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It's worse than that. I have a Capital One credit card and a Capital One 360 (nee ING) savings account. They have seemingly completely separate logins, but changing the password for one changes the password for the other.

Yawnoc2on How I do my computing

I think it is important for free software to provide free graphical user interface software, which is why the GNU Project arranged to launch three projects to develop that. The third, GNOME, was successful, so we never needed a fourth one.

Does anybody know what the first two GNU windowing systems were? Is he talking about GNUstep?

A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix was such an affront to freedom that I could not be party to its use under any circumstances whatsoever. These streaming dis-services are malicious technology designed to make people antisocial.

Right, Richard, it's the Netflix users who are antisocial, not the people who get irate when their "friend" tries to load a website.

Yawnoc2on The Wire in HD

I'm a bit incredulous at the existence of these knuckle-draggers. There's a big difference between boxing out the sides of a 40+" screen to 4:3 and boxing out the top and bottom of a smaller screen to 16:9 (or 2.35:1). You really had to be a dedicated film buff to watch Lawrence of Arabia letterboxed on a 32" TV. I watch 4:3 content on my TV all the time (e.g., I've been watching poorly deinterlaced Star Trek: TNG via Netflix) and I hardly even notice.

Yawnoc2on Who Does That Server Really Serve?

Stallman is basically saying that it's unethical to outsource a software function that it's possible to run on-premises, which is just... a losing argument. Any given user can decide whether the (almost purely abstract) "freedom" of running free software one's own server outweighs the convenience of, say, not having to administer a mail server. I'm not sure what free software buys you versus hosted software with good data export features.

Yawnoc2on Leslie Lamport on Distributed Systems and Precise Thinking

The way I heard it, the SV office only existed in the first place because Lamport didn't want to move to Seattle. I kind of doubt they didn't offer him relocation, and I kind of doubt he accepted it.

Yawnoc2on We Let Our Employee Set Their Own Salaries

If not the absolute numbers, what about the percent difference between your number and the average?