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that’s revisionist. usenet was already dead. google extended its life, in fact.

why would you need a usenet similar service? usenet still exists and the barrier is, as you say, high enough.

I don’t see a problem with it. It says more about the comment author than it does about the article. If he (commenter) wants to out himself as a knowitallogist, so be it?

> Advertisers shouldn't know what I like, they should only know that a certain device with a certain ID likes X,Y topics. That is in fact what advertisers know. It’s the aggregator…

thought this would be useless griping of sonos that has existed for years now. no, this is new and valuable information. glad i got rid of sonos long ago.

well known. only use domains.google (for searching).

> they'd have to give them their FCM credentials, which is a no-no. trivially addressed via a proxy, which you’d want anyway to properly monetize it

casual culture talk with 2 people, then a 2-5 day contract. only works for out of work candidates of course.

yeah well you’re not being persecuted. for many it may as well be the 12th century or whatever

gmail burns addresses forever. no one else will get it if you close it.

i owned root@pobox.com for many years before they realized they shouldn’t have allowed that to be registered. that was fun.

muy interensante. we often theorize about / present a threat model of an insider becoming malicious in exactly this way. rare that we hear of it actually occurring. the number used…

i think this deserves a nitpick. when we say “makes” wrt a person, it means their gross salary/income. here, it refers to revenue. that’s misleading.

yes funny but why would they call it that. jamon murica

> It should be noted that San Francisco had an unusually low inventory relative to other large cities prior to the pandemic. Historically, the ratio of homes for sale relative to t…

I detest uber. yet AB5 is an abomination, an embarrassment. sad

what is wrong? it costs money to pick up anything. equipment fuel salaries workman’s comp etc. thieves don’t have such costs.

just? sales is the more important part of a for profit company you know.

exactly. it’s not so much craven as it is purely capitalistic. one should not be surprised. i think it’s fine. i welcome it even. it’s better to be beholden to capital than to the …

even the AS/400 didn’t require power down. this is actually so ancient it’s hard to find docs. here’s something from 1976. (the report is 1990 but the hardwares dates to ‘76). http…

> when people complain that Google was showing them ads for inappropriate products or what not and Google would investigate and track down the front doing the injecting google list…

> a novelty not a novelty. the true bigiron vendors (not sun) had been doing this for decades. mainframe reliability puts the upstart unix systems to shame.

you don’t think google has changed the world??