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mikelovenotwar··on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
Broken link on the pricing page "How did we calculate this number " -> https://help.opennode.com/en/articles/3179796-where-are-open... -> "Uh oh. That page doesn’t exist. Try searching for your answer or just send us a message."
mikelovenotwar··on Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy
>Chinese students in particular seem to have terrible english language skills.

English, not english.

mikelovenotwar··on What Killed Perl?
>"In Perl 6, we decided it would be better to fix the language than fix the user." — Larry Wall

As history has shown, this didn't work out well for anyone

mikelovenotwar··on End of Japanese community
"..and how we can help you engage further with our automated ball kicking machine we used on you without consent.."
mikelovenotwar··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
> It’s everything broken about the fucking internet right now.

This sums it up. The attitude and behaviours deemed by this man as acceptable are a highly problematic, and a contributor the cesspool that the internet has become.

mikelovenotwar··on Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect
Commentary on the situation from Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIyaDD8onIE
mikelovenotwar··on CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-roc...
mikelovenotwar··on CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
Please let this be true. Hilarious
mikelovenotwar··on MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline
> Han shot first.

More specifically, Greedo didn't shoot at all. Not until it was messed with many years later.

mikelovenotwar··on Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player
A link to the actual hackaday blog post: https://hackaday.com/2024/06/06/linamp-the-irl-winamp/
mikelovenotwar··on Perl v5.40.0 is now available
> Is anyone using it?

Not really

mikelovenotwar··on The government is making it more difficult to track private aircraft travel
>It's always funny (both haha and sad) to me which sacrificial lamb the parties convince to push something like this forward.

Driving up to their home with a dump truck full of money tends to get the desired results.

mikelovenotwar··on MKUltra
> He leaves out a lot of relevant information anytime the CIA is involved in a story.

What do you feel has not been covered sufficiently in the MKULTRA podcast series?

mikelovenotwar··on MKUltra
I don't seem to recall that being the case, the CIA are discussed multiple times.
mikelovenotwar··on MKUltra
The 'behind the bastards' podcast did a series of episodes on this that are worth checking out.
mikelovenotwar··on Can Portal 64 be saved? [video]
Previously Valve asked Portal 64 developer to take the project down:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38943797

mikelovenotwar··on PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
>One time putty took down our prod rac cluster on Xmas eve...

A literal PEBCAK issue, not a putty issue.

mikelovenotwar··on How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too
>amazon give nectar points as a reward They do not, and are not listed as a partner on nectar
mikelovenotwar··on Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 Fan Projects Shut Down by Valve Takedowns
TF2 receives regular patches, fixing bugs. The sniper bot problem badly needs a proper fix.
mikelovenotwar··on The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
Nope https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965250
mikelovenotwar··on Leaving F-Droid
Community Council https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/447
mikelovenotwar··on Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]
Finally, confirmation of HL 3!
mikelovenotwar··on Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial
> That's the situation TCS contractors are in. Now, laws are laws, and we have to follow them. There is always plenty of money to do things by the book. I thought this was a gov. project, not insurance, but the principle is the same. Transamerica is getting worse service because the contractor that they prefer wanted to look at documentation for a system they payed for. This is why enterprise IT is a legally mandated mess.

This is not the case. Regardless you state that there is a single choice to be made, getting something that works OR having it done legally.

mikelovenotwar··on Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial
>Texas would rather punish TCS than have stuff work

Why would it have to be one, and not both?

mikelovenotwar··on Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial
>It's a bottom to top evil company.

Worked there for a while, can confirm

mikelovenotwar··on Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial
Worked for TCS, such 'courses' were mandatory, however as with all of their training cheating was rife.
mikelovenotwar··on RackNES: NES Module for VCV Rack
perhaps of interest https://cdm.link/2023/09/4ms-explains-meta-module/
mikelovenotwar··on Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla
Poor performance, terrible UX, welcome to modern software.
mikelovenotwar··on Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware
There's precious little code to read....
mikelovenotwar··on Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Crypto Project Officially Launches
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843469
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