bitwise

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bitwise,

I'm worried that what they'll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can't dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

bitwise,

I wrote my MP once in 2021 regarding the reversal of the wholesale broadband rates. Specifically, about how the Vice-Chair of Telecommunications sat down with the President of Bell Media for some beers at a sports game to discuss things after the 2019 court rulings upheld the existing rules set by the Commission.

The result, of course, was a change to the rules.

You're not going to get a real answer from your MPP, just a staffer tasked with boilerplating out an email that could conceivably be construed as an answer to your question/complaint.

bitwise,

I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes.

bitwise,

"The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!"

"Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls."

bitwise,

"Working as intended"
/closed

bitwise,

Maybe I'm becoming too cynical, but the raises these unions have been settling on don't really cover inflation over the periods where they received no increase.
These articles just feel like the media wings of these megacorps are trying to stroke our egos. "Yes, so much bargaining power!"

I can't find the article I'm thinking of where someone used a bunch of privately sourced data to peg the average annual inflation at 7%, but this article shows how economists don't even agree on what metrics to measure for calculating inflation.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.asp

The women soldiers who warned of a pending Hamas attack – and were ignored (www.haaretz.com)

Over the past year, the Israel Defense Forces’ spotters situated on the Gaza border, all women, warned that something unusual was happening. Those who survived the October 7 massacre are convinced that if it had been men sounding the alarm, things would look different today

bitwise,

It's like everyone forgot he was busy causing constitutional chaos to avoid justice.

bitwise,

I'm not a fan of LPC either, but I wouldn't say he broke all of his promises.

https://www.polimeter.org/en/trudeau

He didn't keep them all, either.

bitwise,

Copyright won't help here. Extending it to allow the protection of concepts as well as literal implementation is what Oracle tried to do, and would've resulted in a few megacorps demanding licensing for core concepts that no one can really make quality, functional software without.

Of course, software patents are also stupid, even if the general intent of patents seems reasonable.

bitwise,

Of course, the moment the constructive criticism is only coming from the outside will be when it gets labeled as foreign manipulation to further cement tribalistic mentality and provide fresh out-groups to hate and fear.

bitwise,

I would honestly love a rule banning the submission of articles that use the "slammed/blasted" headline.

bitwise,

That's nice. Any chance of them deciding to return the rest of it? No?

bitwise,

Gotta practice that passive language to avoid laying blame anywhere. Wouldn't want to step in it themselves, right?

bitwise,

I hope so. Room temperature superconductivity would make so many things economically viable overnight...

bitwise,

I can't wait to overhear people sharing conspiracies about it, like they did with Tim Hortons and nicotine-lined coffee cups.

"The government is printing circuits in the warning messages so they can spy on you while you talk during your smoke break!"
"I heard it's full of chemicals to make you compliant!"
"I bet the only reason you really get cancer from these is because of the ink!"

I refined FixedFun's mascot design for Kbin. Thoughts? Feedback? (More pics/alts in post!)

I really loved @FixedFun 's idea for the kbin mascot, so I decided to refine it a bit and make some color alternatives. All credit to them for this wonderful idea! I merely refined it. Note, the circles beside the logo are just a color pallete swatch, not actually meant to be apart of the logo....

bitwise,

Don't fight it, embrace the neck rolls.

🤢

bitwise,

I have no idea why you're being downvoted; this is literally what those walls full of game boxes were meant for (even back when they actually had shit in 'em).

bitwise,

The sooner we switch, the better off we'll be environmentally, too.

bitwise,

Reddit has been undeleting posts and comments, so that's probably not going to work.

bitwise,

This is the most accurate summary of their strategy. Too bad they didn't bother trying that first to see how dumb it sounds.

bitwise,

Why not? If the meaninglessness of existence gets too hard, I can just turn myself off anyway, right?

Study in mice links heat-damaged DNA in food to possible genetic risks (phys.org)

Researchers have newly discovered a surprising and potentially significant reason why eating foods frequently cooked at high temperatures, such as red meat and deep-fried fare, elevates cancer risk. The alleged culprit: DNA within the food that's been damaged by the cooking process.

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