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wingless··on Ruin My Search History
Everyone is on some kind of list. That's the beauty of automated mass surveillance.
wingless··on Hacked in a public space? Thanks, HTTPS
You don't even need Gmail in your HSTS set if you have HTTPS Everywhere installed in your browser.
wingless··on Pastejacking
>How do you protect yourself?

I am already using a terminal emulator that warns me when I paste multiple lines (ConEmu).

wingless··on Swallowing the Red Pill: a journey to the heart of modern misogyny
Who needs facts when you can just write liberal propaganda? It's $CURRENT_YEAR after all.
wingless··on Vim 8.0 is coming
Not very related as it is not a software implementation, but I also find it fascinating how FORTRAN, the first notable programming language is still used today by many after 59 years of its inception.
wingless··on An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant
According to Wikipedia there have been 6 notable hijackings in the last 5 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings#20...

There are roughly 100k commercial flights per day, 36m flights per year.

Therefore, the probability of your flight being hijacked is 1 in 30 million, which is an absurdly low number. Note that only one of the 6 hijackings resulted in casualties, so the mortality rate even lower.

wingless··on Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
Could be worse. Could be acquired by Yahoo.
wingless··on Stack and Nix = portable reproducible builds
Do you use NixOS or Nix on another distro?
wingless··on The United Nations has a radical, dangerous vision for the future of the Web
It's a cult called Social Justice Warriors. Pretty much most of San Fran is brainwashed by them.
wingless··on The United Nations has a radical, dangerous vision for the future of the Web
>Trump

White? Check Male? Check Cis? Check Straight? Check

So no one would care, and perhaps people would go even harder on him.

wingless··on Unhackable Kernel?
...until someone develops a hardware exploit and starts selling kits. Which is already happening for many devices, by the way.
wingless··on Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
You're talking as if Reddit is doing them a favor by providing them a platform. With your idea of "discipline", Reddit would never become the giant that it is today.
wingless··on Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
>Free speech is between you and the government.

No. Free speech is a principle that any party can choose to respect. Free speech has been one of the very core values of Reddit right from the beginning, in the form of the ability to create and manage a subreddit with very minimal restrictions.

Being a platform of free speech was the single biggest reason Reddit grew to be the giant community that it is today.

Then Pao comes along and repeatedly shows that she doesn't respect free speech at all. What do you expect the users to do, other than revolt?

It's easy to brush off these incidents as the doings of "the ugliest users", but remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. History books are filled with people being silenced due to their expression of uncomfortable ideas.

wingless··on I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
I've seen Apple developers that weren't allowed to contribute to WebKit.
wingless··on Fay -- A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to Javascript
Flash was extremely successful, and it was a really great abstraction. What failed was Adobe's implementation, not the idea.

Same with Java. JVM had (and AFAIK still has) a horrible cold startup time which locked the entire browser up, causing the user to curse profanely.

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