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by pferde 2y ago
Cool, now outlaw the loud ones in populated areas. Next step, the same thing with the obnoxiously loud motorbikes in cities.
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by pferde 2y ago
The virus of course does not do this consciously, but simple darwinian logic dictates that the strains that are too deadly will kill its pool of hosts too quickly, and die off together with them.
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by pferde 2y ago
No, you're not. :) Emoticons aren't emoji.
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by pferde 2y ago
I don't feel like emoji add anything substantial to a textual conversation, it's mostly useless fluff. I don't miss it on HN, so I disagree with your use of "reduced" here. :)
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by pferde 3y ago
What does "very online" mean? I thought being online was like being pregnant - you either are, or aren't.
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by pferde 3y ago
There's plenty of that, possibly even more on Mastodon/Fediverse, you just have to go look for it and follow relevant people and/or hashtags.
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by pferde 3y ago
What I wrote was ".. hundreds of hits just like those listed in the article ...", and the article listed attacks.
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by pferde 3y ago
An interesting thing that I've noticed is that some of the attackers watch the Certificate Transparency logs for newly issued certificates to get their targets. I've had several instances of a new server being up on a new IP addre
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by pferde 3y ago
It's not just WW1, it's that the system or rules the society is organized in has changed. Under feudalism, one of its basic tenets was that vassals provided their liege with not only money, but certain amount of men for the army.
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by pferde 3y ago
From the article: "Later on, Scheller and Freund realised that Pliny didn’t say what Facciolati-Forcellini claimed he did, but they liked the idea so they instead supported it" I wonder, how many historical so-called facts are sim
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by pferde 3y ago
When you're old and retired, and are reminiscing about your kids or grandkids back when they were small, or about past vacations. My parents tend to take a lot of photos whenever the family is together, and it used to bother me. Only i
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by pferde 3y ago
Client side. The client downloads the encrypted key backup and decrypts it using user-entered pin/password.
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by pferde 3y ago
Do you think regular users would know, or even care about which category to use? As far as they're concerned, it's "this message bad!", period.
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by pferde 3y ago
My anecdote can beat up your anecdote!
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by pferde 3y ago
...and interpret all the javascript. Web people love hiding their html behind javascript these days.
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by pferde 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but we've been able to do this for decades, with script/scriptreplay, programs from standard util-linux package. What does this ascii enema thing add?
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by pferde 3y ago
Yes, and if I had a car that depends on Internet connection to function as a car, I'd be quite pissed. :)
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by pferde 3y ago
I'm sorry but that's false equivalence. If you do something to your device and it stops working as a result, sure, that's on you. But if your device is untouched, but stops working because the manufacturer rejiggered some vir
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by pferde 3y ago
You mean the "don't be a dick to others" mentality? Yeah, there's a lot of that on Mastodon, thank god.
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by pferde 3y ago
"It rained the day I visited a particular city, I can't believe why people would live in cities if it rains all the time in them!" Dude, you merely chose an instance with racists in charge. My guess is, it is probably isolate
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by pferde 3y ago
So, very similar to what Brave the browser is doing? :)
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by pferde 3y ago
The way Mr. Pratchett describes the ad, it reminds me a lot of the ads one of his characters kept adding to their "moving pictures" in the book of the same name ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Pictures_
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by pferde 3y ago
Or ^Rpartofcommand to do an interactive history search. This is a priceless feature, which, as I keep finding out, too many people do not know about, and they waste time faffing about pressing up and down, trying to find that one command th
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by pferde 3y ago
You're trying to peddle a common logical fallacy, reductio ad absurdum. And you've been called out on it.
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by pferde 3y ago
Indeed, being able to type quickly is invaluable in minimizing the time your mind is blocked from continuing onwards. Or, in general, being able to use keyboard quickly. I've seen a lot of people who, when troubleshooting some issue in
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by pferde 3y ago
Indeed, it would probably require the invention of a true Artificial Intelligence, and of high quality as well. Not the glorified autocomplete the scammers are trying to pass as AI now, but the real thing that can sense and understand the w
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by pferde 3y ago
Really? I guess you guys are active elsewhere and not on the mailing lists, because those are as dead as a very dead thing. :)
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by pferde 3y ago
I would not recommend Tox anymore, as it is unmaintained - https://lists.tox.chat/pipermail/support/2023-August/000340.... It was a decent piece of tech, though!
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by pferde 3y ago
> Surely nobody is ... That's your mistake right there. If some workflow or usage pattern is possible, you can bet that somebody, somewhere is doing it, and relying on it. No matter how silly it might look to you.
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by pferde 3y ago
"Enshittification" was a meme - in the original, non-lolcat sense of the word - from the very beginning. Perhaps what you meant to say is that it is being overused even where it does not make sense. :)

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