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I am objecting to JavaScript.

One of the horrible consequences of the last 20 years of web (there are so many, not sure where to start!) that every person with an access to a computer thinks that they have ever…

Why web developer culture is so annoying when it comes to naming things? Serverless? It is actually a server. Flight control? Nothing to do with airports or flights or whatsoever.

Ok, good points and I agree with messages as atomic unit of communication in mail vs message history per contact as atomic unit of communication in mail. This creates a mental stat…

> Asynchronous communication > Rather than having flow and concentration interrupted by incoming message notifications, with email I can easily decide when to fetch and process mes…

> And like the communists of old, AI scientists believe in their revolution; the old myths of tragic hubris don’t trouble them at all. What an utterly bullsh*t way to say I don't k…

For 200€, you can get yourself an old Thinkpad, flash it with some coreboot variation, install a GNU/Linux distribution and in process you will learn more things and it is not an R…

What RTO and WTAF means? Who knows. I clicked on link to find out but looks like website blogs my IP range. I will never know this important information..

This is all about destroying free software and allowing "open source" to take over, nothing with memory safety whatsoever. This can sound conspiracy but the main idea is to push pe…

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When I was a kid, every month I was waiting to get the demo CDs of the Turkish gaming magazine "Level". It was such fun times. I remember in one of those magazines, they had a smal…

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Licensing is not a simple semantic problem. It is a legal problem that have strong ramifications, especially things are on their way to standardize. What Facebook is trying to do w…