craftyguy

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by craftyguy 4y ago
that might be the "Court's job", but that doesn't mean they will be doing their job without extreme personal/political bias that allows them to bend the lens to their liking. They are 100% reacting to people's
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by craftyguy 4y ago
> Do you want privacy on your phone? lol. There is no privacy on your phone if you have Google's spyware on it. So your point is complete bullshit.
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by craftyguy 4y ago
> The only solution I can see is buying a burner phone to avoid these situation Or, you know, stop fucking using google.
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by craftyguy 4y ago
Meh. He's not the only person on Earth pushing for a Mars mission. > I can bet car manufactured will return to same-old same-old in no time. I'd bet against you. Not sure if you noticed, but gasoline prices are skyrocketing. Th
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by craftyguy 4y ago
> He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to sh
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by craftyguy 4y ago
> This is after we had CORPORATE control of twitter (which they apparently applaud) ... they aren't aplauding it. They are offering suggestions now that twitter is under new ownership, since the previous owners were inept. It's
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by craftyguy 4y ago
As someone why buys a lot of cycling parts online, there are many mom/pop bike shops with web storefronts, that are very reasonably priced and often include "free" shipping. Stop giving bezos your money, you have no excuse.
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by craftyguy 4y ago
> I was blown away that Amazon would transfer me to a scammer You shouldn't be. The amazon store's core business model is allowing scammers to sell garbage to unsuspecting buyers.
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by craftyguy 5y ago
canada isn't even in the top 10 countries with the smallest population density: https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies...
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by craftyguy 5y ago
you don't need to go to shitter... it's right there in the article (that you and OP read... right?? lol...)
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by craftyguy 6y ago
All of that 'telemetry' collection isn't free. OS choice definitely matters, some OS vendors will insist on default sevices and 'require' the ability to arbitarily enable more for you as they see fit over time. You
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by craftyguy 6y ago
The text of the bill hasn't been submitted yet, so we don't know what 'other purposes' is. So in typical 'hacker' 'news' fashion, this has been upvoted based purely on title alone!
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by craftyguy 6y ago
> unpopular opinion - I like daylight savings. lol. the title is literally about making DST permanent. What's 'unpopular' about that?
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by craftyguy 6y ago
They mean 'free' as in freedom, not 'free' as in beer. There's a (huge) difference.
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by craftyguy 6y ago
They're so focused on privacy, they only tested it on a browser that spews 'telemetry.'
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by craftyguy 6y ago
It appears to be another silo for (as the 'owner' put it elsewhere) reducing 'complexity' (i.e. mastadon is too hard because users have to choose an instance). Instead they want you to use their walled garden. It's
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by craftyguy 6y ago
I don't feel sorry at all for Microsoft. They have a long history of harassing developers (e.g., [1]. It's nice to see them bear some of that for once. 1. https://www.infoworld.com/article/2676459/microso
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by craftyguy 6y ago
The title doesn't mention feelings or thoughts, so I have no idea what you are going on about. OP is correct, this title this title tries to masquerade opinion as fact, and is total misleading clickbait.
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by craftyguy 6y ago
Society generally gets more out of research than a bunch of gainfully employed physicists.
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by craftyguy 6y ago
They didn't say 'all', they said 'many'. So your one example doesn't 'beg to differ' much in the way of OP's point.
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by craftyguy 6y ago
> We therefore made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14 million, to the individuals behind the malware attack in exchange for a tool to unlock the encrypted data and the return of the data they
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by craftyguy 6y ago
It's pretty obvious that the answer is 'no backup'...
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by craftyguy 6y ago
> Anger and outrage are valuable, and it's important that we channel them in the right directions. It's important to channel them in all directions that could have impact. You never know for sure which 'direction' mat
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by craftyguy 6y ago
> If it were that simple, It is that simple. > why would we need package managers at all? Sadly, the Linux community as a whole have dedicated themselves to a structure that makes this seemingly simple task remarkably difficult. Becau
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Break up, and cease to exist.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> Sleez'n their way into our hearts. Just like a cancer! Oh wait...
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by craftyguy 7y ago
title should be "microsoft acquires NPM"
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Well, it's a stupid fucking idea, to begin with. If donald wants to throw money at something, he should throw it at the actual problem (implementing a vaccine for the virus, improving the shit health care system in the US, etc). Giving
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by craftyguy 7y ago
"'hacker' 'news' needs their hourly reminder that people are WFHing"
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Good for you. We know the government-sponsored ISP monopolies/duopolies here suck. It's incredibly naive to think that this fact is lost on us.

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