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by webdoodle 5y ago
Same here. I just didn't get why I'd want to broadcast every shit I took, or everything I ate. Low on substance, high on drama. Fast forward to today, and we now know that Facebook and other social media are encouraging narcissi
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by webdoodle 5y ago
Tapping undersea cables is one of the most critical missions modern day submarines conduct. So in short: every country that can get a sub that far north.
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by webdoodle 5y ago
To take it a step further, throw your phone away. I've been digital overseer/fear machine free for almost 2 years now, and can definitively say it's the best decision a person can make for their mental well being.
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by webdoodle 5y ago
The hippies also allowed our governments to continue to erode our freedoms, either being too high to understand how they were being duped, or being so high as to actually believe the news media. Either way, they were too busy in communes g
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by webdoodle 5y ago
I did so for years, scraping university press releases, obscure government data (like the Federal Register), jail/prison rosters, Reddit posts/comments/users etc. Companies like LexusNexus have been doing it for far longer t
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by webdoodle 5y ago
Detaching a thread, that's new (to me). I guess it's better than all out censorship, but not much better than Reddit collapsing threads that get downvoted by bots. I'm sorry if my meager comment became work for you, however
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by webdoodle 5y ago
> That isn't elitism or censorship. It's enforcing their ToS, which as a private business, they have every right to do. I also think you're confused about what an 'elite' actually is. Spoonfed, entitled, whining,
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by webdoodle 5y ago
> There’s no other explanation. The other explanation is that they are being paid to control the narrative that the 'elites' order them to, by censoring anything outside their agenda.
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by webdoodle 5y ago
The 'elites' control the narrative through propaganda censors like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Anything that doesn't conform to their predetermined agenda gets discredited, the author smeared, then eventually banned from p
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by webdoodle 5y ago
Somewhat related, I had an older Asus core 2 board, that would accept 16gb of ram, but would only work on 64 bit OS's. However, even with a 64 bit OS, the onboard NIC would fail to work. So I added a NIC to the PCI bus, and it also w
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by webdoodle 5y ago
Excel still is used heavily in government. I wrote a VBA macro for an Excel spreadsheet that would take a payroll flat text file, import it into SQL Server using OLE DB, do some data clean up, sort and then export to separate sheets in a d
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by webdoodle 5y ago
Yep, they should also be put on a 'no fly' list that excludes them from any Federal Law Enforcement Grants or Funding, which is a large part of many police dept budgets. For instance, it's how the Federal government enforces
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by webdoodle 5y ago
> is a problem for all of us. Not for those of us that don't invest our money in banks/stock markets, and don't take out loans. Private businesses meeting the above criteria would have boomed under those conditions, as t
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by webdoodle 5y ago
> Bankruptcy is an option. Yeah, I thought the same thing in 2008, then the haunting words "too big to fail" were used by both Obama and McCain, so it didn't care who won the presidential election, the banksters would stil
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by webdoodle 5y ago
Some would say that's the intended goal (solving the over population problem).
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by webdoodle 5y ago
The CIA, through it's funding arm In-Q-Tel, bought into early [social media data mining firms]( https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-funded-by-cia-2016... ) as well.
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by webdoodle 5y ago
I'd like to see torrent hosting become a thing. I don't like to leave my computer\network connected to the internet all the time, but would like to make video/audio I've produced available. A hosting provider that lets
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by webdoodle 5y ago
I only use news.Google.com to search news articles, which it's somewhat okay at as long as it isn't a political related search (which it is extremely biased at). Otherwise I find google pretty much sucks at search anymore and don
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Pfizer Is Lobbying to Thwart Whistleblowers from Exposing Corporate Fraud(theintercept.com)
62 points by webdoodle 5y ago|8 comments
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I fondly remember writing my first game using assembly that I hand typed from a magazine article on an Amiga. It didn't work because of a reversed peek/poke. It took us all day to figure it out, but we got it working!