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I highly recommend watching "Its Quieter in the Twilight" ( https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9rrxr ) a cool documentary about the engineers still running voyager (a lot of them h…

for years I had this in my .muttrc. it's been commented out since it stopped working... #set signature="cat ~/.signature && telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | tail -n3|"

getting the message No WebGPU available. Please use Chrome. on chrome (Version 129.0.6668.29 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)) , under windows

firefox / linux. I only get fully transparent output : https://i.imgur.com/kcu2LSR.png nothing interesting on the console.

wow, I even found the skin I used way back when... very cool https://skins.webamp.org/skin/d77a144cdb775a0937617389b6e0e4...

animated vinyl covers whole page and I can't do anything : https://imgur.com/a/wM3Ejig (firefox / ubuntu). so I'm sorry to say 'no' ;)

zmodem... that brings be back to my BBS days when I had a fido node 2:281/909.4. why do I still know that by heart ? playing glorious BBS door-games over 2400 baud :)

seems it craps out on the monospaced bits of text ?

related : https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...

> I'm sure a lot of the actions come from a place of wanting to do good although wholeheartedly I agree with your sentiment, that's where our opinions diverge... none of the partie…

the negative publicity regarding Evil Corp A is certainly a good thing, agreed. and like I said in another reply, I tend to try to support the smaller businesses _outside_ of the s…

now _this_ is something I can agree with. which is why I try to support Small Corp D and E outside of any store, by directly buying from them (if at all possible)

personally, knowing the cuts that either app/play store take, I would _never_ subscribe to a service through either of them, that's luckily still an option. netflix raising prices …

I get your point. still, in this case B and C are, in my opinion, equally evil in exploiting their workers. so having them raise their optimal price to something the consumer would…

true. in general I would agree any party taking a 30% cut (whether app store or play store or whatever) would be the supreme evil. but since all three parties involved in this inst…

agreed. but neither Lyft nor Uber are not small businesses. they also just exploit their workers.

that's implied by every Evil Corp, but yes, you are correct. still, to the consumer it does not really matter which of the Evil Corp gets the money since they will pay it anyway. I…

maybe I'm a cynic, but why should I care that Evil Corp A tries to rip off Evil Corp B and Evil Corp C ?

I have no idea what causes it for you, but I see this : https://i.imgur.com/KEWYqIW.png (ff 91.0)

firefox itself doesn't 'handle' youtube ads, but ublock origin does.

in my opinion : yes. we've been coming up with things for 30-40 years now, and emissions are still rising. we've had some kind of climate accord since 1992, and essentially nothing…

non-paywalled : https://archive.is/fSsDD

doesn't work in firefox-beta / linux for me (dev version errors about GL functions). sort of works on chrome, but stutters... (amd ryzen pro 4750u / ubuntu 20.10) from what I _can_…

so 7.42 meters of sea level rise in the long run [1]. no problem. [1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...

according to both the police and the museum, the security was as per usual. yes, the museum is closed now, but the burglary was at night.