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wormius

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About wormius

perennial optimists confuse me

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    Comment #49204919

    To quote Chuck D: 911 is a joke in this town.

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    Comment #49176147

    Disruption by me, but not by thee...

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    Comment #49146855

    Messing more with it, it seems to be related to the combo of sRGB being less bright/contrast than the non-sRGB modes, thus not enough to see the dots... Zooming in (ctrl-wheelup) o…

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    Comment #49141024

    Yeah that could be. Plenty of issues could cause it (though I am using KWin as compositor). Maybe it's fixed by now, or just a glitch on my end. EDIT: This is weird. My monitor has…

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    Comment #49138547

    Not about BSD, but anybody else using side tabs in FF with that site? Somehow the rendering of that dashed line at the top runs across into the "pinned tabs" section. (Linux/Waylan…

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    Comment #49016597

    I remember first coming across him on ZDTV/TechTV, then realizing he also wrote articles in some of those magazines I had bought. But mostly I just saw him as the resident tech cur…

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    Comment #48911865

    Infinite scroll/death of the page as model is one of the reasons we're at where we are. Plus iPhone, plus share button, and of course ads and data harvesting and siloed walls.

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    Comment #48851211

    Yes, I was gonna say... Today, I am this old.

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    Comment #48694393

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

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    Comment #48340359

    Finally, nothing can hold George back now, the full scale of that magnificent beast can finally be unleashed. (but seriously, RIP and condolences to George and family)

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    Comment #48286562

    My friend had the Master System, so I got to experience the first two, and loved the dome shaped buildings it had going on. Another friend had a Dreamcast and had pondered getting …

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    Comment #48285321

    Not everyone has the luxury you do. Can you imagine if everyone who had to put up with this bullshit for shit wages, did what you said. Good luck with services.

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    Comment #48260346

    Whether it's directed at you or not, as an employee it's still stressful AF and these people are like getting paid kinda shit wages to put up with people all day long. I'm not argu…

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    Comment #48239621

    One of the most interesting facts I learned this past year was that the first country to adopt Christianity as a formal religion was Armenia.

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    Comment #48227598

    Ugh - our local paper used to have a wonderful archive, that got limited and locked down after the pandemic. IDK if they got bought out, but it's a real shame, I think some of the …

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    Comment #48183949

    Democracy dies in a corporation, of which HR is a part of. FTFY

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    Comment #48172483

    Has Google made a statement like this? I guess since I complain about Mozilla a lot for their past 5-10 years (minimum) of poor management decisions, I should give them their due w…

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    Comment #48163863

    "Hi I'm Mohinder from MS MSP, MSVP, SUPERSTAR ASSIST, Can I have you restart your computer... once you do that, please report back if that fixes the problem" ms.com "support" pages…

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    Comment #48163840

    Like the center of a cantelope...

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    Comment #47769885

    It's funny that following the link to source https://globalprivacyaudit.org/2026/california Appends a source-url attribute at the end (404media). I'm sure they're not doing anythin…

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    Comment #47759552

    I gave up on Tmux due to issues w/reboot & session storage not working after. I used the resurrect and continuum (one to save/restore, the other to save between sessions). Everytim…

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    Comment #47723404

    Elon pops up, Boring Company business card in hand: You rang?

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    Comment #47712993

    Philip K Dick enters the chat... Through A Scanner Darkly, indeed.

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    Comment #47619416

    Can't wait til the precious minerals market crash from asteroid mining goes kaboom, and just like that old tale about the king who left a wake of gold in his hajj, which ended up d…