swebs

5,051 karma · joined March 5, 2013

swebs··on U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections

You're being downvoted due to being needlessly divisive and partisan. We should be able to discuss individual political events without turning it into an "us vs them" shitflinging contest.

swebs··on U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections

Huh, seems pretty obvious to me.

swebs··on How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

Well until someone develops mind-reading technology, that's the most likely explanation someone reading your comment would have.

swebs··on How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

To be fair, there was nothing to refute. Still, nobody has listed anything he said that was wrong or harmful.

swebs··on How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

Well he has a PHD in clinical psychology, not nutrition. I think people like the OP throw these jabs at him purely because they're angry he spoke out against the Canadian pronoun law, rather than any complaints about the validity of his research itself.

swebs··on How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

What did he say that was false?

swebs··on How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

Site appears to be down. Here's an archive

http://archive.is/YALTz

swebs··on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

Wow, that 5th one is scarily similar to the Reginald Denny incident. I hope the rioters didn't actually kill him.

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

swebs··on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

In this instance, probably /r/politics or some similar echo chamber.

swebs··on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/fox-news-crew-c...

Wow, this is scary to think about. I'm glad the reporters didn't die.

swebs··on Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests

I'm pretty sure any $30 Baofeng will let you broadcast on these frequencies.

swebs··on Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests

I guess if you were to build a map of static cell towers, it would be easy to see if a new one suddenly pops up.

swebs··on What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)

Nowadays you have to add ?hl=en to the query string.

swebs··on Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

"Rebuttal" would work better. Calling it a fact check implies "I'm right, you're wrong. The debate is over."

swebs··on Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

No.

>major bias of media and tech giants

swebs··on Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

Good, I hope this forces them to decide whether to be neutral platforms or publishers. They've been having their cake and eating it too for far too long.

swebs··on Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity

Can I get a link to this specific incident?

swebs··on Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity

Does anyone know why this is happening? I just assumed Reddit, Youtube, Stackoverflow, etc were doing it because they were being paid by the DNC or various political action groups. But Wikipedia is a non-profit with a good chunk of money in reserve.

swebs··on MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

Give Pop OS a look. It's based on Ubuntu with some additional UI polish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGcvHMNaDd0

swebs··on MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

Linux has been a delight to use for me. Things were rough 10-15 years ago, but it's pretty amazing now.

swebs··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Duckduckgo got it right, and it doesn't send any user data. Also, I think a system shouldn't have to know anything about you to know that you're not asking about London, Canada.

swebs··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Probably at least number 3 behind the Holocaust and Internet Explorer.

swebs··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Are you sure it's due to your accent? That seems like a difficult feature to even implement. I know Google loves to play language shenanigans based on your current IP address.

swebs··on Things I hate about Rust

"Not as bad as Windows" isn't exactly a high bar to clear.

swebs··on New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

If you're in the EU, NPR is forced to ask you if you want to accept tracking cookies. If you say no, they redirect you to a text-only version. Which seems incredibly spiteful, but actually works out wonderfully in my opinion since you can just read the news without all that cruft you mention.

https://text.npr.org

swebs··on U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low

>with how expendable engineers are these days

I have never heard anyone say that. What kind of engineers are you? There should be demand everywhere.

swebs··on DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

>Now you can run the tools you want and need in whichever environment you like

Isn't the linked post saying you have to be running on Windows though? It seems like it would make way more sense to either port directX to Linux, or ditch directX and put those resources into supporting Vulcan.

swebs··on Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (2012)

Software is copyrightable but hardware is not? So could you just convert byte code to a schematic of logic gates and be able to share it freely?

swebs··on Don't set the language of your website based on user location

Google is the absolute worst with this. I have to remember to put ?hl=en to the end of every URL for every product they own.

swebs··on Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches

If they could, they would have done it 40 years ago.

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

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