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1,244karma·643submissions·October 21, 2024
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Have you considered contacting the org's abuse email (security@upenn.edu), detailing the above, and asking for an investigation? The IP doesn't have a negative reputation on Virustotal, whic…
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>Winnie the Pooh isn't tweeting racist AI memes of colored people Too busy putting folks in literal concentration camps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_…
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I encouraged folks with strong English skills to apply to Canadian and UK unis in 2016 and got called hysterical and an extremist. There's a big sunk cost in learning a language, but Canada and t…
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>They don't have a narcissistic tyrant driving the country down. Try posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh on one of their social networks then get back to me. I had a Chinese coworker who conf…
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I've had good interactions with gandi.net -- they sent me a reminder ~3 months in advance to the email on file last time a domain was set to expire.
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>Unfortunately this occurred in 2016, long before they added "repair mode" in iOS 17. Why isn't showing the user how to enable "repair mode" one of the first things the &qu…
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They're probably worried about such settings being abused to scrape or proxy their content. Duckduckgo allows you to enable "infinite scroll", so as a hack you can you can mash or hold …
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As a libertarian on social issues, I think you should be able to use whatever flavor of linux you want -- but Gentoo seems to be for people who really want to get into the nitty gritty :-) For me, I p…
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You could check it out from a library and just not bring it back. They'll charge you the MSRP.
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I miss when if someone got too heated, I could pull the "I'm literally a child, maybe I should call the company the whois info is showing for your IP and tell them their sysadmin is acting l…
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Unfortunately, when the silent majority stay... silent, their opinions go unmeasured and the vocal minority becomes "the public".
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>Well, they don’t like being challenged. who is "they"
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He got Slashdotted XD
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>Scientist tend to form their own closed communities anyway. Do you have a source for that?
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Most of my hard science contacts (physics, biology etc) from my days in student government have moved to Bluesky. Newer academics seem to be starting out there and skipping Twitter entirely. If you ha…
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Sometimes people like to show off and "optimize" rather than focus on core functionality and you'd be better off talking to a rubber duck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&…
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Have you been repeatedly banned anywhere? (Reddit, Facebook etc). The only time I've seen someone have a "tainted fingerprint" was because they were a relentless incel troll who kept ge…
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I think we kind of get this effect already with online discourse in general. People spin up and burn off nyms, and interact online in a manner they could never pull off IRL where people remember conve…
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Do you drink alcohol? I took a pause and found my memory was better, I suspect people get into a cycle of drinking, being kind of "bleh" then starting the cycle over and don't realize i…
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I am not a Facenbook fan -- I deleted my account in 2016 and when I tried to come back recently and give Zuck a second chance, my account was summarily banned for being "inauthentic" (comple…
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Caspar Bowden is spinning in his grave[1] [1] rest in power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Bowden …
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To be fair, DDG sometimes is just as bad. For example, if I search for "anonbib"[1] it shows nothing but revenge porn links[2]. [1] https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/ […
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I really wish I could get an old school style flip phone that I could use as a 4G hotspot for a laptop (running Linux).
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Also keyword is "looking" poor. 300 hundred dollar jeans, fifty thousand dollar hybrid civics -- meanwhile, my Casio got a lot of curt remarks.
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