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Sure, no problem with their use against companies. I don't care about the cost to Delta in that video, but I do think this particlar strongarm tactic was way over the line, due to …

That video is also a great example of just how abusable the bailiff system is. All the "agents" care about is getting the money for their client. For this, they're willing and appa…

Far from being douchey, I think you've hit the nail on the head. No one is perfect, we're all incompetent to some extent. You've written shitty code, I've definitely written shitty…

> MSI Afterburner, which are a must for gaming on my laptop If you want some unsolicited software recommendation: CoreCtrl offers similar controls to MSI Afterburner, at least on m…

I don't claim to offer a perfect solution, but the first step is admitting the problem. I'll be seeking out alternatives myself. > with good ownership management This part is quest…

Maybe, just MAYBE, people will start reconsidering putting their social communities on this awful service and locking their social lives to it. I'm gonna look into hosting Matrix s…

Not to mention the centuries of oppression Ireland faced under English rule, where they became effectively slaves in their own country.

Agreed, that's my personal plan for my own money.

Opening everything and making it free during strikes sounds like a great way to do it, but I don't think the power that be would allow it. I've never seen a barrier hopper stopped,…

I'm aware of just how under invested the rest of UK infrastructure is outside of London, but that doesn't make complaints about its services invalid. With the billions spent on the…

I respect your intentions, and if the CLA is truly restricted to relicensing as MIT or dual-licensing, I'd be more willing to use it. I would hightlight that the dual licensing in …

As soon as I see a CLA I'm turned off even using a piece of FOSS software. I get it's usually just the lawyers protecting the company just in case a contributor tries something dod…

Oh hey, I also worked on Company of Heroes, but a good decade later while porting it to iOS. It was definitely among the nicer codebases I worked on at that job. But we did some un…

Nitter mirrors usually offer RSS feeds (e.g. / /rss) which is how I've been keeping up with a few accounts for years now. We'll see how long the feeds continue working for.

Libraries are a public service, and free WiFi is often provided along with that service. In this case that service is being deliberately sabotaged for one of the most vulnerable gr…

> “a media driver your computer needs is missing” If you installed the N version of Windows, try manually installing the Windows Media Center. I had problems with NVIDIA Shadow pla…

Ignoring the annoyances of Jira-style project management, here's some things I hate about Jira (cloud, on Firefox on Linux): - the keyboard hotkeys aren't customisable, and often f…

Thanks for pointing out the tensions that existed in Rwanda that led up to it. I was particularly analogizing on the point just before the genocide, where the faction in power were…

This is a bad moment to be playing the enlightened centrist. The main point is that one party in particular is pushing discriminatory legislation against a minority group and demon…

> which is a very crass assumption in 2023 No, I think it's a very sensible assumption. As far as I can see, virtually every GNU/Linux OS has shared libraries in /use/lib, and it e…

Thanks for the great write-up. As someone who somewhat recently got into Nix I've struggled with many of the same problems. With the whole "your system is read-only" bit, I'll add …

With bash's HISTIGNORE, I can consciously prefix my command with a space to prevent it being added to history. ls I usually don't care about, but there are directories I regularly …

As I understand the history, the US started supporting China around the time of the Carter administration when Deng Xiaoping was in power. That's when China reformed to incorporate…

You can mostly avoid macros now, thankfully. I'm particularly thinking of things like compile-time reflection, some more complex type introspection. Things that would let you get r…