nickburns

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by nickburns 5mo ago
As if that makes any sense.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
I'm unable to read, speak, or otherwise understand Japanese.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Nothing here is remotely parody.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Psychopathology.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
1.) No. It's another helpful tell. (And what do you mean 'anymore'?) 2.) I'm comfortable with varied comma stylization. 3.) My personal usage of the em-dash hasn't changed in a few decades and I don't see it do
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by nickburns 5mo ago
This meme, too—shall pass.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
I say this in good faith: oh, stop.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
I'm not.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
I doubt it.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
You clearly speak only one language.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
You got the impression I was trying to argue with you? Go look it up like the president doesn't. I'm personally not a recognized grammar authority.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Yes. But mostly just because it's in reference to this particular president who's a dullard and displays it regularly in this particular way.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
The word 'president' being a potential title doesn't make it a title nor a proper noun in all contexts. Your bio contains comma splice, by the way.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
> The President, within this context, identifies a single entity. As such, it is a proper noun Yeah, no. You're just making things up to suit your position like the president does.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Friendly advice: please don't capitalize random common nouns like the president does. It's a marker of one's affinity toward precision (among other things).
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by nickburns 5mo ago
And intelligent, hence the Nazi stereotype.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Definitely Signal. It strikes the fairest balance between industry-standard end-to-end encryption ('E2EE') and usability. Get as many of your contacts onto Signal as you can. Disable the displaying of message text within device no
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by nickburns 5mo ago
All of the above and anything else you can think of that can be tied back to 1.) profit; or 2.) the accumulation of clout with authorities (in that order).
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Failing to connect those dots is (unfortunately) what keeps many, many people from moving their otherwise private conversations to a more private channel. I think you're right that it bears mentioning.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Then why end the more insidious route rather than stay the course?
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Probably figured they'd ride the wave of E2EE messaging while public popularity crested to draw some conversations (group chats?) onto the platform, just to inevitably rug pull later.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
> They want to know how many people are using their site and how. Yeah, why?
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by nickburns 5mo ago
The state healthcare exchanges doing any kind of targeting and/or marketing, even to 'get people' to sign up for subsidized healthcare, could also be conceived of as unreasonable. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't think t
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Fucking marketeers. STFU.
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by nickburns 5mo ago
I know they've come to be known colloquially as 'viruses'—but software can contract pathology?
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by nickburns 5mo ago
1. I can only assume the DoD has complete control over this IP address. 2. Not something we can answer. Why would it need to be invisible to function as network surveillance? 3. It is on the same broadcast domain, which is how my edge rou
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by nickburns 5mo ago
Holy derp.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
Long tentacles indeed.
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by nickburns 6mo ago
arpwatch running on an edge router of mine tells me that there's a host with a DoD-registered IP address connected to my (major US) ISP network segment, which I know for a fact contains both business and residential subscribers. I port
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by nickburns 6mo ago
So basically—both Apple and Alphabet love the way you think.

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