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mugwort13··on Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer
Vague on purpose. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING claiming the DNC email (and more importantly the PODESTA emails) were "hacked" can be summed up in three words.

"According to Crowdstrike..."

That's it. No one else did any investigation, just Crowdstrike. The same underhanded, dishonest company that LulzSec and Anonymous felt the needs to expose time and time again for their fraudulent ways. People who have no problem lying or framing people.

mugwort13··on A strange Twitter glitch is censoring the left
The fact that censoring the left is shocking, but censoring the right is heroic tells us everything we need to know about the world in 2019. It is also exactly why people vote for Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro, etc., etc...
mugwort13··on Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech
If this is your posture, I am assuming you don't use Android, ChromeOS, iOS, MacOS, Fire OS, or even some no paid OSes like Ubuntu.
mugwort13··on George Orwell's 1984 is our world today
Yet we are still somehow free to publish or post articles such as these without being arrested, tortured, interrogated, electrocuted, and having our heads locked in a rage cage. Perhaps the author is exaggerating just a bit.
mugwort13··on Google Now Forces Edge Preview Users to Use Chrome for the Modern YouTube
I am using Version 76.0.167.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit). I can watch YouTube videos no problem. Chat does not work. In my opinion: YoueTube, please disable chat for all browsers. It is a useless feature that causes problems. Thank you.
mugwort13··on Microsoft’s First Windows XP Patch in Years Is a Bad Sign
More “let’s hate on Microsoft because it’s trendy” bandwagoneers. I guess the 25 year old vulnerability in bash was not a bad thing, eh? Or scp’s 35 year old vuln did not affect anyone? Come on, people. Stop acting like Microsoft is the only vendor worth criticizing
mugwort13··on Writing Exploit-Resistant Code with OpenBSD
"But SPARC and Solaris are basically dead"

This is not an accurate statement. Oracle is still actively developing Solaris 11.4 and releasing regular updates. They plan to support Solaris and SPARC systems to at least 2034. This does not sound very dead to me.

mugwort13··on OpenBSD 6.5
This is a better link. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=155611207805565&w=3
mugwort13··on Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed [pdf]
"Redistribution of resources that will improve both the well-beings and the productivities of the vast majority of people. " ... Um, has this guy ever had a conversation with an average Joe from China? Me thinks not, based on this statement.
mugwort13··on YouTube reportedly discouraged employees from reporting toxic content
Agreed. Companies like Google (Alphabet), FB, Twitter, etc. are trying to be our moral compass, when they themselves are completely biased. Just stop. Silicon Valley needs to stop dictating the world.
mugwort13··on T-Mobile admits it spent $195000 on Trump hotel while lobbying for Sprint merger
Waaay at the bottom of the article is the truth. "The spending is only 14 percent of T-Mobile’s total spending on DC-area hotels — half of which went to Hilton hotels...."
mugwort13··on Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
Automatic updates can be disabled with 2 clicks of a mouse. That's it, 2. I can't believe we are still in a culture that only hates Microsoft while pretending that Apple, Alphabet, Ubuntu, and others don't practice the same questionable behavior on a daily basis. This article and the so-called study are narrowminded garbage.
mugwort13··on Ask HN: How to RTFM?
Every time someone says 'read the manual', I weep for humanity.

When I open most manuals pages I may as well be reading 'ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔫᑉ ᐳᓪᓕᓕᒫᐸᒐ ᑕᑦᑕᕐᓂᖅ ᐊᒻᒪᔭᖅ'

It does nothing for me. I am seldom any smarter afterward.

These people don't understand there are different brain types, and only ~25% are read/write brain types.

Couple that with the fact that many in technology write in a broken, sterile form of English that any grammar correctly immediately flags as wrong.

No, the 'RTFM manual' people are typically extremely left-brained, analytical, black/white people who have no ability to see from others' point of, and often little desire to do so.

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mugwort13··on China Succeeds in First Space Docking by 2 Spaceships
These photos seriously look more like underwater photos than space photos. That supposed space-walk China had clearly showed bubbles coming from the spacesuits. ... Bubbles. In Space. Mhm...