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Haha, nuke and pave as a first resort rather than a last resort.

Sounds straight from a 90's Microsoft marketing department, I'm glad not everyone listened back then. More users is definitely a feature though.

Ah, another reminder of Jason Scott's talk https://youtu.be/qh7EARxkxoU?list=PL7WR9B9eZNmxm8_LzP1Qf8xnN...

Did you have the information necessary to make the correct decision? Most problems or failures I've encountered in software come to missing information much more often than any oth…

Anyone else remember the "Summer of Love"? [1] I had stopped attempting to answer or ask anything on the site due to the behavior I observed. It was pure gamesmanship for people tr…

God creates dinosaurs, god destroys dinosaurs, god creates man, man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

E-mail remains one of the last decentralized communication mediums. If Google can make it a walled garden, they will.

Good point, I remember the game storefront being announced but had not heard about their subscriptions. I still wouldn't recommend using it for anything because of the potential go…

I refuse to use Discord because I don't know how or to whom they are going to sell my data yet. It's possible they go to a subscription model but I doubt it, it seems more likely t…

I would say the modern state of surveillance capitalism is in a large part what rms warned about with proprietary systems being used against the user.

Just like rms, PETA and the ACLU do things I don't agree with, but philosophically, especially with FSF, EFF, and the ACLU, I think that their overall goal is one I agree with. No …

The only disagreement I have with his statements is that I think the Itanic and blind vendor buy-in is what sunk non-x86 processors. amd64 is what actually brought x86 ubiquity whi…

Stop. Using. Chrome.

I would argue that e-mail has been used via phishing and other (419 scam) tricks to swindle more people out of their money than other technologies. Clearly it is a dangerous tool t…

jwz predicted it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y&t=53m36s

I find the methods listed on https://botsentinel.com/faq a bit confusing: "Q: How do you determine which accounts are classified as fake news? Classifying fake news accounts is a m…

... and yet another downside to Microsoft moving to Chromium.

> Who is defining progress that way? It seems to be defined as convenience by any means necessary.

Thanks for posting this. It's all too often people (like in this article) want to lean on bureaucracy and legislation to fix their problems as opposed to actually doing something a…

Cheat tables were removed from the cheat engine forums because Bethesda et al sent them a threatening letter claiming similar things to what Nintendo claimed in that case. I doubt …

> If it was a software system, it would have been rewritten decades ago. Like all of the software that runs power plants, defense systems, medical records? You make a good point, a…

> Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware. This is exactly the response for anyone that is fr…

"I'm just curious. I saw you shuffling your checks with your right hand. Can you do that with both hands?"

I'm sure they have plenty of examples to go by, all they need to do is consult Yahoo, Google or any of the telecoms for good strategies. I guess on the plus side at least we know n…