dingnuts

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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's been almost twenty years since KDE 4 came out. it was terrible, yes. but Plasma 6, which was released this decade, kicks ass, so why are you so mad, Grandpa?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
we still have to cut the deficit or increasing revenue is still just kicking the ever-growing interest payments down the road. If we don't do both, it's like increasing our salary and using it to justify getting another credit car
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>You guys have offered nothing to address deficit spending the Republican-controlled Congress passed an increase in the spending limit. DOGE isn't cutting costs -- they can't! That's Congress's job! All DOGE can do is
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I did the trial a year ago and never looked back; it's awesome
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by dingnuts 2y ago
compared to the broadcast era aren't there way more winners -- with a smaller pieces of the pie -- nowadays? it's still a Pareto distribution, I'm sure, but mega-stardom kinda died and was replaced by all these mini-stars, as
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by dingnuts 2y ago
why dont you tell us, nazgulsenpai? I mean why bother resist against a tyrannical government right? sheesh. Relevant username.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Gen X is in their mid-fifties. Boomers are in their 70s now. But yes, it is Boomer content, and the pick of the 1911 is a weirdly hilarious tell. That's the sidearm from WWII so it's the one all the Boomers' dad's wore i
548.
by dingnuts 2y ago
hence my confusion at the sudden "left" outcry over the attacks on the FBI and CIA, two organizations they have been bemoaning for my entire life, and with good reason! Those organizations are responsible for some of the absolute
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by dingnuts 2y ago
even then it would be a potential patent infringement, not copyright. but there's prior art for literally every feature Discord has so as long as they aren't copy-pasting Discord's source code I think they're just fine I
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by dingnuts 2y ago
there are a lot of them, actually. I added the Kagi Small Web feed to my RSS reader a few days ago and I'm kind of overwhelmed. considering where I am in my personal journey (discovering a ton of bloggers) this whole thread is so weird
551.
by dingnuts 2y ago
happens on irc constantly too chat rooms are cliques, almost always choose any sufficiently populated room on libera chat, join, and start talking a lot without lurking first for awhile and see how the inhabitants react
552.
by dingnuts 2y ago
the timing attack you're describing is extremely common -- not unique to PGP -- and simple to mitigate. do you have more literature about the attack, or attacks, that you're describing?
553.
by dingnuts 2y ago
here you go, guy got jail time for a crude joke in the UK https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925
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by dingnuts 2y ago
lately Reddit has been feeling really like dead Internet though. every subreddit is talking about the same current event all the time. there are smaller spaces that are thriving just like the old days.
555.
by dingnuts 2y ago
you're not the customer! YOU'RE THE PRODUCT!
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> disrupting or bribing competing nations, ... and protecting your fucking imaginary property everybody in the world fucking hates. Wait, I'm confused. Are you upset that Trump might stop the CIA from disrupting foreign nations? Bec
557.
by dingnuts 2y ago
As an academic you have a vested interest in holding that opinion and you should disclose that
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by dingnuts 2y ago
sounds like the criticism still applies and is ever more relevant if you wish to understand that Trump voters, who by and large do not have college degrees, experience resentment when they hear academics are getting federal funds to do thin
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by dingnuts 2y ago
There's so much real independent music out there that actually has meaning. I hope you didn't tell your friend you wrote the song, because if someone tricked me into listening to generated not-art and I found out afterwards, I wou
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's more like a resort than a city, which is the problem.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
then they need to find some cuts because Uncle Sam has a maxed out credit card and can't keep making up the difference whether he wants to or not
562.
by dingnuts 2y ago
I've been using magit for almost a decade now and it directly contradicts what you're saying simply by existing and being as awesome as it is
563.
by dingnuts 2y ago
it's as simple as this: working from home is a benefit, like 401(k) matching. If you hire remote workers, and then tell them they have to come in three days a week, you had better have a compensation renegotiation or you sure will get
564.
by dingnuts 2y ago
I think it should be illegal to trick humans into reading "creative" machine output. It strikes me as a form of fraud that steals my most precious resources: time and attention. I read creative writing to feel a human connection t
565.
by dingnuts 2y ago
Ah thank you; I had heard the paid ones had daily limits too so I was confused
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by dingnuts 2y ago
10 messages a day? How are people "vibe coding" with that?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Google 2.0 where you have to check every answer it gives you because it's authoritative about nothing. Works great when the output is small enough to unit test or immediately try in situations with no possible negative outcomes. Anythi
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by dingnuts 2y ago
the issue with Elon Musk's involvement is the WAY these things are being done. If what was previously funded through coercion -- tax dollars -- can be funded through voluntary charity of a billionaire that is 100% a good thing and we c
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I wish the Internet had actually turned out to be democratizing
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yeah but you have to be at least forty to get a license for a cell phone belt holster

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