TheRealDunkirk

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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
When Intel proposed the CPUID in the Pentium III, everyone panicked. I felt confident that, if there were nefarious things happening at that level, people would have figured it out. After many months of hand-wringing in the tech spaces of t
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I stand corrected.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
It amazes me that Indiana University, under Bob Knight, was so underrepresented in the NBA. It's all anyone in Indiana could talk about in the 80's and 90's, but they only ever produced one guy (that I know of) who made it to
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> This is really normal for most small companies with good security posture, honestly. The company will pick one platform where endpoint management is functional, and require it. Code and secrets can't live on machines without endpo
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> Being grateful even for the losses that have brought the most sorrow, the two things at the very same time, has ripped me apart, but it's also been the only way through. Whether or not you express this sentiment as a Christian, th
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
"You pass butter."
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
So do you, who exercise the full force of your voting power, feel like you have any influence over our country's use of surveillance powers? Any influence over the power to regulate investment banks and private equity from destroying
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
The number of things that I should be concerned about is exactly 100% greater than the number of things over which I have any influence , so please excuse me if I refuse to care. I have ONE ballot to cast every FOUR years, and the only
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Boy, they got you good! There's no such thing as "deregulation." There's only rearranging regulation to protect the incumbents against competitors which would try to arise in an actual capitalistic system.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
https://www.tiktok.com/@cancelthisclothingcos/video/73067268... TL;DW: Blackrock now has a seat at the table.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Thanks for reminding me that I needed to cancel my account. I should have done it years ago when they announced they were being bought out by private equity, and before the inevitable security breaches. Oh well, better late than never, I
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
It's crazy to me that so much effort is being expended pretending that companies and the government are doing anything in the name of privacy, when we have all the proof by Assange and Snowden that they're doing realtime surveilla
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
The product/company feels like the natural progression of the whole Oracle/Java/JS/SAML schtick, and has become the de facto when dealing with the kinds of people who base their whole company's IT personality on tha
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Why do so many people on this forum have kittens whenever someone points to a success story about Rails and Ruby? It's like the hamburger people can't stand it when someone enjoys a plain hotdog with ketchup and mustard. It's
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I love it. Apologies if you didn't mean it this way, but given the usual context of this forum, the insinuation here is so clever: Imply that it takes significantly more "compute" costs for a Rails platform, as opposed to w
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
This feels like a move to be more like Rails, and I'm there for it. The problem with Microsoft is that, every time I think, hey, this new thing might be useful for such-and-such kind of app or problem, by the time I get around to tryin
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Indeed. Also, kudos to Chris Oliver for taking up the mantle. https://github.com/excid3
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I bought a Sony Dual Sense EDGE controller for playing Steam games under Windows, and it's been AWESOME. Pricey, but AWESOME. I have a PS5, and used it to program a custom profile with the back paddles, but the build quality, weight, a
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> Shifting the revenue to a franchise model seems like it solves the majority of their lease issues, and still lets them be useful, even in smaller markets. The beauty of this idea is that they could make some money while all of this set
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
And in a foreign language.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
So many people so concerned about CO2 emissions from computing devices... all the way down to Microsoft setting the default timeout for Bluetooth on Windows 11 to ONE MINUTE. It took me 2 weeks of hair pulling and updating everything before
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
People want me to believe that Microsoft is "new," when people like Phil Spencer have been there since the start, and worked up to things like being the head of Xbox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spencer
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> I started a new account recently (hadn’t used my old one in years), and doing so now got me just about zero attention. I got zero followers from comments, posts I made, following others, etc. It was like shouting in an empty room. Same
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> I just hope they don't get killed by acquisition. Private equity in the US has collectively determined that no company shall exist outside of investment ownership. I don't know what the ownership structure looks like, but gen
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
"Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, and fuck you, I'm out!"
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I use Windows (personally) only to play one game, which I hear runs under Proton. One day soon, I'm going to try setting it up. When I was in 4th grade, I didn't understand the line in Star Wars, "The more you tighten your gr
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
They should break it up by year. I've had it all downloaded and installed and working in several ways over the years, but I only really care about stuff released before, say, 2000.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> We've been harassed by the same scammer that placed 7 fake DMCA over the past 2 weeks and Shopify automatically removes you content with zero check. So much for " The e-commerce platform typically receives thousands of takedo
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Seems that most people in this country really do fall into the "temporarily inconvenienced millionaire" category, who favor no rules or regulations for how big corporations can get, or how many business lines they can own under on
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
It's a self-contained lesson in corporation taxation, I suppose.

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