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That is the most distant definition from "necessity" i can think of.

demoscene reason d'etre is antithetical to museums. But i think this is very fitting for a time when, as you say, "we are losing more and more control over the hardware and softwar…

"oh buy i gladly pay the apple tax and subject myself to a single apple store with draconian rules for quality products in the entire ecosystem"

Let's not ignore the elephant in the room here. Every single one of you who use chrome daily, both on desktop or mobile, is directly contributing to Google being able to do this. I…

> I don’t see why this is controversial. Video is content. Google has always shown content from other sites No, Google have never promoted video from other sites, only youtube. And…

> It might not be obvious, but the app will have access to all your other open windows. Fun fact, most docker hosts will allow access to all your files anyway! (specially true on d…

ah, and the real world meet language flame war. both of these codes are awful imo. but real world code always is, so that's not a valid critic. usually when code pass over errors t…

This article is a lot of hot air from someone just giving their opinions on recent events. For a proper answer see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-looking_statement When a fo…

Or when facebook, yesterday, went back on the promise that their acquired VR headsets would never require a facebook account.

> Sadly, few people had access, because you had to either pay or pirate. not to mention a crazy fast computer choke full of RAM.

paraphrasing the linked article: A little history lesson (from someone who actually bought their products). I have one personal and 5 company managed librem 13 linux laptops. It's …

Why is this the 10th item on the FP with only 3 points and posted 50min ago?

Always good to remember https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131217/08341625587/bloom...

Tempted to download the source just to look if the interface code was done for both dos/windows. Anyone knows if there's an analysis on that?

> addons can change things and break the browser. Good. That's a feature. I install addons. It's not a site i visit with no consideration. This is the same thinking of apple. Peopl…

Professors are actually diminishing. Tenure is down 60% last decade. And most professors must bring millions to their dept to join the "chair" club. I guess this return is needed b…

Exit nodes are Tor worst feature. And it undermines the whole effort! Makes node operators liable for all sort of legal crap. It is the best thing for Spammers. Every service of no…

I give it very low grades. It suggests installing many closed source, Advertising-ridden apps from the play store. And to one of those ad-ridden apps, it even suggest you use adb t…

This idea get throw around every now and then while drinking. We usually discard it when 1) think about coding/training the is_poop image algo, 2) the smell is more important in mo…

try a better search engine :) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=falcon+emulator+xbox+team+reverse+... some interesting results from the above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10175998…

You are correct in the analysis. But you missed the point that "it's a feature".

> If you want income from your equity portfolio, just periodically sell shares. how much continuous growth do you expect the market will have exactly?

There's many incarnations (heh) of this idea in a long line of games called Singularity. e.g. https://github.com/singularity/singularity#playing-the-game Most versions i've played …

You don't even have to go to open source. You can see this hostile behaviour from their top-paying clients! Microsoft own previous gen Xbox emulator on the next gen xbox (i think i…

What are good Hotline servers nowadays? i think that is the single program I envied on macs from my PC past.