convery

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by convery 5y ago
Well, ye. There's always elite classes with special rules. Social media is pushed to censor 'misinformation' while news media can lie all day. Entertainment media need to clearly label product placements, news media can make
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by convery 5y ago
Remember during the 2016 election when Dems wrote a public letter to Google (while anti-trust was on the table) strongly advising them to remove what they considered 'misinformation' (e.g. Wikileaks)? Ye.. totally not in favour of
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by convery 5y ago
Indeed, but it's odd that creditcard companies are so hard on merchants. Surely they could just offer some program where they hold payments in escrow until the transaction is final and just subtract chargebacks from the escrow account
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by convery 5y ago
Yep, platforms are getting silly. On Reddit the other day I got the usual popup about accepting cookies, but once clicked, instead of just setting the cookie it showed a popup saying that I need to switch to the new theme to accept cookies.
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by convery 5y ago
For funding the military industrial complex; what else?
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by convery 5y ago
His comment was on masks reducing the risk of you getting infected, not infecting others. Which is a selfish point, but nonetheless a correct one.
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by convery 5y ago
In the same way popups saying "by continuing to view this site you consent to cookies" do? The user is informed and the cookie is(/should be) only set once they click a link / button / scroll past the initial view,
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by convery 5y ago
Well, a page being locked for editing is usually a sign that one side has decided the narrative and no further input distracting from it will be tolerated. And a clear indication to take the article with a mountain of salt.
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by convery 5y ago
In the past for a game-modding project we sort of opensourced reports. Users (meeting certain criteria) could visit a page and view 5 seconds of video and statistics of an alleged/detected cheater. Then select positive/negative&#x
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by convery 5y ago
Well, ye, it's not news. But it'll keep happening and be reported on over and over as no politician wants to be the next JFK.
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by convery 5y ago
Can you elaborate on the issues with Lastpass? I haven't looked at other managers but Lastpass seems fine.
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by convery 5y ago
Holding the money hostage for half a year on a 20 year old account? Not surprising. Paypal and their other entities like Ebay are pretty shit when it comes to nuance and their impact on others. Had a 15 year old Paypal business account (par
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by convery 5y ago
Ye, I'm with you. To give the benefit of doubt to the author, maybe they were thinking of "turning to software innovation" as in optimizing / longer dev cycles that can result in less resource wastage. i.e. rather than n
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by convery 5y ago
Worth noting that the whole "can it be trusted" mainly revolves around political or otherwise controversial topics. Where entire pages can switch from "freedom fighter helping the world" to "literally Hitler" o
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by convery 5y ago
Maybe consider defaulting the page to English to not scare people away =)
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by convery 5y ago
People choose the easiest tool available to them. A common method in Europe is a belt to the doorhandle which is more painful and slower than a bullet. Removing tools does not prevent the outcome, just increases the suffering.
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by convery 6y ago
The author of Mango posted a benchmark on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mld1ob/the_fas... load save ------------------------------------
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by convery 6y ago
I have used Win10 as well, about the same boot time.
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by convery 6y ago
Recently I went through the attic and found an old laptop (120Mhz CPU, 32Mb RAM, low-RPM 810Mb HDD) with Win98 installed on in. To my amazement it could boot and start Excel and Word within 10sec. Compared to my workstation (20 cores + HT @
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by convery 6y ago
There's a lot of different crypto algorithms. Some will work better on AMD, some on Nvidia, some regardless of memory and some dependant on large cache. A miner will benchmark their card against the popular algos and choose the most pr
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by convery 6y ago
Indeed, people (especially politicians) seem really afraid to simply say "we don't know". Rather appeal to science as an authority that everyone agrees on. Especially when it comes to large topics like climate-change or pande
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by convery 6y ago
Yep, I have a old Geforce GPU with only VGA/DVI output just to use nView (although I had to modify it slightly). Such a weird thing, having a nice window manger for Windows but requiring non-technical people to buy an overpriced GPU to
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by convery 6y ago
Stories like these are so scary because encryption is(/should be) indistinguishable from random data. Imagine being accused of some crime and the police finds a USB drive formatted by overwriting it with random data. Then the prosecuto
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by convery 6y ago
Speaking of, random advice: If you're doing remote meetings a $3 pedal for push-to-talk is awesome.
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by convery 6y ago
Ye, just wanted to provide an alternative for the "spooky" parts that people like to bring up =)
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by convery 6y ago
The injuries is from tumbling around in the avalanche, a tent (if nailed down) will just be flattened.
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by convery 6y ago
People taking off their clothes is common with severe hypothermia. Lacerations and blunt trauma is common for avalanche victims. The soft/detachable parts (eyes, tongue) can be still eaten by scavengers while frozen. So the only unusua
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by convery 6y ago
Ehh.. Being blocked by congress and federal judges at every turn doesn't really seem like a position of 'ultimate power'..
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by convery 6y ago
Funny how you can have a community/forum/server for years without issues but when you go against the grain new accounts come out of the woodwork to post something rule-breaking which gets the whole place shut down. Just looking at
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by convery 6y ago
There were estimates upwards of 300K people there to peacefully protest, that some people decided to enter the building does not negate the protesting. Even if social media calls for the arrest and ostracisation of everyone within a 5 mile

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