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I follow all of that, sure. But I still don’t think you can blame either on “bottom of the barrel staff” given that the proximate cause appears to be much much closer to the money …

All this. It’s surveillance where your observation comes into its own tho.

mst doing some interesting work with babble, a babel for Perl 5. Hoping we get a typescript workalike in Perl.

From the install notes, can someone tell me why BoringSSL needs Perl to build?

I get asked for single characters of mine a lot

> I don't know what the story is in Apple-land The walled garden is great and protects my privacy.

There is a “web” link on this article. If you click it, you’ll find a search engine link to the article which will give you access

We’ve also not convinced our peers to vote in anywhere near the numbers that the boomers do.

> That's tantamount to saying that life now is on balance worse than it was in the pre-boomer period I don’t follow your logic there at all

my $self = shift; can fuck right off.

Related: > Internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata. How could Sanjaya (the charioteer of King Dhritarashtra in the epic) give a detailed account…

> That doesn't prevent launching a new ship. Amen. I’d love to see a rebrand to Rakudo and Pumpkin, where the latter is Perl5 plus some long-overdue backwards incompatible changes,…

> the UK Probably not for much longer, given the rather interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order

> the choice is a fake one I can’t buy a Whopper at Pizza Express, the parent companies of both are owned by different people, both parent companies have different supply chains an…

> thousands of food carts and trucks And indeed restaurants themselves in the UK, especially pub ones, will order quite a lot of their food partially prepped already

Sounds like a good reason to use a password manager and good backups to store them?

While I’m sure there are occasional counter examples, weren’t these largely from either war zones or with the cooperation of the host country?

I think killing a political dissident in another country that’s not actively at war is considered a bit beyond the pale by most democracies, doubly so if you’re putatively on good …

I guess my point is that maybe they wanted the “unnecessary attention”

I conduct so much business via my phone email, and have an assistant doing most computer tasks. Wonder what would need to change to get me off a computer fulltime

Feels like they may be taking a leaf out of the Russo-Skripal handbook here, and making barely any effort to cover their tracks as a show of brazeness to other potential defectors/…

The grammar correction in Google Translate is a little too good. I was trying to create some broken Russian phrases to send a Russian friend, but I’d put in weird or bad English as…