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basic1··on ICE set up a fake university; 100s enrolled, not realizing it was a sting op
This whole discussion reeks of California.
basic1··on “Learn to Code”: The Meme Attacking Media
>I emphatically sympathize with the journalist who have been recently let go.

I don't, hopefully they all get fired.

basic1··on Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook
Break up Google while you're at it.
basic1··on Almost everyone developing Tor was or is funded by the US government (2014)
Exit nodes aren't the killer feature of Tor anymore, everyone blocks those easily, it's hidden services.
basic1··on Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think?
can't even talk about marijuana without constant deflection to alcohol and the war on drugs
basic1··on Firefox shows ads for Booking.com in New Tab page
IIRC their Yahoo deal runs out in 2020, they'll be in trouble after that.
basic1··on Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt
Seems like many went to SubscribeStar, more because Patreon pulled a Tumblr and purged the adult content than political reasons.
basic1··on Rare brain-eating amoebas killed woman who rinsed her sinuses with tap water
This stuff lives in old water heaters right? It could've happened any time, but if you're using a neti pot you probably have a cold and are already susceptible to infection.
basic1··on An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
>The correct response is not to try to advertise...

Never going to happen, they say marketers ruin everything for a reason.

basic1··on Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
It's predictable that Internet companies stop being benevolent when their growth has ended, everyone will move elsewhere and it'll happen again in a few years.
basic1··on Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
I still haven't figured out how this works, Tumblr smashes the page to 1/3 the screen and displays stuff I don't care about in the center 2/3.
basic1··on The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager
Capitalism has failed.
basic1··on Facebook’s weapon amid chaos and controversy: misdirection
>who happen to be mostly Jewish

Is that not a connection?

basic1··on Why Epik welcomed Gab.com
Preemptive self-defense, the Bush Doctrine of tolerance.
basic1··on Why Epik welcomed Gab.com
I'd also say in a healthy society you should be seeing a larger spectrum of ideas and more things you disagree with.
basic1··on Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
I assume his opponents will wait until 2024, he won't lose with a strong economy.
basic1··on World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)
WeakAuras also had an import/export feature that was widely abused in a similar way.
basic1··on World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)
That information came from a blog post which was later refuted by Blizzard.
basic1··on Amazon is helping ICE track, detain and deport immigrants, report says
I'm not familiar with the ICE dog-whistle, what are they culpable for?
basic1··on Words Matter – Moving Beyond “Meritocracy”
Linux has a meritocracy of patches not people, Reddit was the great meritocracy, unfortunately Reddit played the game and Linus didn't.
basic1··on Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
I'd be curious who made those two or if it was themselves.
basic1··on How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
Go wasn't a thing in 2007.
basic1··on PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
Qt Designer
basic1··on What Is the Point of Mozilla?
The Mac/Linux Firefox ports have never been good, their success was unearned and they were quickly replaced when a competitor came along.
basic1··on What Is the Point of Mozilla?
Mozilla lost because they sat on their butts for 10 years under Eich and lost their technical advantage. Firefox got sandbox and multi-process features in 2016 that IE8 had in 2009, they were happy to crash and lose every Pwn2Own before that. Being semi-nonprofit they can't secure any talent so they fake being like Google by blowing money on social activism and rebranding when they're not siphoning it to buy each other's start-ups.
basic1··on Terry Davis has died
It's still strange, doesn't the death rumor predate the website being updated?
basic1··on Inside the Trump Administration’s Secret War on Weed
It may be the lesser of two evils, but weed is not a good thing.
basic1··on Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash
How is something made of plant matter and paper not biodegradable anyway?
basic1··on BBC websites blocked in China after security change
You don't have to look outside the UK for that.
basic1··on [dead]
Duplicate of 17716338, Polygon is not respectable, these streamers are not respectable.
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