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techntoke··on Twitter adds a warning label fact-checking Trump’s false voting claims
No it doesn't.
techntoke··on YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments
Do you think it is okay for Hacker News to censor and rank content based on their own agendas? Shadow ban and prevent users from posting? This post is literally complaining about something that Hacker News does frequently. I couldn't even respond to this comment for over two hours with a message saying:

> You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.

This is what they do to people that don't follow their agenda. All the while, you can't even respond to comments on your own comment.

techntoke··on YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments
Thanks for have some sense here. Just typing two words is not a comment. It is akin to spam on practically every platform.
techntoke··on YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments
In other news, that should be front page, but doesn't follow the Google hate that Hacker News accepts as front page material:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322719

techntoke··on Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
That is exactly his intentions. He is an idiot for using Twitter in the first place. He should have been advocating for a decentralized Internet where his followers could live in a bubble catered to them.
techntoke··on Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API
An import 500 modules in the process.
techntoke··on Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
> I screwed up and did not realize how large a privacy violation this was

Riiiight. You didn't realize how big it was because you didn't care, until it was clear it was going to have a serious negative impact on you. You didn't care about the privacy of others or otherwise you wouldn't have made the choices you did.

techntoke··on YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy
Terror organization who operates freely on reddit?
techntoke··on Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5
The only issue I'm aware of with Go is garbage collection, however that is by design.
techntoke··on Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5
Any compiled language for Linux really don't have these types of issues. Go, Rust, C, C++, Nim, etc.
techntoke··on The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
I wish this were the case, but they seem to disproportionately lock up African Americans while giving the rich white people a free pass on crime.
techntoke··on Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
They don't even have the "viewport" meta tag set, so it isn't meant for mobile.
techntoke··on Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
It is available on MSDN.
techntoke··on Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
Media Creation tool doesn't download the ISO with CU updates. It downloads one that is about a year old and then once you run Windows Updates, it has about a years worth of updates to install (if not more).

The point was that Windows 10 2004 is RTM but you have to be a MSDN subscriber to download it, or find some shady Russian website to get it from.

techntoke··on Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
How does logging websites you visit help Linux? Windows 10 2004 is already RTM. I've never understood why Microsoft hides their ISO images. It's like they want people to install a version of their OS with a bunch of manufacturer spyware or missing multiple major updates which take hours to install and leaves a bunch of files/directories behind.
techntoke··on Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5
Which is why people should use a language that isn't riddled with issues like this. The documentation on compilation and flags is horrible BTW.
techntoke··on Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5
Yes and no. .NET static binary isn't truly static. It has to decompile a folder with the dependencies in order to run.
techntoke··on Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
Website looks terrible, practically unreadable on mobile. Black and red don't go well together either.
techntoke··on A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
> Cattle is a threshold, but when the same problem keeps coming up it's time to call the vet.

If CPU was bad, then that means that you kept running the instance on the same node. Quick was to test if it was "cattle" would have been to try on a different node

Additionally, if CPU was bad how was it not affecting other services?

techntoke··on A safer and more private browsing experience with Secure DNS
Google isn't taking control of DNS. That will still be up to the user, and like Firefox, I expect it to be configurable too. Mozilla already implemented and is using DNS-over-HTTPS. That is why I find the Google hate to be semi-manufactured. Cases like this, it makes no sense to argue against something like this. Even if I was running my own DNS server, I would still want to use DNS-over-HTTPS in my own setup.

I'm all for decentralizing DNS and the web as a whole, but does that mean that I am going to advocate against better centralized security because of it? Absolutely not, especially when a majority of users don't have access to decentralized DNS today.

techntoke··on DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Did anyone see the comments?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/960 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/1288

techntoke··on Windows Package Manager Preview
Microsoft would be much better off if they had a YAML format for creating Windows installations, as opposed to their current unattended installs.
techntoke··on Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results
Never had an issue before. What distro and window manager are you using? I'm running Arch with Sway and no issues whatsoever with the mouse.
techntoke··on Windows Package Manager Preview
That is sort of how Chocolatey works already. You can modify any of their abandoned packages and submit a request to become owner. They still need to have admins or package authors maintaining packages though in order to ensure the hashes are correct. Otherwise if anyone can make a change then it will become ripe with viruses and malware.
techntoke··on Microsoft Fluid Framework Preview
It's just the name fluid generally refers to design patterns that scale from desktop to mobile automatically.
techntoke··on Windows Package Manager Preview
Similar to a PKGBUILD file for Arch. It is 2020 and like WSL, it will probably take at least 2 iterations and 3 more years before this half-works and honestly as much as I want this to be successful they will have to create an entirely different package format for it to. Like EXE installers are so unpredictable already and Chocolatey does okay but packages frequently get broken and many of them are unmaintained.
techntoke··on Microsoft Fluid Framework Preview
I get the following message:

> The Fluid preview experience is available on desktop versions of Edge Chromium and Chrome. Please use one of these browsers on your computer to access the preview.

Guess not so fluid afterall.

techntoke··on AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
For most cases on the 3600, you need a separate cooler to get longer life from the CPU. I was getting warnings when playing some games with the stock cooler. Good thing they only cost about $30.
techntoke··on Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
Two of the 3 things has been portrayed by the President of the US on Twitter. They are not censoring him.

Additionally, no harm? Movies encourage terrible behavior as well, but we are not trying to ban them on Netflix. If there is a movie where they glamorize alcohol or unprotected sex, there is no effort to have them removed from streaming platforms.

At one point, saying the world was round would have been an absurd conspiracy. Just because something appears and most likely is inaccurate, doesn't mean that we should have a central fact checking authority. That is some 1984 stuff right there. People can make choices for themselves and do their own research. There is no law preventing people like Sandra Bullock from telling people that baby foreskin is good for their skin, even though most people would know that is disgusting.

techntoke··on Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
> The fear is justified and the extreme prejudice against Covid-19 misinformation (most of which has an agenda behind it) is warranted.

This is the same stuff that was said during Iraq War. That it was justified. Later, we found out that it wasn't and that we attacked a country even though it was Saudi Arabia that was primarily responsible.

Now, they are trying to say that extreme measures, such as censoring people with alternative opinions is justified. Who cares if WHO or whatever else agency disagrees. People are capable of making choices for themselves and doing research. Blocking information, just because it may be inaccurate, doesn't justify it. You then have a centralized power determining what information is accurate like the events that lead to the Iraq War.

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