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by apostacy 8y ago
Twitter enshrines the most vile antisemitism out there[1]. Right after the Pittsburgh shooting, Twitter reviewed Farrakhan's comments where he called Jews "termites", and gave him the all clear. What makes Twitter far worse t
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by apostacy 8y ago
It's a bit more than that. The top decision makers at Visa and Mastercard have been threatening anyone who does business with certain people. That's where this is coming from. And if you aren't terrified of that you damn well
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by apostacy 8y ago
These are not merely service providers. They are de-facto utilities. Just because Verizon does not like your politics, does not mean they can cut you off from their services. Same with Wells Fargo denying you a checking account (although th
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by apostacy 8y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about. Unless we live in a 100% free market, then what you are saying is totally invalid. We actually ARE forced to use the established banks and payment processors, we have no choice. The government pr
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by apostacy 8y ago
That's awful. Of course the pattern repeats: Apple deprecates something that shouldn't be deprecated, and offers a barely adequate replacement. Competitors copy Apple and also deprecate the feature, but their replacements are even
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by apostacy 8y ago
Google is well aware of the spyware that the Chinese govt is using to oppress it's ethnic minorities, but they don't lift a finger to thwart it. They don't blacklist the app that the government requires Muslims in Xinjiang to
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by apostacy 8y ago
Another "courageous" thing that Apple did was release a computer in 1983 without any fans, which was extremely heavy because it had a giant heat sink, and would still overheat constantly.[1] And yes, this was apparently Steve Job&
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by apostacy 8y ago
This is a very PC-centric way of looking at things. The 68K processors did not have a concept of protected mode. It just had user mode and supervisor mode[1] [1]: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2784&
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by apostacy 8y ago
> No one is transforming England into Pakistan. That is a false characterization. London now has acid attacks almost twice a day now [1]. This NEVER used to happen anywhere in Europe, only Pakistan and some other Muslim countries. Why is
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by apostacy 8y ago
> You're being absurd. It's picking fruit, not working in a sweatshop. People from other countries want to do it. Who are you to tell them that they can't? > As long as the immigrant workers have the same rights and wor
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by apostacy 8y ago
It is sickening that there are people from less developed countries that are so desperate that they will work in conditions that our citizens would otherwise find intolerable. You think this is a good thing?? We should be paying our own cit
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by apostacy 8y ago
> Put another way, no one wants to be the next Japan. Capable but ultimately stagnant. Huh? I would LOVE to be the next Japan, as opposed to the next South Africa, Israel, India, Philippines, or Brazil. Because with the massive demograph
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by apostacy 8y ago
I remember on Deep Freeze for Windows, I was able to find the password in plaintext by searching win386.swp for the deepfreeze copyright string.
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by apostacy 8y ago
> This is part of the reason why Flash used to be popular with companies. I would happily go back to flash. However bad flash was, it was at least external to the browser. I could turn it off globally and things would get much lighter an
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by apostacy 8y ago
I am so saddened by how much we trust Google. I wish we regarded Google software with more suspicion. Would people have been nearly as upset if it had been Google that acquired GitHub? I miss the days of being suspicious of Microsoft. But M
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by apostacy 8y ago
Regardless of user count, adopting EME was a terrible move for Firefox. Does this mean that whatever terrible idea corporations push, Firefox must adopt? I'm glad that Firefox used to simply not implement things that were not a good id
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by apostacy 8y ago
It could be argued that private companies censoring you violates your first amendment rights. And it probably will be decided by the supreme court in the next few years. Free speech is a concept, not just the bare letter of the text of the
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by apostacy 8y ago
> This is just ahistorical politics and jingoism under pretense of some greater cause. When China was making its great leap forward entire groups of minorities were segregated in the US and were fighting for their basic rights and conti
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by apostacy 8y ago
When you present it that way, it sounds absolutely reasonable. But this is almost exactly what Trump says in his speeches. He doesn't hate China, he understands why they are doing what they're doing. But now it is time for us to s
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by apostacy 8y ago
I don't know why anyone is surprised by this. Apple has a long history of getting touchy-feely with our computers. I can't count the number of times Apple has burned me. Going back over a decade, with the iTunes 4.01 "upgrade
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by apostacy 8y ago
I hate to be negative, but that will never happen with the current leadership at Mozilla. They are simply no longer willing to disrupt the status quo, even to help their users. They are far more motivated to be "popular", and have
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by apostacy 8y ago
This morning when I was reading the thread about how Google wants to kill the URL, nobody was seeing the more sinister implications at all. I couldn't pay a parking ticket I got a few days ago because I needed to download a half gigaby
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by apostacy 8y ago
Even if Jeong is 100% not guilty, it is still distressing that her employer applied a completely different standard to her than to Quinn Norton. Or frankly, almost anyone else. People have their careers ruined because old tweets of theirs a
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by apostacy 8y ago
The thing I found most troubling, was that the NYT fired the far more qualified Quinn Norton (Aaron Schwartz girlfriend) only 7 hours after hiring her! Nothing Norton said was on the same level as Jeong. I would call Norton's offensive
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by apostacy 8y ago
This is a case of the Streisand Effect[1] in action. If anyone is really curious, it is called Source-SnapChat and it is all over Github. Github is going to have to mass delete these mirrors, and prevent anyone from re-commiting it anywhere
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by apostacy 8y ago
We are talking about the RSS reader. How many extra megabytes do you think it will add to the download?
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by apostacy 8y ago
I do not believe that it is too expensive to Mozilla to support RSS. If you had to quantify the cost in a dollar amount, it would probably be far less than the money that they spend on single one of their promotional events.
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by apostacy 8y ago
You're right, they did have to make some compromises. But they also stood firm against some of the more egregious standards that Microsoft were trying to push. Of course if Mozilla back then were like it is today, they would have been
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by apostacy 8y ago
> "audience" What "audience"? Why are you using that nomenclature? This is not an entertainment product, nor is it for-profit software. So why do you care about building an audience and a brand? How about instead we m
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by apostacy 8y ago
> What's your point? do you think mozilla should continue including un-used features[?] YES. Yes even if not a single person uses it. If it makes sense and might be useful, and especially if it is already there, then it should stay.

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