kevin_b_er

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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
This needs to be in *management* ethics. It was the *management* that ignored warnings. The "compromises" were demanded by *management*. Boeing is not an engineering culture, it is an MBA culture. This is the result. It is clear,
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
They are already expired. That's the problem.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
The intro from the host/master of ceremonies sounds like German, not Polish.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
The freest market is one that consolidates. The highest profits are made by controlling all the resources, after all.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
> Fixing the problem is rather simple: remove the regulations, allow free market entry and competition again, and put the onus back on market participants to choose for themselves what's best for them and their own particular situat
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
The 's' is voiced in the verb and voiceless in the noun, at least in my midland accent, which is probably closer to American TV's accents. By 'voiced', I mean your vocal chords vibrate and make a sound for it. But t
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
All the other browser permit you to override the user. They are not user's agents anymore, are they?
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
The Firefox user agent permits users to put a video PiP when they choose.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
The addition of 'elitist' is a key indicator here. It is a label used by the American far-right for anything even slightly left of their position which may correct or expose them. Whereas the right wing relies on the firehose of
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
The purpose of Manifest V3 is to be less capable. uBOL, implementing this, is less capable by design. This won't be remedied because it is the point of Manifest V3. Google is an ad company. The next step is the Web Integrity API, where
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
What if they are crackpots?
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
> Who would go to jail if _no_ driver was in the car? The CEO should. If we remove the human, the liability should go to those in charge of the machine. To hell with this nonsense of a "company" absolving the humans in charge o
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
Written by a known disinformation "think tank": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_Coalition > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
Ok I went through the implementation code. The "quarantined domains" are the contents of extensions.quarantinedDomains.list, which defaults to empty. So, this has to be some sort of enterprise feature.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
What's the list of quarantined domains?
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
I'm no expert on the subject, but I'm to understand things were somewhat cleaner in the past. A critical problem is that, like many languages, English's pronunciation shifted over the years, but the spelling did not. In trut
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
> If anything, except for spelling mistakes like syd vs. syde, I think that's actually more consistent than modern English. I.e. I'd say syd for side is perfect. A y by itself makes the "why" sound. So syd is exactly
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
That was then, and systemd is mandating it this year.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
The motivation is because systemd is compelling them to change it. Systemd decides how Debian may operate, and decides how users, processes, and files work, not the Debian Technical Committee.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
The problem they're to solve is labor costs.
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by kevin_b_er 3y ago
It will not. It will serve the capitalist class as an instrument to enrich at the expense of the masses. And it will be done while telling most people that they just didn't "work hard enough".
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
We won't like the result of the massive consolidation in capital greater than ever before. We shall live in interesting times.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
And what is this "commonality" supposed to be?
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
You think the US is going to limit itself to travelers? They're going to read a lot more entries than just travelers.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
These are craftier meanings, at least in US English. "in school" often means you're a student (primary, secondary, or post-secondary school) in general. "He's still in school" can mean either he hasn't fin
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
The default is 'yes'. For awhile Fedora overrode it no, but then abandoned that: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/KillUserProcesses_by_...
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
Apple has likely signed a massive licensing deal with ARM at the 'architectural license' level or an even more specialized deal because Apple is Apple. I'd think that Apple's signed a nice long contract because when Appl
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
That was true until Sinclair bought up a bunch of local stations and started requiring identical stories. This was part of Sinclair's dislike of social media doing moderation of malicious and hateful content. https://www.you
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
And the DMCA is about copyright. Where's trademark mentioned?
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
What this is is also another reason not to use Snap. This is a multi-level failure. 1. Signal-Desktop is AGPLv3: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop 2. The snap package metadata is AGPLv3: https://gi

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