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Torgoon The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival

"Family planning" was always a lie. It was always about illegal acts rebranded. Illegal birth control. Illegal abortions. etc

Torgoon A Sub-$1000, Non-X86 Motherboard

I believe that is a reference to the movie "Hackers"

Torgoon Java 11 released

I ran into this just the other day, Autopsy, a digital forensics application ( https://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/ ), requires Oracle JRE and wouldn't even start with OpenJDK when I tried it.

Torgoon How Does Mastodon Work?

A ton of people _hate_ crossposting accounts.

Torgoon Google Refuses to Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage

To cite the XKCD comic, Tim was being an asshole and Google showed him the door.

Torgoon Administrative Purgatory

How old are you? By 1983 "hacker" already had negative connotations.

>vintage coder

woops, my apologies, carry on.

Torgoon Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

Contrast ratio is an accessibility issue. One of these things is not like the other.

Torgoon WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

Ants farm aphids.

Torgoon Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse

OStatus (the original Fediverse protocol) literally already had this, it just didn't have the developer excitement to keep the ball rolling.

Torgoon Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

However the surveillance state still has: gait-recognition, shoe-recognition, and clothing-recognition.

Torgoon Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

Mask laws were in place in some areas with a historic Ku Klux Klan presence.

Torgoon Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid is a platform designed to re-decentralize the web

mastodon is only federated microblogging. The Solid webpage suggests address and contact management, file sharing, article publication and web annotation.

Torgoon Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you've used in the last week?

WordPress, and its menagerie of terrible plugins.

Torgoon Harvard Begs to Discriminate

I am certain that, unlike 100 years ago, the fear isn't that Asians are crowding out white males; but that they are crowding out other minority groups. That is an entirely different motivation than anti-Semitism.

Torgoon Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

Used to enjoy it recreationally a decade ago at age ~30. Now it makes me paranoid, more depressed, lethargic, and definitely dumber if I partake. So I don't anymore.

Torgoon What is Enlightenment? (1784)

These days, the witch is a Russian troll, an alt-reicher, maybe a closet "bro", or heaven forbid, a g@merg00ber.

Torgoon Real profanity and disease on the internet is untouched while you police decorum

It took a lot of effort to get Twitter to acknowledge that these mock death threats are a form of abuse.

Torgoon Mastodon 2.4.0

When I have enough free time to block out, I'll be trying Secure Scuttlebutt/Patchwork, maybe will write a blog entry about the experience. Looks interesting.

Torgoon Show HN: Kitten – Tiny multi-server automation tool

This is very handy, already started using, thanks!

Torgoon Mastodon 2.4.0

It's not getting mainstream yet. It's filling niches made up of people unhappy with twitter, interestingly both people who think Twitter moderates too much, and people who think it doesn't moderate enough. Letting people run their own servers makes that possible.

Torgoon Mastodon 2.4.0

Part of the problem is that Mastodon doesn't have, and apparently the BDFL won't implement, a built-in way of a remote server telling you that your server is blocked (either as a sender or recipient of a message.)

Which is really frustrating when, you make a post; a user on a different server boosts your post; a third party, which is on a server that normally blocks your posts but can see posts from that different server, sees the boost and responds to you. Not knowing that you can't respond directly back top them. The network is so big now that this happens all the time.

Torgoon Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

The weekend would be over and we would still be arguing about what language to use.

Torgoon The Fossil distributed version control system

Worst experiences for me have been Oracle Software Configuration Manager and IBM Clearcase.

Torgoon A Workshop on Linux Containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch

We have a 1999 VA Linux box still "in production" (just to see how long it will go, at this point. Nothing mission-critical.)

Torgoon How to avoid humiliating newcomers: A guide for advanced developers

It's good to have one or two people in your project community that are willing to help people that don't have much experience at the type of problem-solving and methodical thought that fixing code requires. I am not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to any particular project, but I'm happy to help newbies get steady footing.

Torgoon Schools are safer than they were in the 90s

New York was putting metal detectors into schools in the 1980's. They were for gangs, but I guess a school shooting is a school shooting.

Torgoon Western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Knowledge

"The worldwide attention given to the firehawks article provides an opportunity to explore the double standard that exists concerning the acceptance of Traditional Knowledge by practitioners of Western science."

I'm not losing any sleep over this "double standard."

Torgoon Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10

I have been able to do it by acquiring a Windows 10 install CD, booting from it, and doing an upgrade.

Torgoon New porn laws will mean Pornhub asks for your name and address

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_King...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-act...

Torgoon New porn laws will mean Pornhub asks for your name and address

It wasn't that long ago that they had a censorship office that prevented import of pornography based on various criteria.