morganvachon

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by morganvachon 4y ago
As mentioned above that's apparently a parody account that fooled me. His real Twitter shows he's still the raging bigot he always was.
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by morganvachon 4y ago
I've seen that and I believe he felt he had to do so to maintain his readership after being called out for his bigotry so often of late. I for one don't believe he's changed at all, but I don't personally know the guy so
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by morganvachon 4y ago
It's not, but people should be aware of where they get their news sources.
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by morganvachon 4y ago
I'm honestly surprised that someone on Ladyada's staff would link to an article by the highly transphobic and racist Bryan Lunduke. As recently as March of this year he was deliberately deadnaming and misgendering a prominent Elem
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by morganvachon 4y ago
This is disingenuous at best. The browser itself is open source but show me the source for your data collection servers and crypto scheme servers. What's that? It's not open source? Imagine that!
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by morganvachon 4y ago
I appreciate the attempt to explain your company's bad behavior, but I'm not convinced. And to be fair, you're not alone in making mistakes in the arena of privacy and security; all the major browsers have privacy-averse sett
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by morganvachon 4y ago
> or a privacy-focused company is snooping on your devices to steal your personal info (so they can send you mailers?) I never said that. I don't want Brave on my devices due to their past bad behavior: lying, stealing money from
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Here's the fun thing: I have opted out of blind mailers from the USPS, yet I got one of these Brave mailers last week with my name on it (I'm in the Atlanta area). Just one more reason of many for me to never, ever let Brave nea
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by morganvachon 4y ago
I guess I'm really old school but I just have a spreadsheet for my budgeting, with formulas and charts I've written and maintained over the last 25 years. It's gone from old Microsoft formats (xls/xlsx) to ODS, to Gnumer
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by morganvachon 4y ago
The difference is that this unit does the AC-DC conversion inside itself, whereas your DC-DC power supply relies on an external AC-DC brick that is likely the same size as this entire self contained unit, if not larger.
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Except the M1 Air and 13 inch M1 Pro reverted to left side only (the new models with M1 Pro/Max chips have an extra USB-C on the opposite side). It's my only real gripe with the M1 laptops compared to older Intel Macs. Of course,
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by morganvachon 4y ago
I'm not saying you shouldn't give up Google services; I did. I'm just saying the unfortunate reality is that you'll never fully escape them.
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by morganvachon 4y ago
I agree wholeheartedly in principle, but the reality is that it's nearly impossible to escape Google getting their hands on yours and your correspondents' messages at some point. So many businesses (and third party email providers
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Thanks for the info. I wonder if, now or at some point in the past, Klarna had mandatory customer DOB as opt-out rather than opt-in for a default card processing setup on the merchant facing side, and many small businesses in my experience
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Or, as with anything else privacy related, outside of intellectual bubbles like HN the vast majority of people don't think twice about giving up unnecessary PII to a payment processor because they naively think the entity won't se
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by morganvachon 4y ago
This is fine for you and your use case, but some of us (as pointed out in the article) are forced to stay with BIOS either due to owning legacy hardware that is still fully functional and even necessary, or because we use VMs and/or ho
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by morganvachon 4y ago
It seems that way. I did a very simple one: "A car ran a stop sign in front of me and I flipped them the bird." I got one NTA: "They shouldn't have run the stop sign!", and one YTA: "You shouldn't flip som
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Slightly off-topic (sorry!) but have you considered testing/porting to the BSDs, especially since you have a macOS port? I'm particularly interested in an OpenBSD port. I may try cloning the repo and building it myself; SDL2 and C
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by morganvachon 4y ago
SecureBoot was as much an attempt by Microsoft to put in place a method to lock out other OSes as it was for local physical security. Most consumer desktop and laptop computer users don't password protect their BIOS/EFI, so an att
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by morganvachon 4y ago
And for those of us who aren't wealthy enough to have two different attorneys on retainer, giving your spouse the encrypted password store along with the key to a safety deposit box containing the decryption key would have to do. Perso
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Acorn is probably the closest we'll get to a native macOS app that is analogous to Paint.NET from the Windows world, and it's worth the money if one is a Paint.NET cult member. Pinta (open source Paint.NET clone) is available for
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Agreed, it even runs on OpenBSD! It's as close as we'll ever get to a spiritual successor to the original two games. Deadly Shadows (the third game) was terrible compared to the first two, and we don't speak of the 2014 reboo
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by morganvachon 4y ago
This was exactly me and my girlfriend at the time (still good friends today). We were obsessed with the game, we both beat it several times then explored the world of custom missions. I think our mutual favorite was "Hush Hush, Sweet H
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by morganvachon 4y ago
I'm pretty sure OP meant the original (first) release for IBM PC , which happened in 1981. I'm not sure if you're being naively pedantic or intentionally obtuse here.
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Same. Several years ago I was a happy Plex user, but our Internet got knocked offline and we wanted to watch some local content, no dice. I canceled my Plex Pass sub as soon as I had Internet again. I use Emby now which offers pretty much t
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Unless you rely on systemd , try Void Linux. It has a sane package manager and a very active, friendly community. It requires a little legwork to get to the same polish as Ubuntu and other consumer-oriented distros, but it is rock solid an
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by morganvachon 4y ago
I agree with your position but that's a bad analogy (as most analogies are). With your computer you can choose to uninstall and no longer use VSCode. You can't choose your neighbor and you can't force him to move away to prev
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Russian citizens != Russian government. The Telegram development team is not on good terms with the Russian government last I read. With that said, it still operates within the borders so it's subject to government control (just as any
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by morganvachon 4y ago
Too late to edit now unfortunately. I had tried to word it so it wasn't spoilery, I guess I failed on that.
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by morganvachon 4y ago
This is one of the few movies of the last two decades that brought me to tears at the reveal towards the end. Once it hits you, you'll look back at the entire movie in a different mindset and it's emotionally jarring. It also help

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