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by darkengine 10y ago
The key word is counter- culture . The GOP may have the majority in federal government seats, but the majority of mainstream American media, and the overall position of the Overton window in general, is left of center at the moment. The cul
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by darkengine 10y ago
My first Android smartphone had an FM radio, and it used the headphone cable as an antenna. You had to have headphones plugged in or you got nothing but static.
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by darkengine 10y ago
In my experience on Linux, the difference is night and day, and not in Firefox's favor. Really basic demos struggle to get 30fps while Chromium handles them at the refresh rate of my display no problem. Firefox WebGL works much better
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by darkengine 10y ago
Because Chromium runs far better in my experience, especially on Linux, and especially where graphics and WebGL are concerned. If all I can use are WebExtensions, I may as well use Chromium for the speed.
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by darkengine 10y ago
If Firefox 56 is the last release to support Tree Style Tabs, it will be the last release of Firefox before I begrudgingly switch to Chromium.
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by darkengine 10y ago
You can reach the title screen in master, but it looks like that code won't make it into a relase until 2.1. Even then, it's still not playable.
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by darkengine 10y ago
Is the libreboot/FSF drama relevant again? It still seems utterly ludicrous to me that RMS and his staff would fire someone merely for filing a workplace complaint about transphobia, as the Libreboot maintainer has claimed. Such a thin
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by darkengine 10y ago
I don't think it's irrational to believe that there is little meaningful difference between Trump and Clinton, or Obama for that matter, when it comes to digital surveillance. To my recollection, only Jill Stein talked seriously a
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by darkengine 10y ago
I've listened to and read NPR for many years, and I've perceived (perhaps falsely as perception is not infallible) an increase in the amount of stories that I found to be questionable in terms of neutrality. In my observation, the
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by darkengine 10y ago
Distasteful, perhaps (I would question his use of the word "degenerate"). His phrasing is clearly warped by some long-building anger over a worsening situation. I don't think it's a fire-worthy offense regardless.
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by darkengine 10y ago
edit: I did not scroll far enough in the article to see his second comment. That one is much worse, but firing people for their opinions strikes me as a dangerous precedent.
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by darkengine 10y ago
Some serious absolutism on display in this piece. Thiel isn't supporting a fringe candidate; most of the polls right now have a difference between Trump and Clinton smaller than the margin of error. To make the claim that a candidate b
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by darkengine 10y ago
Simply because of his use of an outdated synonym of "Asia"? If anything, I got the impression that the author was critical of Westerners for being insensitive to the needs of Asian computer users. I think this is because of Han Un
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by darkengine 10y ago
They also don't have an option for GPLv2, because it would introduce "cognitive overhead". https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/413
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by darkengine 10y ago
I like the idea of GNU Social, but the Twitter-like frontend, Qvitter, is slow and feels clunky. And last time I checked, it still hadn't solved its "spooling problem": offline nodes won't receive updates and won't
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by darkengine 10y ago
Inflammatory clickbait article that could be reduced to: Site owner Hiroyuki Nishimura asked the community for their input on the 4chan pass and the site in general as their financials are running low.
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by darkengine 10y ago
I used to frequent a coffee shop with a router that would refuse to let my laptop's wifi card connect about half the time. Like the author, my phone could connect but it would simply not respond to any attempts to connect from my lapto
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by darkengine 10y ago
It may be more "sophisticated" (sounds like a more positive synonym of "complex" to me), but I certainly don't think it's more powerful.
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by darkengine 10y ago
A non-apology with no admission of any wrongdoing. Even before the recent controversy, it was blindingly obvious to anyone who cared to look that the trending topics were curated for a particular angle. Twitter does the same thing with thei
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by darkengine 10y ago
> A college degree is the new high school degree This is right on the money. Going to uni felt like an extension of high school -- same students, same teachers. Nobody ever seemed like they wanted to be there; they just wanted to grind o
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by darkengine 10y ago
I'd kill for one of those UTF-8 shirts. http://www.openbsd.org/images/hackathons/u2k15.gif
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by darkengine 11y ago
Copypaste is rate limited, he had this to say: https://twitter.com/HW_BEAT_THAT/status/603741442490642432 "The user flooding himself (Bui) spilled the beans and told me how he did it voluntarily in IRC. Other
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by darkengine 11y ago
> as one of my Microsoft-employed friends brutally said about my declining, "No loss for Microsoft" That's a pretty poor thing to say to a friend.