pixxel

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by pixxel 2y ago
Bing wrappers exposed.
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by pixxel 2y ago
Advertising doesn’t work on me. I fast-forward through ads. I never sit and listen to them. Ever. Am I unethical?
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by pixxel 2y ago
How tall are you?
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by pixxel 2y ago
> absolute blight Not absolute. They have exposed plenty of truths over the decades. A blight, for sure.
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by pixxel 2y ago
The only truly smart thing in this thread.
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by pixxel 2y ago
Highly paid executives paid by… [checks notes]…Google. Surely not!
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by pixxel 2y ago
I have all Firefox/Mozilla URLs blocked at network level. I get Firefox install/updates from a Linux repo. Firefox is constantly pounding my network attempting to dial home. Thank you maintainers for giving me privacy.
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by pixxel 2y ago
Don’t be so pompous. Many of us take privacy and opensource seriously.
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by pixxel 2y ago
>I'm fairly anti-Apple >though I grudgingly use most of their products >it's just an advert
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by pixxel 2y ago
It’s insensitive to anyone with a soul.
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by pixxel 2y ago
Poisonous snakes everywhere. What’s a good alternative to Signal?
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by pixxel 2y ago
> given Elon's continuing shenanigans at Twitter that moment is probably still ongoing, and the competition is still wide open What shenanigans? When he fired a whole load of staff there were cries of Twitter’s demise. The opposite
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by pixxel 2y ago
You haven’t included consultation fees, planning fees, backroom bidding markups, unions, pensions etc. What it costs you to do the job isn’t the reality of it, sadly.
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by pixxel 2y ago
> What personally annoys me is the very disrespectful behaviour of the seeming majority of english residents who are perfectly happy to pave, tarmac or concrete their entire front garden to fill with cars I disagree with your “disrespect
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by pixxel 2y ago
> great launchpad into Europe So pick another country or just fill-in the required paperwork. Wetwipe.
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by pixxel 2y ago
> unless if you subscribe to certain political/ideological values then you wont find much to hang around for I’ve had success with following people with pre 2015 bio’s. No flags, no politics, no pronouns. Just tell me what hobbies e
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by pixxel 2y ago
My comment is related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40224658 Foisting, lots of foisting.
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by pixxel 2y ago
I had to install Direct X to get a game to run on Linux via WINE. The install modal had an additional message which read something like: Install the Bing bar to enjoy blah blah!! And of course the tick box to install was already ticked. I f
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by pixxel 2y ago
Don’t worry, your dreamy dystopian nightmare is well on the way.
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by pixxel 2y ago
Put your hand out of a window at speed and you can really feel it.
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by pixxel 2y ago
> shameless plug but please come and join us if you have interest in talking further about the project and its wider ecosystem Plugging engagement on Reddit but not Mastodon. JFC.
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by pixxel 2y ago
Thank you everyone involved. I’ve got Fedora running on a 2013 MacBook Air (midrange). Perfect as a second screen to watch videos or couch surf.
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by pixxel 3y ago
Just finish Lawmen: Bass Reeves (about the legendary lawman of the wild West, Bass Reeves, the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River.) https://thetvdb.com/series/bass-reeves Recommended.
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by pixxel 3y ago
That was 80 years ago. Why are you disrupting the current topic on Nestle current evils.
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by pixxel 3y ago
> It’s unreasonable to suddenly flip a switch and turn off your beliefs when you walk through a gate. Don’t walk through the gate if you’re unable. Welcome to adulthood.
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by pixxel 3y ago
If YT implemented a p2p option then I wouldn’t need to use their bandwidth and block ads. The world’s video library belongs to all. If you want to act as gatekeeper to all the knowledge so you can profit then we’ll work around it. But that’
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by pixxel 3y ago
You must be in your twenties or early thirties.
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by pixxel 3y ago
> Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. If you stop being a pa
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by pixxel 3y ago
> How anybody can buy products form this company and feel they are buying from somehow better and more moral vendor than rest of the market is beyond my understanding > marketing
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by pixxel 3y ago
Pissed. Let’s be honest: you dismissed the one-time useful question and instantly forgot about it.

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