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by slackfan 3y ago
Privacy doesn't matter and GDPR is not a solution.
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by slackfan 3y ago
If only that body didn't delegate all of their work to unelected officials and basically sit there and collect a paycheck.....
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by slackfan 3y ago
Not just a US thing. Europe is even more prevalent.
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by slackfan 3y ago
I love this article being quoted and requoted over the years, yet considering I live not one town over from there, it never fails to amuse at how much of that article is made up whole-cloth. To a rural NH native, this is basically somebody
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by slackfan 3y ago
Sounds like I hit a nerve?
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by slackfan 3y ago
I've been promised that that was going to happen any day now since the wrong person got elected back in 2000. Nearly a quarter century on I am beginning to suspect that somebody was overstating something, I can't quite put my fing
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by slackfan 3y ago
Гулаг (gulag) is the acronym for "Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й" which translates to "Head management office of correctional work camps". And if you're going to go for all incarcerated, the
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by slackfan 3y ago
Sure. See you in the gulag, comerade
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by slackfan 3y ago
Try to implement out-of-spec authentication and watch your logs fill up with bots.
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by slackfan 3y ago
Too stealthy.
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by slackfan 3y ago
May we all remember that the we can only know that we know nothing.
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by slackfan 3y ago
>doesn't harass you to sign up to cloud services That's not really true. The Os9 installer actually invites you register your computer with apple (and maybe even sign up for an apple account, been a hot minute since I've s
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by slackfan 3y ago
The difference in interface speed and responsiveness is tremendous. I have a few G4 machines, os9 on them is absolutely nuts in terms of speed compared to my mid-road M2 macbook with the latest osX. Helps when you don't have to start u
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by slackfan 3y ago
A proposed axiom: The value and function of any program is inversely proportional to its' length.
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by slackfan 3y ago
1) "boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days 2) baby boomers are the generation born post post-1945 3) Miyazaki-san was born in 1941.
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by slackfan 3y ago
If you think that russia is not a beuerocratic hellhole that cares to an extreme amount about travel documents you have never had the pleasure of dealing with russian border security in a moscow airport. Or you have more money and backing t
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by slackfan 3y ago
What's capitalistic about bowing to the social censorship required? Sure as hell ain't making their product more profitable for the user market. Seems like the market isn't the end users but government monopolies which isn&#x
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by slackfan 3y ago
You do realize that the US is also down from its' peak of CO2/Capita production, whereas china is getting there per-captia . (13 US, ~9 China), and the trend doesn't seem to be stopping? Per capita becomes kind of a bad comp
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by slackfan 3y ago
Counter to the old Slashdot adage, let's actually read the fucking article. Remember, the headline trumpets: How Accurate Were Their Predictions ? 1. Estimate seems to be alright. 2. "On target if a little high"? or you cou
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by slackfan 3y ago
Shhh, don't bring up global cooling.
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by slackfan 3y ago
Are they tossing any money at actually doing forest management or are they just throwing money at random systems in hopes that they can solution their way around actually doing forest management?
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by slackfan 3y ago
Ah, what is old is new again.
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by slackfan 3y ago
Eastern Europeans have had it right for over a century, all news is inherently bullshit. Yes, all of it. No exceptions.
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by slackfan 3y ago
Gemini also doesn't really offer anything significantly better over gopher, imho, and only adds things that make it, ironically, less useable.
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by slackfan 3y ago
KDE has been getting progressively worse and less usable since 3.5.
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by slackfan 3y ago
I'm glad to see that the state of modern libraries has caused such illiteracy that you think that the point of the op was about card catalogues, ergo proving my original point.
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by slackfan 3y ago
Coming enshittification? Seriously? Where has the author been for the past three decades as public libraries have quite literally debased themselves to chase some modicum of appeal to some nebulous concept of modern generations instead of b
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by slackfan 3y ago
Coming enshittification? Really? Then what the hell has been happening there for the past three decades if not enshittification.
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by slackfan 3y ago
It sure aint no corvid court
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by slackfan 3y ago
> will it still be worth the price of admission? I'm not so sure. As an alum of the harvard-for-working-people extension school at the Ivy, I can say it already sure isn't. The education is mediocre, and the administration is m

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