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by datenarsch 5y ago
Because alot of people who otherwise donate to Mozilla would then donate to Firefox directly and that is not what the execs really want to happen.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
It feels more like that the persons in charge of Mozilla try everything in their power to emulate those megacorps.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Why is a browser expensive ? There are many great and big open source projects out there that are maintained and developed mainly by volunteers. Why can't Firefox be like this?
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Macron's "En Marche" never took over France "in a storm". That is just media spin. Macron is your typical establishment droid and has always been perceived as such by the majority of the French population. The only
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Seeing how vaccination does not at all prevent you from contracting and spreading the virus, doesn't that make everyone terrorists in your view?
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> Should the government be able to force a private company to host content that they don't want to host? If that company is so big and powerful that it's becoming an active threat to the democratic process, yes why not? Better
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by datenarsch 5y ago
In fact there is still loads of grizzly ISIS and mexican cartel videos on Twitter and they don't care one bit about it.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
And how can you be so sure to know what views are shared by the majority of the population?
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> Have courts make decisions whether video should be removed or not? That would be a start, yes.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> Society. Ostracizing and later persecuting Jews was supported by large parts of the population in 1930's Germany and Eastern Europe. According to your logic, that made it OK too then?
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by datenarsch 5y ago
I think it's because they try to impress their non-technical friends with flashy colourful and matrix-like terminal windows and come off as hackers when in reality most of them don't even know what a stack overflow is.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
This is so true. .NET has been steadily going downhill for some time now. The best indicator is the absolutely rotten documentation for the more recent .NET stuff. Compare that to the older .NET Framework and/or Winapi documentation wh
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by datenarsch 5y ago
It's not true that most people don't care. Most people absolutely hate it that they have to re-learn Word or Excel or Windows whenever a new version comes out. Just ask any mom or dad. But what can they do about it, really? Nothin
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by datenarsch 5y ago
While I agree this is great, it is not really related to and no excuse for the inconsistent mess that Windows' UI has been ever since the Windows 8 Metro disaster. Win32 UI (think Windows 2000) was perfectly line.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
"Likewise, I don't get the recent trend of self-censoring words like suicide, police or kill. I think it's mainly a thing on tiktok? But it's leaking out from there as well." I presume this is to that their postings
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Well that is the problem though...back in the day YouTube was a fun place where people exchanged ideas, discussed their hobbies and so on. It wasn't about money at all. These days 99% of people on YouTube are only trying to grow their
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Maybe they just had the dog on leash so it wouldn't run off.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
I think it's relatively safe compared to it's neighbouring countries. Though, of course, it's neighbouring countries are what could be called failed states with some of the worst safety records of all countries in the world
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by datenarsch 5y ago
it's part of the major drug transportation route from Colombia to Mexico though isn't it?
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by datenarsch 5y ago
really? like what? I like hn precisely because of its minimalistic approach.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
There wouldn't be any Russian mercenaries in Libya in the first place, had it not been for the complete destruction of the country by Western forces a couple of years ago.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
no engineer makes 400k a year in Germany. This is not the US, sadly.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Why is he being given a platform by the BBC though
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> Programmers routinely earn more than most doctors and healthcare professionals. Just curious, in which European country do programmers earn more than most doctors? I'm from Germany and doctors here easily earn 6 figures, something
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Consoles these days are just glorified PC's though so they are totally boring IMO. for me at least the fun in consoles was that they were so different from your average x86 PC. it was fun to learn about the internals of the PS1, PS2 or
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Here's one. I hate it how I can no longer access 90% of local US news websites.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
isn't that just VirusTotal only without the convenience of having the files virus checked?
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by datenarsch 6y ago
The establishment/mainstream is the real enemy of the people. It totally makes sense to support anyone who you think could realistically challenge and destroy the status quo.
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by datenarsch 6y ago
Well, mainly the truth came out because two planes crashed and hundreds of people were killed. That's something even Boeing couldn't sweep under the rug.
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by datenarsch 6y ago
...but but others are doing it too, so you can't blame Apple for it!!!1

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