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by coldacid 3y ago
you just need to join the right instances ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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by coldacid 3y ago
Don't be too sure of that. Plenty of instances have preemptively blocked Meta and it's likely that if and when Threads goes AP, more will follow. Some of us still remember Eternal September and would like to avoid a repeat.
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by coldacid 3y ago
It's both that (which is reasonable) and on/against the general public (which is not).
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by coldacid 3y ago
Everything going to "the Cloud" is just a backslide into the mainframe era, but with shinier graphics. I feel like the age of micros has ended, killed off by clueless users with flashy phones.
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by coldacid 3y ago
I love how the MoE is essentially claiming that they're using spyware to save the environment! Every day I hate our government a little more.
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by coldacid 3y ago
>So you hired coupers but you would never hire...coupers? Did you not know about their coups cuz that's the only way I can see that makes sense here. Could you clarify this, seems contradictory... You might have missed this from GP&
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by coldacid 3y ago
> Most large places have legacy tech you’ll work on, but an “ain’t broke don’t fix” approach to technical debt is a red flag. A push to web apps is a green flag. Very happy to see this up near the top so I know I can disregard the rest o
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by coldacid 3y ago
Search engines and their consequences have been a disaster for the human internet.
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World of Commodore 2023 coming up Dec 2 and 3 in Toronto(tpug.ca)
3 points by coldacid 3y ago|0 comments
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by coldacid 3y ago
Worse, people don't even seem to care anymore that the government's Hoovering up everything they can on them.
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by coldacid 3y ago
There _is_ a <template> element[0] for this purpose, but so far it falls short on being able to inject parameters like that, and is essentially useless if you don't have Javascript.[1] [0]: https://developer.mozilla.or
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by coldacid 3y ago
Shakespeare was about a century and a half after Gutenberg.
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by coldacid 3y ago
One of the great things about Emacs is that I can run it on a terminal when needs be, or as a GUI application when I have a graphical environment up and running. Doing something like rebasing it on WebRender means I wouldn't be able to
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by coldacid 3y ago
This is amazing
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by coldacid 3y ago
Yes, they work for Microsoft.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Considering that DR-DOS is a linear descendant of CP/M with MS/PC-DOS ABI compatibility, it's certainly a separate OS. Same for FreeDOS. There's enough difference "under the hood" for each of them, however.
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by coldacid 3y ago
March 2023, actually -- 3.2.2.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Today I learned that CARI[0] exists. [0]: Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, https://cari.institute/
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by coldacid 3y ago
Don't tell me that DALL-E is good. I'm still waiting for it to generate hands instead of shoggoth tentacles.
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by coldacid 3y ago
There's a difference between knowing how to use a thing and "[knowing] how [it] works fully". Don't conflate them.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Maybe the GP is also insinuating that Google is full of reptilians?
52.
by coldacid 3y ago
Some people just hate fun.
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by coldacid 3y ago
I'd be interested to know both of your ages; I'm assuming, mananaysiempre, that you're probably under 30, and that mellosouls, like myself, is over 40. With some exceptions it seems like there is a generation gap between thos
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by coldacid 3y ago
This is why the value4value model is morally superior to the advertisement financed model.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Not just in the UK!
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by coldacid 3y ago
I hope that you do get it going with unnamed streams too!
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by coldacid 3y ago
Already (implicitly) mentioned in the gp.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Move to Britain, change your given name to Graf (that's German for the title of count/earl), and get a passport. I'm curious to see what the result would be, myself.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Nice but it definitely needs to support waterway=stream as well.
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by coldacid 3y ago
A cat would look at both sides in a battle, yawn, and wander off while the stupid humans kill each other.

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