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> My pebble watch would call an app on my phone, in turn the app would make a request to the webserver and the webserver would then make a query to the wifi socket to toggle it

When you ask your programmer husband to turn on the light

And once you reclaim your one finite shot at this planet, who's gonna pay for your dinner?

One of the sources you provided has only one, clear, obvious definition: one that applies 99% of the time, and aligns with how they (and me, and I can assure you, every single reader of BBC.com) interprets the word.

The other source has practically the same definition listed as the top one, providing two alternatives, one of which is practically synonymous, and another showing an obscure alternative which is new to me and almost makes sense in the example sentence.

Yet they're loading the word.

Therefore sorry, but for me it's you who comes off as hateful. As in, unpleasant; dislikable [1]#2 :D

That's nice :)

I'm curious though - did you use tabs or spaces?

> for whatever reason

If you pointed a gun to my head, I'm pretty sure I could think of a reason why someone would want to use Tinder.

Yup, "Be Right Back", S2E1

And possibly another one, but that would be a spoiler

> You're not just saying that because the word happens to end in "butt" are you?

They're saying precisely that and they're 100% right, and it seems you're missing a lot of things.

It's a social network. Its only value is in it having people using it and coming back.

Just try and imagine any person in your IRL circles (who's not on HN) actually using a social network with butt in its name. I seriously can't believe you see no issue there whatsoever. A teenager. A young artist. A YouTuber. "Follow me on TikTok, Instagram, Scuttlebutt and Poopypants". I dare you to find a creator willing to say these words.

Or if you just hang out with smart, like-minded tech-savvy middle-ages people who see past these things, then great, we have a new "social network" for smart, like-minded tech-savvy middle-aged people.

When it's a DB layer, sure.

When it's a social network?

"Hey guys, have you seen Dave's new post on Poopypants?"

I wanted to hate on it, but I just downloaded the latest version and I see that after like 20 years, they finally realized that each tool window doesn't have to be a separate application.

Good for them, for once I might be able to try actually try it.

Someone at last, thank you!!

I don't get why people who are so paranoid about someone associating their Telegram handle with their phone number simply don't go and grab a burner SIM at Tesco.

I mean I'm all down with the idea of tech companies respecting our privacy. But here we are, complaining that corporations that are at least trying (and that are operating at a loss since their conception for our convenience) aren't giving us "Snowden hiding in Russia" level of security out of the box, for free, just because we deserve it. All while we could easily implement it ourselves for like $8 and with no online trace whatsoever.

It's like, Tails Linux exists, but FUCK GOOGLE for forcing me to Ctrl+Shift+Delete in Chrome if I want to erase a cookie. I'm so significant and certainly not a criminal, why do they hate me so much??

For me as well, and I didn't even read the headline.

Pretty much this, end of thread.

I did not expect to read hantec on HN today. Enough internet and about time for a škopek I guess.