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the dedicated server situation was (is?) pretty dire back when i hosted a few SRCDS instances. here's a small taste: https://wiki.alliedmods.net/SRCDS_Hardening#Current_Exploits no…

> Such adverts may be seen as a way to make money but can be used to influence user behaviour and control people in large numbers FLoC & ad-tracking sucks but can we dial back the …

Wasn't Apple's iMessage protocol supposed to be an open implementation too? Whatever happened to that?

> ". Your tools seem to be bizzarely obsessed with colors, though" Ah, there it is. The "you don't need that feature" attitude that made desktop Linux the roaring success it is tod…

> We have shown an ability to not just change code artifacts, but the protocols and languages which we use to communicate, at a very rapid rate. Results may vary for the C language…

> "this ORM is just bad, next time we will use a different one" ...pretty sure there are competing abstraction layers to working with DBs other programming paradigms. > OOP works o…

Do tech support for a hospital and this attitude will very quickly dissipate. >In my experience, the contrast is stark to another high-paid professional group: lawyers. Database sy…

"You missed a trick by not naming it 'Just the Tip' or something to really convey the true spirit of the app" --> Rejected

…That is not, in fact, the (exact) definition of a paid shill. Apple would have to be paying him conditionally, with the sole intent of him advertising / defending / whatever, rega…

He's referring to the mobile version of Safari, which for some reason labels 'open in new tab' as 'open in background'. If you hit 'open in new window' by mistake you end up with a…

20th century Communists, of course, were famously tolerant of their opponents.

The guy who was repeatedly reprimanded by his own party for it & stripped of his assignments? By this standard, the Democrats are socialists since they won't reprimand AOC. https:/…

This is a completely worthless, ahistorical comment. > French Revolution, How did that turn out? > American Revolution There is no definition of leftism that would include the Amer…

…it was created in September 18, 1947 as part of a reorg brought on by difficulties encountered during WWII. Pretty good foresight on their part to realize they were going to need …

"There is not a major political party in the US that advocates for an employment guarantee, banning private property, or withdrawing all armed forces from around the world. These a…

I for one can't wait to return to a time where the only people who could afford to be writers were members of the upper class who didn't need to rely on publishing for their income…

> One should not use so much memory for a mail server, way too risky. Is there a table or formula I can consult that will give this particular dumb person(myself) a handy guide for…

Not sure why you're being downvoted - I expect more meat from a submission than 'here's a context-free few sentences on a tweet!'

Yes being able to freely buy a product that offers a different point on the security / openness continuum is slavery, and phrasing it like that doesn't undermine either the meaning…

Found some additional info on the legacy computing symbols - chapter 22, page 856 - https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch22.pdf "Support for these legacy computing symb…

> it isn't even necessarily incorrect to express that they may not want to pursue that particular field anymore Can I express that to people who think a volunteer project owes them…

Yeah, it's kind of weird how little attention some of C's (historical)competitors in the systems programming space get. You'd think to see a lot of comparisons to whatever Ada* or …

> If steam would be forced to build new products rather than sitting on their platform we'd probably have had Half Life 3 a bunch of years ago. Steam is a terrible example for this…

Came here to say the same thing- had eye surgery a few years back and the floaters are maddening. I've got a few apps that use a white background feels blinding whenever I have to …

> it's gotten really unreliable in many places these days because the infrastructure is decaying and companies are spending the absolute minimum to keep it going, but they're milki…