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by ducttape12 7y ago
This is most likely fake.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I remember hearing years ago IE usage was crazy high in South Korea because they had laws in place requiring all online banking customers to install an ActiveX control. If that's true... Then they've come pretty far.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I've played the Metal Gear Solid games enough to know the crazy possibilities of nano machines.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I've heard about these issues in wrestling before, but is it just pro wrestlers? Is the rate of drug abuse higher in wrestlers than, say, other similar professions (boxing, MMA). Is wrestling doing this to its performers, or does wrest
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I think people are missing the point - his point is simplicity. This is actually why I've stopped buying albums and switched entirely to streaming internet radio like di.fm. I spent way too much time and effort managing my mp3 library
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Yes, just without the guilt (since this means DDG is clearly okay with not making ad revenue off me)
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by ducttape12 7y ago
If you're not a fan of blocking ads, DuckDuckGo let's you disable ads in their search results.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Stuff like this is why I don't feel bad about blocking ads. This garbage adds no value and just exists to get clicks from tech illiterate people.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Oh man those cards are awesome!
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I feel companies brought this on themselves. Sure, having an app might have helped early on to differentiate yourself from your competition, but now you have to have an app if you want to seem legit. Which means you have to get in bed with
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by ducttape12 8y ago
I mostly stick to open source or well known commercial software, run Windows Defender, and I run uBlock Origin. I'm of the opinion the biggest risk of malware comes from rogue ads. I've only been hit with malware twice in the 25 y
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by ducttape12 8y ago
I stopped reading when the author started talking about Trump. I swear, for people who hate Trump, they sure dedicate a lot of brain cycles to constantly thinking about him...
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by ducttape12 8y ago
What's wrong with their bitcoin option?
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by ducttape12 8y ago
And this is the problem I have with tying anything to a remote server. Every digital movie, song, book, or video game that requires a remote server for patches, activation, or anything else will eventually end up like this. What happens in
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by ducttape12 8y ago
The internet used to be a place to communicate, now it's just a place to mine attention for ads through click bait, poorly written articles.
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by ducttape12 8y ago
Kind of like how soda companies encourage people to exercise. They don't want you to stop buying their product, but cut back just enough to stop people complaining.
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by ducttape12 8y ago
If it was seriously this easy to pull off, perhaps the real guilty parties here are the USPS workers who let this happen unchecked.
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by ducttape12 9y ago
Sounds to me like this guy has an anxiety disorder that he's masking as a hatred of phones.
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by ducttape12 9y ago
If an employer feels the need to do this, it's a major red flag that there are serious issues in their culture and management. Monitoring your employees will just make things worse.
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by ducttape12 9y ago
Agreed. In my area, 2 day shipping usually uses either UPS or USPS. Same day shipping uses their drivers. I've given up expecting it same day.
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by ducttape12 9y ago
I've actually become a bit put off on a lot of "modern" technologies lately. Every website tries to keep you on as long as possible with click bait, every advertiser tries to track your habits, video games just try to upsell
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by ducttape12 9y ago
I always liked LibreStock.com
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by ducttape12 9y ago
A lot of people in tech (myself included) would benefit greatly from this attitude. How many people get caught up arguing over minutia in tech, such as which distro to use, or which editor to use, or which way to do something when all optio
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by ducttape12 9y ago
Eh, still prefer physical media when buying movies. This way you can't ever have the rights taken away to watch it (which just happened to me with a show I purchased digitally on Amazon). (not to mention physical media is usually cheap
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by ducttape12 9y ago
I've thought for a while the real solution to bad software is simple: hire intelligent developers who care Only problem is, they are few and far between... (in my 10+ years in the industry, I've worked with only 3 people who I&#x2
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by ducttape12 9y ago
Thanks for making and sharing this!
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by ducttape12 9y ago
The Washington Post wrote a click title. You won't believe what happened next! ... I didn't click the link on principle.
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by ducttape12 9y ago
I really want to go to the movies. There's nothing out I want to see right now. Heck, my friend who goes once a week hasn't been in like a month because nothing interests him. Reminds me of how video game execs kept blaming piracy
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by ducttape12 9y ago
Using a third party implementation of the Win32 API reminds me of vegan cheese. It's great in theory, but it's never quite good enough. You'll either end up giving up and eating real cheese (using Microsoft Windows) or use so
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by ducttape12 9y ago
I've found the flipside of the subscription model; I'm actually able to use commercial software for free. Most subscription software has a free tier, and most of the time it's good enough for my needs. In the few cases where

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