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The key word is counter-culture. The GOP may have the majority in federal government seats, but the majority of mainstream American media, and the overall position of the Overton window in general, is left of center at the moment. The cultural aspects of politics change slowly over time, and not overnight with a vote, as the status of the formal offices do.

My first Android smartphone had an FM radio, and it used the headphone cable as an antenna. You had to have headphones plugged in or you got nothing but static.

In my experience on Linux, the difference is night and day, and not in Firefox's favor. Really basic demos struggle to get 30fps while Chromium handles them at the refresh rate of my display no problem.

Firefox WebGL works much better on Windows for me; never tried it on OS X. It's probably a Linux-specific issue, but I rarely use Firefox on anything else.

Because Chromium runs far better in my experience, especially on Linux, and especially where graphics and WebGL are concerned. If all I can use are WebExtensions, I may as well use Chromium for the speed.

If Firefox 56 is the last release to support Tree Style Tabs, it will be the last release of Firefox before I begrudgingly switch to Chromium.

You can reach the title screen in master, but it looks like that code won't make it into a relase until 2.1. Even then, it's still not playable.

Is the libreboot/FSF drama relevant again? It still seems utterly ludicrous to me that RMS and his staff would fire someone merely for filing a workplace complaint about transphobia, as the Libreboot maintainer has claimed. Such a thing seems really out of character for Stallman, based on what I know of him from his political notes. [1]

I certainly think the FSF has its flaws, but everything about this project's "librexit" has felt wrong to me from the start.

[1] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html

I don't think it's irrational to believe that there is little meaningful difference between Trump and Clinton, or Obama for that matter, when it comes to digital surveillance. To my recollection, only Jill Stein talked seriously about dismantling the NSA and its ilk.

I've listened to and read NPR for many years, and I've perceived (perhaps falsely as perception is not infallible) an increase in the amount of stories that I found to be questionable in terms of neutrality. In my observation, the comments section in many of these stories, on NPR and on other sites, had been pretty good about calling out slanted stories and offered an alternative viewpoint. Granted, the signal-to-noise ratio on purely factual stories was pretty poor, but I think the value of a comments section really came out when an article that was more about narrative than about reporting slipped through.

Again, in my observation, it seems like more news outlets are cutting their comments sections as the incidence of the comments calling out poor reporting increases.

Distasteful, perhaps (I would question his use of the word "degenerate"). His phrasing is clearly warped by some long-building anger over a worsening situation. I don't think it's a fire-worthy offense regardless.

edit: I did not scroll far enough in the article to see his second comment. That one is much worse, but firing people for their opinions strikes me as a dangerous precedent.

Some serious absolutism on display in this piece. Thiel isn't supporting a fringe candidate; most of the polls right now have a difference between Trump and Clinton smaller than the margin of error. To make the claim that a candidate backed by around 50% of the country is deplorable enough that we should completely divest from his supporters, is silly.

Simply because of his use of an outdated synonym of "Asia"? If anything, I got the impression that the author was critical of Westerners for being insensitive to the needs of Asian computer users. I think this is because of Han Unification, but he does not mention it by name.

They also don't have an option for GPLv2, because it would introduce "cognitive overhead". https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/413

I like the idea of GNU Social, but the Twitter-like frontend, Qvitter, is slow and feels clunky. And last time I checked, it still hadn't solved its "spooling problem": offline nodes won't receive updates and won't catch up when they're back online. A post you delete from your timeline might end up still visible on a node if it was offline when you deleted it.

I'm sort of tempted to try writing a UUCP- or NNTP-based GNU Social clone now.

Inflammatory clickbait article that could be reduced to: Site owner Hiroyuki Nishimura asked the community for their input on the 4chan pass and the site in general as their financials are running low.

I used to frequent a coffee shop with a router that would refuse to let my laptop's wifi card connect about half the time. Like the author, my phone could connect but it would simply not respond to any attempts to connect from my laptop, whether booted into Windows or OpenBSD. The only solution was to ask the barista to reset the router, which was all the more frustrating when they refused to do it because everyone else could connect just fine.

It may be more "sophisticated" (sounds like a more positive synonym of "complex" to me), but I certainly don't think it's more powerful.

A non-apology with no admission of any wrongdoing. Even before the recent controversy, it was blindingly obvious to anyone who cared to look that the trending topics were curated for a particular angle. Twitter does the same thing with their trending hashtags and topics as well. How many times has an inconvenient hashtag mysteriously dropped off the trending list?

Today's implementations of social media have changed little. Control of information to the public is still in the hands of the media.

> A college degree is the new high school degree

This is right on the money. Going to uni felt like an extension of high school -- same students, same teachers. Nobody ever seemed like they wanted to be there; they just wanted to grind out their Bachelor's: an educational milestone no longer seen as optional.

Of course, it goes without saying that things are a little different in technology. Many job listings I came across required a BS, but an equal amount did not (or added the caveat 'or equivalent experience'). I'm currently happily and gainfully employed with no degree from a university.

I'd kill for one of those UTF-8 shirts.

http://www.openbsd.org/images/hackathons/u2k15.gif

Copypaste is rate limited, he had this to say: https://twitter.com/HW_BEAT_THAT/status/603741442490642432

"The user flooding himself (Bui) spilled the beans and told me how he did it voluntarily in IRC. Otherwise I'd have no clue."

> as one of my Microsoft-employed friends brutally said about my declining, "No loss for Microsoft"

That's a pretty poor thing to say to a friend.