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justsomedude43··on The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
You mean like your comment?
justsomedude43··on The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
Pretty much, I just said "haha" and I got 5 downvotes in 20min. :)
justsomedude43··on The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
haha, good one
justsomedude43··on People start hating their jobs at 35
This is me and I'm 34. It started a year ago, so there's some truth to the article.
justsomedude43··on The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or FB, it’s “surveillance capitalism”
Don't confuse tracking cookies with people opening social profiles on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter posting their lives on the internet publicly in written, audio and visual formats. It is false to say that people don't know they're giving out their data when they're consciously doing so.
justsomedude43··on The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or FB, it’s “surveillance capitalism”
I still fail to see how all of this is a problem when people give out their data VOLUNTARILY?
justsomedude43··on For women on Twitch, appearing single has become a minefield
That's like saying prostitutes can sell themselves for money, every man has the power not to give her his money. Yes?
justsomedude43··on List of Websites not available in the EU because of GDPR
I have a solution for this. I don't visit such websites. They want to harvest my data, I won't give them my data. Either comply with GDPR or lose a visitor. Simples.
justsomedude43··on Windows 10 Leak Exposes Microsoft's New Monthly Charge
That's because they're neither a writer not is it an article. Take Forbes with a grain of salt, their authors are mostly half-literate unemployed students writing "blitz articles" for about 50p/100 words.
justsomedude43··on False Advertising for College Is Pretty Much the Norm
"The administration of President Donald Trump just made it easier for for-profit colleges to get away with making fake promises about things like graduation rates and job placements."

This is where I stopped reading. Pretty much the first sentence. False advertising has been a problem for at least two decades now, mostly in Law and nothing has been done about it. People started talking about it only recently after the rich kids got affected by the false advertising; their parents spend $200k-$300k on a Law degree with a Bar test only to find out that their kids can't get a job that pays more than $50k because there's been an abundance of lawyers for about twenty years now.

Same goes for IT and all sorts of BS degrees ala marketing, communications, david beckham studies etc... besides you don't need somebody to tell you:

"Hey, save your money you don't yet have, that degree is useless! You can do that without having one."

You only need half a brain cell to figure this for yourself. It's not brain surgery and if you do need someone to tell you that, then you really do need a hard lesson.

justsomedude43··on Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs
Captcha doesn't even work. I clicked "Submit" without even touching the Captcha box and it just let me through haha.
justsomedude43··on The world is losing the war against climate change
Also, between 1998 and 2018 we gained almost 2 billion people.
justsomedude43··on I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
Yeah I find that annoying. It means nothing and is just a waste of everyone's time, much like:

"How are you?" "Not bad, yourself?" "Good, so I have this problem..."

"Hey, how was your weekend?" "Not bad actually, you?" "Yeah not bad"

I mean, you clearly have no interest in other person's life, so why have stupid, dull, pointless greetings like that?

justsomedude43··on Apple is removing Alex Jones and InfoWars’ podcasts from iTunes
All the people here supporting Apple's decision with an argument "it's a private company, their rules" are the same people moaning when Apple, Google, Facebook or others do the same thing that affects them.
justsomedude43··on Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack
Not tapes, but sane sys admins. Whoever leaves backups on the same subnet as the production servers, probably with the same credentials too, is NOT sane and should not be working in IT.
justsomedude43··on Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
Money doesn't stink.
justsomedude43··on The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
I don't know but at least there's hope that it will be different or perhaps, get ready this is a bit radical, there won't be any empire.
justsomedude43··on The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
For the sake of humanity I really wish it would be true, but somehow I doubt it. Not for another 50 years or so.
justsomedude43··on Xinjiang - A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen
So pretty much the same as American prisons then?
justsomedude43··on Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London
What exactly is the use for this facial recognition exactly? We all know from experience that British police couldn't catch a cold let alone a criminal, with all those tens of thousands of 240p cameras out of which maybe 20% actually work. What is facial recognition going to solve if they can't even see the face on the camera?
justsomedude43··on 55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Debt with More Debt
How can there be no capital left to consume if the borrowed money has no support to back it up? You're saying we're borrowing from future generations which is like saying we're borrowing money from air. If we're borrowing money from non-existent source then there is an endless supply of the money, isn't there?

And if there's no plan to pay it off, then why not just write it off? It makes no difference, the whole effect is psychological.

justsomedude43··on Street dogs in Moscow learn to ride the subway
I just read the entire article and I think it's amazing how smart these dogs are and resemble humans in most ways.

Compared to a pet dog who gets lost in a backyard...

justsomedude43··on 55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Debt with More Debt
If you lend money to yourself, why not just write the debt off?
justsomedude43··on Why the UK has so many words for bread
I don't know why the UK has so many words for bread when they have no bakeries. All the bread here is being sold and bought in large supermarket chains such as Tesco or Asda and it's not good at all.
justsomedude43··on Did Qatar pay a billion dollar ransom?
Where did they get the txt screenshots from? Looks like these Arabs communicate in perfect English among themselves.
justsomedude43··on Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court
You won't think it's biased when you get cancer for eating all that processed shit filled with steroids, antiobiotics and hormones.
justsomedude43··on Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more
I just tend to move on when I see a message like that. If you rather block access to 400-500 million people than sort out your privacy policy and how you manage sensitive data, then so be it. Stay away from such websites!
justsomedude43··on Thai cave rescue used open source hardware, the Heyphone
I guess there isn't going to be end to this story now. It's going to replicate endlessly.
justsomedude43··on Google Is Building a City of the Future – Would Anyone Want to Live There?
Not having sewage is this case an Indian problem, not problem of 'organic' cities.
justsomedude43··on Tech Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge, UK
Thanks for commenting maccard, but looks like you haven't read my comment or read it superficially.

Nevertheless, since I'm commenting already might as well add two more things. One thing is I get 29 days of PAID annual holiday. I've head from my US colleagues that in US you can take about a week or two of UNPAID holiday in a year.

Not to mention that women can go on maternity leave for a whole year and then come back to work without losing any rights whatsoever and also get paid 40 weeks of their maternity leave while in the US women can take up to 3 months of UNPAID maternity leave and only if they've worked for a company at least a year.

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