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| DaemonFC[m] | I wonder why android makes it so easy to call the police. | Dec 27 01:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If it wasn't for the police, people could deal with a lot of crime themselves. | Dec 27 01:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The prosecutor is really sort of a new thing. Up to about 100 years ago if you believed a crime had happened you cpuld just go to the grand jury with it yourself. | Dec 27 01:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Now with the prosecutor, people who have been battered have to ask the state to please do something about their abusive husband. | Dec 27 01:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Prosecutors make deals to send people who punch babies to death to prison for 4 years because it's easier than having a trial. | Dec 27 01:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Putting the state in charge of prosecution is the worst thing that ever happened to America. | Dec 27 01:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Illinois is a police state where the police aren't interested. | Dec 27 01:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can neither expect their help nor can you defend yourself. | Dec 27 02:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's why I only pinned my ex down while he attacked me. I knew that if I fought back, they'd probably try to charge me with something. | Dec 27 02:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They got him out of my house and that's about all I expected would happen. | Dec 27 02:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The prosecutor had the police release him because it was a Friday, then they had a judge issue an arrest warrant that he's evading in another state. | Dec 27 02:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The prosecutor in Lake County is a menace. | Dec 27 02:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you're an illegal immigrant, they'll just cut you loose. | Dec 27 02:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Doesn't matter what you did. | Dec 27 02:05 |
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| schestowitz | [23:53] <Silva> Hi, can this dd-out my USB? https://prnt.sc/qg66td | Dec 27 04:01 |
| schestowitz | so weird | Dec 27 04:01 |
| schestowitz | Richard Stallman wrote on 27/12/2019 02:08:> Merry Grav-Mass to you, too. | Dec 27 04:04 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 27 04:04 |
| schestowitz | > I will come to England between mid-Feb and mid-March. | Dec 27 04:04 |
| schestowitz | > I have one event and I am looking for more. If you find anyone | Dec 27 04:04 |
| schestowitz | > who is interested, please tell me _privately_. | Dec 27 04:04 |
| schestowitz | I will see if someone in the north-west is looking to set something up. | Dec 27 04:04 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz I didn't notice a Moronix paywall. | Dec 27 06:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But there's been a serious uptick of low quality spam articles. | Dec 27 06:22 |
| schestowitz | https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/site-discussion/1147416-after-3-600-original-articles-this-year-on-linux-open-source-let-s-have-a-holiday-special#post1147416 | Dec 27 06:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:23 |
| schestowitz | Is it time for paywall? There are a number of variants. Other creative stuff like teaming up with someone? | Dec 27 06:23 |
| schestowitz | I know some Youtubers set up a platform (Nebula), I wonder if someone has done something similar for articles... | Dec 27 06:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-After 3,600 Original Articles This Year On Linux/Open-Source, Let's Have A Holiday Special - Phoronix Forums | Dec 27 06:23 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:23 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: I am aware | Dec 27 06:23 |
| schestowitz | and he keeps pushing this same article | Dec 27 06:24 |
| schestowitz | about 5 times | Dec 27 06:24 |
| schestowitz | ALLLLLLL the benchmarks are now paywalled | Dec 27 06:24 |
| schestowitz | cannot see figures without account and JS | Dec 27 06:24 |
| schestowitz | There's also malware in all pages | Dec 27 06:24 |
| schestowitz | Michael told me it was imposed by parent company | Dec 27 06:24 |
| schestowitz | they usually won't even let you view forum pages without consenting | Dec 27 06:24 |
| schestowitz | to lots of aggressive spying | Dec 27 06:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Malware? | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | "I've said this before, but I will not buy premium as long as debianxfce is not allowed here." | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | They banned some members | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | for 'trolling' | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | also, offered is lifetime membership | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | but a lifetime of what? | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | Oneself? | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | The site? | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | The site won't last many decades | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | the paywall became more aggressive when Michael had a baby born | Dec 27 06:25 |
| schestowitz | apparently prematurely, too | Dec 27 06:26 |
| schestowitz | so he now needs to feed 3 people | Dec 27 06:26 |
| schestowitz | my wife says she finds more typos in the site nowadays | Dec 27 06:26 |
| schestowitz | the 'blogspam' is free to access | Dec 27 06:26 |
| schestowitz | I can extract the key links from these | Dec 27 06:26 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't see a paywall. | Dec 27 06:26 |
| schestowitz | (The oiginals | Dec 27 06:26 |
| schestowitz | the original content, the benchmark, is always paywalled nwo | Dec 27 06:27 |
| schestowitz | I keep a list/tally here: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/132040 | Dec 27 06:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tuxmachines.org | Latest Benchmarks Behind Partial Paywalls: Compilers, Vulkan/Radeon and SVT-AV1 | Tux Machines | Dec 27 06:27 | |
| schestowitz | Those benchmarks used to be the only/main thing we'd links to in tuxmachines, but now it's sending people to pages with paywall, so no doubt traffic will decline | Dec 27 06:27 |
| schestowitz | Alexa says tuxmachines is in top 3 sources of traffic to Phoronix.. I checked some months back | Dec 27 06:28 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: open the link above for articles with paywalls | Dec 27 06:28 |
| schestowitz | all of them are | Dec 27 06:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I can see the benchmarks. | Dec 27 06:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't know why anyone would pay for that. | Dec 27 06:30 |
| schestowitz | you cannot see the charts/figures | Dec 27 06:31 |
| schestowitz | only the words | Dec 27 06:31 |
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| schestowitz | https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/site-discussion/1147416-after-3-600-original-articles-this-year-on-linux-open-source-let-s-have-a-holiday-special#post1147416 | Dec 27 06:32 |
| schestowitz | "You should rethink your business model Michael and find more ways of getting cash flow if it's that unstable. Think sponsors, business subscriptions, business services like custom benchmarking..." | Dec 27 06:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-After 3,600 Original Articles This Year On Linux/Open-Source, Let's Have A Holiday Special - Phoronix Forums | Dec 27 06:32 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | I can see the charts. | Dec 27 06:32 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:32 |
| schestowitz | Already got a lifetime sub, so I just sent another $100 your way as a combined Christmas and new baby gift. | Dec 27 06:32 |
| schestowitz | Hope there's a Merry Christmas for you and the family. | Dec 27 06:32 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:32 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: which article? | Dec 27 06:32 |
| schestowitz | https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/site-discussion/1147416-after-3-600-original-articles-this-year-on-linux-open-source-let-s-have-a-holiday-special/page2 | Dec 27 06:33 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:33 |
| schestowitz | Guess it's time to try and find my Paypal details from 20 years ago... | Dec 27 06:33 |
| schestowitz | It's not surprising that this readership is adblocker-heavy, for sure. I don't block ads per se, but I do use NoScript, which has the same outcome but better. What IS surprising is that those using AdblockPlus etc don't have an exception for the site. That's just a dick move, and you should be ashamed of yourselves. | Dec 27 06:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-After 3,600 Original Articles This Year On Linux/Open-Source, Let's Have A Holiday Special - Phoronix Forums | Dec 27 06:33 | |
| schestowitz | Shame you don't have a secondary way to make money from it (or "enough" money, I guess). Apparently you should have been born a pretty and unethical "influencer" instead. :/ | Dec 27 06:33 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:33 |
| schestowitz | "I hope sponsoring will not be necessary, to not loose in quality of the articles." | Dec 27 06:33 |
| schestowitz | "It's not a dick move to protect ourselves from the privacy destroy adverts. Seriously, look it up. 99% of adverts attempt to track everything you do, building up big databases - there's a reason why Phoronix and other sites are forced to show "we care about your privacy" cookie banner crap - because of how they work. Seriously, next time the banner pops up on Phoronix, click the button to see just how many things it wants to use - it's | Dec 27 06:33 |
| schestowitz | maddening." | Dec 27 06:33 |
| schestowitz | https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/site-discussion/1147416-after-3-600-original-articles-this-year-on-linux-open-source-let-s-have-a-holiday-special/page2 | Dec 27 06:34 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:34 |
| schestowitz | Just an opition here: I have paid in the past, but then I realised it was supporting your business model, which I do not agree with, mostly because I was paying for getting tracked (by you and advertiser because I would get logged out annoyingly often). | Dec 27 06:34 |
| schestowitz | I'll happily pay if you drop the ad-based business alltogether. | Dec 27 06:34 |
| schestowitz | Again, I'm not telling you what to do, just expressing preference. If you paywall this site, I'll move on, no hard feelings. | Dec 27 06:34 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I wouldn't subscribe. | Dec 27 06:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's barely worth glossing over. Maybe he hasn't stopped to consider that it isn't worth paying for. | Dec 27 06:35 |
| schestowitz | https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/site-discussion/1147416-after-3-600-original-articles-this-year-on-linux-open-source-let-s-have-a-holiday-special/page2 | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | It's perfectly understandable to block advertising, it's a | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | - toxic | Dec 27 06:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I have bypass paywalls in Firefox but I don't know all the sites it works on. | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | - mass spying | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | - misleading (e.g. greenwashing) | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | - privacy and law violating industry. | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | Many ads are so deceptive and some are even malware in addition of being resource intensive. And it's a hidden cost, because we are actually paying due to malware. A bigger car, new phone sooner and other stuff that we didn't know we need, or not. | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | So we should go towards having a culture of paying for stuff even when we don't have to. Especially when blocking advertisement. Because the money saved by shielding oneself from ads should be used to pay for what we read, watch, listen to. It doesn't mean paying for everything micro amounts because we will waste a lot in fees. Just elect few things that need funding and set up recurring donations. We are a lot and not everyone will pick the | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | same things, we just have to ensure to fund things that are in need. | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | Bonus: it will be more efficient due to less intermediaries. | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | ^^ | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | this is in his OWN comments | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | kind of backfired on him, I think | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | geeks know how ads work | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | Suggestion to Michael: have a **small** "side pop up" that asks for funding.[1] | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | Via either premium or pay what you want on Liberapay. This shouldn't be too intrusive but should push more people past the tipping point. And promoting "recurring pay what you want" via Liberapay should appeal to more people for which a premium subscription (35 USD/year) is too much. (depending on the country, the income and the number of things that someone already fund) | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | [1] dismissible for 6mo or a 1 year by "nope sorry" or "I already support Phoronix" | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | Oh and also, have a progress bar towards a funding goal, something simple that you could set monthly based on the sum of subscriptions, Liberapay, Paypal, etc | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | And there could be goals like removing advertising past a certain point. You have a target demographic that should be receptive to this. | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 27 06:36 |
| schestowitz | "What do you think of the previous proposal? That would allow to keep open access." | Dec 27 06:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'll never unblock ads. They're worse now than they were in 1998 when I started maintaining a hosts file. | Dec 27 06:37 |
| schestowitz | I'd happily donate to Michael if it wasn't spying | Dec 27 06:37 |
| schestowitz | he does a good job and we've mostly supposed him by sending traffic | Dec 27 06:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I sharee my hosts file on my website because why not? I wrote it for myself. It was already done. | Dec 27 06:37 |
| schestowitz | I don't link to it much since he added a very malicious spying company to the site and the forums | Dec 27 06:37 |
| schestowitz | in my rss reader I can open the pages with no JS | Dec 27 06:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Probably blocked by my ublock subscriptions. | Dec 27 06:38 |
| schestowitz | the forums... well, some buttons there need JS | Dec 27 06:38 |
| schestowitz | there are workarounds | Dec 27 06:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I stopped using Adblock Plus when that acceptable ads horseshit came along. | Dec 27 06:38 |
| schestowitz | last week I told a friend phoronix was struggling to raise enough money | Dec 27 06:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They turned over the definition of acceptable ads to ad companies. | Dec 27 06:39 |
| schestowitz | osi also? hours ago: https://opensource.org/node/1028 | Dec 27 06:39 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-opensource.org | An Appeal From The OSI President | Open Source Initiative | Dec 27 06:39 | |
| schestowitz | their new president lacks history in freesw | Dec 27 06:39 |
| schestowitz | apparently just the girlfriend of a well-connected man from Debian | Dec 27 06:39 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: wife uses uOrigin or whatever now | Dec 27 06:40 |
| schestowitz | I am aware of the AdBlock controversy | Dec 27 06:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The web is basically unusable without it. | Dec 27 06:40 |
| schestowitz | I block ads another way | Dec 27 06:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then they want to blame us. | Dec 27 06:40 |
| schestowitz | yeah, I know | Dec 27 06:40 |
| schestowitz | I am very cynical about the Web | Dec 27 06:40 |
| schestowitz | it's like a really horrible place, with few islands of substance in it | Dec 27 06:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Well, it'll be gone soon. Its not closed enougj and must be replaced by apps. | Dec 27 06:41 |
| schestowitz | the web become as shopping cart, with us as the "products" | Dec 27 06:41 |
| schestowitz | they call it "targeted" | Dec 27 06:41 |
| schestowitz | The target is us | Dec 27 06:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | BitTorrent sites and a few forums. | Dec 27 06:42 |
| schestowitz | apps won't totally replace the Web | Dec 27 06:42 |
| schestowitz | I did a lot of reading on this | Dec 27 06:42 |
| schestowitz | techrights traffic is rising sharply, f apps | Dec 27 06:42 |
| schestowitz | also our competition decreases, paywall won't do anything but a disservice to others | Dec 27 06:42 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft tried to circumvent the www in the 90s | Dec 27 06:43 |
| schestowitz | it didn't work because open systems won, eventualluy | Dec 27 06:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Paywalls don't work. They'll just cut the revebue he was making down to nothing. | Dec 27 06:43 |
| schestowitz | twitter is dying | Dec 27 06:43 |
| schestowitz | it's in the spiral already | Dec 27 06:43 |
| schestowitz | trying to make money, they culled APIs | Dec 27 06:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Murdoch gave up on them except wsj. | Dec 27 06:43 |
| schestowitz | added ads, apps | Dec 27 06:43 |
| schestowitz | and traffic collapsed | Dec 27 06:43 |
| schestowitz | Jack Dorsey now pretends it's open and have some 'decentralised' vapourware | Dec 27 06:44 |
| schestowitz | it looks like a PR stunt, to keep people from quitting this addiction | Dec 27 06:44 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: Murdoch bought MySpace | Dec 27 06:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Lol | Dec 27 06:44 |
| schestowitz | Twitter traffic collapsed, it peaked maybe 2-3 years ago | Dec 27 06:44 |
| schestowitz | but they had only lost money up until then | Dec 27 06:44 |
| schestowitz | now they try to milk it for money with ads | Dec 27 06:45 |
| schestowitz | what's left of it | Dec 27 06:45 |
| schestowitz | and people are leaving | Dec 27 06:45 |
| schestowitz | all they have left now is 'celeb' and exclusive accounts like politicians | Dec 27 06:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Old people found it and turned it into a cesspit of fake news and awfulness. | Dec 27 06:45 |
| schestowitz | those are still doing OK, but for how long? | Dec 27 06:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Who even cares what Trump says? | Dec 27 06:46 |
| schestowitz | I hope FB will die in the next 10 years, I just really don't know what will replace it | Dec 27 06:46 |
| schestowitz | (and I doubt it'll be any less malicious) | Dec 27 06:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't. Who is reading 153 of his deranged tweets? Who has the time? | Dec 27 06:46 |
| schestowitz | LinkedIn is a fgossil | Dec 27 06:46 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft bought a dud and overpaid with imaginary money | Dec 27 06:46 |
| schestowitz | tweets are a waste of time | Dec 27 06:47 |
| schestowitz | I read almost none | Dec 27 06:47 |
| schestowitz | except maybe 5 accounts like zoobab | Dec 27 06:47 |
| schestowitz | because the topics they cover are very similar to mine | Dec 27 06:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, they jump in and throw billions of dollars away on nonsense. | Dec 27 06:47 |
| schestowitz | or because I watch people for faux pas, LF accounts, EPO | Dec 27 06:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I found out that what was left of Netscape got bought by Microsoft then Facebook. | Dec 27 06:48 |
| schestowitz | some of them stop tweeting | Dec 27 06:48 |
| schestowitz | Zemlin stopped 6 months ago | Dec 27 06:48 |
| schestowitz | went cold turkey | Dec 27 06:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I have no idea why. 20 years later? | Dec 27 06:48 |
| schestowitz | not even patents | Dec 27 06:48 |
| schestowitz | they expired | Dec 27 06:48 |
| schestowitz | AOL, then patents to Microsoft | Dec 27 06:48 |
| schestowitz | we wrote about that, it was almost a decade ago | Dec 27 06:49 |
| schestowitz | some patents were still valid back then | Dec 27 06:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah. So what's up with Microsoft stripping it for patents then selling it to Facebook? | Dec 27 06:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | What is left after the patents? | Dec 27 06:49 |
| oiaohm | DaemonFC[m]: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/new-aurora-corporation Did not strip of all patents. | Dec 27 06:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-patents.justia.com | Patents Assigned to New Aurora Corporation - Justia Patents Search | Dec 27 06:55 | |
| schestowitz | oh... | Dec 27 06:55 |
| oiaohm | Basically behind all that legal garbage is basically a patent for targeted adveristement. | Dec 27 06:57 |
| oiaohm | schestowitz: It was really close to all I think netscape started with 30+ patents. | Dec 27 07:03 |
| oiaohm | and by the time you get to facebook being the owner there is only 1. | Dec 27 07:03 |
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| schestowitz | oiaohm: after Alice (2014) I doubt such patents are worth ANYTHING | Dec 27 07:46 |
| schestowitz | even unexpired ones | Dec 27 07:46 |
| schestowitz | which they would paint "ADTech" | Dec 27 07:46 |
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| oiaohm | schestowitz: facebook from what I found bought Aurora December 1, 2013 | Dec 27 09:18 |
| oiaohm | schestowitz: so before the Alice ruling. | Dec 27 09:18 |
| schestowitz | makes sense then... | Dec 27 09:30 |
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| oiaohm | schestowitz: from the point of view that you could see the CEO of facebook cursing Alice ruling the year after | Dec 27 10:27 |
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| psydroid | what is the current situation with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and whatever else the company is doing? Is there a chance we will see its total demise over the next decade or so? | Dec 27 10:54 |
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| MinceR | https://full.pr0gramm.com/2019/10/31/5618b4e1f2c4b65d.jpg | Dec 27 13:31 |
| oiaohm | psydroid: I would say it unlikely that facebook will die the next decade or so. But I do expect government regulation on them to get quite complex and annoying for them. | Dec 27 13:35 |
| oiaohm | psydroid: https://www.how-old.net/ we are already seeing Microsoft working on this to be able to take someone face in a photo and calculate their age. | Dec 27 13:39 |
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| oiaohm | So how long until that is a coppa requirement. | Dec 27 13:39 |
| MinceR | they'll test it in red china first, maybe | Dec 27 13:40 |
| oiaohm | China has moved on to attempt to id race and age and sex in one hit. | Dec 27 13:46 |
| oiaohm | MinceR: so lets just say Microsoft is a little behind on this game. | Dec 27 13:47 |
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| MinceR | (audio:unimportant) https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2019/12/13/c1b56087f9b56dcc.mp4 | Dec 27 14:53 |
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| psydroid | oiaohm, isn't Microsoft an also-ran in any market the company is trying to enter? | Dec 27 15:35 |
| psydroid | I've also been looking a bit for Microsoft "partnerships" with game publishers, because I believe those are also holding back availability of native Linux games | Dec 27 15:37 |
| psydroid | especially after my experience successfully emulating older gaming computers on relatively modest modern hardware, where Windows 10 is neither suitable for a host nor a guest | Dec 27 15:40 |
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| superkuh | Makes me want to register tinylolcdn.com | Dec 27 17:01 |
| MinceR | :) | Dec 27 17:15 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft has a reputation for being aggressive and having shitty software in the markets where they can force their products on people. | Dec 27 17:26 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So it stands to reason when there are already one or more solutions that work, nobody will choose the Microsoft one except a few people who will take one with extreme subsidies. | Dec 27 17:26 |
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| MinceR | s/software.*$/software and hardware/ | Dec 27 17:27 |
| MinceR | FTFY | Dec 27 17:27 |
| MinceR | oops, forgot "services" | Dec 27 17:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Those Windows phones were almost free near the end so of course a few people got one as a burner. | Dec 27 17:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's not really what Microsoft was going for. | Dec 27 17:27 |
| MinceR | and they were still overpriced | Dec 27 17:28 |
| MinceR | and if they were gratis, they'd still be overpriced | Dec 27 17:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR Some guy down at the auto parts store had one and said he liked it better than Android. | Dec 27 17:28 |
| MinceR | when did he have the lobotomy? | Dec 27 17:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That was a few years ago, but he's the only person I saw using one that claimed to like it. | Dec 27 17:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR Idk. Auto Zone is sort of a weird place. | Dec 27 17:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You go in there for wiper blades and they ask what engine your car has. | Dec 27 17:29 |
| MinceR | lol | Dec 27 17:30 |
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| schestowitz | isp maintenance? | Dec 27 18:32 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Apparently, Goldman Sachs will not finance any new coal or oil projects. | Dec 27 19:11 |
| MinceR | they aren't profitable enough anymore? | Dec 27 19:13 |
| schestowitz | protests | Dec 27 19:13 |
| schestowitz | Alaska IIRC | Dec 27 19:13 |
| schestowitz | maybe they won't fund that in Alaska | Dec 27 19:13 |
| schestowitz | IIRC | Dec 27 19:13 |
| schestowitz | or maybe they'll use some proxy/shell to fund it | Dec 27 19:14 |
| schestowitz | never underestimate GS evilness | Dec 27 19:14 |
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| schestowitz | wb, kaniini | Dec 27 19:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Coal is a dead end. Peabody Energy lost 78% this year. Biggest American coal company and Trump supporter. | Dec 27 19:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Why would you throw in money where it will be halved again next year, or worse, when Peabody is filing bankruptcy? | Dec 27 19:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Coal is bad bad business and getting out lets you take a stand against climate change while you're at it. | Dec 27 19:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And these oil companies are taking huge writedowns too. | Dec 27 19:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Trump is trying to prop the goddamned Saudi pieces of shit up by attacking clean energy and American farmers. | Dec 27 19:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Saudis and his handlers in Russia.... | Dec 27 19:38 |
| schestowitz | in Russia? | Dec 27 19:38 |
| schestowitz | Russia has a lot le ss leverage over them | Dec 27 19:39 |
| schestowitz | they have mere relations | Dec 27 19:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Pootie Poot and the Russian Pee Pee Party tapes. | Dec 27 19:39 |
| schestowitz | House of Saud's puppetmasters since the 1940s were the French, British, then US | Dec 27 19:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz Peabody's CEO files slapp lawsuits against anyone who criticizes him. | Dec 27 19:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Last Week Tonight mocked him and then spent 2 years fighting off a bogus lawsuit that ended up being abandoned. | Dec 27 19:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The guy is a real piece of shit. He sexually harassed his workers and made his secretary get down on his hands and knees to find what turned out to be a kidney stone. | Dec 27 19:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He fished it out of the toilet because he was apparently amused by the size of it. | Dec 27 19:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He decided to implement a bonus based on how much coal you mined and the union opposed it because it would hurt safety. | Dec 27 19:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | One worker got a check for like three bucks and returned it with a note that said Eat shit, Bob. | Dec 27 19:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And so the guy sued him too. | Dec 27 19:44 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Trump apparently wants 27 year drug patents. | Dec 27 19:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The non-rich can pretty much only possibly hope to afford the state medicine was in at the year 1999. | Dec 27 19:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The scary part is that enough Democrats are on Big Pharma's bribe list that it could pass. They're not as bad as the Republicans, but if there's enough to pass a bill that's all those drug companies need. | Dec 27 19:51 |
| Hail_Spacecake | I wish the US government was more anti-Saudi than it is | Dec 27 19:51 |
| MinceR | https://hugelolcdn.com/i/645076.jpg | Dec 27 19:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They were apparently shocked that Trump isn't wanting a major war against Iran. | Dec 27 19:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The US hasn't done much even while Iran has openly attacked shipping lanes and Saudi oil facilities. | Dec 27 19:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It would be pretty trivial to respond to Iran with more force. | Dec 27 19:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Their Navy is essentially a few speed boats. | Dec 27 20:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Their air force is a bunch of badly aged F-14s from before the Revolution that they can't get new parts or weapons for. | Dec 27 20:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's really no reason to tolerate them thumbing their nose at us with this nuclear program. | Dec 27 20:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You don't need to do a full scale invasion to seriously damage and destabilize their existing government. | Dec 27 20:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I would argue that the sanctions are not working as well as a surgical strike directed mainly against military installations and some infrastructure would. | Dec 27 20:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They fared okay against Iraq because Saddam was looking to take territory and they were at about the same technology level. | Dec 27 20:03 |
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| schestowitz | kaniini: any eta for pleroma.site? | Dec 27 20:42 |
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| kaniini | fixed | Dec 27 21:03 |
| schestowitz | kaniini: looks like it's processing and catching up | Dec 27 21:25 |
| schestowitz | as viera has not yet picked up new posts from a while ago | Dec 27 21:25 |
| MinceR | https://ircz.de/p/19090138 | Dec 27 21:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object | Dec 27 21:33 | |
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| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object | Dec 27 22:42 | |
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| DaemonFC[m] | My co-pay at the chiropractor was only $8 this morning. | Dec 27 23:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I sounded like tree branches snapping last week, but not quite as bad this time. | Dec 27 23:31 |
| danielp3344 | <MinceR "https://hugelolcdn.com/i/645076."> lol I missed this earlier | Dec 27 23:33 |
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