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PointyFluff··on Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive
Sweet. Now just deposit that twice into an exchange for double the $FIL
PointyFluff··on Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
Uh...there's no surgery involved.
PointyFluff··on Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
Fantastic hypothesis.
PointyFluff··on Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
So awesome.

So gross.

PointyFluff··on How the Brain Responds to Beauty
Yes, my...brain.
PointyFluff··on Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
"So long, thanks for all the fish"?
PointyFluff··on India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency
Woooo! spooky VPNs....
PointyFluff··on India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency
Illegal transactions are a much greater problem in fiat currencies.
PointyFluff··on India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency
Bitcoin is more of a holding; last-mile transactions are better made with different cryptocurrencies, such as Monero. With Doge being great for tossing around on the internet for the more trivial things.
PointyFluff··on Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
Discord is just irc with extra censorship.
PointyFluff··on The Teeniest Tiniest Laptop in the West
TL;DR

This is an add for an affiliate link to amazon for the GPD2

PointyFluff··on Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left
Literally just an article that highlights the problems with social media in general.

Total click-bait; I sure thankful for ublock.

PointyFluff··on Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles
Instacart is dropping these positions because they are trying to trim down and look like a good buy.

Instacart is Homegrocer 2.0; and by that I mean an abysmally managed top-only company that only takes and does no re-investment. From what I can see their business model is, minimal investment, maximum unsustainable sort-term profit, and sell or go bankrupt while floating upon pool-in-yacht.

Their "customer care" staff are assigned multiple shoppers and customers to deal with simultaneously, and they are out of country NOT trained in English or US culture, as such they are clearly unable to communicate effectively; queue lines in the thousands.

I spoke with one once who told me they were NOT ALLOWED to communicate the fact they were dealing with multiple customers, with people just constantly spamming them because they could not keep up; a system which will obviously bottle neck at any load increase. Oh, and, according to her the entire system is "managed" by "If" statement masquerading as an "AI HR" software.

Once the vaccine comes out in full, Instacart will most likely be no-more or sold off.

PointyFluff··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
THE DMCA needs to be killed. Viciously.
PointyFluff··on Toxic positivity does more harm than good
They should just dole out cryptocurrency every time they say that. The words would have meaning again.
PointyFluff··on Request for Startups
I pay for the New York times.

I still see adds at NYT, they still use trackers.

Thankfully, ublock solves this.

PointyFluff··on Request for Startups
Doubt.
PointyFluff··on Request for Startups
Sure.

Give me money.

PointyFluff··on The Supply Chain for Lithium (2020)
Asteroid mining.

We could be doing that, but Murica would rather spend it's time at the maul.

PointyFluff··on Hungry men exposed to blue light are sensitive to Earth's magnetic field (2019)
OOK.

Also, this is bad "science" taken personally.

PointyFluff··on Mysterious helicopters have been circling Los Angeles
Such as?

Citation needed.

PointyFluff··on Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
Also, skip the Mac.

Apple is predatory white-washed garbage.

PointyFluff··on Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
Imagine being told what software you can and cannot run on your machine.
PointyFluff··on OpenMotor: An open-source internal ballistics simulator for rocket motors
brl-cad
PointyFluff··on Parler sues Amazon, claims antitrust violation and breach of contract
Fox news is not a credible source of information.
PointyFluff··on Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter
Sure are, Other Barry.
PointyFluff··on Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter
uhh...
PointyFluff··on Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming
Either way, this is bullshit forced through into "must pass" legislation because they know this shit wouldn't pass otherwise.

This is fundamentally evil. Our senators are a pile of shit-enabling shit.

PointyFluff··on Ruby 3.0.0 RC1
It's a mish-mash language like perl and should die the same death.
PointyFluff··on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
What if I use open source drivers? How are you going to do that? What business is it of yours that I might write my own? Or (more likely) patch my own? What about my HID drivers? Sensitive keystrokes?

Yeah, I just don't see games needing access to such kernel level items.

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