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BrotherBisquick··on Doas – dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor
Does doas have equivalents to the -i and -E flags in sudo? I use both of those frequently.
BrotherBisquick··on Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
How exactly does Kagi bill you for going over your monthly limit?

Do they send you a bill at a later date, or are you meant to refill your balance before you can make more searches, or what?

I assume they don't keep your credit card on file and charge you for each individual extra search.

BrotherBisquick··on Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
Who is "Sweeney" and how is he hostile towards Linux?
BrotherBisquick··on UK version of “Online Harms Bill” wants to prefilter content without due process
An exhaustive list of leftists who care about democracy:
BrotherBisquick··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
There are legitimate reasons to dislike the man but it's so obvious that the mob is just grumpy that Musk allowed criticisms of the Democratic party line to exist on Twitter.
BrotherBisquick··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
> It’s not a popular opinion on this site

Oh come on.

BrotherBisquick··on The ad-based internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process [video]
Why does a social media site need to enforce "safety?" What is "safety" anyway?

It's not "opinions I disagree with," I hope. Because labeling that "unsafe" is a new level of Orwellian.

BrotherBisquick··on LastPass users locked out due to MFA resets
Would you be amenable to a program like Keepass?

Your password store is a single file, it can be encrypted, backed up (or not), distributed/synchronized between your devices (or not). It belongs to you, not to a third party.

The inevitable rejoinder is, "what happens if someone gets that file?" Well, what happens if someone gets your piece of paper?

BrotherBisquick··on LastPass users locked out due to MFA resets
There's malware on the iOS app store?

What's the point of all that garden-walling and 30% tax and hoops you have to jump through if there's still malware?

BrotherBisquick··on Has Xbox lost the console wars?
> Because while the naming is pretty bad, people do actually know it's the latest generation console.

Do they? I don't. At this moment, I couldn't tell you the name of Microsoft's newest console, because their naming convention is so convoluted. Meanwhile, I can tell from a glance that the PS5 is newer than the PS4.

Granted, I'm not a console gamer, but neither are (most) parents buying consoles for their children.

"Ehh, people will know what we're talking about" seems like a haphazard marketing strategy.

BrotherBisquick··on Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
> When will the mass media stop feeding people with that crap?

They won't, and that's why I think we, as a society, need to move past journalism.

That sounds like sarcasm, but it isn't. And I know what you're thinking- "oh but a free press is one of the legs of the tripod of society!" Well it was, decades ago. Now it's literally all tabloids and propaganda. It's time let it go.

We have various tools that allow individuals to securely communicate with each other. Let people communicate the news, word-of-mouth. We don't need bloggers and corporations anymore to put a spin on the facts.

"Democracy dies in darkness" is a threat, not a plea. Do you listen to cancer when it admonishes you, "don't excise me, or you'll be sorry!"

BrotherBisquick··on Apple wants rights to the image of apples in Switzerland
Which market does Apple monopolize?
BrotherBisquick··on Reddit Strike Has Started
And that there is why the system of volunteer moderators doesn't work.

You bring up legitimate concerns and you're met with either stony silence, or you get called an asshole.

BrotherBisquick··on Reddit Strike Has Started
The powers that be have deemed that they don't care what the "free labor force" wants or thinks. They care about the experience of the users, not the experience of the rulers of petty internet fiefdoms.

Reddit has indicated that it wants to pay for content moderation. So be it. Who are you to tell them how they run their company?

Maybe when we move away from "volunteers" then the "volunteers" can get real jobs that pay real money! It'll be good for them.

BrotherBisquick··on Reddit Strike Has Started
Reddit mods are addicted to power. If they don't ban anyone for 48 hours, they get the shakes.
BrotherBisquick··on Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]
I could never get past the idea of a key sending a different keystroke than the one printed on it.

Yes, I know you're not supposed to look at the keyboard as you type. And I don't. But I still don't like it. It sets off "this is dumb" alarm bells in my head.

And because it's impossible to replace every keyboard I own or use, or physically rearrange their keys from QWERTY to Dvorak/Colemak, i'm stuck with QWERTY.

BrotherBisquick··on Overlooked: A detail in “The Shining” that you’ve never seen
Look, this is interesting, but why can't this be a blog post?

Why does it have to be chopped up into individual chunks and put up on twitter?

BrotherBisquick··on Why I Left Rust
Yes, that or "man up."
BrotherBisquick··on “Smart Gun” that uses biometrics to authenticate
> an attacker overpowering you and shooting you with your own gun

I know you're not arguing otherwise, but this never happens, and it's one of those annoying arguments that anti-gun people use to justify banning and confiscation.

BrotherBisquick··on The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)
I can never go back to X11 and I think the greatest condemnation of it is that we're still talking about screen tearing in 2023.

Screen tearing is something that simply shouldn't exist by default. A person should be able to count on its absence, like a person should be able to count on a basic USB keyboard working without any headaches.

Now I'll brace myself for the "I've never noticed screen tearing" from people whose brains run on a different refresh rate than mine does.

BrotherBisquick··on San Francisco office values fall
Everyone in the replies to this comment are naming places so dark and grim in Winter that I personally couldn't survive there. A summer in the southwest US is easier on me than even a mild winter in the northeast.

HN confirmed for Hyperboreans.

BrotherBisquick··on Japanese police make first YouTuber arrest for uploading video game gameplay
John Oliver is an outrage-peddler with no particular qualifications.
BrotherBisquick··on The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Familiar (Rich) Winners
So?
BrotherBisquick··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
> 2. Ad revenue is a very large portion of income for most creators.

Maybe we're moving past the societal stage where being a content creator is a real job.

Maybe people aren't meant to make a living from putting videos on the internet.

BrotherBisquick··on MSFT exec admits console wars are over: ‘We lost the worst generation to lose'
I despise all things Microsoft but the 360 and later controllers are excellent designs and are possibly the best standard-issue console controllers ever. I will die on this hill.

Sony's stubborn refusal to modify their basic controller shape/layout in the last 28 years isn't admirable and is not endearing them to people with good taste (i.e., me).

And yes, I am aware that I just declared myself willing to die on a hill while simultaneously criticizing Sony for dying on a hill.

BrotherBisquick··on “Twitter is going great” is being sunset
Allowing people to express themselves is fascism.
BrotherBisquick··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
They're killing their browser extension for the world's most popular browser?
BrotherBisquick··on Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
This is the first time I've heard all opinion about the Zune other than "it was actually pretty good! It was a hidden gem!"
BrotherBisquick··on The Windows 11 Trash Party
> I actually like the OS

Because it allows you to do stuff that MacOS/Linux won't, or do you actually like it as software, in and of itself?

If the former, that's understandable. If the latter, then may God have mercy on your soul.

BrotherBisquick··on Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier
Exactly. Just like how I'm committing treason against my house by leaving it every morning.
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