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by smolder 2y ago
That's actually spelled McIntosh, which is different enough, I suppose.
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by smolder 2y ago
I had a much more utopian and somewhat deluded outlook growing up. It was based on the things adults told me, e.g. at school, in the boy scouts, and elsewhere, or absorbed from fiction with a utopian outlook like Star Trek TNG. I think ther
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by smolder 2y ago
I never intended to be the next Steve Jobs, I just expected that my dedication to learning and building useful skills would be rewarded in some sense. Things aren't that simple, of course.
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by smolder 2y ago
KGB is not even a thing. Modern equivalent is FSB, no? I'm skeptical. I don't think it's obvious that these are all basically fronts, as much as I'm willing to believe that IC tentacles reach wide and deep.
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by smolder 2y ago
A secure environment doesn't involve software exfiltrating secrets to a 3rd party. It shouldn't even centralize secrets in plaintext. The thing to collect and monitor is behavior: so-and-so logged into a dashboard using credential
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by smolder 2y ago
> Sex is part of society whether you want it or not, and so is paying for sexual acts. Yes, and this seems to be a discussion of whether people want it or not. I don't think paid sex acts ruin the world. Some people probably need it
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by smolder 2y ago
Dick Tracy had the such over the top villains... nearing on superhero comic stuff, which it competed with. I don't think there was any multiverse arc, though.
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by smolder 2y ago
You're probably blocking ads or blocking tracking in some fashion and denying them signals their naive models use to evaluate whether you're bot-or-not. It could be somewhat intentional but I'd lean towards it being an edge c
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by smolder 2y ago
Satya Nadella has been good for the stock price and is probably a better leader than Ballmer, but hasn't made MS into a respectable company.
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by smolder 2y ago
This is gold and I will be keeping this .PDF in my rather limited data hoard.
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by smolder 2y ago
Ah, but you admit there's a possibility of short term profit, and as you may know, that's what matters to decision makers.
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by smolder 2y ago
Dying away from the hustle and bustle can have a lot of appeal, just as living remotely can. I would prefer to die quickly if it meant not handing my entire savings over to some health care scalpers, leaving some for my progeny. Your object
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by smolder 2y ago
An improvement would be if the number was lower because hired lobbyists were less effective. We should undo Citizens United with legislation so that concentrated wealth can't be used to bully politicians as easily, giving them the free
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by smolder 2y ago
I have heard people lamenting the loss of small trucks for 20 years. There has never been another one as small or as light as a Ford Ranger or Toyota RN Pickup from the 90s. Rangers stopped being made and the Tacoma that replaced the Pickup
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by smolder 2y ago
When I think remote wooded area my mind goes to western NY around Allegheny. I know (and helped) someone who self-built a house in that area but am not sure about what approvals they needed/sought for it.
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by smolder 2y ago
What do you mean? OpenGL was a product of understood computer science.
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by smolder 2y ago
The idea of anything with permanence involving Bluetooth gives me a brain cramp.
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by smolder 2y ago
Right, by far, most of the tricks learned that improved game quality later in the life of a given console weren't based on new comp sci, but better understanding of the systems limitations (e.g. get more colors on screen by rewriting t
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by smolder 2y ago
If a service provider can see plain text for a messaging app between the END users, that is NOT end-to-end encryption, by any valid definition. Service providers do not get to be one of the ends in E2EE, no matter what 2019 Zoom was claimi
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by smolder 2y ago
What will this religion be called?
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by smolder 2y ago
Windows is practically spyware now, all they're doing with the platform is enshittification. WSL was the last "good" windows feature and it's just an Embrace Extend Extinguish play.
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by smolder 2y ago
> This sort of routine breakage is pretty common. Yes, the free OS is occasionally worse than the trillion dollar companies product.
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by smolder 2y ago
This is such MS propaganda I'm flabbergasted. Windows is a joke OS at present day.
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by smolder 2y ago
It's a talking point more than analysis, both countries pried themselves on "lifting from poverty" but don't acknowledge the people that become fodder for a selfish hierarchy.
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by smolder 2y ago
Calling it brainwashing doesn't appreciate that there are tensions between different cultural norms. And if you want to look at it that way, every country is looking to be the best at brainwashing, and China's no slouch there.
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by smolder 2y ago
I appreciate your response. I hope it swings back.
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by smolder 2y ago
In general, prison time is for the peasants, not the royalty.
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by smolder 2y ago
No, I should apologize. I was just grumpy when I commented and had no good reason to write that.
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by smolder 2y ago
Banning TikTok is doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
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by smolder 2y ago
This is a low quality piece about an over hyped subject.

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