Torgo

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by Torgo 8y ago
"Family planning" was always a lie. It was always about illegal acts rebranded. Illegal birth control. Illegal abortions. etc
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by Torgo 8y ago
I believe that is a reference to the movie "Hackers"
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by Torgo 8y ago
I ran into this just the other day, Autopsy, a digital forensics application ( https://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/ ), requires Oracle JRE and wouldn't even start with OpenJDK when I tried it.
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by Torgo 8y ago
A ton of people _hate_ crossposting accounts.
35.
by Torgo 8y ago
To cite the XKCD comic, Tim was being an asshole and Google showed him the door.
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by Torgo 8y ago
How old are you? By 1983 "hacker" already had negative connotations. >vintage coder woops, my apologies, carry on.
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by Torgo 8y ago
Contrast ratio is an accessibility issue. One of these things is not like the other.
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by Torgo 8y ago
Ants farm aphids.
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by Torgo 8y ago
OStatus (the original Fediverse protocol) literally already had this, it just didn't have the developer excitement to keep the ball rolling.
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by Torgo 8y ago
However the surveillance state still has: gait-recognition, shoe-recognition, and clothing-recognition.
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by Torgo 8y ago
Mask laws were in place in some areas with a historic Ku Klux Klan presence.
42.
by Torgo 8y ago
mastodon is only federated microblogging. The Solid webpage suggests address and contact management, file sharing, article publication and web annotation.
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by Torgo 8y ago
WordPress, and its menagerie of terrible plugins.
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by Torgo 8y ago
I am certain that, unlike 100 years ago, the fear isn't that Asians are crowding out white males; but that they are crowding out other minority groups. That is an entirely different motivation than anti-Semitism.
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by Torgo 8y ago
Used to enjoy it recreationally a decade ago at age ~30. Now it makes me paranoid, more depressed, lethargic, and definitely dumber if I partake. So I don't anymore.
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by Torgo 8y ago
These days, the witch is a Russian troll, an alt-reicher, maybe a closet "bro", or heaven forbid, a g@merg00ber.
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by Torgo 8y ago
It took a lot of effort to get Twitter to acknowledge that these mock death threats are a form of abuse.
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by Torgo 8y ago
When I have enough free time to block out, I'll be trying Secure Scuttlebutt/Patchwork, maybe will write a blog entry about the experience. Looks interesting.
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by Torgo 8y ago
This is very handy, already started using, thanks!
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by Torgo 8y ago
It's not getting mainstream yet. It's filling niches made up of people unhappy with twitter, interestingly both people who think Twitter moderates too much, and people who think it doesn't moderate enough. Letting people run
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by Torgo 8y ago
Part of the problem is that Mastodon doesn't have, and apparently the BDFL won't implement, a built-in way of a remote server telling you that your server is blocked (either as a sender or recipient of a message.) Which is really
52.
by Torgo 8y ago
The weekend would be over and we would still be arguing about what language to use.
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by Torgo 8y ago
Worst experiences for me have been Oracle Software Configuration Manager and IBM Clearcase.
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by Torgo 9y ago
We have a 1999 VA Linux box still "in production" (just to see how long it will go, at this point. Nothing mission-critical.)
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by Torgo 9y ago
It's good to have one or two people in your project community that are willing to help people that don't have much experience at the type of problem-solving and methodical thought that fixing code requires. I am not the most knowl
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by Torgo 9y ago
New York was putting metal detectors into schools in the 1980's. They were for gangs, but I guess a school shooting is a school shooting.
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by Torgo 9y ago
"The worldwide attention given to the firehawks article provides an opportunity to explore the double standard that exists concerning the acceptance of Traditional Knowledge by practitioners of Western science." I'm not losin
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by Torgo 9y ago
I have been able to do it by acquiring a Windows 10 install CD, booting from it, and doing an upgrade.
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by Torgo 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_King... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-act...
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by Torgo 9y ago
It wasn't that long ago that they had a censorship office that prevented import of pornography based on various criteria.

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