts (and should be taken more seriously by agencies that really like to classify the information as secret, which you then have to go to court to challenge). For example an organisation I'm associated with was able to get the cookie data from the Swedish Chief of Police which the courts determined was public information (although they were allowed to mask some information).

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by wombatmobile »

zohch wrote: post #54
wombatmobile wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Traffic fines in Finland are proportional to the offender's income. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/nokia-boss-gets-116-000-spee... Simple, elegant and fair? Mathematically perhaps, but people are people... https://www.automotive-fleet.com/10481/nokia-executive-fined...

> Traffic fines in Finland are proportional to the offender's income. Don't need everyone's income to be public information to do that.

> Don't need everyone's income to be public information to do that.

It depends if you want speeding fines to be transparent, or secret.

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Post by Matthias1 »

This really caught my eye.

I wrote a website almost exactly like this for myself. I've been using it for over a year. https://thoughts.learnerpages.com

Something about posting publicly, but not having any public interaction mechanism is super cathartic for me.

(I haven't signed up for thoughts.page, I'll probably write a comparison at some point, since I'm opinionated about this type of site.)

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