I think he wanted you to cite QAnon but misspelled.

Whom is the official keeper of the truth?

There was a story on here about two years ago about china maybe was going to require google to share all its source code or no more google products. Would have killed ebay. The story disappeared so I don't think it had a happy resolution.

duckduckgo is not a front-end for google... the search results are completely different. I mean for fucks sake their page lists the ips and user agent that their web crawler uses here: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduc...

Why does anyone use chrome and voluntarily give their shit to google anyway? Just build a PGO version of firefox. It's fast as shit, and not stupid.

Because it's not your "social security password" so why would you salt and hash like a password? That's the thinking (or lack thereof) behind it I assume. If we called it a "social security password" maybe braindead developers would recognize it's sensitive and store a randomly-salted hash. But hell, most of them don't even do that and passwords are exposed. It's all this outsourced development in node js and ruby on snails which prevents actual intelligent people from architecting it properly. As long as they have their scrum degree who cares about skill? Someone with 1 year experience who can "do everything" is hired over us 20-year experience folks who really can do most things in order to "save a couple bucks." I personally think they lose out in the long run with way increased development time and constant bugfixes being required and whatnot, but on paper it saves money in the short term. You know what that means! Big bonuses to big wigs! Yay

I like specifically that my operating system doesn't think it knows better than me about what I need to do. There's the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

I update my system on a weekend when I've got the time. I use profiled-guided optimization on many of my core packages so it takes a few days to train these as well. Sometimes I'll go a few weeks without updating my personal laptop, and that's O.K. That's my choice, and it's not an issue because I don't run shady software or host public services from it. On business servers I manage everything gets updated on an automatic schedule. That I decide. Because I know what's best, not some fixed generalized rule to apply to everybody because "some people do it 'wrong' and we need to force them to do it the way we like!"

Unfortunately with Microsoft it doesn't matter if I buy it or not. If I buy a new laptop, I am implicitly paying for a microsoft license. It's baked into the price. Many many years ago you used to be able to call the vendor and say you don't agree to the Microsoft terms of service and they would sell you an OEM version without windows at a savings of like $200. But I don't think this is an option anymore.

That said, I don't buy Microsoft products at all if I'm not forced to (like hardware purchase). I dropped a college class back in the day because they had a requirement that all assignments be typed up in Times New Roman font. I used a freely available font, not having a Microsoft license, and got a 0. Yes I know about the old ttf distributable cab, but it does require that you own a Microsoft product, which I didn't. It was a law class and I explained this to the professor but she didn't care, so I dropped the class.

They're bringing back ActiveX??

That doesn't mean that downloading fonts needs to execute code. That is stupid. What's wrong with fetching a zip of dumb font files? There's no execution vector, except that Microsoft gives them one. And you're right, this has been known about for a very long time, and yet still windows will download and execute executable sections of code to install a fucking font. The font itself is not the problem here.

It's apk. He's been banned here several times over so he has to use some dumb proxy / vpn service to continue to come here and spam his shitty windows-only hosts file tool. I wrote a linux port for him actually ( it was about 15-20 lines of bash total and probably considered some corner cases his primary app didn't ) but he pretended like it was missing some unnamed features and was thus shit.

The dude has some serious mental issues. Nobody here likes him or wants him around but that only encourages him to spam some more about penetrating dude's buttholes (which he is really obsessed with for some reason). Just ignore him.

Metric is crap. "But muh 10s!" Whatever. Computers have no problems with calculations (nor do most people), and I'd rather have a measurement meaningful to people than easily divide. I'm almost never converting inches to yards, but if I do it's just divide by 12 * 3 = divide by 36. Sure I could convert meters to decametres slightly faster in my head... but why? Also, I'd like to continue to name the temperature without going into decimals. It's much nicer to say "It's 91 degrees out" than "It's 32.78 degrees out."

There's really no argument in using metric other than "But everyone else is doing it" and "Everything divides by 10!" For me, the usability and perception of imperial units are more meaningful. They were defined without needing an external reference to understand or measure roughly.

Oh it's a huge problem!
Lucky for you, I happen to be in the train ticket-machine business.
Unfortunately the old machines cannot be updated, but I'll give you a..... mmm....... 4% discount on new ones.
Unprecedented!
Are YOU Going to be the one shameful business which is printing years in an antiquated era? If so, shame on your family's next four generations.

I agree, every show and movie should have the same "man" and "woman", the same "tree" and "spaceship." Just like I can't wait for all painted art to depict the same scene. That way we can hvae more direct comparisons of things, and remove the subjective element entirely! Progress!

This reminds me of the youtube comments in a lot of songs "Hey, at 1.75x this is still pretty decent" and.... I just don't know what to think. Is the point of art to consume the maximum quantity? Or is it about the present experience while interpreting the art?

I happen to heavily favour the latter. I used to always think ahead, whatever I'm doing lose joy because I'm thinking about the future when I stop doing it.. That somehow life was some equation that I had to maximize to get the most out of it...

These days I try hard not to do that... The rate of life happening actually increases when you aren't waiting for the next thing, and trying to have all the things... but rather focusing on everything you have at every moment as the only thing that exists. Just you and your thoughts and interpretation of the environment, going at the speed of you rather than by measure of a clock... I dunno it feels like I get a lot more out of life than when I was trying to maximize and optimize everything for some potential future. Maybe you don't know what I'm talking about and this isn't even a message for you. Just came to mind.