alex1138

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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   "Before FreeBSD can render a graphical environment, it needs a kernel module to drive the graphics processor. Graphics drivers are a fast-moving, cross-platform target, which is why this is developed and distributed separately from the
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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   I know this is the noob perspective but they should try (yes, I'm already aware of GhostBSD) to make getting into the desktop a little bit easier, it can be very hard to bootstrap anything and learn if you're new to it
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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   To the downvoter: that's a direct quote from SWW's book
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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   However, I think the Spanish can certainly be blamed Some incredibly harrowing stories in Wade Davis's One River There is also a chance some of the disease giving unto the native americans was by accident, not intentional
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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   "Andrew Jackson is the US's best president and it's not even close" - MZ
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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   But the thing is I thought GDPR incorporated a scaling thing The pressure to comply I thought was less with smaller corps
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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   Yeah, I know. I'd just heard rumblings GDPR has flaws but considering how predatory corporations are I'm very willing to give it the old college try
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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   So is GDPR the "good" part of it and we should just reject Chat Control? Or is GDPR also some sort of trojan horse that sounds great, but has downsides
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   by alex1138 11mo ago

   This is HN, you're supposed to say "is anyone surprised" and sprinkle in the word Nothingburger and other naval gazing platitudes I'm sure I can think of
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    I meant demonetization of other things outside of covid too, not just that
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    Many of you absolutely do not deserve the power of downvotes I pray you don't work for FAANG and have your thumbs on the scales and I stand by everything I said
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    And everything to do with covid https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html https://rumble.com/v28x6zk-sasha-latypova-msc.-nsa-team-enig... (and so on; many other links) I don't understand
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    I used to lurk the Google forums (they even changed the goddamn format of the forums now to where clicking things is tedious and I'm sure it's 100% intentional) and going back years with Google and also I suspect Youtube it was fu
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    Forbes literally did this. Guys, please disable your adblockers People disable adblockers Malware!
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    Youtube's censorship is one reason I won't pay for it. Rumble is a legitimate site even as people decry its existence (it would be less necessary if Youtube didn't decide on being the world's opinion police)
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    I know people are attracted to the code aspect ("it's how I learned html") and that's great but it's also a fabulous world (says I, an absolute noob and not good at any of it) and fairly hard to boot, in its difficu
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    Ivermectin has scientific evidence behind it. But I can't say that without accruing downvotes, I suppose
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    "Social media harm" sounds like one of these nebulous things which has no real definition "Social media was a mistake, just like the internet" oh ok so we should just give up our gmails and reddits and everything because
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    I'm with you. They should all be prosecuted the hell out of
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    https://www.amazon.com/Libra-Shrugged-Facebook-Tried-Money-e...
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    Sure, but people have the right to ask questions, as for example Zuck's pledge to give away 99% which people pointed out might be a tax avoidance scheme The retort was essentially "Can't you just be nice?" but people hav
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    I like what Kagi does which is just using the nuclear option of "Look - if you fill your website with crap we're not going to index you" That said, Google stripped away +must +include +terms from their searches so I do blame
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    The security vuln is that it's owned by a bad faith actor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662215 I get this is snarky and it being HN I'll now c
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVG5V7FzB_Q
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    "Winklevoss twins are assholes [but I have nothing substantive to say against their claim of product theft]" - LS
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    Yeah but objects in mirror are closer than they appear
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    The comment I've heard is that Office (or was that Word?) doesn't necessarily beat LO, some people are just forced to use it because of file formats
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    by alex1138 11mo ago

    That Simpsons meme with Principal Skinner where it's like "Could it be that going against the user on every single step and every single product isn't good for the longterm health of my company? No. It's the users who ar
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    by alex1138 1y ago

    > You know exactly which one I’m talking about. No, I don't. Please elaborate (in great detail) :D