beefcat

beefcat, 10 days ago

They could shoot it like Sin City

beefcat, 14 days ago

You don’t need iTunes to manage an iPod. There are tons of alternative apps, as well as plugins for music players like foobar2000 and Winamp.

iPods are still great. You can even replace their hard drives with modern flash storage and they work. It’s actually really impressive, i built a 256GB iPod Mini and iTunes has no problem with it. For the Mini, any compact flash card works as a drop-in replacement for the hard drive. Other models require a cheap adapter.

beefcat, 19 days ago

it’s also not a good way of actually figuring out who is critical.

you can have people who keep the lights on and if they do their job right few even notice they exist.

beefcat, 21 days ago

relevant username

beefcat, 21 days ago

I’ve always wondered, what do Comcast’s boots taste like?

beefcat, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

A website isn’t a common carrier, you cannot argue that a website isn’t allowed to control who they serve their content to. An ISP is a common carrier because they simply act as a dumb pipe between the provider (websites) and the consumer.

Cloudflare is a tool websites use to exercise that right, necessitated by the ever rising prevalence of bots and DDoS attacks. Your proposed definition of net neutrality would destroy anyone’s ability to deal with these threats.

Can you at least provide examples of legitimate users who are hindered by the use of Cloudflare?

beefcat, 20 days ago

re-releases like this are not even remotely a new thing

beefcat, 28 days ago

Given that the FBI’s targets probably don’t type in Chinese or other logographic languages very often i doubt they care.