cwillu

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by cwillu 9mo ago
It very clearly is restrictive of software freedom. I've never suffered from an evil maid breaking into my house to access my computer, but I've _very_ frequently suffered from corporations trying to prevent me from doing what I
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by cwillu 9mo ago
“ensure that things are as they are expected to be” according to who, and for who's benefit? Certainly not the person sitting in front of the computer.
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by cwillu 9mo ago
I would be _shocked_ if, conditional on your project being successful, this _wasn't_ commonly used to lock down computing abilities commonly taken for granted today. And I think you know this.
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by cwillu 9mo ago
And the cycle continues
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by cwillu 9mo ago
The politicians are the people being asked, and secondarily a convenient scapegoat for the blowback. As long as they're the ones being blamed, nothing will change despite the politicians being replaced over the years.
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by cwillu 9mo ago
Implementing this sort of “functionality” is always the department of a junior team, so that the obvious sorts of questions about defaults can be answered with “a junior dev was responsible for the implementation and messed up”, even though
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by cwillu 9mo ago
Court account for a vanishingly small proportion of most people's lives.
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by cwillu 9mo ago
That's not the same thing: does it actually forward martian packets? Because that's what's required for this to be exploited.
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by cwillu 9mo ago
It's scary how somebody posting on hackernews thinks that this site is about hackers in the sense of security.
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by cwillu 9mo ago
Until they strap on those god awful conformal fuel tanks
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by cwillu 9mo ago
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper... is better
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by cwillu 9mo ago
> at least in new builds It appears that something like 50% of homes are still over 50 years old, which seems to be more than enough for “some subset of brits large enough to be notable complain about the cold weather because they don&#x
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by cwillu 9mo ago
Is there any reason to think https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music doesn't apply here?
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by cwillu 9mo ago
Unless you're in the habit of reading your books with a flashlight, the context makes it very different.
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by cwillu 9mo ago
Brits will do anything except properly insulate their damn homes.
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by cwillu 9mo ago
Beyond the click-bait title, what does this have to do with the article?
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by cwillu 9mo ago
It's great for announcing that an asshole is approaching.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
Pressing a key to trigger an action that you will then send additional input to is an entirely different sequence of events than whack-a-mole, where you are definitionally not triggering the events you need to respond to.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
If they wanted to make that point, then they should have made that point instead of quoting a snippet of legislation of dubious relevance to an article that devoted more lines to chess influencers, fashion influencers, and musicians, than p
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by cwillu 10mo ago
Filming porn isn't prostitution nor a sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense. Hope this helps.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
There's an SC2 custom campaign that reimplements the wc3 campaign that is worth a look.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
https://youtu.be/lTO5vhRFCv0
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by cwillu 10mo ago
The better option is unfucking the planet we live on.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
Don't read what I didn't write.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
Lol, and here I am choking in shock when I grab a sip from a sprite can instead of the coke that I thought it was. Turns out I was just blindly (literally) falling for marketing? I don't think so, Tim.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
> far, far better thought-out ui That's hilarious. Remind me, which colour represent “maximize” again? And why are half of the apps I constantly use stuck in a group together such that I have to use a different key to switch betwe
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by cwillu 10mo ago
Functionality that you use once a year or less is _exactly_ the sort of thing that needs to be consistent. It's literally the last place that an innovation should arrive, after that innovation has been fully developed and battle-teste
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by cwillu 10mo ago
So don't use a third party theme.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
Presumably the way he described in the previous paragraph.
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by cwillu 10mo ago
Years of fighting to restore basic features was funny the first time, but gnome 3 was not the first time; I do not blame anyone for not trusting that gnome won't pull the rug again, and soon.

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