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DoctorNick··on Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy
Language models are going to make this problem way, way worse
DoctorNick··on Tesla ran over worker rights, again, US labor judge finds
When the bourgeoisie is in the drivers seat of your government, their interests come first.
DoctorNick··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
And there it is. Lemme guess, you lost your shit when LOTR included a black elf, right?
DoctorNick··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
I mean, what are said documentaries about the nazis like? Are they presenting an uncritical viewpoint? I don't think I've ever seen a documentary about the nazis not include the context of all the horrible shit they did
DoctorNick··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
Assume that I have no real reference point for what you're talking about. What sort of things, specifically, are you noticing?
DoctorNick··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
What sort of agenda are you referring to?
DoctorNick··on Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes decompilation of the N64 classic
Fun fact: there is no legal precedent in the US that states that clean room RE is required to avoid copyright infringement. It’s just been assumed.
DoctorNick··on DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter
John Carmack has talked about how much they liked the mods for wolf3d and intentionally designed WAD loading to make it easy to mod.
DoctorNick··on Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]
Sure, Jan.
DoctorNick··on The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse was reported during beta
Change logs wouldn’t have helped here, this behavior change was undocumented.
DoctorNick··on Block loses 20% of value as Hindenburg Research alleges fraud
“You’d shoot a man in the back?”

“Well, it’s the safest way, isn’t it?”

DoctorNick··on Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? (2021)
The Node.js ecosystem is full of people from Nebraska thanklessly maintaining critical pieces of infrastructure without much, if any, pay.

I think it would be justified if some of them decided to hold the node community for ransom.

DoctorNick··on Minimum wage ‘ghosts’ keep AI arms race from becoming a nightmare
"Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard" - Alger Hiss
DoctorNick··on The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
Yes.
DoctorNick··on US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
> I have a hunch that we'll also see an increasing number of opportunities for the US or other nations to effectively call out China's future tendency toward expeditionary blunders in South America, Africa, etc.

Yeah, that’s OUR racket!

DoctorNick··on Git archive checksums may change
Exactly. Unless the package manager has a mechanism for doing that, good fucking luck updating any of your packages ever again.
DoctorNick··on Rewrite it in Rust
The future is now, old man
DoctorNick··on Git archive checksums may change
With what? The abomination that is `git submodules`?
DoctorNick··on Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent
well, sounds like he has his work cut out for him then.
DoctorNick··on Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent
little snitch has the ability to MITM and display the contents of transfers. I'd suggest you use it and amend the post with details.
DoctorNick··on Mozilla, Microsoft yank TrustCor's root certificate authority
It really doesn’t matter if it was circumstantial or not. When presented with such evidence, the TrustCor rep was extremely evasive. This isn’t a court of law; if a Root CA can’t be up-front about explaining evidence that calls their trust into question, then they cannot be trusted and deserve to have their certificates yanked.
DoctorNick··on I fought the PayPal and I won
Yes. The key difference is that I am not a fucking payment monopoly, jackass.
DoctorNick··on I fought the PayPal and I won
Well, good to know. I was about to forward this.
DoctorNick··on “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”
> Babylon Bee being suspended was one of the dumber things the previous Twitter rules had done. It's a satire site, it's right leaning, nothing in the piece they said was hateful or even an unpopular view.

They didn’t even make a joke. They just called trans woman a man. It was hate speech, pure and simple.

I am very afraid for the future of twitter now. Hate speech is going to run rampant on that platform now.

DoctorNick··on Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
>In an alternate universe, the Chief Information Security Officer of Equifax is giving interviews about the dangers of work from home for cyber security roles, informed by her masters in music composition and 0.0 years of IC experience as deep expertise.

I'm struggling to understand what the point of this was.

DoctorNick··on Amazon putting a three-day pause on reviews for Rings of Power
It’s amusing when people don’t understand that it’s a political decision to have movies and tv shows with entirely white people in them.
DoctorNick··on Amazon putting a three-day pause on reviews for Rings of Power
There’s black people in it. That’s it. That’s the whole controversy
DoctorNick··on Miami advances plan to move homeless onto island
It’s truly terrifying to see how quickly people become damn near genocidal when describing the unhoused.
DoctorNick··on To meet demand, US needs 4.3M more apartments by 2035
Yes, we know. They should be expropriated.
DoctorNick··on TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
What, pray tell, do you think is "abnormal and awful"?
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