toxican

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by toxican 8y ago
Won't somebody please think of the disgruntled edge case user who just wants an excuse to be bitter?
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by toxican 8y ago
It's a shame her Windows 3 icons aren't on there, I'd love to see those.
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by toxican 8y ago
The ISS's changes like that though because it's constantly doing burns to keep it "afloat" an abandoned satellite in LEO is going to eventually just burn up in the atmosphere and have a much more consistent orbit. And if
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by toxican 9y ago
Probably too early to tell, but I'd imagine this will mark the death of the Hackintosh? It's a shame, because I had a lot of fun hunting down all of the information and files I needed to convert one of my old PC's over.
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by toxican 9y ago
For me it's usually an attempt to not come across as staring. A lot of people grow up hearing "don't stare!" when it comes to people who look different because it's rude. So it's really hard for me to shake tha
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by toxican 9y ago
I've got a RaspberryPi Zero (WiFi via USB..ugh). Would that be too slow for DNS, or would having my DNS server be local vs remote negate that slow interface?
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by toxican 9y ago
Fear not citizen, it'll be put to use by the same government that's actively working to dismantle consumer protections.
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by toxican 9y ago
This doesn't even strike me as crazy or "out there" anymore, which is so sad.
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by toxican 9y ago
To me, calling it a breach is Facebook's attempt at passing the buck. Getting breached alleviates some responsibility for what happened. Maybe not in reality, but in how it's portrayed in the media and how it's understood by
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by toxican 9y ago
The average person is incredibly naive with regards to what the cost of a "free service" like Facebook is. It's not until you start looking at people who are in related fields that you start seeing people who truly understand
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by toxican 9y ago
"Seriously, who decides to employ those dialogs?" Usually some out of touch marketing, SEO, advertising, etc. person. Most web developers aren't the decision makers in situations like this.
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by toxican 9y ago
Meanwhile I've had Comcast residentually for about a year now without any noticed outages. At work we've got a local ISP (who we actually do design work for!) and our internet goes down once or twice a week at least. There's
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by toxican 9y ago
Wow that is a gross misunderstanding of United States v. Alvarez you've got there. All that did was invalidate the "Stolen Valor Act" which made lying about earned military medals a crime. Obama signed a similar law the follo
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by toxican 9y ago
Which only goes to show that nobody is "safe". Their goal is to sow chaos and there's no better way to do that than to play both sides at every opportunity.
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by toxican 9y ago
I don't know, it worked really well in Office Space. Potentially too well.
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by toxican 9y ago
When I was in middle school, there was this free web host I found[1] that gave you a small amount of storage and allowed you to load in templates and build your site with a WYSIWYG editor. Anyway, the homepage features a single text field w
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by toxican 9y ago
Seems like an incredibly blurry, ill-defined concept though. Even if my garbage can is "on the street", it's still a foot away from the street and firmly on my property. How is that any different than breaking into a storage
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by toxican 9y ago
I think in this case it's best to attribute the quote and the Orwell attribution to Michael Scott and call it a day :)
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by toxican 9y ago
So could this be ported to anything with a Z80? Like, for example, a TI-83+ graphing calc?
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by toxican 9y ago
Despite the non-maliciousness of the easter egg, I do think the act of just installing an extension into a browser could be viewed as a trust-breaker. I think the other "controversies" are overblown, but them remotely installing a
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by toxican 9y ago
But if you've never seen the show all you saw was some sketchy extension appear in your extensions list with little to no explanation of why. Was my Mozilla account breached? Did some program installed on my computer auto-install an ex
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by toxican 9y ago
These are excuses, not valid technical reasons.
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by toxican 9y ago
There's a really good scene in Apollo 13 that shows this. Jim Lovell is giving a tour of the VAB and in the background you've got two of the stages coming together with a thud.
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by toxican 9y ago
You may know what the countless other users of my VPN download, crafty website, but certainly not what I download.
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by toxican 9y ago
Have you looked into keyboard cases for phones? Something thin like an iPhone + a relatively thin kb case can't be much thicker than your average smartphone with an otterbox. edit: actually, now that I'm looking, they really only
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by toxican 9y ago
I switched to an iPhone because of this. I may not know everything that's going on behind the scenes with my phone, and I may not be able to tweak the hell out of it, but I do know that Apple's entire business isn't built aro
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by toxican 9y ago
No, anyone who would discriminate or support discriminating against someone based on something as irrelevant as sexual orientation is a bigot. Got it?
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by toxican 9y ago
I think their point is that there's no point in trying to force Windows to behave like a Unix when you can just use a Mac or install/dualboot Linux. There are a lot of reasons (fascism-based IT department, can't afford a Mac,
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by toxican 9y ago
The site already has ads. Sidebar ads, banner ads, ads that look like regular submissions to the site. Not to mention the more natural advertising that /r/hailcorporate likes to freak out about a lot.
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by toxican 9y ago
Critical, maybe, but I don't see rampant racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. all over this site like I do on reddit. People are also generally a lot more snarky and sarcastic on reddit than they are here, which could be perce

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