GaryBluto

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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Regardless whether or not it was rhetorical, I found it off-putting, especially when the Amish (a far superior example of the point he is trying to convey) are mentioned in the same article.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
While I admire his commitment to his ideals, I find some of this veers into an uncomfortable fanaticism, especially the remarks praising the savage acts of violence committed by the Sentinelese (which I find particularly odd considering the
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
There might be a so-called "Year of the Linux Desktop", but it'd require Microsoft either doing something so disastrous that people cannot use Windows, or pivoting away from NT.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Very rarely, showdead on
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
You'd think it wouldn't be that hard for a client to automatically check if a file is what it claims to be after downloading.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
The day they would make Windows 2000 codebase open source (or source available) would be the day I could die happy (although I'd probably be long dead anyways by the time there's a glimmerof chance of it happening). What a beautif
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
It very much is.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Can I ask what the deal is with people saying anti-intellectual things and then finishing it with ", actually"? Where did this originate from from? Is it a shibboleth?
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
I'd never pay for, let alone use , a search engine* that has an official Discord group. * Kagi seems to just scrape and provide a mix of other search engine's results, meaning it's really just a metasearch engine.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260317211256fw_/https://www.in...
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Russia greatly benefits from political instability and turmoil in America and encouraging stuff like this is their modus operandi. I say this as somebody who very much dislikes the idea of Flock.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Illegally breaking Flock cameras makes you look like a conspiracy nut or radical to the average Joe and make them sceptical of any privacy movements by association.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Most of them offer their own paid storefronts and have a perverse incentive not to offer a large area full of free books.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
People won't ever learn. If anything, all this "Swift brick" malarky makes me mentally associate swifts and swift bricks in general, regardless of the situation, with eco-authoritarianism (even though it isn't the swifts
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
> us meat viruses I wonder what brings about this sort of reverse-chauvinist viewpoint? Humans are "nature" too, and we have just as much of a right to planet we live on. > The fact is you can't leave 'existing&#x
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
If there were tax incentives for this instead of it being mandatory I'd support it wholeheartedly, but the idea of people being forced to directly attract and accommodate animals to/on their property under threat of punishment is
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Perhaps some kind of auto-downranking system used for moderation of specific topics or thigns (without explicitly removing them) that accidentally targeted said post? Just idle speculation.
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Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data(bbc.co.uk)
18 points by GaryBluto 5mo ago|4 comments
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
I wonder how long it will be until those without smartphones will be completely forced out of the mainstream internet.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
> Have you seen RoboCop? Out of curiosity, why cite a 1980s action film?
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
> idea of private property (as in owning land and charging people rent for using it) is akin to slavery (owning people and extracting labor from them) Utter nonsense. Do you think eating fruit is akin to cannibalism because they both inv
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
> You can be much more expressive on discord, instantly jump into a call and screenshare, easily link people to other rooms, tag, import bots etc. Some would see those as negatives. > IRC kinda sucks compared to modern chat and they
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260507042014fw_/http://91.215....
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260507042014fw_/http://91.215.... Original now shows 404.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
If all you value is sub-IRC level irreverent discussion, maybe.
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Two player Tetris for VT-100 terminals on vintage Unix [video](youtube.com)
1 points by GaryBluto 5mo ago|0 comments
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
If you want to view dead comments, there is a showdead option on your account page.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Taste is subjective after all. I'd say it has a certain late 90s charm to it.
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Image for UK-based readers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaStation#/media/File:Sun_Mi...
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by GaryBluto 5mo ago
Have you used eBay in the last few years? It's awful for sellers and awful for buyers. This is coming from somebody who buys on eBay twice a month on average.

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