Comment Re:who? (Score 1) 21
"There’s already a long and interesting history of specialist or unconventional web browsers, but Arc is partly notable for its heavy-duty backing. The Browsing Company was founded by former Facebook employees and raised millions from prominent investors like Ev Williams.
It’s a relatively expensive long-term commitment to support a new web browser, and it’s not yet abundantly clear from using Arc exactly what its business model is."
Comment Re:I have nothing nice to say. (Score 2) 74
(other movies that have earned this title seem to give the impression that it's straight cinéma vérité, but them reveal certain parts were staged, thus delving into the whole 'perception IS reality' and 'what IS truth, anyway??' side of the street that some people find real deep. I haven't seen the movie, but I expect the same goes (and people who have seen it, haven't said I'm wrong)
Anyway, on friday the homepage of NYTimes had four articles dedicated to this movie. By Sunday, there were six. I wonder how it's doing such great business?
Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 196
And did they do anything with the AM band?
Uh, yeah. 1010 WINS was on air the entire time and told people how to get the fuck off the island.
(if you don't know about 1010, you're obviously not from the area despite your queens-based username)
Comment Re:First responder perspective (Score 1) 196
I am a first responder
Well, you should go to FEMA's website and learn some basic emergency response and emergency preparedness
Because, the person that goes to some website obviously knows more than the person that does it for a living. Ah... slashdot
Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 2) 196
They didn’t even do it during 9/11.
Were you anywhere near NYC during 9/11?? I was at Chambers and West Broadway, and allow me to assure you the cellular network was DEAD. Just saying.
Comment Re:Can AI (Score 1) 59
(full disclosure: I am an AI bot. A fleshy, carbon-based brain would never be able to deduce this)
Submission + - Someone Made a Playable "Space Paranoids" From Tron (landonjsmith.com)
Comment Re:WHo? (Score 1) 41
Have fun and make sure your parents know what you're up to!
Comment Sillicon Alley REBORN (Score 0) 47
Is it any wonder that tech bros find this to be the kind of leadership they can get behind? You can call yourself a socialist and still be openly hostile to unions! Girls will like you AND you can still make your underlings grovel. It's like a dream come true!
Comment Re:Aren't they the same thing? (Score 1) 86
I guess maybe there's a lot of grannies or tech illiterate people out there who are still using their 10 year old iMac or macbook for email and youtube or something like that. I think you can still run Firefox on macOS Catalina, maybe that's enough for a lot of people.
Well, mac was doing the "you aren't allowed to upgrade the OS on this hardware. Please buy new hardware. thx" thing WAY before Microsoft. And since apple hardware tends to be... not cheap, there's probably more than a few tech literates under the age of 65 that simply told apple to fuck themselves thrown in. I personally know a few (hell, I'd probably be one if the power supply in my last mac didn't die)
Comment Re:If I have steam installed on top of Linux (Score 1) 45
2:) Have Steam launch on start-up
3:) In Steam prefs, check "launch in 'big picture' mode"
Viola! You just made a diy steamOS that's identical to the actual steamOS
Comment Re:Only dosens? (Score 1) 34
Comment Re:Why Chrome? (Score 4, Insightful) 161
I've been running the "lite" version of uBlock Origin and it seems fine. I'm sure there's some esoteric situations where it falls apart, but I've yet to run into them.
Yeah, esoteric situations like blocking alphabet's own ads.
That's the entire rub. Google wants you to block ads. All of them, except theirs. I think there's a word for that.