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lugged··on The latest campus cancellation is different
You know Twitter is not a real place right?
lugged··on Incenser, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables (2014)
Obviously, it spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories, just look at this post about the nsa and GCHQ. Obviously just a bunch of tinfoil hat republican trumpies.
lugged··on Blue light from monitors no danger to eyes or sleep
What kind of red light are you using for this?

Would just getting a red lamp for the office be enough for this?

lugged··on Facebook Recruiter Correspondence
I stopped using Facebook when they stopped showing you everything in chronological order and started implementing boosted posts and advertising in your feed.

I really don't understand why it's taken almost a decade for you idiots to figure out what that would result in.

"At this point"

What point? The point they started hiding your friends "boring" posts in order to serve up the most clickbait shit possible?

Or the point they allowed political parties to ram Obama and then trump down your throat.

Or the point they decided to become arbitors of truth?

Or the point they decided to censor you over your beliefs?

lugged··on What's in a version number? (Or: Musings on backwards compatibility)
Again, which version of semver are you talking about?

And yes, of course they would have, but at least they wouldn't be able to lie about what theyre doing.

There is a better alternative, maintain backwards compatibility. And if you break it, acknowledge what you're doing, forking your lib and leaving everyone who relied on you holding the bag.

Linux has maintained backwards compat for decades, there really isn't much excuse.

lugged··on What's in a version number? (Or: Musings on backwards compatibility)
Which version of semver are you talking about?

Personally I'm frequently rug pulled by breaking changes in patch updates.

Imo, semver is just a way for lazy devs to break backwards compat and feel ok about it.

Which would be fine if they maintained their old versions, which of course they don't, so what's the point of semver? All the breaking change version change means to me is you've forked your library and left me holding the bag.

I either have to update my code to accommodate your changes or I need to change your code to accommodate security issues.

And fuck me sideways if I have you as a peer dependency.

lugged··on When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up
Its "why is Facebook down" questions and looking it up on newssites.
lugged··on We need to take CO2 out of the sky
It's going to be a lot easier to take it out of the ocean. I don't know why people insist on working on the atmosphere. The ocean is a natural carbon buffer, the perfect place for us to draw down from with easy options for disposal.
lugged··on New York Public Library ends all late fees
This is much better, incentivized but not punished.
lugged··on New York Public Library ends all late fees
This can also be solved by ensuring one copy stays in the library but buying extras if they're popular and held out for long periods of time.
lugged··on Coinbase Cloud
Nothing I like more than a cookie accept button covering half the screen that doesn't work when you click it.
lugged··on This influenza lineage may have become extinct
Nobody likes a flukeeper.

They literally said "flus and colds" why do you have to suggest this person's experience isn't what they say it is.

Have you had the flu before? Do you know what it is?

Do you know how absolutely fucking annoying it is to be gaslit when you know you've had the flu and no it wasn't just a bad fucking cold?

lugged··on This influenza lineage may have become extinct
Why go underground when rent next to the wetmarket is so cheap?
lugged··on Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks to Kids
Get dead?
lugged··on Why is everything so hard in a large organization?
I hate matrix management so much.

It's gimmicky and a pain in the arse. I know management does do a job, but it's hard to justify needing two instead of one.

My view I that matrix style management is a solution to a communication problem you haven't figured out.

Instead of fixing the communication throughput problem, your adding more bandwidth and scaling out the number of nodes in hopes it magically fixes the problem.

And it sort of does fix the communication problems, that's why people like it. The trade off is that as an IC its arese to have to jerk two cocks at the same time.

lugged··on Cloudflare's Disruption
10%.. disrupted.
lugged··on YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
Whats the point? You'll just debunk it with a bs "fact check"[1] article that links to outdated information or quotes people with outdated information and call it a day.

When the reality is:

- Spike proteins from the virus and the vaccine are in-arguably cytotoxic[2] (but the low load has not lead to any long term negative effects and you should still get vaxxed).

- Spike proteins do not stay near the injection site.[3][4] (only 20% of the dose is found to remain in the injection site after 48h)

The thing that fucks me off so much about this censorship from youtube is that it leads to the fact checkers becoming gospel, the same fact checkers that have been found to be paid shills of big pharma.[5] Even the fact check article I link to here links to a youtube clip where this is all discussed in detail, only it doesn't discuss it in detail be cause its only a clip. A clip that was created to avoid youtubes filters. The full video[6] covers all of this in detail.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-cytotoxic-...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41375-021-01332-z

[3] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-sp...

[4] https://www.docdroid.net/xq0Z8B0/pfizer-report-japanese-gove...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44B-OJcOXxc

[6] https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/how-to-save-the-world,-i...

lugged··on YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
Fauci literally lied because he didn't trust the population with the truth. That's moving the goal posts.
lugged··on YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
That was the expectation but we later found they travel around the body and particularly build up in bone marrow and your ovaries if you have them.

They also are technically "toxic" but you need to take that word with a grain of salt. The damage is still far less than what the virus will cause if you catch it without the vaccine.

lugged··on Facebook releases internal slide decks for research on teens on Instagram [pdf]
What is SSI? (Skimming)
lugged··on Sometimes mindlessness is better than mindfulness
You're arguing semantics.

These two things are not mutually exclusive either. You can and should practice both.

lugged··on Fossil footprints reveal humans in North America earlier than previously thought
A doco I watched a while back suggested they could have used seal blubber and oil lamps as a source of heat to melt ice for water.

The boat would be hauled onto the ice and turned upside down to form a shelter in remote spots.

Fishing and hunting for seals would have provided the food as they went.

lugged··on Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation
Not really. You can get companies into bidding wars though. Went from 50k to 80k with a savvy recruiter doing the dirty work.
lugged··on 200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring
Would have been closer to 10000 feet back then but incredible nonetheless.
lugged··on The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
People here don't use adblockers?
lugged··on Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram
This is usually a sign they don't really have the ability to define their position conscisely enough.

There are a lot of stupid people in the world, but most of them are able to see reason if a) they're willing, and b) you're willing to help them get there.

The problem is that you're probably not going to get the answer you want so you have little incentive to put in the effort.

lugged··on Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time
People wake near sunrise because DST keeps moving the fucking clock mate.
lugged··on Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram
Advertising.
lugged··on Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram
In my experience this is rarely the case.

It's much more likely you're misunderstanding their position or missing some undisclosed nuance. Often I find this just comes down to most people lacking the vocabulary or ability to refine their positions consicely enough to form coherent and non contradictory positions.

If you take the time to work through their contrictory statements with them you'll likely find there was no contradiction in their mind, instead, there was just some nuance that got lost in translation.

lugged··on Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
The idea is to give you the plausible deniability, you can tell the cops you wiped it with random data, there is no password.

Your flash drive can't then be used as evidence that you haven't wiped it yet.

The initrd on the drive would be evidence you haven't wiped the drive.

Whether that gets you out of a jam and not in trouble for destroying evidence is another question.

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