opine-at-random

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by opine-at-random 2y ago
The source said 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.
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by opine-at-random 2y ago
Cannot wait to leave my children with some rando with excess space whose alternative career prospects are flipping burger for $25/hr. /s
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by opine-at-random 3y ago
Why would it be so conspiratorial? These people are overwhelmingly responsible for the viciation of our world and societies, and claim the profits from it. An INT value only goes up to 2B, these people have orders of magnitude more money th
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by opine-at-random 3y ago
The beautiful thing about our late-stage world, is that the appropriate resources will be spent on testing and validation for those who can afford it, and literally every other creature on the planet will have to bear the externalities. Tru
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by opine-at-random 3y ago
I think the difference is that Windows is proprietary, parasitic hate-ware that warrants changing at any cost.. and x11 is libre software that works; with well supported workflows that aren't even on the agenda for wayland development.
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by opine-at-random 3y ago
I own a framework, and 3/4 of the ports are failing. I shilled this machine hard when I got it, but now I have dubious connections to my ext-monitor and my microphone. Sometimes when I'm moving files to-from my SSD I have intermi
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by opine-at-random 3y ago
Maybe doesn't make sense for the company. But there's many people involved for whom it must have been an extremely good decision to juice the VC funding quickly and at any expense. Better to have a few millions from a failed start
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by opine-at-random 3y ago
Luckily it comes at the mere additional cost of also parasitizing the essence of our activities and connections, both to our spaces and each other.
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by opine-at-random 4y ago
If you'd ever read even a single one of the licenses to the software I'm sure you use everyday, you'd understand. This is such an obvious and pathetic strawman. I notice often on hackernews that people don't seem to unde