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by weare138 6y ago
>Perhaps google starts modifying pagerank to promote content it feels better fits its politics. Honestly I don't think this is a political issue or the Mark Zuckerberg's of the world decisions are necessarily motivated by polit
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by weare138 6y ago
It's also a strange take. The author compares Mastodon to Twitter like Mastodon is a company. It's an open-source software project. If you want to 'play the social media game' just setup your own Mastodon node or any of
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by weare138 6y ago
Right after it buys some mittens.
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by weare138 6y ago
I'm not a finance person here but what's the difference between Gill promoting a stock versus people like Jim Cramer or sites like Motley Fool promoting a stock?
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Soviet Union's Secretive Space Cannon, the Only Gun Ever Fired in Space(thedrive.com)
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by weare138 6y ago
How would that solve the problem? Section 230 does not protect illegal content.
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by weare138 6y ago
But it implies MS specifically targeted wine by looking for a registry key unique to wine.
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by weare138 6y ago
I've been using wine since the 90's and never read this before. I thought it was interesting.
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by weare138 6y ago
spam
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by weare138 6y ago
How is Soylent a tech company?
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Medieval Minims: The hidden meaning of a medieval pen-twister(historytoday.com)
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by weare138 6y ago
> it’s extremely easy to game this metric. This reminds me how companies used to rate the performance of programmers based on how many lines of code they produced and why so many companies eventually abandoned this model. All it did was
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by weare138 6y ago
> Its not illegal to have or consolidate market power AFAIK Well using your previous example of Intel giving Dell volume discounts versus a small vendor, yes that in itself is legal. But don't forget AMD successfully sued Intel und
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by weare138 6y ago
That case was a huge convoluted mess. If I understand it correctly the UI patent claims were rejected and the case came down to 3 hardware design patents, D618,677, D593,087, and D504,889. But the case is so involved you damn near need a la
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by weare138 6y ago
Of course it happens here too but US companies are liable to US laws and civil penalties. Good luck filing a lawsuit in the US against a company in China. I'm sure the courts in China will make your US class action lawsuit their top pr
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by weare138 6y ago
That may mitigate the problem but it doesn't solve it especially when you didn't know it was occurring to begin with. The app is blatantly stealing your data. Would you accept that as a viable solution?
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by weare138 6y ago
Not a lawyer here but have UI design patents ever held up in court? All modern UI is derivative in some way. Apple lost a case to Microsoft on similar grounds. > The court ruled that, "Apple cannot get patent-like protection for the
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by weare138 6y ago
>but otherwise I'm not sure why you claim it doesn't deserve the title "University." Just because they can use that title doesn't mean they necessarily should, especially an organization rooted in academia that w
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by weare138 6y ago
> that there exists an abstract Python machine wherein the memory does not need to be so described This is getting a little esoteric. Python interpreters are created in other languages like C where memory does need to be described. How
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by weare138 6y ago
So you would consider the Daily Stormer, a self avowed neo-nazi site, 'non-conformist activists'? That's an interesting perspective on this issue.
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by weare138 6y ago
There's a case to be made that Twitter and Facebook turned a blind eye to extremism for profit but Gab has no place making that case. Gab has long since passed the exit for the high road.
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by weare138 6y ago
Parler is also financially backed by the Mercer family, who are conservative mega-donors and right wing political activists. https://www.reuters.com/article/parler-funding-mercer/social...
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by weare138 6y ago
I know Gab uses this domain registrar and hosting company called Epik but no clue how exactly how much of Gab's infra is handled by Epik. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company) https://www.epik.co
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Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'(vice.com)
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The Interior of Enceladus Looks Great for Supporting Life(universetoday.com)
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by weare138 6y ago
>Is sedition illegal? Should it be? How are we defining sedition though? Rebelling against society is one thing. I'm an old punk rocker. Did I break laws I didn't agree with? Yes, repeatedly. But I also accepted that, right or
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by weare138 6y ago
>Protesting electoral fraud is also absolutely required, even if I am extremely extremely sceptical that it actually happened. But you can't compare people committing act of violence to perpatuate a lie at the greater expense of soc
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by weare138 6y ago
Please by all means explain how these people were being 'silenced' before that lead to an attempted coup. Back up your claims.
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Capitol Riot Opens Congress to Potential IT Compromise(nextgov.com)
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by weare138 6y ago
It's intended to be a catch all for multiple kernel versions. The 'mitigations=off' option was introduced with version 5.2. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Spectre-...

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