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by lin83 4y ago
It's probably a good idea to avoid insulting or alienating your audience. My manager is a woman and I run into code and setup documentation all the time that says things like "he should do X/Y/Z". At least our docum
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by lin83 4y ago
I'm just as cynical. > I’ve been on the internet since I was 14 (11 years ago). The author is young. They weren't around to remember the early internet or life without it. Their childhood/adolescence is corporate controlle
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by lin83 4y ago
The conclusion I would draw is that dog owners are unable to objectively analyse their pets behaviour.
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by lin83 4y ago
There's a subreddit that campaigns on the issue. The research page has a link to lots of studies, most from respectable publications, which are really damning: https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/wiki/re
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by lin83 4y ago
Another few examples: "In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1950-us-released-b... "United States Human Radiation Experiments" http:&#
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by lin83 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the owner of the “Mozilla Team” team PPA [1] has been dead since 2013 [2]. He is also listed as an Administrator. If someone were to comprise his account via his old email, e.g. if he used a now expired domain that coul
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by lin83 4y ago
Is the linked PPA [1] actually maintained by Mozilla or is it volunteers? I can't tell. The uploader looks like a freelancer and the PPA owner hasn't been active on Mozilla's Bugzilla in over a decade. [1] https://
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by lin83 4y ago
Amazon's attempts to get users to unwittingly sign up to Prime is one of the most egregious examples I encounter on a regular basis. As a European I cannot wait to see it gone.
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by lin83 4y ago
I can imagine a ridiculous Black Mirror-like scenario in which a Tesla suggests that instead of driving to a Bernie Sanders event as planned, that the driver go to a conservative one instead. After all, Tesla could decide that Sanders'
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by lin83 4y ago
> It's not telling you what to change, it's giving you suggestions. By giving you suggestions it's telling you that it thinks you are wrong. There is no way around that. It's a judgement plain and simple and that chan
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by lin83 4y ago
Finally someone gets it. Imagine if Google was dominated by religious conservatives and their "inappropriate" language suggestions flagged "gay parents" or "pro-choice" as 'wrong' by default.
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by lin83 4y ago
That's crazy. Local timelines are the best part of mastodon instances.
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by lin83 4y ago
> Lupiano said many of those who reached out to him about their brain cancer cases "are former CHS teachers and staff members who didn’t live in Colonia, they just worked in the school."
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by lin83 4y ago
You probably are. Everyone wants to spin things for there own benefit. However I think it's mostly in the interest of the aggressor to keep people lost in arm-chair debating about global powers by manufacturing suspicion of critical vo
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by lin83 4y ago
> In the western world the vast majority of people I know already have zero issues being tracked, advertised to, recommended to, and generally manipulated for "engagement" and profit. The vast majority of people have no thought
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by lin83 4y ago
I think they recommend just using normal Ubuntu now that most of the drivers have been upstreamed.