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> If I pay someone $100 to come clean my house and they take my money and don't clean my house, its no different than if they came into my house and stole $100. It is not OP's hous…

> And unless you were writing drivers, that major OS version wasn't going to break anything. Just a minor nitpick, but the NT device driver API has in fact stayed largely the same …

Well other package managers don't automatically update packages like NPM does though but pin the exact version that you installed.

It's his project. It's your fault if you blindly trust random 3rd-party code on the internet and have your mission-critical software depend on it.

The fundamental problem is that the interests of Google do not align with the interests of it's users. Google is not interested in serving us the "best" search results possible, th…

That whole story is debatable at best. Here's just some of the things that make you scratch your head and wonder how much of it is really true: - Author of the fork claiming that h…

Say "I support the AfD." (which is a bit like the German equivalent of saying "I support Trump") in Germany though and you are villified beyond belief and declared an Unperson, so …

denying reality because he is asking for proof? wow.

Unless you get 95% of people to use such an extension, it will be mostly useless. And if somebody succeeded in getting 95% of people to use their extension, they would sell it to t…

> We want 'order' first, which can enable a bit of prosperity, and then the slow grind to basic freedoms, it's generally the only path. Why did you invade Iraq then plunging it int…

> Otherwise I see a very dark future where super large companies kill people's livelihoods and nothing can be done. What do you mean future ? This is already the reality. I recall …

It's still actively being developed, the author just created a new project page for it for some reason. You can find it at https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

MPC-HC is just as good as VLC and maybe a little less cluttered. It's Windows only of course, but if that isn't a limiting factor, then it's a very good alternative to VLC in my op…

Sorry, but no. Electron is the absolute worst piece of technology that I have come across in at least the last 20 years. It's not only that it is bloated, ridiculously resource hun…

I wish I could agree but from my experience, DDG's search results aren't really that great. Often even worse than Google's. And another private company is not the answer I believe.…

Because Google is not interested in serving the best possible search results but rather in serving those that will make them the most money.

That's what it's still somewhat good for. I mostly use it to read about random history stuff I'm interested like medieval Europe etc. but avoid it completely for anything contempor…

> I mean, I assume that for some reason the platforms just buy the rights for the dubbed version, but don't the subbed original versions also have a ton of demand (maybe more than …

On that note, Catherine the Great had her own husband and several other people brutally murdered to illegitimately usurp the Russian throne and was a terribly repressive and author…

Oh yea let's build an OS where we can just import our kernel-mode drivers from the repository of quality code that is NPM. I mean what could possibly go wrong, right? I'm sorry but…

Well I can still develop like this in ASP.NET if I wanted to and probably and many other languages/frameworks too, so it's not exactly unique.

> XMPP is fundamentally flawed how is it fundamentally flawed, can you elaborate?

Don't try to put the blame for the absolute mess that is NPM on Microsoft.

> Some subgroups -- motivated groups who seem to have endless free time and a lot of passion to click little arrows and leave comments -- brigade and basically remove any functiona…