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by terminous 3y ago
> This has to be trolling. No, this is a serious position, and you have to be trolling by being so dismissive of it. Julian calendar, what kind of argument is that? Don't you know we use the Gregorian.... See how that feels? That wa
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by terminous 3y ago
I think in this case, it would be OK to add [mollydotcom] to the title. That's how I knew her, not by her last name.
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by terminous 3y ago
This is like saying you built an operating system in 120 seconds because you typed "docker run...." into a terminal
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by terminous 3y ago
I would feel so violated if I accidentally left very personal handwritten notes in a library book that I returned, then have the library scan it and very publicly turn it into social media fodder. These notes are not for any of us to read.
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by terminous 3y ago
For US companies registered in Delaware (which is most of them), the doctrine of shareholders primacy holds. Shareholders can and have sued corporate boards/execs for not acting in their best interest. It goes back to the 1910s when He
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by terminous 3y ago
The Privacy Policy is deceptive. It says: > I'm not collecting any of your data. Now go back and get your music taste judged. The site obviously is collecting your data. How else would it know your Spotify history? Now, it could say
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by terminous 3y ago
It's official: SQL group by queries are considered "AI" now.
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by terminous 3y ago
> Electronic-waste neutral: When you buy a Fairphone 5, we give a phone a new life or recycle the same amount of electronic waste. This means 100% compensation for the weight of electronics we put into the market. Making you phone e-wast
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by terminous 3y ago
CTRL-F for "open source", no hits. What a glaring omission. There are tons of open, freely licensed fonts: https://fontesk.com/license/ofl-gpl/
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by terminous 3y ago
> At least to my layman's eye the new patents don't seem to be particularly revolutionary It's the same trick that pharmaceutical companies use to extend their patents. Find a slightly new use or way that also covers the o
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by terminous 3y ago
Retro? Sure. Punk? Not when the patents are tightly held by a greedy patent troll who seems to do everything in their power to stop hobbyists and hackers
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by terminous 3y ago
My mistake in the wording. The California law creates a private right of legal action for intentional distribution, not creation.
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by terminous 3y ago
In California as of 2019, making fake porn of real people without their written consent is not a crime that will get you thrown in jail, but it is a violation of an individual's rights and you can be sued for damages, up to $150,000 pe
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by terminous 3y ago
As if I needed yet another reason to not trust Brave. They keep jumping to each new shiny thing in tech, when they just need to keep to the core mission of a privacy-first browser.
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by terminous 3y ago
Agreed. I'd love to see this kind of blogspam submission get redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbe...
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by terminous 3y ago
Use the email no@thankyou.com with any password. It will let you install on Win 11 with a local account.
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by terminous 3y ago
- First-class brick has a compressive strength of 105 kg/cm². - The compressive strength of a second-rate brick is 70 kg/cm². - Common building bricks have a compressive strength of 35 kg/cm² - The compressive strength of sun
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by terminous 3y ago
From Walter Isaacson’s "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life": On June 21, after he had finished a draft and incorporated some changes from Adams, Jefferson had a copy delivered to Franklin, with a cover note far more polite than e
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by terminous 3y ago
I didn't realize how explicit the Montana state constitution was on this [1], which was rewritten in 1972: Part IX. ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES Section 1. Protection and improvement. (1) The state and each person shall maintain a
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by terminous 3y ago
> Courts have ruled that merely executing an exe file is itself an act of copyright infringment, because the OS copies the contents into RAM You can't just drop an extraordinary claim like that without a citation. When I search thos
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by terminous 3y ago
> the added cost to me is really minimal. And yes, I do realize carbon offsets are sort-of a scam, but willingness to pay for them is sort-of a signal as well Do you not see the contradiction? They are minimal because they are a scam. An
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by terminous 7y ago
In the US, it is if you're an incorporated business serving as a "public accommodation" as defined in the Americans with Disabilities Act, which includes hotels, restaurants, theaters, storefronts. If it is just your personal