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Yeah, I didn’t like the previous blue check either. What prevents bots or deceptive profiles from buying a blue check?
I mean the real problem is that you can now buy a blue check. There's no verification involved, and everybody can create a new disposable credit card if that's the verification
meta has been fined for that too, heavier than X’s fine
- blue checkmarks that literal bots buy: consumer deception, 9 dollars to be “verified” -> impersonation
- opaque ads: no archive of ads’ content, who bought the ads, etc.
- lockdown of public content APIs: and this is personal to me, because to work with X API’s I have to give my credit card; but this denied access to public data by researchers (transparency)
What worries me the most is that people are protecting a billionaire that hate-cried on its own platform. Hate fabrication just because said billionaire failed to comply with basic transparency.
Probably because European tech businesses try to comply with regulations that protect EU citizens' right.
Probably because the American hyper-mega corporations think they can do whatever they want and get away with it. It works in America because lobbyism is practically legal.
One beautiful aspect of developing markdown parsing from scratch is the unparalleled control you gain over text rendering.
One weird aspect of developing markdown parsing from scratch is that now you're the one responsible for people's words.
I learnt that unripe persimmons are astringents during the usual wikipedia info dump while eating one 15 minutes ago lol
never wanted to ate a normal persimmon, the consistency creeps me out. so one day my grandpa brought me some “kaki mela”, which is Italian for fuyu/apple/non-astringent persimmons, and it was love at first bite! they’re as sweet as loquat imo.
had to search the translations, never heard of them in eng
We also know that Luke has been in contact with the FBI regarding this hack, and has possibly given them access to machines under his control so that they can perform an investigation. While I expect that they would not still have access to machines currently used in production, it is still uncertain to me as to whether Luke has sole control over the seed, especially with the aforementioned disclaimer.
I wanted to use some SNZs as decorations for my Christmas tree. But I need to do it in a safe way to avoid ruining them, maybe clear plastic sleeves?
exactly
pesca: peach/fishing
pescare: to fish
pesce: fish
but you are right too, it’s context based!
pesca is both the name of the sport of fishing and the name of the peach fruit.
Bought a set of RGB Christmas lights from Twinkly, wifi and surprisingly Italian? 20 euros for 400 leds.
Philips wanted 360 euros for 500 leds, are they nuts?
We're moving towards a better writing experience, and it's the type of thing you want/have to shape extremely carefully.
My priority, right now, is to make Markdown and Rich Text bi-directional translations really good. I'll share more informations soon!
Did you know that now Ferrero sells Estathé Lemon with Chamomile and without Theine?
Really good. Here's some sats to get it.
Exactly this. Many platforms have abandoned this goal, and I don't even blame them: it is hard AF. Especially custom stuff.
But we're going to do this because the struggle itself is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Stacker News happy.