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Fear of Data(medium.com)
1 points by fredfoobar42 10y ago|0 comments
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
This just sounds like the same whining people did when the Mac went to USB back in 1998. "You mean I need an ADAPTER for my SCSI device?!"
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
A lot of people forget, but iOS shares the same underpinnings as MacOS X. In fact, when Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone, he didn't say it ran iPhone OS, he said it ran MacOS. I wouldn't be surprised if there's macOS
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Why Would Anyone Invest in Twitter Now?(sanspoint.com)
3 points by fredfoobar42 10y ago|0 comments
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
There's some good points in the article, in particular the draining of color from the Finder sidebar and a few other glaring usability issues that haven't been addressed. But, man, seriously, the original Time Machine UI was garba
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
Milo was temporary banned, at least three times, and had his verification revoked. You can't say he wasn't warned.
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
>I don't support any side, I'm just trying to show that the first comment regarding consistency is indeed accurate, Twitter has none. No argument here. Twitter's inconsistent, if not outright apathetic about abuse no matte
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
What happened with Milo is less about him attacking Leslie Jones, and more about his _followers_ attacking Leslie Jones. Milo knows full well that if he identifies someone for his heckling, he'll have thousands of trolls and their sock
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
$7m is pocket change for Citigroup. No wonder the big banks keep shitting the bed. There's never any real consequences for their fuckups.
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The Unbearable Difficulty of Opting-Out(medium.com)
1 points by fredfoobar42 10y ago|1 comments
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
You'd think that, but there's been a huge swath of engineering school graduates joining ISIS and similar organizations. It's not that ISIS is recruiting them, something about engineering students [makes them more likely to jo
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
There's this attitude that because computer work on pure logic, anything a computer does must therefore be logical and rational. The problem is that the humans who program the computers will often encode their own illogical, irrational
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
These articles on "jawn" always miss the use of "the jawn" which works in a manner similar to saying something is "the shit." In other words, the phrase "That jawn is the jawn" is a valid sentence, me
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by fredfoobar42 10y ago
LinkedIn had... a vision? Since when?
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
Because it did, when Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend posted on /v/ to get people to start harassing her.
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
So, if it's not terrible for everyone, then it's not a problem---as long as it's not terrible for you. Maybe, perhaps, this would work if the terrible people kept to themselves, but this is rarely the case. I was a regular po
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
> What devastation? Does GamerGate mean anything to you? And that's just one example.
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
If I'm in a physical community where the loudest, and most controversial members are making it a terrible experience for people inside and outside that community, and the leaders refuse to deal with it, I think a fair assessment is tha
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
Time and time again, the hands-off moderation of anything on 4chan beyond child pornography has had knock on effects in the real world. GamerGate began life on 4chan, and is still making women's lives miserable. All you have to do is a
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
I'm really not sure how I feel about this. Moot created the biggest, most toxic garbage fire of an internet community, refused to take management of it, and walked away when it became too toxic for anyone to deal with. In a way, he&#x2
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To Fix Twitter, Break It Up(sanspoint.com)
2 points by fredfoobar42 11y ago|0 comments
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
Typically, TANF benefits went to the elderly, disabled, or to new mothers. Do you really want to force them to work the gig economy? Also, don't forget that the "T" in TANF means _temporary_.
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
This is ridiculous. The stereotype of welfare recipients as lazy, unemployed people is completely inaccurate. I'm a former Welfare Clerk, and the vast majority of welfare recipients I dealt with---in a district that covered West Philad
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
I actually do sleep tracking with my Apple Watch using the Sleep++ app. The Apple Watch's battery is good enough, and charges fast enough, that all I have to do is give it, maybe, 30 minutes of charging when I wake up, and another 30 b
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
For values of "your own good" equal to "for advertisers" but yeah.
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Twitter Is an Unsafe Public Square, Facebook Is a Private Living Room(sanspoint.com)
2 points by fredfoobar42 11y ago|2 comments
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How Facebook 'likes' could dent ISIS's recruiting efforts(dailydot.com)
1 points by fredfoobar42 11y ago|0 comments
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Can Empathy Scale to the Internet?(medium.com)
21 points by fredfoobar42 11y ago|32 comments
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
So, January 2018. Got it.
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by fredfoobar42 11y ago
PayPal seems to have a lax attitude towards security in general. I had a similar issue a year ago, that (fortunately) didn't end up in having my account compromised < http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2014/0

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