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Mk-0on Twitter kills egg avatar

"The little egg avatar, a classic sign of a bot or troll account and often associated with harrassment, has been transformed into a new design that's meant to resemble the outline of a human's head and shoulders. But instead, it kind of just looks like one tiny, deformed egg hovering above one half of a slightly larger egg."

Someone was paid to write this compelling stuff.

Mk-0on These awesome technologies just freakin' disappeared. why

On the contrary, Usenet is alive and well.

Mk-0on My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new normal

Same.

This has nothing to do with who is leading our country. The only thing new here is that it's easy to point the finger at one person for everything you don't like; it's been in place for awhile now.

Mk-0on Ask HN: Is there space for a fresh Twitter-like platform?

There's always space.

There have been countless attempts by new platforms to take over Facebook, Twitter, etc, but they always fail because 90% of users are so glued to what they already know. They don't want to join a network that all their contacts aren't already on. Additionally, a good portion of said users also don't mind ads or privacy invasion, so those aspects of new platforms only ever seem to appeal to users who know a thing or two about infosec.

For what it's worth, I'm no longer a Twitter user, but when I was I'd go through my activity each month or so and delete the majority of my tweets, retweets, and likes. Sure, they're still stored server-side, but it just reminds me how much I wish a platform could exist with little to no retention, like you said. Maybe a (transparent) purging of data regularly? Way too much to ask for, but it's a novel thought.

Mk-0on Airbnb Bans Host Who Dumped Guest Because She's Asian

Huffington Post.

Mk-0on Facebook to Offer Free Version of Its Slack Killer

Yet another app/idea for Facebook to imitate.

What are some other Slack alternatives that are on the rise/worth checking out?

Mk-0on More Extreme in Every Way: The New Titan Is Here – Nvidia TITAN Xp

Serious question- what benefit do you get out of this? I had an SLI setup with Linux for awhile as well, before realizing that the second GPU was never being tapped into at all. It's recognized, and is getting power, but it's wholly under-utilized (if at all).

From everything I've found, Linux doesn't benefit from SLI nearly as much Windows can.