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LoveGracePeaceon A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

"Even in Google’s freewheeling office culture, which encourages employees to speak their own minds"

James Damore was fired for speaking his mind, he performed logical analysis, not hate speech and was fired.

LoveGracePeaceon Tesla sends untrained employees to work on cars as service becomes problematic

"It seems very much to me as if Musk doesn't know what he is doing."

Didn't he put like, a whole car, into orbit around the Sun?

LoveGracePeaceon Price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life

Came here to say this, completely agree.

LoveGracePeaceon Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US

Amazon is 1.5 TB, so is Microfuck and Google and I think Facebook...why is Amazon being targeted? Microsoft has been the root of all evil since Gates was born, or a few years thereafter. Gates is buying America's farmland, Google it. Google Google doubling, trippling its commercial real estate holdings.

When Clinton decided to become chummy with Gates as Clinton's career was ending and miraculously the DOJ stopped working on breaking up Microsoft, it paved the way for Google's and Amazon's and Facebook's monopolies.

LoveGracePeaceon Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US

The conspiracy theory that one person can't rise to great wealth on their skill and talent and some luck rather than mostly luck and connections, is a conspiracy theory.

LoveGracePeaceon Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US

I'm no fan of Russia but I've read Putin moonlighted as a Taxi driver in the 1990's, just saying.

LoveGracePeaceon Our plans for Thunderbird on Android

Evolution is what I used for years until severl years ago when they greatly modified the way the email was stored. I switched back to Thunderbird. Now I discover TB is including more and more usage of sqlite (which is great for data, by my email is not data); my email is files.

LoveGracePeaceon Our plans for Thunderbird on Android

I didn't realize how many sqlite files there are, I ran "find . -name *.sqlite", I see Chrome related files, cookie files, a file related to storage? Time to look for a new email client which is sad to say after all these years.

LoveGracePeaceon Our plans for Thunderbird on Android

Mobile and modern Web are dying and the Desktop is making a comeback, just going from sentiments expressed in various forums.

LoveGracePeaceon Our plans for Thunderbird on Android

If Thunderbird moves away from file based I will find a new email client. I already have to deal with the monstrosity that is systemd, don't want my email subjugated to a database. Databases are fine for data. I want my email in files so I can easily move away if needed, to another client.

LoveGracePeaceon Finally, no bid on mortgage-backed securities

I agree, I want the likes of the ilk of the Gates family's hands off single-family residential.

LoveGracePeaceon I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium

Actually Eclipse (and Spring Tool Suite based on Eclipse) works great. Being able to simultaneously debug several microservices in one Eclipse instance is one amazing feature.

LoveGracePeaceon The Great American Murder Ballad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_ballad

"Murder ballads make up a notable portion of traditional ballads, many of which originated in Scandinavia, England, and lowland Scotland in the premodern era (suggesting an ultimate Germanic cultural origin)."

LoveGracePeaceon A British garden's rainfall data 1988-2022 using copper rain gauge, notepad, pen

I check the data for myself, not interested in either a monologue or your soapbox preaching. Review recent photographs of beaches from around the world from today then compare to historic photos of the same beaches.

LoveGracePeaceon Enormous ‘rogue waves’ can appear out of nowhere

It caused me to take a bad fall at sea one time, rogue waves do happen and they are horrific.

LoveGracePeaceon Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings

"How hard can it be to get your most popular user into any search engine?" Is it a telling find that something you'd expect to be easier to find, isn't? Who is really banning whom.

LoveGracePeaceon Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings

Is the "we" who doesn't like Trump, a better class of humans than the "we" who does like Trump?

LoveGracePeaceon A British garden's rainfall data 1988-2022 using copper rain gauge, notepad, pen

The Earth, who knew. Family moves from temperate climate to the desert, wonders why it's always so hot, must be climate change. The seas are rising, man checks web cams for sea side resorts around the world and photos from the past several decades, no change in sea levels, doesn't fit the narrative, must be wrong.

LoveGracePeaceon Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous

Unfortunately the light on dark theme made it hard to read, I could not progress past the first page.

LoveGracePeaceon The Beauty of Unix Pipelines (2020)

"It's very nice indeed, but PowerShell pipelines are at another level of beauty"

What?!??

"PowerShell is weird"

Yes, totally agree with that.

LoveGracePeaceon Ubuntu 22.10 replaces Gedit with new text editor

It's good they let you run Linux on the Desktop.

LoveGracePeaceon Ubuntu 22.10 replaces Gedit with new text editor

Gnome 2 was best though I'm quite happy with KDE now.

LoveGracePeaceon Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming

I'm very confused. Rust is mainstream? C, C++, Java, C#, Python, JavaScript are all what I would call mainstream. Rust is not a language that comes to mind at all.

LoveGracePeaceon Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)

That's really a good idea, keep them all mixed up while they try to track us lol.

LoveGracePeaceon Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)

I don't understand why there's so much Gates love in this thread. Mosquito nets have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years.

LoveGracePeaceon Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)

I should stop complaining to my wife we should move to a cold climate to escape the mosquitoes.

LoveGracePeaceon Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018)

Java would be my strong preference.

LoveGracePeaceon Programming in the Apocalypse

The word Apocalypse only appears once on that page, in the title. The page is pointless either way since the Apocolypse isn't here yet. People will know when it's here and there will still be a subset of people who will deny it. Like that cartoon of the dog casually sitting at the table while the house burns down around him, saying "This is fine.".

LoveGracePeaceon Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

Hold on there. Ads popping up on YT are annoying but it's up to the user to decide if they are worth the content they're watching, same as TV or print or the radio. Using an Ad blocker in my view is no different than stealing.

LoveGracePeaceon Climate Spiral [video]

There are a few real scientists who realize there is too little actual data on a geologic scale to do anything more than paint pretty but meaningless graphs.