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by bsammon 4d ago
(Not sure if you were saying this in your comment) I read somewhere that Weird Al always asks permission before releasing a parody song. IIRC, the same article/post also said that some other prominent parody artists (Stan Freberg migh
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by bsammon 26d ago
Another didn't-do-my-homework mistake: Beware of buying one of the waterproofed models if you want to hack/mod your Kobo. On un-waterproofed models, the case is easily opened, and the main storage SD Card (IIRC - maybe it was a
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by bsammon 27d ago
The main thing I'd like to see HTML (maybe more accurately, without-Javascript) do is AI-bot protection. Browsing the web with Javascript turned off makes things much more tolerable on my low-RAM computer. Until a year or two, I could
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by bsammon 29d ago
The discussion here reminded me of the "Cruelty Scale" ( https://www.ifwiki.org/Cruelty_scale ) It was originally created specifically in relation to text adventure games, but seems appropriate to a broader range o
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by bsammon 1mo ago
> While the web has always been organized around intermediaries that shape what survives online and who sees it, This statement, from the sixth paragraph of the article, is something that I would have liked to see addressed more in the
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by bsammon 1mo ago
That's an interesting article/study. I've heard this claim before and I've suspected it came from "using phone one the toilet correlates to more time spent on the toilet, and more time spent on the toilet correlates
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by bsammon 2mo ago
> Every bedroom of a rental is required to have a window in New York. I don't think you meant this as specific as it sounds -- I suspect this requirement applies to coops, condos, and maybe even if you want to get official permiss
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by bsammon 2mo ago
> I don't want personal care items that have internal batteries at all, because they'll eventually die on me while the device itself (brush heads notwithstanding) is otherwise perfectly functional. I'd much rather keep rec
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by bsammon 2mo ago
Green River, home of the Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Green_River_Intergalac... ) (I went to wikipedia to get some general context on the city of Green River)
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by bsammon 2mo ago
There was Blip Festival in New York, 15 to 20 years ago. As I had family in the area, I went to most of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_Festival After Blip Festival NY stopped, there were some other festivals
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by bsammon 3mo ago
I seem to remember reading somewhere that, even at his worst, Linus limited his toxicity to professional-programmer kernel contributors (i.e. people who were employed by linux distros or hardware companies to contribute to Linux). Can anyo
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by bsammon 3mo ago
It's interesting that (in one regard) Sony is getting a PR win with the "StudioCanal has done this" narrative. Another perspective: In accordance with the licensing system that Sony and their lobbyists helped establish, Sony
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by bsammon 3mo ago
I own a Nintendo Switch, and I've noticed that in the Nintendo store, old games regularly go on sale for in the ballpark of 80% off. Does that happen in the PS store?
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by bsammon 3mo ago
I think they're describing a scenario where the cash was stolen by a postal worker or for some other reason didn't make the full trip.
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by bsammon 3mo ago
I'm reminded of Chuck disabling a bomb by surfing to a malware-infested webpage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddtpyR6WIlY
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by bsammon 3mo ago
I'm guessing when you say "ask frontend developers" you mean "at job interviews". But I like to think you mean something like "at cocktail parties" or other social situations.
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by bsammon 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Netflix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_Systems_USA#Anti-union... https:&
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by bsammon 3mo ago
That would be "60 year olds who have been office workers most of their working life" 60-year-olds who worked blue-collar for a significant part of their life, this is not so obviously true for. Also probably not true for 60-year-o
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by bsammon 3mo ago
Okay, I'll bite: How many time has that happened? I'm definitely not an avid follower of such things, but I've never heard of that happening. I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen, but I'd like to hear&#x
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by bsammon 4mo ago
sorta piling on here, but it's also worth noting that this problem goes away (and the article is quite readable) in a browser with javascript turned off (and no adblocker).
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by bsammon 4mo ago
Is that "reactionaries" in the "we object to certain technology decisions" sense, like the anti-systemd crowd, or in the "software compatible with our political views" like the xlibre project? A quick search (i
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by bsammon 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_purchase_order The USA (and other countries?) equivalent appears to be "Eminent Domain": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
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by bsammon 4mo ago
When I was actively hacking my chromebook, there was tons of advice like this, and 90% of it didn't work on both arm and intel-based chromebooks, and the advice-givers never mentioned which category it worked on. Sometimes it was buri
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by bsammon 4mo ago
His wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_MacIsaac ) mentions (with citation) a particular kink he has self-reported.
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by bsammon 6mo ago
Actually, this is based on my personal experience. I don't use a smartphone for internet. Many of the places where I've tried it, the "free wifi" doesn't work. Maybe the wifi is there, but the uplink is 2G speed,
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by bsammon 6mo ago
I think you may be a bit out of date. There was free WiFi in basically every town. Now it's frequently a vestigial, no-longer-maintained free WiFi that works like crap, because there's no maintenance, because "everyone ha
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by bsammon 8mo ago
If the sibling comment isn't enough detail, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGun
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by bsammon 9mo ago
Ah... okay, some quick research says the Apple IPO was in 1980, so he was (at least somewhat) rich in 1982.
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by bsammon 9mo ago
The article says that Jobs owned a lamp like this in 1982. Questions that come to mind: Was Steve Jobs rich in 1982? In 1982, was the cost of a "real" Tiffany lamp within the reach of someone at Jobs's 1982 wealth/income
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by bsammon 9mo ago
This headline sounds like "this specific (one-of-a-kind?) item that Steve Jobs owned/wanted to own" when the article is really about "this lamp that is the same design as one Steve Jobs owned" So not the "some

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