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george3383

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george3383··on Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
If it's bad for journalists and advertisers then it's good for users.
george3383··on Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal
The problem once again are the journalists making up stuff for clicks. Remove the journalists from the equation and you will see there's no problem.
george3383··on Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal
Having an open source client and server would help how? How would you know the server is running that software? Or that the binaries distributed via the App Store don't have some special spice?

And as far as I know the whatsapp protocol is simply tokenised XMPP.

george3383··on Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot
Is this a Fight Club reference?
george3383··on Apple: Chinese firm to operate China iCloud accounts
There are no big cultural differences between European countries that I'm aware of.
george3383··on iPhone update for Meltdown-Spectre: before/after performance benchmarks
No, it's not a snapshot of the 502 page, because I see my own IP there.
george3383··on North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
>Impeachment is in the constitution for a reason. Winning an election is not a sufficient condition for maintaining a public office. So on face, there's nothing actually wrong with trying to use a constitutional tool to kick out an elected official.

Doesn't the fact that there has been a push to get all the presidents kicked out mean there's something really wrong?

george3383··on North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
>[There is a constant push to impeach Trump.] There was a constant push to impeach Obama. There was a constant push to impeach Bush. The was a constant push to impeach Clinton.

Is this considered normal? If so, why? It's like results of an election aren't final. A candidate wins yet people try to have him kicked out. :/

george3383··on Apple: Chinese firm to operate China iCloud accounts
>European citizens have better English proficiency

"better" yes, but not good enough to make American products successful unless they are translated