rodgerd

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811.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Perhaps you long for the good old days where we carried around piles of floppies for our hardware, but I suspect you are in a small minority.
812.
by rodgerd 5y ago
> Razer is the worst of these. Given Razer's general shenanigans, such as tracking mouse and keyboard behavior and sending it to their cloud (without which, by the way, much of their new hardware simply won't work), their unint
813.
by rodgerd 5y ago
But it's very gratifying to the person who re-invents the wheel for the millionth time and feels good because of it. The Unix command line is the Candy Crush of interfaces, giving us a little dopamine hit every time we solve a problem
814.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Yeah. "Not leaking data" is basically a pay-for way for Elastic to commercialise the tool. A pretty shitty way, I would say.
815.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Well, there are reports that the Taliban have gained control of a bunch of biometric scanning and reporting tools used by the US forces in Afghanistan so...
816.
by rodgerd 5y ago
We've spent decades rewarding managers for "cutting the fat", while ignoring that fat is the reserve the body keeps to stay alive in times of stress. Like a bodybuilder who has cut for competition, we have no reserves for day
817.
by rodgerd 5y ago
"I can't condemn this person to starvation and homelessness" certainly makes it clear.
818.
by rodgerd 5y ago
1,800% increase in CEO pay vs 10s % for worker pay. Gee, I wonder what the problem could be?
819.
by rodgerd 5y ago
> Maemo never came close to delivering half the functionality I had in a 9500 You're right, but you're going to upset a whole bunch of people who think that what people wanted was Debian on a phone, and are uninterested in hear
820.
by rodgerd 5y ago
> How is this different from hedge funds who do the same thing with equities, and outperform the retail investor as a result? Equities are not a necessity of life.
821.
by rodgerd 5y ago
> Inflation is the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about that keeps poor people poor. Keeping inflation down has been the central policy of Western banks for 30 to 40 years. It absolutely absurd to claim that it is "not ta
822.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Yep. Paramount announced Paramount Plus in New Zealand and Australia. Then the failing pay TV monopoly paid up a bunch of money to make the content exclusive to their terrible 720p streaming service. No Paramount Plus for New Zealand! To ad
823.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Have Outposts fixed their "always-on, lose connectivity, lose your outpost" problem that they had when I first asked about them? Can they scale down to "I need to spin up an S3 thing for local testing" for the cost of th
824.
by rodgerd 5y ago
It's a collection of sophistry from Typhoid Marys. And yes, she was a real person. Those who ignore the humanities are doomed to repeat humanity's worst mistakes.
825.
by rodgerd 5y ago
The European world-view on what constitutes fine aesthetic sense is derived from Renaissance mis-interpretation of Greek decoration as being white marble. The colours that our culture subsequently rejects as gaudy, tasteless, and are othere
826.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Elizabeth Norton's Lives of Tudor Women overlaps somewhat with the period that you're interested in. History of Private Life, edited by Aries and Duby - volumes 2 and 3 cover the medieval and renaissance period.
827.
by rodgerd 5y ago
It's a sad irony that we rely on a Windows userland to get games that work for more than a few years on a Linux distro.
828.
by rodgerd 5y ago
I agree that laws are the right way to deal with this - there will always be another vulnerability for bad actors to exploit; technical solutions are not the answer unless you want to move your smartphone at the pace and rigor of the Apollo
829.
by rodgerd 5y ago
NSO customers' definitions of terrorist may not align well with yours.
830.
by rodgerd 5y ago
If anything, it would likely make it worse, since you'd now have "convincing the user to install your payload", recreating the phishing problems of desktop platforms.
831.
by rodgerd 5y ago
> It's so much worse than that. Hollywood accounting, but for your pay.
832.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Pay NZ$20/mo for Netflix in UHD, or fuck around on pirate sites to make sure none of the people making the series and films I'm enjoying, while hoping that no-one has dropped an entertaining payload in the site ads or the files I&
833.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Also kiwifarms. They used to be indispensible for Stormfront and 8chan, but the heat got too much.
834.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Well, be specific.
835.
by rodgerd 5y ago
sanoid/syncoid.
836.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Yeah, my ISP does an IPv4 (static is an extra cost) and a full IPv6 /56 assignment. Beyond that, though, I think a lot of the fundamentalism around "IPv6 should mean everything is always available, if you don't like that get
837.
by rodgerd 5y ago
The saddest thing is the people giving him a hard time for "being entitled". How fucked have our mindsets been by decades of anti-union, anti-worker propoganda, elevating CEOs to philosopher-kings, that people argue for their own
838.
by rodgerd 5y ago
"I'm not a stalker, I'm re-enacting the 80s teen comedies that I grew up with!"
839.
by rodgerd 5y ago
On art-imitating-art, I read an interesting interview in The Comics Journal in the late 90s, wherein the interviewee bemoaned how poor the state of comics art hat become; the norm in the 30s, 40s, and 50s had been artists who had trained as
840.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Decades of watching cricket has given me a bit of a handle on South Asian names. And I enjoy watching cricket.

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