crankylinuxuser

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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Indeed. That's on par with: "I'm sorry you're an idiot." Not an apology, an insult, and feigning to be apologizing about you (which is doubly insulting).
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Wouldn't be the first time HN/automoderation/mods have removed 'critical to YC business interests'. Happened to me with the Thalmic Myo, when I open source forced them to open their platform. HackADay also notes tha
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Network topological discovery is the hard pill to swallow with p2p based tech. You're paying for it in much higher network bandwidth, cpu, battery, and more. Eventually the tradeoffs will be so minuscule that they will be a rounding er
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Thats already happened once in recent times. Occupy Wall Street. Now, what happens when that expands to 1/10 of citizens due to lack of food, people getting evicted, no work, and more? Covid-19 is only accelerating the road we're
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Indeed. PKD gets IoT,EULAs, and contact law in one shot. It's similar to when that engineer was investigating his purchased Tesla, and Tesla called and threatened him to not 'tamper with their car'.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Yeah I ran across some scaremongers on Twitter 6 months ago who were going on about vaccines (??) And 5G. I had and still have no clue about that. As a real aside, networking everything does definitely have upsides and downsides. Upsides: s
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
I sait on another comment on this article that being a mod allows you to strongly astroturf and control the narrative. From there, and having loads of bots, allows you to manufacture consent or dissent. And the moderation power allows you t
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Yep. Thats only because Graylog requires it. We don't put any real data in Mongo. That'd just be silly. I'd put SNMP telemetry data in Mongo, only for the fact that recording that can be somewhat lossy. Plainly, I just don&#x
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(Futurama) Bender Smartspeaker using completely offline software(reddit.com)
24 points by crankylinuxuser 6y ago|3 comments
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
NodeRed or Apache NiFi can help a great deal with that. Both are great at posting and reposting (on and off Reddit, or between FB, Reddit, Twitter, etc), along with controlling botfarms. edit: Seriously, why the downvotes? We had a NiFi pos
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Karma is a social proof for being able to astroturf and control the narrative. And depending on what group you're a mod in, can provide a great deal of influence and control.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
> Buying keys in a region with low regional pricing then reselling them in a higher region Notice that companies can do that with labor and buildings and tax evasion, and it's 'situation normal'... But when real humans try
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
I would think the closest analogy would be to the death penalty in the USA surrounding lethal injections. Every company that is knowingly being used for the cocktail to kill someone has made the supply gone. They refuse to supply to any sta
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Then why did your "user agent" permit it? Seems rather anti-user.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
It doesn't make any sense in trying innocent people! (No, seriously, I know people who believe that.)
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Yep. Just waiting for this "feature" to be added to metasploit.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
> What choice did Uber remove from the market when they started? > What choice has Uber removed from the market so far? > What choice do you expect Uber to remove from the market even if they are maximally successful in their overa
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
I also think that "real transparency" is something one can approach. Just because complete transparency is nigh impossible doesn't mean the steps towards it is worthless. And there is always a lower layer one can point at tha
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
I would think that having more transparency (eg: moderation/removal log) is much more appropriate than "he looks good to me". I've already seen a few times where content demeaning YC companies mysteriously got disappeare
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
> It contains troll harassment. By not letting a troll know they've been banned, you remove the incentive they might have to create a new account to continue their harassment. Completely false. It only adds another step, which is &q
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
That's not entirely true. You can "change" the charset from 1 type to another... The problem with that is fields may extend past the max length of that field when converting from 1 to the other. Source: me. I had to help some
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Giphy was the reason why at my last job, a manager inadvertently posted porn to our slack channel. Nevertheless, giphy was just a gif image host. They do have access to current meme culture, which I imagine is useful to FB. But for me, that
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Indeed you are. Enter "US-linked Australian church fined US$98,000 for selling bleach as coronavirus ‘miracle cure'" citation: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3084250&#x2
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Light is a TEMPEST emission :) It too is EM. But yeah, you're right. Shoulder surfers are very much why * are used.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Whelp... That shows just how little I know about Mac.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
The answer is to run a campaign to work with Firefox and Safari only, and convert all users to either platform. Seriously, fuck google. I'm just done with them.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
You misspelled "sharecropper".
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
There's too many techbros and 'rockstars' that think they're 10x better than anyone else. Surprise - they're more average than others tell them. But I've seen it again and again, IT people don't seem to gr
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Do you honestly think there's education when a uni teaches cattle class of 200 people for calculus 101, and intends to flunk 80% of them? This could easily be a set of videos recorded from a real lecture. Problems could be assigned fro
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
I think it's a false premise. The purpose of learning is to understand the topic at hand. But school's purpose isn't for learning, primarily. It's for accreditation and getting a paper saying you learned certain things.

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