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Lammy

19,532karma·5,232submissions·July 30, 2008
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I am the person I'm defending.
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> although Flash Player died a long time ago They still maintain it for China actually: https://gitlab.com/cleanflash/installer …
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If they don't want to be replied to like they believe in absolutes then they should not speak in absolutes. I'm so tired of having to “““assume””” that people would be inclusive of me and my…
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I see you've never had chronic respiratory issues or you would know that's not true.
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> I think most people in the US are paying at least $350/month What an absurd statement. Mine has gone down in the past several years, and I pay around that per 6 months.
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Cars are great for people who do have all their limbs but lack the stamina to walk long distances, stand for long periods of time, carry large weights, etc.
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> Park outside of the city, walk/bike/scooter/mass-transit within Very telling how these arguments are always the most ableist shit you've ever heard and yet people seem to thin…
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“Just” lol That would be two things that would have to be compromised and redirected simultaneously to malicious versions. Way more likely to be noticed too because one of them would be GitHub, and un…
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> What if they just compel Microsoft to backdoor Windows/WinGet against you? You are confusing cause with effect. Leaking this type of fingerprint data over time is what allows users of Palant…
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I use a package manager that checks the hash of the downloaded installer against what's recorded in the package listing for that version. WinGet has been built in to Windows since one of the 2018…
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Sorry for assuming you'd be able to extrapolate from one example. It could be at any level of the funnel from your local machine to the wider Internet. Closer to home: this sort of fingerprinting…
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Vindicated once again for turning off any update checks the moment I install any new piece of software. Even if this sort of (obviously rare) attack is not a concern, it baffles me how few otherwise-i…
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> The author claims they can be had for only 20 USD online. That seems too good to be true! In my experience, the cheap eBay MLX cards are DellEMC/HPE/etc OEM cards. However I also encoun…
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Hence the name, I assume.
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> They're hard to type. Globe key + E on Mac, Windows key + period on Windows, Ctrl + period on GNOME, Super key + period on KDE, yada yada.
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They literally got caught colluding to depress wages. You're a fool if you expect that their goals have changed.
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Please stop validating the language of the oppressors
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> It seems like 5%/year is sort of industry norm. That's because the people running these companies learned the hard way not to write their collusion down, so now they just all totally c…
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Corporations exist to support the lives of humans, not the other way around.
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> The next version ran on the Macintosh computer as a "desktop accessory". It was called NekoDA Article neglects to notice/mention the pun; It's simultaneously “Neko DA” as in d…
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> People buying ads are their real customers, users are there to be exploited. It's one level further. The global intelligence apparatus is the real customer, and they economically reward thos…
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> which on most keyboard require a special key-combination that most people don’t know I am sick of the em-dash slander as a prolific en- and em-dash user :( Sure for the general population most pe…
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Meta: I didnt see an explicit date on the page and am ballparking 1999 because the <meta> GENERATOR tag says Netscape 4.51: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_(web_b…
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16:9 60Hz kinda sucks though :/ Yes I realize the Pro Display XDR has those same specs. 16:10 or 3:2 120Hz or 144Hz would be ideal to me.
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You shouldn't confuse disinterest with The Spectacle and its siren song to Support or Oppose every new storyline with belief in nothing at all. I am definitely not a nihilist.
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If only you knew how bad things really are. https://i.ibb.co/7NTZdSC8/intelligent.jpg
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The 175k miles I've put on it over the last decade say otherwise :)
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