dirtyhippiefree

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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
2021 is considered old news, but this continues to be increasingly true…Memes Are Dead… https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/55120/1/20...
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
For a decade news aggregators have demonstrated people don’t want to read two sentences together and we’re stuck with videos that suck massive amounts of time…sadly…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Doing a Google Advanced Search for the exact phrase “HN Embrace of Doom” shows •one• link…this post… Show HN a Googlewhack: Success Productive use of a term Google can’t find: Thought experiment but nothing else
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Jobless recovery…IIRC… Jobs never really came back.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Started in 2007, but that’s a quibble…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Beer is Bud. Cannabis is Bud. Now pills are Bud?!?!? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
You can pay extortionists to get your data back. If your phone automatically factory resets, all the money in the world won’t recover your data…sadly worse than ransomware…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
This is the flipped script for our social contract with Google…they release product, they don’t have any obligation to care about users…dismissing us less loudly than the author, but no less real…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
I see: in the case of iOS, even allowing a different engine to run I’m hearing: iOS is •considerably more secure• like Blackberry was.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
I’m hearing: I did it for fun…never considered the possibility of JavaScript rootkits, because there’s no fun in that…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
The record companies can claim they compensated the artist, even if the math is bogus. See Steve Albini’s open letter to the music industry for the full accounting…from the nineties when labels made their artists •really• dance for their sh
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
You’re replying to the guy who likes that it became •legally• wrong, with the full weight of the state behind it. Is this a good position? Why or why not?
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Your statement thinks people being unindicted international felons (ACTA) is good for the country…somehow going overboard solves something… What, exactly?
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
If sheer size had anything to do with it, we’d be speaking Russian or Chinese…unless you are referring to the American Empire and not just the States…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Video LAN Client (VLC) makes most codecs and emulators extra work, as even Flash plays using VLC.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Your term for today is Selective Enforcement. They want you to think like that because it’s good for business…and since our prison population exceeds that of Russia or any other country (per capita), it appears that business is good…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
One longs for Ad-Hocracy… I’m the Dirty Hippie Freak and I endorse this message.