Torgo

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by Torgo 10y ago
If they were using S-video in 1990, they were either converting to s-video from composite which would negate the benefit of s-video, or they were using a playchoice-10 arcade unit and converting the RGB to s-video, in which case the pixels
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by Torgo 10y ago
Why is anything "hate" speech?
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by Torgo 10y ago
These are great questions, but in the end they are ones that the left didn't bother to ask when they dropped a principled support of the first amendment for "hate speech" as intimidation, in particular on college campuses as
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by Torgo 10y ago
The entire Michelle Fields thing was coordinated attack bullshit that sites like Vox and Mother Jones swallowed uncritically, one might even call it this "fake news" everybody is talking about.
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by Torgo 10y ago
No, it doesn't appear to implement any of OStatus.
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by Torgo 10y ago
>running GNU social Sorry to be pedantic, but it's implementing OStatus standard.
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by Torgo 10y ago
I too thought it was cool that all occupy wall street protests were de facto illegal because there was no public property to protest from anywhere even close to wall street.
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by Torgo 10y ago
The "your mean speech makes others unhappy and less likely to speak freely" is not new, one of the great things about American-style free speech is that it protects against the weaponization of offense, and limits damage of moral
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by Torgo 10y ago
This is a big reason why nobody should do it, regardless of how "righteous" their outrage is. It ends up hurting uninvolved people.
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by Torgo 10y ago
They've dove into routinely-circulated Internet politics new items for a while now. Personally I don't care for it. I can't tell if they know they are doing this or not, but they'll take a circulated story, and then out
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by Torgo 10y ago
>arguments from scientific validity always trump arguments from incentives The science is settled, human behavior is heavily influenced by incentive. Including the practice of science.
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by Torgo 10y ago
McKesson chose to interpret it as an open death threat, it obviously wasn't but nobody was going to call him on it, and it got Johnson booted off Twitter. I see your point, but that wasn't how McKesson and his fans used it. Regard
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by Torgo 10y ago
These days he seems to actually be pretty careful about not crossing the line. But one day someone will be annoyed enough to suspend him anyway.
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by Torgo 10y ago
Look into why Charles Johnson was banned. They took a statement he made that obviously meant "I am going to write a news story about this person that will be very bad for them" and tortured it into a death threat, and banned him f
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by Torgo 10y ago
what is the point of this. When one says he doesn't have much of an ideology, they mean he's not operating with a battleship of ideology like Marxism. He's not running events through a historical realism filter (and throwing
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by Torgo 10y ago
A bunch of black people are saying "this is racist" so step one is taking what they say seriously and considering their point of view. Beyond that: for many people, youth or juvenile crime is considered a failure by society, and l
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by Torgo 10y ago
Check to see how many "local" newspapers are owned by Advance Publications or Gannett.
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by Torgo 10y ago
GNU Social is the seventh level of usability hell.
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by Torgo 10y ago
Proprietary services don't even federate with each other so why hold free software products to a higher standard? The problem isn't that they can't (often the free tools can federate with each other, which is more than the pr
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by Torgo 10y ago
As far as I can tell, the biggest users of IRC in this fashion have been malware and bitcoin (I think bitcoin daemon finally removed this method of peer discovery.)
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by Torgo 10y ago
No that's basically exactly what I mean. If you really care about the environment you'll reduce consumption. If you sort of feel bad about the environment, you'll sort your trash but keep buying mountains of throwaway product
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by Torgo 10y ago
other than being post-scarcity, I'd say recycling is literally almost this. it's not actually all that valuable as an activity and functions more as penance for the sin of consumerism.
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by Torgo 10y ago
It feels like everybody has pretty much forgotten about, or at least gotten over the emotional impact of the deepwater horizon oil spill despite it being one of the largest manmade ecological disasters in history. brushing it under the rug
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by Torgo 10y ago
only point here is it was it was explicitly created for getting back an xml document (by microsoft, outside of any standards body, no less) while 99% of the time it's returning text or json, and in a web worker this XML tool literally
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by Torgo 10y ago
I think about this when I am using XMLHttpRequest in a web worker, and can't actually get an XML document back because you don't have access to an xml parser because there's no dom in web workers.
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by Torgo 10y ago
This is basically where I am. I have a VPN appliance I have to maintain. It's a manual process to update the certificate. Just about everything else I use runs LetsEncrypt, but this VPN box has a nine dollar cert from Namecheap because
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by Torgo 10y ago
Logo submissions are good for community morale, in my opinion.
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by Torgo 10y ago
I don't really see Facebook waning, but it did effectively disprove that removing anonymity reduces bullying. I maintain a minimal presence there and most of the time report mobbing and harassment and I've never had anything remov
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by Torgo 10y ago
When I "discovered" systemd-nspawn, I kept thinking "why aren't people using this? This is easier to understand in every way."
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by Torgo 10y ago
cool story but facebook and twitter aren't actually private since they have open registration.

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