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by kevwil 6y ago
Honestly, no idea if this is an April Fool's Day prank or not. Seems reasonable, but inconsistent naming makes me suspicious.
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by kevwil 6y ago
More of this please! Far more interesting and entertaining than anything coming out of Hollywood or Washington D.C. lately.
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by kevwil 6y ago
Not sure I am/was upset enough to call it the hill I want to die on, but to me this was the decisive moment where social media took over people's consciousness. To me, it was a curated feed of educational, informative, and enterta
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by kevwil 6y ago
Looking forward to the world no longer giving the Saudi goverenment / royal family a free pass on everything. It's ridiculous at this point.
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by kevwil 6y ago
There's a lot I like here. I agree that the major toxin has been mobile social media apps, and I deleted mine a few months ago. Divorcing the smartphone completely is doable but I'm not sure I want that pain. That's mainly be
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by kevwil 6y ago
Imagine a world where all our enemies DIDN'T know how fragile our infrastructure is. False security, surely, but still would be somewhat comforting. :)
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by kevwil 6y ago
I'd rather not know, because I have no reasonable alternative here. Stress management 101.
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by kevwil 6y ago
Moderation seems to be a very slippery slope. IMHO there's no way to truly win; policies eventually trend toward either absolute free speech or blatant censorship. This is the critical flaw in social media, as either trend is problemat
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by kevwil 6y ago
Gonna disagree there a bit, semantically. Parler was a no-censorship social site, open to everyone. Extreme right-wing people flocked to it while very few people with other perspectives did. Parler being a hate site was not purely of their
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by kevwil 6y ago
This is the beginning of the end for America. Regardless of whether we agree or disagree with what someone says, a free society depends on freedom of expression. It's the first right in the Bill of Rights for a good reason. Layers and
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by kevwil 6y ago
51 years after a man planted one nation's flag, another nation's robot planted theirs. Congrats to them, I guess, but it's far less impressive, especially considering the vast tech advancements in that 51 years.
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by kevwil 6y ago
"Myth" is a strong word, given the author supports 2/3 coverage goals. I call clickbait.
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by kevwil 6y ago
I wouldn't disagree, overall, but it may not be that clear-cut. I heard Sig Sauer is closing a German factory and the US plant will be exporting US-made Sigs. Reminds me of the Accord I used to have, made in Ohio. Are these wins for fo
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by kevwil 6y ago
Industry is very strong, but PE-controlled Remington has lost their way. What's interesting to me is the 700 action design is becoming the dominant default pattern from custom manufacturers. Bighorn, ARC, Defiance, GAP, Kelbly's,
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by kevwil 6y ago
At this point, it's "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me", like it's tough to believe anything they say at this point.
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by kevwil 6y ago
First 25 years of my life. It was glorious. I would start by making a list of what you think are critical uses of tech, and work on trimming that list down until all that's left is almost impossible to do analog. You'll probably n
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by kevwil 7y ago
No, corporate "agile" is the problem. Politics, resistance to change, and power struggles are what's fatiguing. True Agile is liberating and invigorating, but unfortunately rare.
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by kevwil 8y ago
... because God forbid there be a variety of perspectives on an AI council. People laughed at Musk for his AI doom rants, me included, but if this is how it's going so far ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by kevwil 8y ago
Yeah, if this is about Windows UAC and cert/app naming problems, how is that related to FOSS whatsoever? Seems like a whiney rant that shouldn't have been made public.
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by kevwil 8y ago
I wish Microsoft would modernize Windows to be a fully (or mostly) POSIX-compliant architecture like (almost?) every other OS in existence. It's a unicorn in that regard, and unicorns should stay extinct. ;-)
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by kevwil 8y ago
If you look at the de-facto vulnerability disclosure standards where a company is contacted with details of a vulnerability and a timeline in which to fix it privately before the security researcher goes public, you'll see that a hard
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by kevwil 8y ago
I learned to touch-type in high school, so switching to Dvorak 17 years ago only took about a month. I was on the verge of RSI problems when I switched, no RSI issues since. Dvorak saved my career. So "don't learn dvorak" fal
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by kevwil 8y ago
God I hate clickbait. At least the author has the nerve to admit the inflamatory intent, so that's something I guess. That is all, carry on.
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by kevwil 9y ago
This strikes a nerve, one still tender and stinging from Google's betrayal of Reader users. Yes, still. Things like Facebook's non-chronological feed algorithm still annoy me greatly, and a good RSS/Atom aggregator would plea
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by kevwil 9y ago
"Not exactly a high bar to clear given the garbage pile Twitter has become. ... It’s the place where being a Nazi will result in the severe consequence of losing verification." Ummm, what? Defending nazis are we?
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by kevwil 9y ago
Title should include a warning about auto-play videos on the page.
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by kevwil 9y ago
Wow, if that's how people are describing it, no wonder it's seen negatively. That seems very waterfall-ish and horrible. Thankfully that's not TDD as originally intended.
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by kevwil 9y ago
This logic is flawed, and I'm not surprised it's coming from Microsoft. If the expectation is that (repeatedly?) making blind guesses quickly and (optionally) cleaning up the mess later is better than expressing an understanding o
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by kevwil 9y ago
Admitted clickbait BS, could use a downvote for this one.
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by kevwil 9y ago
Can we get an inside contractor to leak proof of such? Because, you know, trust or the lack thereof.

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