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by kreeben 5y ago
>> Human Rights are special things Very true and my point would have been made without me presenting it as such. My apologies.
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The old "you can't fire me because I quit" inverted. That's fine.
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It is not I who is spoiled. It is old school boomer management who have become spoiled and exploitative.
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Then you must think of it as a privilege. And I shall not work for you.
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>> work up to four weeks per year fully remote Wow, that's really something. Personally, having spent a pandemic working fully remote I wouldn't even consider working for a company that didn't offer that as an unquestio
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Are you by any chance using Windows 11 Professional, a version my mom, her sister, their brother and 99% of my cousins will not get their hands on, because they are not "pro" users, they are "home" users?
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>> can we do it better? >> can we improve security and robustness? >> can we prevent unexpected interactions between applications? Of course you can. Are there incentives, though, for MS to do so? >> Goals [...] Lack
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>> global bacon shortage was "unavoidable". Thankfully history proved the author was completely wrong I'm sensing you said that partly in jest, because who doesn't absolutely love bacon? Me, I eat it at least once
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>> firefox, a well organised OSS project I see no proof of this. >> is struggling Money-wise, no. Management-wise, hell-to-the-yes.
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Waterfox lists all the ways they receive information about their users here [0]. The list has a length of 1: >> We learn information about you when you give it to us directly (e.g., when you choose to send us crash reports) [0] https
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From the v93 release notes: "Introducing Firefox Suggest"
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Realistic, maybe not. But if we skip the whole funding part, fork out from v92, skip all new features and cherry-pick security patches and nothing but, then I'm in!
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Because Firefox 92 is the last Firefox version I'll use. Looking for a better alternative as we speak.
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My biggest gripe is "hey, our users all seem to think we're the good guy, so let's sneak in ads, they won't care".
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This is the "here come the ads" version, aka "Firefox Suggest". Turn off auto updates here: options-->general-->firefox updates
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>> resume never parses Every time I rewrite my CV I always think, finally it's picture perfect. Next time I revisit it, because I'm looking for another job, I always think, who the F wrote this piece of crap. I'm either
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>> And it's free! Free, how? As in freedom/beer/something else? Money, you know, is not the only currency there is.
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>> Capitalists, Libertarians, Indians, & Chinese What a strangely composed list, full of odd ducks, no?
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FB's research shows that, yes, any friction between you and the next post/article/item will decrease the likelihood that you see it. A click == friction.
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>> not a saleable product Isn't that a lot like saying "those sausages with toothpicks in them at the supermarket" are not saleable products?
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Which part _did_ I understand and what part did I not, according to you?
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>> huge correlation between people low in Vitamin D and bad COVID-19 outcomes >> correlation != causation Thank you for that perfect explanation of "what is half-truth".
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I'm sorry you feel I've been too binary and full of hubris. I'll take that to heart. Cheers!
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>> traditional media just deals in half truths >> I trust most of the podcasts I listen to But so does pod casters, even Joe "Vitamin D" Rogan does it. Half-truths sell magazines. It seems we've created a society
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Maybe I'm being nostalgic, but I don't see this type of open discussions in media today, where on the one hand you'll have a reputable, mainstream journalist and on the other you'll have someone who thinks so far out the
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MS in 1995: wtf is "internet"? MS in 2021: wtf is "local"?
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"Windows 11 comes with tight Teams integration." Coooooooolsies
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If you mean "every other version", then yes, I member. I think MS has shifted from that strategy into a new one, where we'll see improvements every fifth version or so. 20 years from now, we'll get "multiple display
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Simply blow against the wind with equal force and hurricane will become neutralized. /super cereal
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I wonder how much electricity will be spent flushing then repopulating the caches of each and every DNS server on the globe. Prolly not that much?

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