kermitismyhero

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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Forgive me for getting angry at the wilful ignorance of so many useful idiots. I'm just kinda done with being "nice". Over a decade of vetted, verifiable leaks exposing the unbridled evil of the US military-industrial complex
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>Criminal charges are handled in US District Courts, and are Constitutionally guaranteed to be public. If you think that the US DOJ hasn't spent a million man-hours to find some way to keep everything as secret as possible, you have
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>He would be sent to USA to respond of his alleged crimes in front of a public court of justice. Haha, no. He'd be sent to a secret FISA Star Chamber. There's no way he'd be tried in public. And if the Swedish authorities
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Strangely enough, there's the same sort of renewables-only electricity choices in oil-obsessed Alberta, Canada. The city of Calgary's rail transit system runs solely on electricity purchased from wind farms.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
I didn't know that Andrew Askins ran Google.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
In fairness to Asimov's laws of robotics, he invented them as a device to illustrate how fundamentally flawed those sorts of rules can be. His robot stories are about how unforeseen situations create unexpected behaviour, despite appar
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>I really wish uBlock Origin at least had the option to enable a blacklist model It effectively does have this capability. Just disable all the standard filter lists, and manually add one's own entries to the "my filters"
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Exactly. Technology exists to solve problems. One of the greatest problems in today's world is the metaphorical tsunami of advertising sewage flooding our mental shorelines. Browser-based adblockers neatly solve that problem. As for th
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Spotted the true Canadian. (Or possibly Michigander.)
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>There should be a word for "overly concerned and judgmental about what other people do in their private life" How about "vegan"?
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>By this quiz rationale, your average vegetable wouldn't be vegan because it may rely on animal fertilizer... Heck, this could be extended to the use of oxygen to breathe. It's another byproduct of a plant process that has anim
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>Vegans own smug and 'ethical checkmate' inanity I maintain that the Vegan Police from Scott Pilgrim are one of the finest satirical concepts I've ever seen in fiction.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
KDE these days seems like configurability-overload. I appreciate the flexibility but it just feels excessive to me. I think a lot of the options should be tucked away into an equivalent of Firefox's about:config. For me, something like
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
The recent extension-disabling problem made me realize how awful the unfiltered web is. Trying to use mobile Chrome for the first time ever was a dreadful experience. I legitimately had no idea that mobile Chrome doesn't have any exten
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>Tumblr used to be, it might as well be dead now, it's going the way of MySpace (sold off a few times, passed around, until it's hardly valuable at all). That will turn around quick if Pornhub actually succeeds in buying it.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>GPay I'm very happy to live in Canada, where Google Pay is completely irrelevant thanks to Interac. I can walk into any business with a payment terminal and know that my debit card will just plain work, no matter my back or credit
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
I've always found it disturbing how Gargron rarely makes any attempt to disabuse people of the incorrect notion that Mastodon was the start of, and the canonical example of, open and federated social networks. If anyone deserves that s
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>I suppose after that would be New Sagan Oh, I don't know. Sounds like that sort of rocket would cost billions and billions of dollars.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
In fairness to SpaceX, Falcon Heavy's long delays weren't a result of mismanagement or false claims. The delays were due to Heavy turning out to be largely unnecessary for routine operations and development being put on the back b
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
It's also easier on the learning curve. I've just gotten back into coding as a hobby after a two-decade-long gap. In that time every few years I've tried to pick up C, and always ended up bewildered and frustrated by garbage
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
This is like the software equivalent of Red Letter Media's video library.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
I did see and disable the telemetry option in the preferences the first time I used it, and so far it seems to behave itself and not quietly re-enable telemetry.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
When I discovered VS Code a few months ago (I'm a hobbyist just getting into coding, not a professional) after many recommendations from friends who code and are die-hard open source true-believers, I did a legitimate doubletake after
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
I think it's funny because the entrenched establishment politicians like Steve Bannon are also the ones most opposed to Sanders and his allies.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>"I think ultimate success is regime change ... the goal is quite simply to break the back of this totalitarian mercantilist economic society." The really funny thing is that Bernie Sanders' supporters have the exact same
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
After the Wikileaks Vault 7 releases, specifically the details about how Marble and Umbrage make it easy to implement a digital false-flag attack, I don't see how anyone can be certain of the identity of a sufficiently skilled attacker
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Mastodon and similar projects like Pleroma are old school wild-west open source distributed endeavours, not "notice me, Facebook-senpai!" SV startups. Anyone who thinks that the developers and users involved in those projects give
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Sounds like it might be fun to load one's devices with infinite zips labelled with tempting filenames, like "red light district itinerary.zip". https://research.swtch.com/zip
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Oh they absolutely were. Their research into the time periods in which they wrote sketches was often far better than that of "serious" films and TV series. Notably, Terry Jones has had a deep professional and personal interest in
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Many people are otherwise using their ISP's DNS servers, which are often even worse with regards to performance and reliability. Long ago I did tech support for an ISP, and I'd say that 9/10ths of our "outages" were

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