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theknocker··on Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
One monopoly continues to single-handedly shit on personal computing for the whole species.
theknocker··on FBI groomed a 16-year-old with “brain development issues” to become a terrorist
Wow isn't the FBI just the best. Thank goodness they still exist!
theknocker··on Reddit is OpenAI’s moat
It would embarrassingly hilarious for openai if this were true.
theknocker··on 'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'
Since you want to be condescending, I'll tell you it's clear to me that you know virtually nothing whatsoever about epistemology.
theknocker··on The problem with dependency injection frameworks
I guess my main problem with a dependency injection framework would be, why do you need a framework besides a class system and import statements to do dependency injection?
theknocker··on TikTok’s Ugly ‘NPC in Real Life’ Trend
PSA it's not actually cool to seek out safety in numbers. If all of your opinions heavily factor in "what is it safe to think in public," then you are an NPC. You are less cool than people who aren't born to follow.
theknocker··on Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges
>And... before you say, perhaps your salary ranges were bad, they weren't.

Oh ok.

theknocker··on Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks (2020)
No, and now he gets paid by CNN to spread more lies.
theknocker··on How did I get so unhappy working in tech?
Yeah and it doesn't. In practice, it just enables managers to become even more useless by blaming devs for their poor project management.
theknocker··on CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text
Should have called it "mandatory" then.
theknocker··on Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
Yeah great time for you to air your grievances about the bill of rights. Thanks.
theknocker··on Are daily standups hurting your team?
I basically stopped working in software because of managers thinking their processes (i.e. their nagging) are more important than code.

Most of the benefits we supposedly get out of agile could be accomplished by a non-dumbass technical lead looking at git histories for 10 minutes a day. I suspect this is how real world software teams get things done behind their so called managers' backs.

theknocker··on Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement
This is not what begs the question means.
theknocker··on Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
I'm also a big fan of the weather widget they tried to force on everyone's start bar. I'm also a big fan of how "one drive" is now critical functionality, and windows needs to persistently notify me if I'm not logged into it. I'm also a big fan of how it's 2021, and their bloated OS still takes like ten minutes to truly boot up all the way.
theknocker··on A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)
How about this: There is no doubt in my mind -- none -- that you know exactly what I'm talking about.

And all anyone really needs to know, in order to suspect dishonesty and censorship from you, is an awareness of your shadowbanning tactics.

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It's ok though. There are other culturally influential websites where people/groups can market their ideas, cults, viewpoints, albums, etc. And some of them don't shadowban. Some of them do something a little different instead.

It all works out. Have a nice day!

theknocker··on A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)
Don't insult my intelligence. Discourse here is confined to the limits of acceptability according to the neoliberal mainstream. This is abundantly obvious to literally everybody. Of course the liberal mainstream endeavors to enforce that.

I won't be treated like a moron by a moron.

theknocker··on A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)
>There's a mod who curates comments based on what's politically expedient according to leftist valley dweebs
theknocker··on A majority of uninfected adults show pre-existing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2
I think it's funny that your edit is necessary.
theknocker··on Wikipedia has Cancer (Wikipedia costs growth over time)
I still don’t comprehend wtf they’re spending all that money on. It’s a crowd-sourced text website. I stopped donating because they do literally nothing at all to curtail activist editors.
theknocker··on YouTube Shadow Banned Us WTF Happened?
Why? They’re a completely entrenched monopoly whom the government lets pretend to be some kind of intelligence agency.
theknocker··on A vast web of vengeance
Archive link for those of us who don't understand why we have to make an account to read a news article that's being aggregated:

https://archive.is/oQIOd

(I would tend to conclude that they don't want it aggregated to begin with.)

theknocker··on Firefly Reboot Coming to Disney+
"Let's just ruin everything pertaining to space by turning into hipster camp." -- Disney

They can't even leave the one alone that was already hipster camp.

theknocker··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
Because anyone interested enough in this topic to do any cursory research -- as opposed to just being an insufferable fedora on the internet -- will realize it's not limited to just one company.
theknocker··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
>Everyone just be whores! Break the fetters of traditionalism and become sexually liberated!

>No not like that!

-- Neoliberalism

theknocker··on The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus [pdf]
Consensus should be determined by science, not the other way around. Otherwise, what is the point of science?

edit: "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." t. redditadmin.txt