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ismaildonmezon Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December

Amazon is sending brand-new Kindles to replace the affected devices: https://i.imgur.com/NiRn1a9.jpg

ismaildonmezon Peter the Great’s Beard Tax

Like every year is the "Year of the Linux Desktop", it's the same for Turkey "This is the critical moment for Turkish democracy" ~ a fellow Turk in his late 30s.

ismaildonmezon CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

No idea why you are being downvoted but cats do not talk to each other either. It’s known that their meow evolved from the baby cries, to sound needy and annoying enough that you pay attention.

ismaildonmezon Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment of the CDC

We (the EU) have of course a CDC: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en

ismaildonmezon Cancel culture, Twitter trendings and radical transparency

Hi, it was not that bad, just use the open source grammar checking tool https://languagetool.org/ and it’ll help you immensely. Their premium is also worth it.

ismaildonmezon Last Resort Font (2002)

Not sure if 1:1 as the macOS one but Unicode organization open sourced a last resort font last year: https://github.com/unicode-org/last-resort-font

ismaildonmezon The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

It doesn’t work that way though, Turkey took over debts of Ottoman Empire for a reason, this is the same.

ismaildonmezon The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

> So why are you happy?

Because I don’t care if I come from country X, atrocities all around the world have been committed, and still being committed. People have to be responsible for this suffering, we shouldn’t be able to shout “Fake News!” to everything and get away with it.

ismaildonmezon The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

> My other comment pointing out collusion of Facebook and the Turkish government is heavily downvoted, and I am not sure why. If I am mistaken, please someone let me know.

Fellow Turkish trolls are doing extra duty on this thread :-)

ismaildonmezon The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

Erdoğan thinks himself as the last Ottoman Emperor standing (c.f. The Third Reich), that’s why no way in hell he’ll accept any atrocities that Ottomans committed.

ismaildonmezon The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

As a guy born in Turkey I’m happy that this is finally getting the recognition it deserves.

On the other hand, finding any neutral resource about the First World War in Turkey is hard to come by. The best resource I’ve found so far is written by a German General called Otto Liman von Sanders, he wrote a book called “Five Years in Turkey” [0] talking about 1913 - 1918. It at least has some parts on the events which will end up in the Armenian Genocide and the hate against Greece and Greeks.

Sorry to digress but it’s important to mention that, the hate against Greeks will take an ugly turn in 1955 [1]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Five-Years-Turkey-Liman-Sanders/dp/18...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom

It seems the downvote army has arrived. Take note my troll friends: You can’t hide the truth, it will come out. Do not take part in enabling people who cause human suffering.

ismaildonmezon Has the era of overzealous cleaning finally come to an end?

I had the same experience with TMT and I think everybody should read their book.

On top of TMT, the Meaning Maintenance Model (MMM) [0] is another theory with TMT could explain 99% of human behavior.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr1002_1

ismaildonmezon NSFW Server Designation

This is similar to what's happening in the UK - https://www.ageid.com/

ismaildonmezon Mohammed removed from new Dutch translation of Dante's Inferno (French)

> Any mature and reasonable person should be able to understand that context.

Amen, it seems like we can't take this for granted anymore.

ismaildonmezon Mohammed removed from new Dutch translation of Dante's Inferno (French)

Note that this ending was banned, and you'll have to do some search before you find it.

When HBO Max started streaming South Park they just skipped these problematic episodes now called "200" and "201" respectively, and I also believe the "Super Best Friends" episode where Mohammed is pictured (but portrayed as a powerful just power).

ismaildonmezon Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments

It's easy to pick on Apple, when you don't know the history of these political issues. Not picking on Red Hat, but because I know this from the first hand it was 18 years ago that they removed the Taiwanese flag from KDE3 control center: https://redhat-list.redhat.narkive.com/b3p8HQaa/bug-70235

Apple is not a government, it's a business. They'll either have to obey the local laws or they'll lose business.

While we are here, checkout how Google Maps handles these issues: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-...

ismaildonmezon GitHub, fuck your name change

Yes, they can stop their ICE contract for example. Or they can stop fixing non-issues for just the illusion of caring.

ismaildonmezon GitHub, fuck your name change

A good article about this naming issue - https://reason.com/2020/08/12/is-your-master-bedroom-racist/

For me, it seems like since no one dares to solve real problems like Police violence, income gap, real racism that's ingrained in the society (like people calling the police because a black guy is wandering around), they pick up some non-issue and dress it like a problem and solve it.

ismaildonmezon Intel NUC as a back end for development

I only see in Austria and they only ship to... Austria.

ismaildonmezon ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture

We call this exactly self-censorship.

ismaildonmezon “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”

apt-get --purge remove clippy

ismaildonmezon Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

This has been so since a year or so, still very annoying.

ismaildonmezon CIA Releases UFO Documents

Real life Randy Marsh then :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_Magic

ismaildonmezon FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week

For God’s sake, they were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”, make no mistake this could have been way worse if it wasn’t for the Secret Service and some brave police officer who mislead the mob away from Senate.

ismaildonmezon The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse

Any specific examples of his work on this?

ismaildonmezon The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse

See Peter Turchin's write up to this http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/the-mad-prophet-of-conn...

ismaildonmezon Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links

The same app has the same link on its iOS app and just in the last week was updated twice.

ismaildonmezon SACK Panic – Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service issues

SLES info is here already: https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=7023928

Disclaimer: I work for SUSE