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There are countercultures aplenty, but many employ strict gatekeeping measures to exclude anyone they find unsavory for whatever reason. So if you see people refusing to throw you …

Here's an example of "shitposter" being used in early 2005. The posts won't load for me but the dates and titles are visible. I can personally recall earlier instances from other a…

Solar panels are less bad for the environment in regions where they'll operate efficiently for all or most of their projected lifespan. The manufacturing process is worse up front,…

>Generations have debated the delegation of kitchen duties, often touching on class, race, and especially gender. Most frequently, women have taken on home cooking, which often mea…

Money talks, talk walks. As an aside, I have no direct proof but I'm convinced that Twitter is massively overvalued. The board could've just been fishing for a higher offer.

Call and find out.

That's one way to do it but it helps to think in terms of cursive, or people's sloppy handwriting where the letters are often connected by at least one stroke so that the tip of th…

Your view of computers seems overly simplistic. The "adding machine" is just one component in a larger series of abstractions that enable functionality the adding machine is normal…

>Yuo cna reda tihs raedliy btu teh copmtuer cna't. Why can't it? Isn't that basically what current AI research is doing? Using massively parallel systems to make quick inferences b…

> The full quote is “ elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side".”…

The characters we use to interact with our computers were mostly designed to be hand-written and minimize the amount of movement your hand has to make going from one letter to the …

>the elusive path of maintaining free speech What's so elusive about it? Let people say what they want and give users a robust word and account filtering system. If you think your …

>Some participants went on to become successful businessmen, doctors, lawyers, and others ended up as schizophrenics or alcoholics, but not on inevitable tracks. Why was this assum…

All of that is moot unless you've tested the software yourself and found it to be broken in certain terminal emulators. I agree with your point that it's easy to write CLI software…

>You’d get the half-shame branding of “metrosexual” for dressing better than average "Better than average" is highly subjective. There have always been expectations in every societ…

Jokes and hyperbole aside, that's honestly not too bad. At least relative to most modern bloatware. However, 10MB is still enough to run Windows 3.1 with room to spare for a progra…

Neat. Now I can run an interpreter in an interpreter to use text based programs like it's 1985, while also paying 2022 prices for the extra 32GB of RAM it needs.

>Imagine when they can limit the trade of crypto to people who have certain ideas. Or limit the percentage of your wealth you can spend on certain items (games, movies, ... food). …

>The more insidious problem that regular people come up against every day is devices that depend on cloud access. That idea doesn't hold up in reality. Open source projects with op…

OpenBSD 7.1 still offers the macppc port. It was pretty fast on my later G4s.

People are going to keep getting burned until they learn a simple lesson: No schematics, no specs, and no source code equals e-waste. If you don't want a timebomb that bricks itsel…

>Your average person, your average BitTorrent user even, does not have the skill set required for the running of Linux to be anything near trivial This says more about Windows user…

>oh and chips come with light up fans and crap now but theres no open standard on how to control the light color so everyone just leaves it in Liberace disco mode This is why I con…

>That's not science Why can't it be? Why can't we just start doing studies on people who have already had positive experiences with these drugs? Why is there an assumption that one…

I've yet to see any kind of productive or useful discourse come out of mainstream media in regards to the Q nonsense. That kind of stuff can't gain traction under a system that pri…