bacchusracine

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by bacchusracine 2y ago
>If you don't use GNOME, why is this interesting to you anyway? GTK?
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Man I really miss Litestep at times.
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>>Yeah, that's why we have school shootings every day in Europe and Australia. Oh wait, we don't. Banning might not work well for some things, but this can totally be banned. Sure, now let's talk about knife wounding an
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Oh? I thought you may have been thinking of the 1993 book by Paul Carroll, Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM which is where I know it from. It gets mentioned on page 103.
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
And isn't it interesting how the other half of the discussion was dominated by discussion of a specific fitness membership? I think these companies have gotten wise to the Streisand effect and no longer try to block discussion, they ju
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
But will these run Linux, run AI stuff the way the Apple Silicon seems to be able to do? Because right now I'm looking to save up for a majorly spec'd Apple MacbookPro just to be able to do this stuff on a *nix operating system.
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
I like how the excerpt carefully doesn't mention how the whole experience made her suicidal from dealing with the general apathy and misandry men deal with on a daily basis. From what I remember reading about the whole experiment, it s
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
How about a link people can actually read? https://archive.li/69gz9
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Yeah, without context this makes no sense to post. Almost feels like karma farming from that certain other website.
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>>The ingredients are red dye No. 3, potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil and propylparaben. The restriction would begin in 2027. There. Saved everyone a click.
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Maybe if Martin would quit playing with Asterisk trophies and politics and actually finish Game of Thrones people wouldn't be so keen to have an AI write prequels and sequels....
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>an odd choice to go after Google since they have world class lawyers Steve Dallas lawsuit?
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>As far as I can tell, they had the piracy locked down perfectly .. You must not have been looking in the right places. As far as I know all their shows made appearances in places where they could be downloaded. It just wasn't compe
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Reminder: Adblocking is considered an extremist activity. https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSVUwlTGIywV... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akeRz7ouICQ
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>The teams are different. Do the teams really matter that much when we're talking about dementia patients with access to a button that pretty much kills the world?
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>Cold War Kid here. This is cute. Y'all now just figuring out the nuclear apocalypse is only ever minutes away? I grew up with this shit being shoved in my face every single day. Yeah. This is definitely an 'everything old is
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>You know who should really be doing the moderation work? >The very people in that very local community! Don't be silly! Then people might get the idea that they own their own community instead of passively accepting what they&#
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Have you heard about Ubuntu-Web? It tries to do this with Firefox instead of Chrome and uses other web technologies. https://ubuntu-web.org/
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>KDE gets better every week. As someone who has tried KDE off and on over the years since its version 2.0 release in SuSE Linux, and through various versions and distros since is there a fork that doesn't have twenty different confi
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Basically another rant about the Google WEI nonsense, but given the author well worth the read. It's worth the read for the summary of how we got here if no other reason.
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Exactly. What is this? The fourth or fifth time we've played this game with the telecoms now? Enough is enough already.
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
> getting the Win XP look? I used to follow the XPDE project avidly back in the day but it seems to have just withered on the vine and never went anywhere. https://web.archive.org/web/20200502011912/http:/&
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>>Really, needing a wire in 2021? It's nice to have the option, but it shouldn't be the only way. Nice copypasta. Edit it better next time?
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
I'd say yes and no. They didn't change Reddit's behavior in any way, shape, or form. But I did close out an account I'd used there for ten years and have been actively seeking too expand my use of alternatives. I discove
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
> IE was a superior product, and a lot of Microsoft haters tend to forget this. Netscape was buggy, slow, and bloated compared to contemporaneous versions of IE Now explain Opera. I remember seeing the lengthy blog post by the CEO of Ope
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>Reddit does this with "install our app" on its mobile website. Who? Oh you mean digg v3? Who's digg? Exactly ....
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>Microsoft actually stopped development of IE, saying the job was done Despite being a technology enthusiast who was paying attention at the time and who heard this when it happened in various discussions and articles, now some twenty ye
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>>At what point is this malicious? I don't know about you but to me that point was reached and exceeded when it became clear the person making the claim was wearing ear pods and couldn't even claim an unobstructed listening
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
>...been that way for several decades, not just 'now'. Yes, yes, but they've forgotten a key truth that used to be understood. People like to be moralized to. Persuasive speech is interesting to people because done well
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by bacchusracine 3y ago
Absolutely this. I'm reminded of the old Breyers ice cream commercials where they'd have some kid read the chemistry farm that was their competitors' product. Gum this, gum that, etc etc. Sadly the company later decided that

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