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Of course, you could always use a black board instead. They do still make chalk... Or, you could go with the $50,000 IoT board so Amazon and Goggle can scrape everything you draw in your meetings (they're already scraping your email an
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Those are largely ineffective in the modern world. Most bot nets, like he mentions in the blag post, come from 1 IP address only 1 time. With thousands to tens of thousands of IP addresses in the bot net, there is just no way to block by IP
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Reflections on Technology and Society Robert W. Lucky (1996)(speeches.byu.edu)
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So, has anyone sent a copy of Babylon Revisited to elon yet?
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I agree with your javascript complaints, and I use a graphical browser. I do prefer to surf with js disabled, and in most cases it actually works pretty well. But the lack of non-js mastedon has pretty much stopped me from reading posts on
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So it contributes nothing, for you? Amazingly though, you found it enough of a contribution to spend your time in reply. Let me quote from the original article: > "This suggests that the newcomers exterminated the men in the farming
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The article didn't really make a lot of sense to me. But I do agree: to edict the sale of chrome won't really accomplish much. This is reminiscent of the M$ anti-trust suite in the '90s. To edict for example, the creation of
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Given that the currently dominant human primates are also murderous rampagers, glorifying the killing of the men and raping of the women in order to spread their "culture", does seem to align well with evidense of this DNA diaspor
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and elon
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Which means, it costs even more tax dollars. I wondered about this with the case of the german woman who was detained for months because she had tattoo equipment. If the logic is that she will work in the US, and take work that would have g
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Isn't this just sudoku with the squares morphed into irregular shapes?
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Or: Why it makes sense for wealthier nations to help others _also_ be wealthy One has to wonder if 1/2 the US military budget spent building universities and hospitals in central america, africa and the middle east couldn't massiv
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Why specificallly throw stones at Mozilla? EVERYONE should ditch goggle 8-/ but, but, muh g-stuff!!! pathetic, really. The corps has been for the purpose of user surveilance from the beginning. If you want your donations to be well spe
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Amazing, one that was finally not flagged 8-/ I've wanted to comment that I can totally understand tesla owners feeling buyers remorse at this point, but any assault on teslas, or their owners, is stupid. A person driving a tesla
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I'm still more of an HP-41 fan. In addition to having several of these, I also use this desktop emulator: https://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/
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https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid Many other distros also support this... https://github.com/selirra/anarch https://hamelot.io/android/run-gentoo-on-android-via-chroot/
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The articles language is pretty confusing in the way that the author continues to say "the phone can run linux", even after saying that "of course, android is linux". If the only shortcoming of android, compared to a mor
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Now, if we can only get the rest of the world to cease military exercises 8-/ I'm not a cheato fan, but I am a HUGE anti-war fan. It seems like the primate will just never grow up. Dismembering each other as a form of negotiation
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Why are so many people suffering mental illness? It's not funny, it's stupid, and sad. If you find that "you're feeling intense pressure to be on your phone", throw it in the ocean!
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My preference would be the opposite of this: I'd like to see news report factual information on events that have actually ocurred. Prediction is not news, it's a guess. A guess is fictional, not factual. I'd prefer factual ne
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I spend several hours/day reading news on around 30 websites. I don't read anything that starts with an @ I don't use any asocial media. I read news websites. Given paywalls, I mostly scan headlines. The overwhelming majority
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Paul Erdös being maybe the most famous, but there are many other famous cases: https://slate.com/culture/2013/04/auden-sartre-graham-greene...
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The main difference is that when "listening" most people here talk about doing it while doing something else. Whereas reading requires a person's vision to be focused on the book, and therefore precludes driving, and most oth
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I "listened" to Dance Monkey, Dance! 27 times. Does that count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGphsPOHi2M Ernest Cline has a lot more to say than most book authors... "Some of the monkeys read Nietzsche&quo
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What if... primate species overcame the inexplicable obsession of playing with balls? Or, in the modern world, even just the obsession of watching other primates play with balls on television while drinking alcohol and fighting over who pla
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I'm sure Elon is horrified. Imagine if he lost a $100B and was only worth $1/4T? How would he even get by?
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For years I've been calling it "meme illiteracy": the inability to communicate outside of reference to some internet trend. It's really just a sub-category of internet brain rot. Ha Ha! The 15sec "set your balls on
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Ha Ha Ha 8-) That's funny! He must have a lot of those "freedom dollars" 8-)
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Bla Bla Bla. This article is an argument who's time has passed. If anything, the difference between "free software" and "open source" is more significant today than ever before. Free Software being developed primari
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Well, it's sad to read an article where the author agrees with me 8-/ It's only going to get worse. The biggest reason it can't be stopped is because 1/2 of the bottom 90% of the population is screaming to get rid o

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