jfax

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by jfax 4y ago
/mlp/ is the only actual containment board.
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User Outcomes is just as important as User Experience(blog.moneysavingexpert.com)
1 points by jfax 4y ago|0 comments
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The 19th Century Entailment (2015)(austenauthors.net)
1 points by jfax 4y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 5y ago
Social unrest is being driven by climate issues, which makes these things largely secondary to it.
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by jfax 5y ago
In the words of Terry A Davis: "scalability works both ways".
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North England vs. the Netherlands(tomforth.co.uk)
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by jfax 5y ago
I do not view dictionaries as a source of truth, and generally I don't accept a prescriptivist view onlanguage. Dictionaries are for referencing. Reading Xah Lee's reviews of dictionaries made me understand that different ones ha
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by jfax 5y ago
I absolutely agree with this, I'm utterly astounded that it's been 14 years since Project Chanology and people are still baited by the whole "Anonymous" imagery.
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by jfax 5y ago
I find it extremely suspicious, and have pointed it out to others before, that the Signal developers refuse to distribute it without Google Play services (spyware). Coupled with its CIA funding background, I'm glad I've used it.
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by jfax 5y ago
Gemini does not aim to replace HTTP, I don't understand why this article is talking about it like it is?
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by jfax 5y ago
No, it's correct advice. I don't know how old you are, bu there's nothing hugely unconditional about keeping friends. Moving on from friends is a standard part of adulthood, and what OP describes sounds like such an occasion.
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by jfax 5y ago
Don't know why we should casually dismiss these people? Small children in developed countries use the internet. Old and tribes people deserve access to knowledge. And prisoners/those under oppressive regimes.
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by jfax 5y ago
I wasn't sure about password managers for a long time, until I read this article by Troy Hunt "Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter": https://www.troyhunt.com/humans-are-bad-at-urls-and-fonts-do... -
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Peanutize Me – A recovered version of the Peanuts Movie character creator(peanutize.xyz)
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by jfax 5y ago
I'm pretty sure Beserk is a book.
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by jfax 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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by jfax 5y ago
The article the article linked said Nice https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/ccpa-scam-2021-12/
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by jfax 5y ago
Graphic novels are books.
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by jfax 5y ago
There are already laws about this: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rights-to-light
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by jfax 5y ago
I'd like to think a court would be the definition of unbiased.
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by jfax 5y ago
4chan hardly had any responsibility for Qanon. Q poster was banned very early after most recognised it as a larp. It is overwhelmingly the legacy of infinity chan. This is not withstanding who was eventually revealed to be one of the people
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by jfax 5y ago
Reminds me of the Ruby library chronic https://github.com/mojombo/chronic It's pretty good at natural language interpretation of dates, and the basic "from today" calculations, but cool to also see here
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by jfax 5y ago
The favstar.fm link is dead. Not a surprise to me, having known favstar has been down for years. Well, actually, there is an element of surprise: that there's still a link to it, so that casts some doubt over how well maintained these
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by jfax 5y ago
The idea of a Free encyclopedia and knowledge for all humanity is a political aim in itself.
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by jfax 5y ago
The best example I know of so far about a website outliving its author is cycling resource sheldonbrown.com - inline with what so far has been said here, it just needs to be an astounding enough resource for generation after to take over an
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by jfax 5y ago
I was just thinking about this earlier today with respect to Mastodon and federated social networks. As someone who has been very actively using Mastodon for years, it is frustrating — painfully frustrating — when people criticise it in the
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by jfax 5y ago
I love peertube and spend a lot of time these days watching videos on it, perhaps moreso than youtube now. This video is not very good however, there's something not very stimulating to the imagination about moving from youtube yet sti
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by jfax 5y ago
"Communism" or "capitalism" just means "bad thing" according to different people.
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by jfax 5y ago
I see twitter is slowly catching up with Mastodon, beyond just slated plans for "decentralization".
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Wikipedia Articles for deletion: Bitcoin (2010)(en.wikipedia.org)
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