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kabwj··on Sending 1.2M Tweets
If you can live with the crappy photo quality.
kabwj··on Microsoft Word for Android has been installed more than 1B times
Exactly. It comes preinstalled on many mobiles and tablets, like Samsung’s. This number is worthless.
kabwj··on One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
Not native. But anyway I disagree that women squat pee. They usually sit to pee here. While men don’t so all the toilet (the appliance) and the ground are full of pee. Result: the whole room stinks of pee.
kabwj··on One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
By toilets I mean the room itself, not the appliance.
kabwj··on Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range
That’s the same thing they said about addresses in bogons ranges and eventually we succeeded in using them.
kabwj··on One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
I don’t see how it’s any better that pronouns lose their gender, making them less specific and therefore less useful.
kabwj··on One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
Male toilets are always much more filthier than female toilets. If I was a female I’d be pretty pissed if they forced me to use a urinal for men.
kabwj··on ‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi
Sorry, I meant in the last 100 years or so.
kabwj··on ‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi
People prefer happiness to freedom. I don’t think that democracy is vital to the wellness of a society. It’s just that until now all autocratic societies were ruled by shitheads and they inevitably collapsed. Now we’re seeing an autocratic society that is working fine because it’s being led by intelligent, not-too-selfish people. This is a breath of fresh air since in my opinion democracy is well past its heyday and we have to explore new options.
kabwj··on Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
Obviously, since they use the same CDN.
kabwj··on Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
No indication of what it means. Has anybody tried to download the same picture from two accounts and see if the data changes? Maybe this is some data they embed into the picture for bookkeeping when inside their infrastructure and they forget to strip it when they let you download it.
kabwj··on A problem worse than Zoom?
It’s interesting you say this. I work as a web developer, I consider myself to be more or less well versed in security, and it would have never occurred to me that websites can make requests to devices inside the standard private blocks of addresses. I think it stands to reason that these requests should be blocked in the same way requests to the file:// protocol are blocked.
kabwj··on Google takes another run at social networking with Shoelace
People who avoid Facebook products as a rule are unlikely to ever consider google products.
kabwj··on The threat of youth basketball
Egalitarianism is a lie to make you feel good. Not all people are born equal. Live with it.
kabwj··on Mobile OS Alternatives to Android in 2019
“Open source” missing from the title.
kabwj··on Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil
Being detained doesn’t equal being beaten up.
kabwj··on Twitter was down
Reddit being up for 24 hours or generating pages in less than 3 seconds would be noteworthy.
kabwj··on Sugary drinks and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort
>postmenopausal US women
kabwj··on Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain
If you are forced to resort to these things to survive maybe you should do something else. Maybe these journalists should learn to code.
kabwj··on Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
That’s funny. Windows’ own tool for these matters is called... MRT.exe
kabwj··on Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides
Becoming harder. I already despise that cracking sound when I step on them, it’s disgusting. If they could make it louder, I would seriously hesitate to kill them.
kabwj··on Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet
Also Facebook.

It’s because media companies used to control all the information and opinion. Now they’re losing that power to big tech. They are mad. But ultimately they will lose, for better or for worse.

kabwj··on Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for harassing employees
I don’t understand why the child comment is dead. Being forced to stay in a shitty job because there are no other jobs is definitely a thing, especially in Europe.
kabwj··on Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch
> Do we want a world of people who change their ways, even if for somewhat impure reasons, or a world in which no one ever does because it's pointless?

You forgot another option: not making the mistake in the first place.

kabwj··on Firefox 68.0
You’re supposed to use Heroku for HTML development.
kabwj··on Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?
Journalists are all charlatans since for the most part they know very little of what they’re talking about. “Journalist” is practically an insult at this point.
kabwj··on Instagram's War on Bullying
>Victims could not even prevent themselves from being constantly added to the "Jimmy go kill yourself" group.

What’s the difference between inviting Jimmy to that group and just messaging him in private asking him to kill himself? Seems like a pointless feature. (Let’s remember that users you’ve blocked could never add you to groups.)

kabwj··on Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies
What do the developers lose if their keys are purchased with stolen credit cards? If it’s about chargebacks, can’t they just disable the keys involved?
kabwj··on Webpack Doesn't Work on Monday (On Windows)
Like when you can’t use a game because the drm server is down.
kabwj··on Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?
Krebs is a charlatan like many others. I don’t know why he’s given so much clout in technical circles. At this point he’s nothing more than a journalist.
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