burntoutcase

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by burntoutcase 7y ago
> You are going to get more people to see your post if you put it on Medium. You are going to get more "friends" if you are on Facebook. You are going to interact with more people if you are on Twitter. That's the whole po
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
IMO, every browser should handle JavaScript the way it handles cookies. The user should be allowed to: 1. run all JS regardless of source 2. reject all JS from sites other than the ones they're visiting 3. run all first-party JS and al
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
Will Bruce Wayne sparkle in sunlight?
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
Fair warning to anybody thinking of using Librem Social: it's a Mastodon instance whose management seems willing to tolerate speech that most of the rest of the Fediverse finds objectionable. Don't expect that you'll be able
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
> Honest question and I don't have super strong opinions on the subject, but is product placement really that big of a negative? If a product placement can't be justified on plot or characterization grounds, then I find it an o
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
Diversity in tech is a joke, and will remain such as long as businesses can hide discrimination behind "culture fit".
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
> Current dogma seems to be that rational people can just take the type 1 info out of your type 2 advert and think with the appropriate organ. I'd rather just consign the type 2 adverts to the nearest null device and pick up a copy
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
Telegram is spyware, just like WhatsApp.
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
Ten bucks a month ? For instant messaging? Did you think this through?
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
They might not see explicit advertisements, but they're getting exposed to a metric assload of product placement.
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
I'm not surprised. Advertising is nothing but private-sector psyops.
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
If Kickstarter will not voluntarily recognize the union, then the union should go on strike and remain on strike until Kickstarter recognizes them.
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
> Can we not make it illegal punishable with the death sentence? I think all spammers should be dealt with in the manner Vlad Tepes used to deal with Turks, criminals, and people who talk at the theater. However, we're going to need
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
We could just get rid of our telephones. Let's be honest here: when was the last time you were actually happy to make or receive a phone call? It's time to KonMari this tech into the nearest dumpster.
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
I guess you're one of those passionate techies that founders love, rather than a mercenary .
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
It's not a "windfall". They did the work. They made that wealth possible. They earned every bit of it.
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
> They learn / don't learn that skill from kidfluencers on YouTube. Thanks for giving me a new excuse for being a misanthrope.
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
I only chose college because the pressure from my family was such that I had only two "valid" choices: 1. Go to college 2. Enlist in the military I would have preferred to have gone to a decent trade school and learned a skilled t
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
I've made secondhand optical media my fault because I'm sick of paying rent.
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
It's easy to measure workers by how many hours their ass is in their seat per day, so that's what gets measured and that's how we're judged. I'm tempted to say I'd rather be paid per bug/feature, with the
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
While I'm glad that kids in Netflix-only households aren't getting bombarded with advertisements targeted at children the way kids my age were in the 1980s, I can't help but suspect that these ad-free kids need to be exposed
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
We used to have an entertainment industry in the United States. Now we just have Disney and Comcast. But $DEITY forbid we use existing antitrust laws (not to mention the Commerce Clause in the Constitution) to break up the megacorporations
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by burntoutcase 7y ago
Tech companies aren't willing provide any of that, so they try to sell you on the shit you don't care about instead because it's cheaper.