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Alan Turing, a hero murdered by his own country because he liked a good stiff one up the arse.

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> You are going to get more people to see your post if you put it on Medium. You are going to get more "friends" if you are on Facebook. You are going to interact with more people …

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IMO, every browser should handle JavaScript the way it handles cookies. The user should be allowed to: 1. run all JS regardless of source 2. reject all JS from sites other than the…

Will Bruce Wayne sparkle in sunlight?

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Fair warning to anybody thinking of using Librem Social: it's a Mastodon instance whose management seems willing to tolerate speech that most of the rest of the Fediverse finds obj…

> Honest question and I don't have super strong opinions on the subject, but is product placement really that big of a negative? If a product placement can't be justified on plot o…

Diversity in tech is a joke, and will remain such as long as businesses can hide discrimination behind "culture fit".

> Current dogma seems to be that rational people can just take the type 1 info out of your type 2 advert and think with the appropriate organ. I'd rather just consign the type 2 ad…

Telegram is spyware, just like WhatsApp.

Ten bucks a month ? For instant messaging? Did you think this through?

They might not see explicit advertisements, but they're getting exposed to a metric assload of product placement.

I'm not surprised. Advertising is nothing but private-sector psyops.

If Kickstarter will not voluntarily recognize the union, then the union should go on strike and remain on strike until Kickstarter recognizes them.

> Can we not make it illegal punishable with the death sentence? I think all spammers should be dealt with in the manner Vlad Tepes used to deal with Turks, criminals, and people w…

We could just get rid of our telephones. Let's be honest here: when was the last time you were actually happy to make or receive a phone call? It's time to KonMari this tech into t…

I guess you're one of those passionate techies that founders love, rather than a mercenary .

It's not a "windfall". They did the work. They made that wealth possible. They earned every bit of it.

> They learn / don't learn that skill from kidfluencers on YouTube. Thanks for giving me a new excuse for being a misanthrope.

I only chose college because the pressure from my family was such that I had only two "valid" choices: 1. Go to college 2. Enlist in the military I would have preferred to have gon…

I've made secondhand optical media my fault because I'm sick of paying rent.

It's easy to measure workers by how many hours their ass is in their seat per day, so that's what gets measured and that's how we're judged. I'm tempted to say I'd rather be paid p…