greymeister

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by greymeister 6y ago
Haha, nuke and pave as a first resort rather than a last resort.
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by greymeister 6y ago
Sounds straight from a 90's Microsoft marketing department, I'm glad not everyone listened back then. More users is definitely a feature though.
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by greymeister 6y ago
Ah, another reminder of Jason Scott's talk https://youtu.be/qh7EARxkxoU?list=PL7WR9B9eZNmxm8_LzP1Qf8xnN...
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by greymeister 7y ago
Did you have the information necessary to make the correct decision? Most problems or failures I've encountered in software come to missing information much more often than any other reason. Having justifications for the decisions yo
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by greymeister 7y ago
Anyone else remember the "Summer of Love"? [1] I had stopped attempting to answer or ask anything on the site due to the behavior I observed. It was pure gamesmanship for people trying to rack up their SO score and then summarily
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by greymeister 7y ago
God creates dinosaurs, god destroys dinosaurs, god creates man, man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs.
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by greymeister 7y ago
Embrace, extend, and extinguish.
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by greymeister 7y ago
E-mail remains one of the last decentralized communication mediums. If Google can make it a walled garden, they will.
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by greymeister 7y ago
Good point, I remember the game storefront being announced but had not heard about their subscriptions. I still wouldn't recommend using it for anything because of the potential gold mine they have with the user data. I can imagine Te
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by greymeister 7y ago
I refuse to use Discord because I don't know how or to whom they are going to sell my data yet. It's possible they go to a subscription model but I doubt it, it seems more likely they'll be acquired by one of the big data br
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by greymeister 8y ago
I would say the modern state of surveillance capitalism is in a large part what rms warned about with proprietary systems being used against the user.
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by greymeister 8y ago
Just like rms, PETA and the ACLU do things I don't agree with, but philosophically, especially with FSF, EFF, and the ACLU, I think that their overall goal is one I agree with. No one has the time and attention to address everything, a
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by greymeister 8y ago
The only disagreement I have with his statements is that I think the Itanic and blind vendor buy-in is what sunk non-x86 processors. amd64 is what actually brought x86 ubiquity while ia64 never reached any relative market share.
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by greymeister 8y ago
Stop. Using. Chrome.
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by greymeister 8y ago
I would argue that e-mail has been used via phishing and other (419 scam) tricks to swindle more people out of their money than other technologies. Clearly it is a dangerous tool that must be restricted to select users.
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by greymeister 8y ago
jwz predicted it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y&t=53m36s
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by greymeister 8y ago
I find the methods listed on https://botsentinel.com/faq a bit confusing: "Q: How do you determine which accounts are classified as fake news? Classifying fake news accounts is a manual process. We review hundreds of t
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by greymeister 8y ago
... and yet another downside to Microsoft moving to Chromium.
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by greymeister 8y ago
> Who is defining progress that way? It seems to be defined as convenience by any means necessary.
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by greymeister 8y ago
Thanks for posting this. It's all too often people (like in this article) want to lean on bureaucracy and legislation to fix their problems as opposed to actually doing something about it. Not using Twitter and Facebook has a positiv
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by greymeister 8y ago
Cheat tables were removed from the cheat engine forums because Bethesda et al sent them a threatening letter claiming similar things to what Nintendo claimed in that case. I doubt that they could have actually won a case, but most don&#x27
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by greymeister 8y ago
> If it was a software system, it would have been rewritten decades ago. Like all of the software that runs power plants, defense systems, medical records? You make a good point, accidentally, that no, in fact most systems that become
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by greymeister 8y ago
> Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware. This is exactly the response for anyone that is frustrated by blocking ads impacting revenue for web publis
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by greymeister 8y ago
"I'm just curious. I saw you shuffling your checks with your right hand. Can you do that with both hands?"
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by greymeister 8y ago
I'm sure they have plenty of examples to go by, all they need to do is consult Yahoo, Google or any of the telecoms for good strategies. I guess on the plus side at least we know now that it is happening despite the lies the Federal go
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by greymeister 8y ago
Not at their current price point.
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by greymeister 8y ago
How long before they use the commerce clause as an excuse to kill California's law?
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by greymeister 8y ago
I have one of these as well. The trade offs of a smartphone aren't worth it any longer for me. Convenience comes with a cost.
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by greymeister 8y ago
And yet companies can completely ignore the voices of employees. This article presupposes that the employees are in a position to leverage leaving because they aren't pleased with how things are being done, and that the company cares
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by greymeister 8y ago
Go through 5+ year old bookmarks to find all of them dead, this will show how permanent books seem compared to digital publications. They truly are "time machines" for how temporal information is today.

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