direwolf20

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by direwolf20 3mo ago
Hi landlord, I lost my wallet and need a refund of last month's rent. You're absolutely right!
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by direwolf20 3mo ago
The problem with this thinking is that every shoe cost effort to make. Software takes that much effort to make once, and then it can be duplicated for free whether it's awesome or crap. It isn't the same economics.
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by direwolf20 3mo ago
Kernel FUSE documentation is a dead link
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Filming people at the gym is sexual harassment.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Bitcoin was subverted by powerful people and is no longer the people's currency.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
How do you think the agencies and corporate suits got everyone to prefer MIT over GPL? It was all astroturfed.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Don't need to. The court can subpoena GitHub to find out who they are, and then can make a default judgement against them and enforce it.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Senators should be paid three times the lower quartile wage.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
I run a HN voting algorithm and opinion manipulation system across a few hundred accounts - only a few on any individual post. I use residential proxies to prevent correlation. The account I'm using right now to confess this to you is
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Also, it already exists. The IPv4 range is included in the IPv6 range. 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:0a00:0001 is the official IPv6 representation of 10.0.0.1. As you can see, it doesn't actually solve anything. It makes some APIs more
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Did you get rich off these markets? If not, how can you say it's true?
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
> Why would any non-insider participate in these markets? You’re just asking to get screwed. If people who do the obvious trades (sell oil right now - it's going down) lose money, all you have to do is do the opposite (buy oil right
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
In the US, the government still uses technology to control you, but you don't get convenient tax filing either.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
If you think about the fundamentals involved here, what you actually need is for the OS to refuse to implement any syscalls, and not share an address space. A process is already a hermetically sealed sandbox. Running untrusted code in a pro
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
If you turn milk into cheese it isn't milk any more, and it doesn't prove that milk is a yellow solid.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
TikTok was a Chinese app that had no qualms against showing Americans what their country does.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
China is at the forefront of innovation. America is not, except for financial innovation a.k.a. the best ways to get money out of people without doing actual work.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
America has never been that. With everyone having access to apps like TikTok, the brainwashing stopped working as well and people can see that it isn't.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Only in a very pedantic sense. Google definitely sells the service of doing things based on your data. It is, in fact, their biggest and oldest revenue stream.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Interpreters don't translate bytecode to native instructions.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Individual neurons determine how your arm moves, but we still speak of a human as a whole being that makes decisions.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
If by "decentralised" you mean "0.001% of it is not only hosted centrally" They have designed a protocol that could theoretically be decentralised. Then reality hit, and it was centralised.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
I've noticed this reclaimthenet site has very mixed factuality. Sometimes it posts good content but more often it just posts its preferred form of propaganda. I've reported it to dang but he doesn't care. I don't know wh
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
On the Fediverse you can even block mastodon.social and still have a well populated feed. This is not the case for bluesky.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Bluesky has never been distributed/decentralised. It's a single central system, which fetches 0.001% of user data from external systems if the user opts in, and has a marketing team that calls this decentralisation.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
someone patented something in 2006 that the author had already acquired one of in 1986
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
This isn't solely due to shareholder fiduciary duty. Even without such a duty, the shareholders would fire anyone who doesn't put them first. Even without shares, a sole owner of a company would also do that. No matter your positi
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
Microsoft Windows technologies like COM do create windows and run message loops on your behalf. When you drag on a title bar it runs a modal message loop in kernel mode . Took me a while to figure that one out...
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
If it's a server app, I almost always have to switch to Postgres eventually so now I start with Postgres.
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by direwolf20 5mo ago
I think settled law may be that it applies to everyone in the US, but the settled reality is that none of the amendments apply to anyone, and more generally, there are no human rights in the US.

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