rStar

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by rStar 5y ago
working from home allows me to be productive while getting more sleep instead of commuting. getting enough sleep makes your life much better. who knew?
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by rStar 5y ago
google be losing employees then.
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by rStar 5y ago
I wonder if the US will just buy Mexico to keep this from happening?
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by rStar 5y ago
1password needs to admit they screwed up by trying to force their customers into migrating to their cloud product. 1password needs to provide a first class service option to customers that want nothing to do with the 1password cloud.
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by rStar 5y ago
future historians are gonna have fun with facebook.
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by rStar 5y ago
amazon is responsible for the changes. amazon could fix the scam items and/or protect their reviews from being gamed. they choose eyes wide open not to do either of those things for business reasons.
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by rStar 5y ago
i’m ashamed of every single apple employee who worked to make this happen. their work will be used to subjugate the most vulnerable among us. i hope you all hate yourselves forever for your cowardice and immorality.
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by rStar 5y ago
i wish I could downvote this a million times. if someone has to seize physical control of your phone to see sexts thats one thing. this informs the abuser whenever the sext is sent/received. this feature will lead to violent beatings o
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by rStar 5y ago
> it is also a horrifying precedent that the device I put my life into is scanning my photos and reporting on bad behavior apples new customers are the various autocratic regimes that populate the earth. apples customers used to be huma
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by rStar 5y ago
no soup(general computation) for you!
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by rStar 5y ago
it only seems unlikely if you don't understand how covid works. covid-19 is an airborne illness that is passed through moisture between humans. humans radiate moisture when engaged in activities that increase heart rate. protest involv
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by rStar 5y ago
i'm dis missing the point the other poster made, because what I see as important is what actually happened. what I see as important about what actually happened is that the BSD license was incompatible with the situation, and if only
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by rStar 5y ago
outdoors with a 6' halo is fine in most cases, even with an unvaccinated population. The protests were not that in many cases, but health officials refused to tell people to stop, for whatever reasons they had. I believe the reasons we
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by rStar 5y ago
it's hacker news so I expect some actual reasons not hand waving generalities that don't amount to a "hill of beans"
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by rStar 5y ago
those health officials couldn't bring themselves to offend the protesters by pointing out that the protests were cesspools of shedding virus. even though the protests were cesspools of shedding virus.
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by rStar 5y ago
this tech is developed against vulnerable people that have no rights, like the uighur muslims in china and the palestinian muslims in israel/palestine. it is then exported all over the world to be unleashed against us all. that's
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by rStar 5y ago
apple doesn’t care about technical users, they sell a product designed to be of use to the most people who can pay. They are trying to move towards an IOS security model while preserving most of the features of a general purpose computer. w
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by rStar 5y ago
*cheat
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by rStar 5y ago
are these the same people who chest on exams in undergrad?
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by rStar 5y ago
care to share any of your reasons for optimism?
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by rStar 5y ago
i like to remind people that it’s their time they’re paying for it, but my time starts at 4pm and thats when I’ll be exiting the elevator into the parking lot.
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by rStar 5y ago
does the software lie about the rats? people are better at that type of soft skill.
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by rStar 5y ago
i don’t see that. i see carmac reminiscing as, wouldn’t it have been nice if this had happened rather than that, while clearly acknowledging that his business partners would not have gone along with ‘that’. the implication I draw, having no
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by rStar 5y ago
I would never have had the opportunity to read the DOOM source if JC had insisted on using BSD, because, as JC tweets, his business partners at Id soft would not have gone for it. ipso facto the GPL + Id + JC are responsible for this privil
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by rStar 5y ago
so, we all have the privilege to read the DOOM source code because the GPL exists and was compatible with the business needs of Id Soft, as well as JC’s vision, is how i’m reading this.
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by rStar 5y ago
lawyers do what they’re told. This is the acquiring company maximizing the value of their acquisition by any means possible.
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by rStar 5y ago
when this happens the product dies. in my mind it’s as if audacity never existed. hopefully a project emerges from a forked code base that’s useable going forward.
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by rStar 5y ago
that’s the american way. snitch on your friends and neighbors, live in a state of perpetual fear, give up your liberty in exchange for shareholder profits.
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by rStar 5y ago
“she’s a toadie, wait, jamie, can you check what toadie means”
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by rStar 5y ago
“monstrous…ideas” … @ 1:35 https://youtu.be/xpurFfcSNfU

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