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CUPS was almost entirely[1] made by Michael R Sweet who left Apple close to a year ago[2] and now works for his own company. Completely understandable to move the upstream repo awa…

So you would be perfectly fine with Hitler at least being elected then, and anyone who tried to stop him would be a bad person?

Do you really think people at large didn't know about hanging, slavery, human sacrifice, and ideas about a flat earth in societies where these ideas were applicable?

Maybe, but the argument is that mere public existence of an idea effectively promotes correct ideas and demotes incorrect ideas. That is absolutely not in evidence.

Most of those ideas didn't die out because one day people found out about them, and then we put an end to them. Most of them _everyone_ knew about for thousands, or even tens of th…

So Hitler was guilty of no crimes then? It would have been a good, or at least morally obligated thing that nobody stopped him, yes?

> The poorest of the poor in this country is in magnitude better conditions than their companions in other countries. This is objectively untrue by pretty much any measure. For ins…

How many non-complicit-with-the-government North Koreans do you think have safe, unmonitored access to computers and the internet, and so can safely (or even unsafely) use cryptoco…

This is a bad excuse for the really flakey nature of nfs, other network filesystems do not have its issues.

I don't think having a system sit completely unresponsive to anything for a huge amount of time is exactly optimal either.

nice! was not aware of that syscall, however, patching the entire world remains...

Unfortunately enabling swap in linux has a very annoying side effect, linux will preferentially push out pages of running programs that have been untouched for X time for more disk…

The fine is 5 billion dollars because Facebook flagrantly violated the 2011 agreement with the FTC, as bad as Equifax is they haven't essentially gone "so what are you gonna do abo…

This is the typical corporate abuse enabling flaw in a lot of libertarian thinking. Withdraw limiting regulations and replace them with market based compeititve mechanisms. Except …

I think thats pretty unfair when mozilla has been straight up refusing to implement webextension equivilents to XUL based functionality that a lot of addons depend on. Such as the …

Do you have any evidence this is actually true? XUL is still there, the firefox UI is still written in it and it will be for quite some time to come. I find it hard to beleive disa…

https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/ Unfortunately 75%+ of the most used extensions either arnt ported, wont be ported, or cant be ported. The situation is pretty grim, mozilla reall…

>the same people who are most vocal about this are the same people that are most vocal about not having multi process support and about having compatibility issues with extensions …

a filesystem is a database

This site is being run in part by weev aka Andrew Auernheimer, somebody that basicly spends all their time finding ways to stir up shit, and generate controversy. This site has abs…

yet somehow it ran at 60fps 20 years ago on hardware that was 10000 times slower hmm

Im sure ad companies claim much the same thing, tracking is just telemetry for statistical anonymized bulk purposes, that is really just benefiting the user! The point is you cant …

That drags in all the other google services and "telemetry" and gives google root on his phone, which he may not want