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One of those reviews is dated 2005(!!)

The board of directors voting on this kind of controversial move in private is a surprising lack of transparency from the FSF. Have they done anything like this before?

If one finds themself unable to pay a fee for heroin, it's the case they should not use it at all. If you can't afford heroin after months or even years of usage, simply stop purchasing it. It's nowhere near an essential service.

"how to be a hacker" not to be confused with http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

"Open networks are more prone to cyber security threats because they introduce additional interfaces, additional functions, and functional splits, which expand the surface for potential threats. The fact that open RAN relies on open source software increases the number of potential entry points for security breached."

What is this supposed to mean, if anything?

> E044: Use [[ for =~,<,> comparisions

Is there any reason to prefer bashisms over POSIX?

I wonder if the site admin would be willing to sell to a fan?..

I think it's done this for at least a decade. Every couple years someone rediscovers this and it goes around.

Damn. I was looking forward to scrapping any I saw on the street for parts.

Unpaywalled link?

Ideally as on the site (more or less): "CEO of Iterable said he was fired after taking LSD during work"

I was confused on the weirdly long wait too, especially when it seems like a one-time thing, but "Justin Zhu told Bloomberg that the primary reason for his firing was that he took a small amount of the psychedelic drug prior to a meeting in 2019, with the intention of improving his focus." - It was allegedly the primary reason.

The first smoking rejected vs approved ad figure showed two pictures of people with smoke coming out of their mouths rejected and then one picture of someone holding an electric cigarette that was approved. The e-cig wasn't recognizeable to me, I'm not sure if those are great comparisons.

And with the second figure - with the gambling, drinking, and dating ads, I don't really get how the final one could be construed absolutely as a dating ad. "Find your gentleman" could be a service for connecting polite but lonely friends.

If these are representative of ads that they got approved and disapproved I think their methodology was flawed. It would be easier to look at examples of advertisements that explicitly minor-owned accounts actually saw on their feed that advertise adult services.

If you wanna refer to some "psychological type" you should define it and explain it. Throwing around "X is a sociopath" "Y is the type of brigading that leads to Hitler" without explanation or clarity is crying wolf to the people who will read your comment and associate it with your belief. They could be totally valid analogues! But personally I find it hard to connect self censorship to fascism when the "other side" (subjective) stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn a democratic election. Of course, maybe we're doomed on every direction we could turn.

"Psychologically, they are in many ways the same type of person as the Bolshevik and the Nazi."

Congratulations. You just compared the people who want you to stop using racial slurs to the people who killed millions based on their race.

- of course, this is slightly exaggerated, but not really. There's no clarification here and my reading wasn't awaredly malicious. The "wokeists" in the article are abhorrent virtue signalers, absolutely, but "cancelling" someone for (extreme example) a slightly risque joke is totally different from committing mass genocide.

Clickbaity headline but it's verbatim from the site. From the actual article:

"""

We have to talk about race. We should talk about racial injustice. What I’m saying is, we need to do it without using jargon-y language that’s unrecognizable to most people — including most Black people, by the way — because it signals that you’re trying to talk around them. This “too cool for school” shit doesn’t work, and we have to stop it.

"""

The anti-abuse measures don't convince me. The two most feasible ones (to me!) are the password manager use requirement and displaying a prompt - plenty of sites will just make the user accept the prompt, and plenty of users don't want password managers (that debate exists and both sides see their points of view as obvious, but that's not really relevant here except that they exist).

I'd prefer to see just a prompt for cookie storing in browsers. Preferably something small enough that I don't have to interact with it. No API. Lynx does it decently (prompts for cookie saving before loading the site). The issue with this is the sheer amount of times it'd have to be done (per website! or maybe there can be some defaults? but that could defeat the purpose) and that many sites ironically use cookies to save that the user chose to disallow non-necessary cookies to be saved by the site as per GDPR.

Given that this API intends to fight an already rampant cookie-spam abuse: Why not instead figure out how to determine the admin email of a given site and make the browser automatically send them one message per cookie used, so it floods their inbox? It wouldn't be productive but it would make me feel better. This paragraph is only half joking.

The only premade installation media available are flash memory? I want a big box CD case! They lost a potential customer with this one!

I meant the Anonymous group/movement/"which group?"/whatever debate is a bag of beans to be spilled another time.

Totally agree. I personally chose not to go to college (I'm graduating HS this year) because of things like Proctorio and Zoom becoming more common.

Site's covered in globs of advertisements and video anyway. You'd click off even if you could see it, don't worry.

It's a small price to pay for the new Amazon Lord of the RingsTM television event where everyone's heaters will kick on at max whenever there's fire on screen.

And lose the chance to rant about it on the Internet?!

5M yen is a pretty sizeable amount of cash. Go to an airport, fly out to a less Westernized country where your currency is worth a whole lot more, retire semi-comfortably to a crime-free life in a country without a Japanese extradition treaty.

That's the ideal ending. The other, more logical explanation: some people are kind of stupid.

To take a quote out of context: """

As the economist Robert Frank wrote, “building wealth to them is a creative process, and the closest thing they have to fun.”

"""

So the wealthy are accumulating the fruits of workers' labor as a pastime?

Ah, I remember this!

Lbl A

If 1=1

Then

Goto A

Will always crash after a couple seconds. Used to show it to my friends sometimes as a gag but it sucked to have to work around it.

(TI-BASIC uses = for equality comparison (iirc this includes comparing strings(?)) and -> as a single arrow symbol (STO on the keypad) for variable assignment (5->A for example is the same as A = 5 in Python).)

As with most things I feel like this could be solved with a Raspberry Pi and Kodi.

Two things the article didn't answer: How? Why?

No, it means (or at least I flag things when) the discussion incited is maliciously unproductive.

Google Earth pro (I think) used to be a paid product. I remember downloading it and using GETPFREE as my activation key thinking it was so cool that benevolent Internet leader Google would give that out for free. 2013 was a different time.

Not if you have bills to pay.