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Guess Congress doesn’t really care their law isn’t being enforced, eh?

Well, they’re all but discontinued now.

I’m not sure I remember the address. Might have to spend a bunch of time on this archive today.

So these mothers chose the gifts. They knew what they were doing.

I’m glad Techdirt still exists.

Probably wouldn’t get me to leave Lemmy, but I wouldn’t mind another competitor to Reddit.

I’m also a software developer and I’ve never touched any of that professionally. There’s a lot more diversity of ecosystems out there, bud.

Well, you have now.

Calling this thing a “real life flying” car is generous. This thing just looks like a mock-up at best and it didn’t appear to even have a driver/pilot during the demo.

This thing will be bad in the air and bad on the ground.

The people that didn’t get vaccinated didn’t do so out of fear. Fear of things they don’t understand. Fear of scientists and doctors and the medical establishment. Sure as fuck wasn’t bravery.

Nice, wonder what would happen if we just started calling it “Big Weather Change Trends.”

People really afraid of Rust out here.

It still looks like that but it did then, too.

I’m with you, OP. I’ll never blindly do that.

Also, to add to the reasons that’s bad:

• you can put restrictions on a single executable. setuid, SELinux, apparmor, etc.
• a simple compromise of a Web app altering a hosted text file can fuck you
• it sets the tone for users making them think executing arbitrary shell commands is safe

I recoil every time I see this. Most of the time I’ll inspect the shell script but often if they’re doing this, the scripts are convoluted as fuck to support a ton of different *nix systems. So it ends up burning a ton of time when I could’ve just downloaded and verified the executable and have been done with it already.

What is it you’re looking for? Do you want to know what kinds of information is used for fingerprinting?

If so, check out coveryourtracks.eff.org and amiunique.org.

And automatic darkmode isn’t respected, and a lot of other little annoyances. That’s why this is so difficult. These are all incredibly useful features we would have to sacrifice for privacy.

Thanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.

Their backend is closed source.

[EDIT: Incorrect, see below]

I know it’s dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shutdown, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

Sadly, something we all have to get used to. Everything we do is ephemeral and the next guy will likely have better/different ideas on how to do things.

Basically everything I’ve ever built has been torn down or somehow bastardized eventually.