too bad stonk is down 23% this year. i think they are doing it wrong

>If I link to any articles about it, I dox him unfortunately and I'd prefer not to.

thats admirable, and i am certainly not telling you to do otherwise.

but i will point out that they have written out their full name and state on their github, patreon, and buymeacoffee.

what are some example discriminatory filters you want, and what is your reasoning for wanting them?

Low scent preference: no perfume/cologne, car air "freshener", food smell, smoking

i dont think preference for no perfume/cologne or no smoking is typically seen as discriminatory from a legal standpoint, is it?

my workplace has a no perfume/cologne policy, and we have lawyers on staff, so itd be interesting to find out it is.

the fun begins when it appears to be a stand-in for a protected class.

"No perfume" is pretty simple, but "no smelling like curry" would clearly be at or over the line.

they didnt say false accusations dont happen, or that they arent harmful, or that anyone should be forced to do anything.

you read what you wanted to read, instead of what was actually written

>They know that sometimes it's not windy, and they know about night.

they also know about batteries

on friday i got 2 calls saying "my phone is no longer showing me my emails, please fix" when the error message they received was roughly "please reenter your password to continue using outlook".

on wednesday i got a call saying "the CRM wont let me input this note, please fix" when the error message was "you have included an invalid character, '□' found in description. remove invalid characters and resubmit".

i am curious, what are you hoping to get out of this comment? will you feel better if they say yes? what is your plan if they say no?

I genuinely want to understand how they arrived at the claim that this was a fluffy marketing piece. Like, if you said on a different thread, "the Linux kernel is probably mostly written in Pascal", I would really want to understand how it was you got to that idea.

> what are you hoping to get out of this comment?

Rando here. It gives a signal on the account’s other comments, as well as the value of the original comment (as a hypothesis, albeit a wrong one, versus blind raging).

>"It gives a signal on the account's other comments,"

fair enough. i typically use karma as a rough proxy for that, especially when the user has a lot of it (like, in this case, where the poster is #17 on the leaderboard with 100,000+ karma). you dont get that much karma if you are consistently posting bad takes.

>as well as the value of the original comment (as a hypothesis, albeit a wrong one, versus blind raging).

i dont see, in this case anyways, how or why that distinction would matter or change anything (in this case specifically, what would you change or do differently if it was a hypothesis or simple "raging"?), but im probably just thinking about it incorrectly.

I think a lot of people are overreading this and really all that's happened here is that I was out at a show last night and was really foggy when I woke up and asked a question clumsily. It happens!

yeah, absolutely, i was not intending to start some big inquisition against you or anything.

just like you were genuinely trying to understand where pjmlp was coming from, i was genuinely trying to understand what you would get out of an answer to your question (or, like, what the next reply could even be other than "ok, cool").

Oh, yeah, no, you're fine, this is on me.

> you dont get that much karma if you are consistently posting bad takes.

I wonder how true that is. While this site doesn't have incentivize engagement-maximizing behaviour (posting ragebait) like some other sites do, I would imagine that simply posting more is the best way to accrue karma long-term.

>I would imagine that simply posting more is the best way to accrue karma long-term.

i definitely agree, which is why i use it as a rough proxy rather than ground truth, but i have my doubts that you can casually "post more" your way into the top 20 karma users of all time.

many people read the headline, immediately start commenting, and only afterwards maybe read the article.

a little snippet of the article can help reduce the number of people who have a knee-jerk reaction to whatever the headline says

Even if you only read the headline, you can work out the most likely story from logic. Someone else in this thread already said it: they're not gonna go to jail for you over a small subscription fee, of course they're complying with local laws and then the Swiss people handed it over to where they got the legal assistance request from. It's also not the first time Proton cooperated with a legal request from Swiss authorities, or Signal or other similar companies for that matter. The story tells itself no matter what part of it they decide to stick in the headline

for people that dont know, www.codeofhonor.com is netcoyotes (the gp comment) blog, and there is some good reading to be had there

>Nah, you can snapshot every 15 minutes.

obviously you can. but, what is the actual snapshot frequency? like, what is the timestamp of the last known good snapshot? that is what matters.

in any case, the comment you are replying to is a hypothetical, which correctly points out that even a day or two of lost edits is fine (not ideal, but fine). your reply doesnt engage with their comment at all.

I think you are misreading my comments and made a bad assumption. The reason I'm confident is because this has been my bread and butter for a decade.

>The reason I'm confident is because this has been my bread and butter for a decade.

my decade of dealing with incompetent sysadmins and broken backups (if they even exist) has given me the opposite of confidence.

but im glad you have had a different experience

> my decade of dealing with incompetent sysadmins and broken backups (if they even exist) has given me the opposite of confidence.

Oh, I agree that the average bar is low. That's part of the reason I do it all myself.

The heuristic with wikimedia is that they've been running a PHP service that accepts and stores (anonymous) input for 25 years. The longetivity with the risk exposure that they have are indicators that they know what they are doing, and I'm sure they've learned from recovering all sorts of failures over the years.

Look at how quickly it was brought back up in this instance!

So, yeah. I don't think initial hypothetical counterpoint holds water, and that's what I have been pointing out.

Kudos for very polite responses to trolling.

no one is trolling in this comment chain.

i found kibone's reply to a hypothetical musing as if it was some counterpoint in a debate instead of a simple expansion on their comment to be off putting. we had some comments back and forth and we both came out of it just fine. weird of you to add on this little insult to an otherwise pretty normal exchange.

FWIW I did not assume that you were trolling, and yes we did come out fine.

I have good faith, though I should get off hn now... :P

I still don't need to assume what the intent is. Troll or no troll, it works. My comments might inspire someone else to try a CoW fs. I'm also really impressed with wikimedia's technical team.