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Comment Re:What is the point of ultra-forgable requirement (Score 4, Insightful) 492

by grub on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @06:53PM (#61652959) Attached to: NYC Will Require Vaccines For Entry To Restaurants and Gyms; Requirement Can Be Met With An App

I'm not from the US, so I may not have all the facts. I thought the vaccine there was free to any citizen. If people choose not to get the vaccine and then get the card, I can't understand how it is racist. They chose to not get vaccinated.

Or am I missing something?

Comment Re:Why is anyone surprised? (Score 1) 65

by grub on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:45AM (#61600809) Attached to: Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

It looks like I'm gonna have to finally put in another filtering proxy to kill ads. I used to run one using SQUID...
Look at Pi-hole. I run a couple of them in VMs here. They do an excellent job.

Comment Why is anyone surprised? (Score 4, Insightful) 65

by grub on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:08PM (#61598605) Attached to: Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

Google is an advertising company, it's pure cancer. They give you "free" products like search, email, mobile OS, TV OS in order to mine your data for ad placement.

Comment Re:First heard of BTC on /. however many years ago (Score 1) 70

by grub on Sunday July 18, 2021 @01:09PM (#61594593) Attached to: More Bitcoin Miners Head to America, Partly for Cheaper Energy

Ah thanks for the memory, Dr. Bob was a blast! He also had a Facebook profile where he spewed all sorts of woo.

Comment First heard of BTC on /. however many years ago. (Score 1) 70

by grub on Sunday July 18, 2021 @11:49AM (#61594405) Attached to: More Bitcoin Miners Head to America, Partly for Cheaper Energy

Life changing. Probably why the site still holds a special place in my heart.

Comment "a drug used against parasites such as worms and h (Score 3, Funny) 217

by grub on Saturday July 17, 2021 @07:56PM (#61592867) Attached to: Influential Ivermectin Study Accused of 'Totally Faked' Data

"a drug used against parasites such as worms and headlice"

Ah, well then Trumpists probably already have Ivermectin in their medicine cabinet.

Comment Re:Can't see this taking off (Score 1) 170

by grub on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:30PM (#61544952) Attached to: Former Trump Aide Jason Miller To Launch New Social App 'Gettr' Backed by Fugitive Chinese Billionaire

"The secret articles they don't want you do know about!"

Comment Re:Randomizing kernel stack (Score 2) 33

by grub on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:15AM (#61529378) Attached to: Linux 5.13 Kernel Released, Includes Apple M1 Support, Clang CFI, and Landlock's Linux Security Module

"slow" is relative. I sleep well at night having OpenBSD on much of my internet-facing stuff, a few percent of performance being used for safety & sanity? I'll take that anyday.

Comment Re:Odd choice .. (Score 1) 138

by grub on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:28AM (#61509930) Attached to: Jeff Bezos-Backed Company General Fusion To Build Nuclear Fusion Facility In UK

Hydro Quebec is mainly hydroelectricity. I'm more surprised that AECL is not involved, at least from what I've read. They were a prime partner in building the CANDU reactors.

Comment Re:It's obvious (Score 4, Insightful) 28

by grub on Thursday June 10, 2021 @11:52PM (#61475728) Attached to: Reddit Ends Secret Santa Gift-Giving Platform

Forgot to change accounts, eh? How embarassing.

Comment Re:Adjusting pay based on a choice of area is dumb (Score 1) 142

by grub on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:59PM (#61471388) Attached to: Facebook Says It Will Expand Remote Work To All Employees, But May Reduce Pay If They Move To Less-Expensive Area

*you're

Comment Adjusting pay based on a choice of area is dumb. (Score 1, Insightful) 142

by grub on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:56PM (#61470832) Attached to: Facebook Says It Will Expand Remote Work To All Employees, But May Reduce Pay If They Move To Less-Expensive Area

If they can adjust salary based on where a person chooses to live, will they adjust it for other things? Say, a preference for higher end scotch or nice German cars?

Comment Re:Search Speeds (Score 1) 62

by grub on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:47AM (#61469588) Attached to: Ultra-High-Density HDDs Made With Graphene Store Ten Times More Data

My first hard disk was 3600 RPM. Old 10 MB thing (forget the manufacturer) in 1984 or so. I remember the sales guy pumping up the fact that it could read "a meg a minute!"

Comment Their stuff downloads just fine here. (Score 3, Funny) 68

by grub on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:41AM (#61469550) Attached to: Is HBO Max Broken?

Oh wait...

Comment Waiting for Rama. (Score 1) 47

by grub on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:41AM (#61393096) Attached to: Improvements Finally Made in How We Name Asteroids

Now I think I'll read Rendezvous with Rama again.

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