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by lkd 12y ago
Correct. According to SJWs, straight white men are guilty until they're proven innocent, and even afterwards, they're still guilty somehow.
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by lkd 12y ago
You can never please SJWs, no matter how much you bend backwards. They'll always find something to complain about. That's the meaning of their entire existence. That's what you're missing.
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by lkd 12y ago
So they were leeching money and resources from GitHub, and using them in a sexist manner, and they're not going to do that anymore? That'll show 'em!
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by lkd 12y ago
> Despite Microsoft’s purchase of Skype, Messenger is still going today, a little Methuselah wandering in the Microsoft product mausoleum. Not exactly. Messenger has been End-of-Lifed except on Windows 2000 (in all territories) and in Ch
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by lkd 12y ago
It is technically possible to block the IP ranges of reading/caching web apps, as well as refusing to show content to readers blocking ads, but few providers bother. Neither usage scenario is practiced widely enough to significantly im
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by lkd 12y ago
You can do the same thing for free with various browser extensions, of course, but then again, you can filter ads with browser extensions, too, and that's the only or major benefit that a lot of sites offer you as a reward for subscrib
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by lkd 12y ago
It serves a technical purpose just as much as their ego. It makes it possible to search for someone with a specific make and/or model of product in order to ask for help or recommendations, or gauge someone's expertise/senior
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by lkd 12y ago
I like the open source angle. Good differentiator.
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by lkd 12y ago
The "magic" explanation doesn't satisfy me. Any physicists in the crowd who can explain why rotating the film 90 degrees creates a negative display?
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by lkd 12y ago
I very much doubt that any business except the smallest mom-and-pop store could run entirely on Chromebooks. Certainly no IT business could run on them.
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by lkd 12y ago
So use a feature phone. They still make them by the billions.
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by lkd 12y ago
sidereel.com is one of the oldest web apps with this feature.
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by lkd 12y ago
This doesn't explain identical behavior by all later devs. The most reasonable explanation is a common cause.
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by lkd 12y ago
You're overestimating TorrentFreak's commitment to investigative journalism.
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by lkd 12y ago
Heartbeats are not logged on a standard configuration, so if people other than the confirmed parties independently discovered the vulnerability, told nobody (or at least nobody who would tell anybody), and then exploited it on systems where
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by lkd 12y ago
The claim of Ada Lovelace being the first programmer rubs me the wrong way. Obviously, Babbage would know how to program his own computer. He designed the damn thing.
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by lkd 12y ago
This is not claiming to be a complete list of who knew what when. It is only a list of confirmed cases.
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by lkd 12y ago
Or they straight out lied. Wouldn't be the first time.
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by lkd 12y ago
As a counterpoint (and believe me, I take no pleasure in defending Jobs here) it would probably have been illegal to ban donut sales only to the obese.
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by lkd 12y ago
He paid attention, just the wrong kind of attention -- crackpot cuckoo crazy alternative medicine attention. If he had received the recommended surgery immediately upon the initial diagnosis, he very likely would still have been alive.
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by lkd 12y ago
Self-signed certs are OK in every scenario that HTTP would be OK, and then some.
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by lkd 12y ago
It's more than a decade old. Not exactly news.
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by lkd 12y ago
My favorite is 42 Goals.
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by lkd 12y ago
If this is meant primarily against Turkish censorship (assumption motivated by the Turkish translation on the site) you should know that Turkey bans more than 40 thousand websites. Twitter and YouTube have just been two recent high profile