techslave

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by techslave 6y ago
that’s revisionist. usenet was already dead. google extended its life, in fact.
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by techslave 6y ago
why would you need a usenet similar service? usenet still exists and the barrier is, as you say, high enough.
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by techslave 6y ago
I don’t see a problem with it. It says more about the comment author than it does about the article. If he (commenter) wants to out himself as a knowitallogist, so be it?
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by techslave 6y ago
> Advertisers shouldn't know what I like, they should only know that a certain device with a certain ID likes X,Y topics. That is in fact what advertisers know. It’s the aggregators that know who you are, not the advertisers.
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by techslave 6y ago
thought this would be useless griping of sonos that has existed for years now. no, this is new and valuable information. glad i got rid of sonos long ago.
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by techslave 6y ago
well known. only use domains.google (for searching).
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by techslave 6y ago
> they'd have to give them their FCM credentials, which is a no-no. trivially addressed via a proxy, which you’d want anyway to properly monetize it
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by techslave 6y ago
casual culture talk with 2 people, then a 2-5 day contract. only works for out of work candidates of course.
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Rich people leave, artists and queerdos return(theguardian.com)
2 points by techslave 6y ago|0 comments
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by techslave 6y ago
yeah well you’re not being persecuted. for many it may as well be the 12th century or whatever
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by techslave 6y ago
gmail burns addresses forever. no one else will get it if you close it.
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by techslave 6y ago
i owned root@pobox.com for many years before they realized they shouldn’t have allowed that to be registered. that was fun.
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by techslave 6y ago
muy interensante. we often theorize about / present a threat model of an insider becoming malicious in exactly this way. rare that we hear of it actually occurring. the number used in such threat modeling scenarios is typically $1MM.
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by techslave 6y ago
i think this deserves a nitpick. when we say “makes” wrt a person, it means their gross salary/income. here, it refers to revenue. that’s misleading.
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by techslave 6y ago
yes funny but why would they call it that. jamon murica
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by techslave 6y ago
> It should be noted that San Francisco had an unusually low inventory relative to other large cities prior to the pandemic. Historically, the ratio of homes for sale relative to total housing has been a quarter of what New York's w
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by techslave 6y ago
I detest uber. yet AB5 is an abomination, an embarrassment. sad
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by techslave 6y ago
what is wrong? it costs money to pick up anything. equipment fuel salaries workman’s comp etc. thieves don’t have such costs.
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by techslave 6y ago
just? sales is the more important part of a for profit company you know.
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by techslave 6y ago
exactly. it’s not so much craven as it is purely capitalistic. one should not be surprised. i think it’s fine. i welcome it even. it’s better to be beholden to capital than to the political whims of the day. (not in general, just for an ind
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by techslave 6y ago
even the AS/400 didn’t require power down. this is actually so ancient it’s hard to find docs. here’s something from 1976. (the report is 1990 but the hardwares dates to ‘76). https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tan
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by techslave 6y ago
> when people complain that Google was showing them ads for inappropriate products or what not and Google would investigate and track down the front doing the injecting google listens to complaints? i suspect they discover these things i
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by techslave 6y ago
> a novelty not a novelty. the true bigiron vendors (not sun) had been doing this for decades. mainframe reliability puts the upstart unix systems to shame.
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by techslave 6y ago
you don’t think google has changed the world??
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by techslave 6y ago
i hope you left before the 2nd week!
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by techslave 6y ago
> It's recommended (and much easier) to share access to a folder instead of individual files. It’s not. folders don’t actually exist in google drive. files are shared individually. there’s a very complex interaction between imaginar
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by techslave 6y ago
it’s official. substack is the new medium. a platform mostly for worthless “expert” opinion.
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by techslave 6y ago
the tone may have been moderate, but the message is smug. otoh it’s just marketing, and CF is no stranger to it, so i think it’s fair.
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by techslave 6y ago
how to abruptly exit twitter: quit
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by techslave 6y ago
clunky and annoying compared to what? they are the best i’ve seen and quite good. if there’s something better please share. i would love to know about it. comments in spreadsheets stink but everything else is pretty great. ok one more flaw.

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