Comment on: Brave Passes 25 Million Monthly Active Users
New Brave user here. I'm one of those statistics. I swapped from being a quarter century Firefox/Netscape user after THAT Mozilla tweet.
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02 Feb 2021 19:49
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Comment on: Brave Passes 25 Million Monthly Active Users
Extensions can be added. No native bookmark sync, unless you can turn it on (?) but that would defeat the purpose of ungoogle. But I think last week google announced they were blocking sync for chromium forks anyway, so...
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02 Feb 2021 19:33
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Comment on: Tesla recalls 135,000 vehicles over touchscreen failures
Lol imagine my shock.
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02 Feb 2021 19:07
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Comment on: Google is shutting down its Stadia game studios
No matter how low the ping got, you could never play fps or reaction based games and have the same experience. I can tell the difference in input lag just from vsync or triple buffering in most games, adding another 50ms (being charitable on ping times) on top of that makes the game unplayable.
I agree the pricing was wrong, but it was also wrong for them to have fps and action games listed when the only feasible games for that are casual, turn based games where the lag doesn't matter. No one is going to care in a rts about the delay, but a fps or racing game is ruined on any streaming service. Playing remote stream on a lan feels like you have weights tied to you, the internet was just never going to work.
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02 Feb 2021 18:54
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Comment on: Brave Passes 25 Million Monthly Active Users
If you're going to use Chromium then I recommend Ungoogled Chromium, unless you're into BAT.
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
> ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
> ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium.
> ungoogled-chromium features tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency
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02 Feb 2021 18:48
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Comment on: AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review
who cares
the people who care would purposely look for stuff about airpods
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02 Feb 2021 18:40
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Comment on: Brave Passes 25 Million Monthly Active Users
> doesn't Brave sell your data?
> Our company does not store any record of people’s browsing history. We don’t write any personal data to the blockchain. The only way a user’s data is stored by Brave is if the user has switched on Rewards or Sync.
Disable the gay rewards and you will be fine.
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02 Feb 2021 18:38
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Comment on: Google is shutting down its Stadia game studios
You can't circumvent the laws of physics with enough money? Why even try to do anything anymore?
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02 Feb 2021 16:07
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Comment on: Uber to purchase alcohol delivery service Drizly
These companies buying up unrelated businesses should be regulated more since it often leads to monopolies.
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02 Feb 2021 15:40
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List of all the projects, websites, and services, that were killed by Google | killedbygoogle.com
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It’s about time and more people need to start doing it.
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02 Feb 2021 12:39
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Comment on: SpaceX's 1st crewed Mars mission could launch as early as 2024, Elon Musk says
+SpaceX +Spaceflight to +Mars says +ElonMusk
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02 Feb 2021 01:26
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
I disagree. The vast majority of people only use a web browser, a media player, a pdf reader, an image viewer and an office suite. All these come preinstalled on all major Linux distributions, so they won't have to install a thing.
Some other aspects of Linux are also very user-friendly: it gets no viruses, its much faster than Windows, its performance does not degrade over time or by installing apps like it does on Windows, and the ability to update every last piece of software on your machine with the press of a button.
The problem is that these people find Windows preinstalled on their machine and they don't know or care to see what Linux is and most of them don't even know how to burn an iso on a DVD, let alone install Linux.
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01 Feb 2021 20:00
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Comment on: Why Intel's chip production troubles should concern us all
Why do all of these articles always recommend government intervention and legislation. Ffs, that's what got us here in the first place. Samsung at least has the right idea of expanding in a place that actually values business and manufacturing.
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01 Feb 2021 18:10
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Comment on: Twitter Employees Reportedly Donated 64 Times More Cash to Biden's Campaign Than to Trump's
Honestly surprised to hear of Twitter employees donating to Trump at any scale
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01 Feb 2021 11:31
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Comment on: Twitter Employees Reportedly Donated 64 Times More Cash to Biden's Campaign Than to Trump's
For years they have been more factual and accurate news than MSNPCNNPR media cartel. Go figure.
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01 Feb 2021 08:12
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Comment on: Twitter Employees Reportedly Donated 64 Times More Cash to Biden's Campaign Than to Trump's
What are you talking about, Comrade? Everyone knows that AmericanFreedom.ru is the best news site of all time!!
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01 Feb 2021 04:30
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
An iphone walks all over the best from intel or amd on prores decode and encode. A phone will frogstomp the best desktop processors available. It's not a little difference, the M1 blows them away.
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01 Feb 2021 01:39
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Oh honey. I've already seen a mba encoding 4k prores, no throttling.
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01 Feb 2021 01:21
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
M1 doesn't thermal throttle, at all.
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01 Feb 2021 00:08
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Comment on: Google reinstates decentralized chat app Element after sudden ban
I don't use pkaystore anymore, I'm so over their shit that they can stick it where the sun doesn't shine!.
My everyday carry now is an original Nokia 3210 that was refurbed, 5 day battery life is awesome.
I have no social media apart from this place, no instance, fb, Snapchat nothing at all, my life is uncomplicated. Its nice to have an old style phone again, I still have a one plus but no play store on there and it stays at home most of the time!.
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31 Jan 2021 23:26
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Except the new nvidia's support M1. Your info is old.
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31 Jan 2021 23:10
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
> Normies doesn’t understand apt-get or pulling software from repositories it scares them.
And that is fine because they no longer need to. All popular distros suitable for normies have GUI for their package manager. One could call it an app store.
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31 Jan 2021 21:01
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
That's exactly onto the point. Locking us into their ecosystem is their marketing strategy. That's why Microsoft gave the upgrade to [Win10 for free](https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/29/9066749/microsoft-windows-10-office-app-free-upgrade-model).
You can see it not only on operating systems, but on all Big Tech. Like Google. They provide Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar and all the rest. They want us relying to them. If we decide to unGoogle we lose not only the search engine but also the rest of the services. Marketing 101.
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31 Jan 2021 20:42
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Comment on: Why Robinhood Disabled Buys but not Sells
Because selling GME is what the hedge funds want.
There, explained in less than ten words.
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31 Jan 2021 19:49
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Comment on: Twitter comes for Substack
payed content is gey.
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31 Jan 2021 19:34
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
>so would the cut off be like 2000s for continuing to use old hardware?
Nah, it depends on the hardware and what you plan to use it for
>Should older hardware be recycled as "e-waste" if it doesn't have collector value or just held on to as toys or backup if all other technology failed?
Older systems can make for amazing tinker toy machines, and a backup doesn't sound too bad at all... At this point a lot of enthusiast-tier hardware from up to the 2000s is having its value go up
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31 Jan 2021 18:09
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
I'm using an i5-4690k right now! 20 GB of DRR3 and an AMD RX 470.
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31 Jan 2021 17:52
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
>any tips on upgrading old desktops?
I don't know how much you can use a desktop from the 90s for, mostly because a lot of gains for computers were made during that decade but upgrading traditional hard drives (moving parts) to solid state drives (no moving parts) and maxxing out the RAM are some good options.
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31 Jan 2021 17:51
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Apple will have replaced the chip by then. Nothing changes the difference in ipc/watt between the two architectures. AMD64 anything, windows or linux, won't be competitive with a macbook that can do real work for days on a single charge.
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31 Jan 2021 17:16
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
> Now with the M1 chip entry level Mac can handle a lot more than it used to.
What do you mean by that? Unless I am missing something then at least initially M1 Macs will be limited in what they can do until software becomes available for ARM architecture. Apple will have pushed devs to provide it for apps in the AppStore but 3rd party apps (and I personally run a lot of them) will be slower to update.
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31 Jan 2021 17:10
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Processors haven’t gotten much better. Gpus got a lot better
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31 Jan 2021 16:41
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
I recently "upgraded" my dinosaur system from an i5-4690K and GTX 760 to a 4790K and GTX 1660S. I added 8GB of DDR3.
Still a dinosaur PC lol, I just upgraded as much as I could while staying on 1150LGA. I'm glad I upgraded what little bit I did last year, due to the obvious situation now.
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31 Jan 2021 16:00
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
As @Staikon and @AwfulWaffle say, I don't even think that's the issue anymore.
I put Linux Mint on my HP Dragonfly laptop, and plugged in my thunderbolt dock. Both my external monitors, and my USB plugin devices all came right up with no problems. I can disconnect and reconnect without any issue too.
What keeps people away form Linux is just "fear of the unknown" and a completely lack of willingness to spend any time to learn about it. People would rather be complacent making sacrifices to Windows than learn a new groove.
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31 Jan 2021 15:58
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Ok edgelord.
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31 Jan 2021 15:27
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
> author talks about having a PC from 90s that he still uses
Not really, he built one PC in the 1990s and ever since has kept upgrading it to the point where the specs are entirely modern.
> I know of this old PC from 90s/2000s that makes a ton of noise, any idea what might be making it or what might be replaced or fixed on it?
It depends on the noise, but with that age it could either be from overheating after not being cleaned for awhile (and thermal paste drying up), a broken fan, or the hard drive is dying.
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31 Jan 2021 14:09
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
I don't do things that require new so I have happy with "old"
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31 Jan 2021 14:06
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
> they aren't known to make direct use of concentration camp labour in China.
I've heard that China also makes the grown muzzies have sex with other adults, too!
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31 Jan 2021 14:05
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
These days it's not even that, it's the fact that most of them don't know what it is and can't be arsed to switch.
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31 Jan 2021 14:04
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Based satania-posting
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31 Jan 2021 14:04
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Comment on: Big Tech Bans Rebellion Against Banking Cartel
What service would you recommend? Is there a based one? What of Uphold?
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31 Jan 2021 13:55
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
I've heard a lot about compatibility issues but I have installed Linux on three machines and I haven't faced any such problem.
I'm not saying you're wrong though. Maybe I was just lucky.
A good trick is to try your devices from the live-CD of the distro that you want to install and if they work on the live session, only then proceed with the installation. You should upgrade the system to the latest kernel in the live session too.
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31 Jan 2021 13:23
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Valid point. I faced the same issue and just went for a derivative of Ubuntu which is popular, easy and all-around. Searching among so many distros was very frustrating though. The Linux world could use some unification.
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31 Jan 2021 13:10
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
>one UI style to choose
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31 Jan 2021 12:42
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Right now it’s near impossible to get the new AMD parts. I’ve been waiting 3 months for a 6800xt and 5900x
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31 Jan 2021 12:28
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
That's only because MS does not control a major app store and a walled platform. It is as bad as any other big tech company and is known to happily work with the CCP on censorship and human rights abuses.
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31 Jan 2021 12:17
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Why not Linux? I'm always interested to know what reasons keep people away from Linux, so will you share yours?
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31 Jan 2021 11:47
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Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
So it's just picking the lesser of two evils I guess. At least my choice doesn't have to be insanely expensive.
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31 Jan 2021 10:59
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Comment on: White House Youtube Dislike Manipulation – Zoe's Insights
I do love a good bit of bash scripting.
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31 Jan 2021 09:11
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Comment on: Spotify granted patent that allows it to listen to your room, monitor your emotions
Anyone who uses spotify is a lying to themselves anyway. If you think your supporting musicians, you're out of the loop.
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31 Jan 2021 05:31
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Comment on: Spotify granted patent that allows it to listen to your room, monitor your emotions
It just keeps getting worse.
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30 Jan 2021 21:05
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Comment on: White House Youtube Dislike Manipulation – Zoe's Insights
Pathetic that they need to resort to this.
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30 Jan 2021 19:30
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Comment on: White House Youtube Dislike Manipulation – Zoe's Insights
Very smart
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30 Jan 2021 18:08
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Comment on: Google Play deletes over 150,000 Robinhood app reviews after frustrated users leave one-star ratings
The Google alternatives or clients Freetube, NewPipe, and Invidious work well enough for me to consider leaving Youtube/Goolge for good. i thought it might take me until 2022, but I may make the bye-bye/divorce day Feb.28th.
I left PayPal, Reddit, Pinterest, Spotify, and Diccord a few days after they censored Trumpsters (I wasn't a fan of Trump)....and FB well before that.
Let's all step up our game when it comes to helping each other leave - sharing all alternatives.
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30 Jan 2021 01:22
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Comment on: Face-reading AI will be able to detect your politics and IQ, professor says
It's fucking incredible how the left moved to biological determinism from "racial skepticism", wait a few years and a professor will come with the idea that social identities will have to be validated with a genetic exam.
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30 Jan 2021 01:15
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Comment on: Google Play deletes over 150,000 Robinhood app reviews after frustrated users leave one-star ratings
Food for thought. Check your microphone settings. Spotify doesn’t seem to be on mine. But I would also turn off Siri learning to be safe.
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29 Jan 2021 22:59
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Comment on: Google Play deletes over 150,000 Robinhood app reviews after frustrated users leave one-star ratings
How is there even a doubt that we have overlords?
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29 Jan 2021 18:18
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Comment on: Australia takes on Google advertising dominance in latest Big Tech fight | Reuters
Google's advertising model is shitty. It puts advertiser content right next to host & user generated content, which makes host appear to endorse advertiser content, and more critically, advertiser endorse host & user content.
This is why Google has become the speech police: because they can't sell ads for cat food to single fat women when the content on the page is blasting fatties for being fat.
The problem isn't what people say, the problem is Google's monopoly and their inferior product.
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29 Jan 2021 15:41
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Comment on: Russia to fine TikTok & other social networks for failing to remove posts allegedly promoting unauthorized protests to kids
It's not a protest if it's authorized.
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28 Jan 2021 16:53
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Comment on: It’s Not Section 230 You Hate, It’s Oligopolies
Without the protection of S230 big tech social media would not have got to the point where it is today. Once they got this big, rich and powerful they started gatekeeping the industry and crushing potential competition. "Build your own platform" they said. So someone went and did. Big tech acted in cartel and shut it down.
As the article correctly says incremental changes to S230 means only the big guys with an army of lawyers can comply and the smaller guys will suffer disproportionally. Also, good luck achieving any meaningful reform when the other side is in bed with politicians and literally has billions to spend on lobbying. So let's level the playing field and repeal it altogether. Disrupt their business model and take away their power. Let them get sued into oblivion or become the publishers that they apparently desire to be. Let them slash their profit margins and their stock tank. Fuck all that shit, just throw a grenade at it and start from scratch once the dust settles a bit.
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28 Jan 2021 09:14
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
Session's CEO was a gov't agent, right? That might be better security, but it still worries me. i guess if he never tried to hide (he didn't, I think), that might be fine.
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27 Jan 2021 23:19
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
All the more reason we need to force our gov't to enforce anti-monopoly laws.
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27 Jan 2021 23:17
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
That attitude may get you and me fired. I strongly think The Gap Inc. fired me for my politics, but found other reasons.
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27 Jan 2021 23:17
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
Well, there is a way to manually enable encryption on Telegram. And, i must say, Pavel Durov, the guy who started Telegram *IS ALL MAN!*. I have conflicting feelings about Signal CEO and staff and the way they started or who they are financed by. I've read somewhat conflicting stories.
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27 Jan 2021 23:14
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Comment on: How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop
Thanks to that fun little play I gained an extra few thousand dollars this week. Just a few steps closer to that new vehicle I want.
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27 Jan 2021 19:49
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Comment on: Microsoft Wants to Reanimate You as a “Conversational” Chatbot After You Die - Activist Post
Nope.
Im going the route of nano bots maintaining my body to help me live as long as possible then slowly replace my cells as parts of me receive damage and die naturally from old age till the last of my brain cells have been copied by nano duplicates hundreds of years from now leading me to wonder if I'm sill me or a hi tech copy while I enjoy the thousands of years I have after.
Wait did I type that out loud? ....I mean......This article sounds dumb.
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27 Jan 2021 19:27
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Comment on: Microsoft Wants to Reanimate You as a “Conversational” Chatbot After You Die - Activist Post
start posting racist and controversial stuff
*modern problems require modern solutions*
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27 Jan 2021 18:46
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
Last alive Nov 15th 2020, and launched July 2020.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201115034007/https://www.unwoke.hr/
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27 Jan 2021 18:43
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
Fucking retarded thought process you have there, well done.
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27 Jan 2021 18:40
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
They can leave if unhappy or be sacked, signal has always clearly stated its aim, 2 choices.
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27 Jan 2021 18:38
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
I misread your comment my bad.
I thought you asked about the difference between Element and Matrix.
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27 Jan 2021 17:01
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
> Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralized communication
Element is the official client for Matrix, but you can still use Matrix with other unofficial clients.
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27 Jan 2021 16:49
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
I heard about this, the issue is that nobody I know uses it. Is it federated? If it is then I think this is the next step if Signal goes down the shitter...
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27 Jan 2021 15:52
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
DNS resolves to 185.26.105.244 but the IP has reverse DNS redirect.netim.net. Netim is domain registrar and hosting that registered unwoke.hr. The IP is alive but looks more like a Cisco IP phone than a legit server. It looks abandoned.
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27 Jan 2021 15:34
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
The point is, you won't get kicked off this platform for your speech. If you're boss finds your account and reads what you wrote, you can absolutely be fired for that. I don't know why people think free speech applies to employment. Your employer has their own free speech to express, which includes firing who they want.
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27 Jan 2021 15:14
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
How many times does this have to be explained. 1A keeps you from being **jailed** for your speech. You can absolutely be fired for it.
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27 Jan 2021 15:02
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
If Signal wants to keep the traction its gained by Whatsapp fuckup then the last thing they want to do is add an anti-free speech policy. Watch Signal lose all the users it has gained over a weekend.
Also if they do that I think the next best thing is a federated messenger so everyone can have their own rules.
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27 Jan 2021 14:42
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
Employees who demand shit are free to buy company stock and demand from a position of a shareholder. If they have a problem with what the company is doing nobody is forcing them to stay working there. And because people who do work they don't believe in (or even worse, they believe that work is bad in itself and they believe in the polar opposite) they never perform as well as people who do believe in what they do. Again, fired.
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27 Jan 2021 14:08
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Comment on: Battle inside Signal as some employees demand a "content policy"
Companies like Signal should fire all such employees and hire new ones from unwoke.hr.
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27 Jan 2021 13:56
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Comment on: YouTube competitor StoryFire announces it's shutting down
It's their "business" model that makes them all destined to fail, Bitchute included.
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27 Jan 2021 12:18
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Comment on: Why Red Hat killed CentOS—a CentOS board member speaks
RH was pissy that people were basing their businesses off of CentOS and not letting RH wet their beak. Now if they want free shit, they have to stay in a narrow channel where RH will get metadata from them and they can't just grab an ISO and disappear.
Poetic justice for anyone that based their business model on another company giving them something for free.
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27 Jan 2021 11:45
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Comment on: YouTube competitor StoryFire announces it's shutting down
YouTube has a unique position and a unique monetization model that does not sustain the company. Competitors that try to replicate what YouTube is doing are destined to fail and go out of business. They need to find a different way to monetize and to run the service cheaper, otherwise they stand no chance to survive in the long run.
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27 Jan 2021 11:42
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Comment on: Sony adds HDMI to last year’s Android phone, charges $2,500
This is a technology guild. You're about 10 pounds of stupid in a 5 pound bag to ask that here.
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27 Jan 2021 01:53
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Comment on: Twitter acquires Revue , an editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers.
talk is cheap. CEOs change, as do other staff. Put all of your eggs in one basket and you'll pay for it.
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26 Jan 2021 17:33
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Comment on: Twitter acquires Revue , an editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers.
I'd guess metadata be be shared, of course, between the two.
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26 Jan 2021 17:32
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Comment on: Twitter acquires Revue , an editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers.
so, once again, no monopoly laws or anti-trust laws enforced. And, we pay taxes WHY????? So that gov't won't do what they are supposed to?!
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26 Jan 2021 17:31
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Twitter jumps 6% after the social media giant buys Substack competitor Revue
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Substack can simply exist as the revue that is content neutral
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26 Jan 2021 16:50
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Comment on: Share your views.
This won't really change anything, Twitter is just delegating the effort to ban things going against the narrative to the people. If someone has an opinion that the majority don't agree with prepare to be birdwatched.
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26 Jan 2021 16:15
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Comment on: Brave Browser Integrates IPFS
not sure, really. I also miss container support and use it on FF. I haven't tried to add it to Falkon or IceWolf yet. I don't like Falcon and it wouldn't play a particular Youtube movie for me the other night. Wouldn't it be great if we could all get behind one great browser and help fund it instead of 4 or 5 mediocre ones?!
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26 Jan 2021 04:05
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Comment on: Robotics company plans to flood pandemic-battered economy with androids to ‘keep people safe’ — RT World News
I kind of want a robot dog. Instead of having to get a new one every ten or fifteen years, you could just upgrade his doggy cpu and put lasers and RGB lights and shit on him.
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26 Jan 2021 01:26
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Comment on: Robotics company plans to flood pandemic-battered economy with androids to ‘keep people safe’ — RT World News
Robots: We're here to protect you. We love you.....(whispers) TO DEATH!!
Humans: What was that?
Robots: Nothing... Nothing. Here eat this.
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25 Jan 2021 21:41
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Comment on: First Exynos SoC With AMD GPU Could Arrive in Q2, 2021 at the Earliest, as Samsung Rumored to Change Release Timeline
If they ever get windows to run natively on that, it will turn computer gaming on it's head.
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25 Jan 2021 21:18
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Comment on: Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
Nuclear produces very little waste and even though its long-term storage is a sensitive subject it's actually quite trivial (dig a hole, put fuel in the hole, cover). A running nuclear power plant does not require external sources, it has its own backups.
Of course that the sun shines in most places. But as I explained, folks in cities have no space for them and people in northern regions barely get few hours of sunshine for like 6 months, which means they must have conventional sources in full capacity anyway and any solar production is a gimmick on top of it.
I don't go to Walmart. I live in Europe which gives me the unique ability (compared to burgers, anyway) to consider more than my own lucky circumstances.
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25 Jan 2021 19:54
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Comment on: Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
The difference is that nuclear *can* serve everybody, is stable, predictable etc. Solar is none of that which makes it a gimmick for the few lucky ones for whom the circumstances allow it.
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25 Jan 2021 19:32
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Comment on: Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
It's great when your individual circumstances allow for it and in some cases it may make sense. Now you do realize that these things called apartments exist and that a half of the world's population has no roof space or land to put any solar panels on, right? And that there are geographic regions that only get few hours of weak sunshine at best during winter months, where there is this new thing called snow that covers the panels during winter days making them produce nothing; in contrast there are regions where the effectivity of solar panels goes down because they don't work well in high temperatures etc. Consider all of that and the vast majority of world's population has no space or no use case for solar panels. And we have not even touched on the subject of the capacity and stability of the power grid which is a whole new can of worms.
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25 Jan 2021 19:27
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I'm not saying it's not needed. I'm waiting for my beta invite. I'm just saying that a runaway success will bring its own problems, like Elon doing something stupid and losing control of it to some board of directors or any other host of things outside his control.
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25 Jan 2021 19:15
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Comment on: Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
It may make sense for an individual who profits from market regulation that mandates that electricity distributors must buy your electricity. If it was up to the market to determine the price you would be paying your distributor to take it off your hands. In the big scheme of things solar is a gimmick. It delivers energy unpredictably and unreliably, you cannot plan or predict the output and every single kWh from solars has to be backed up by conventional sources for those "rare" moments when the sun goes down every day.
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25 Jan 2021 19:09
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Comment on: Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
Lol, yeah, no. Mandatory subsidies (direct or in the form of mandatory purchase of solar power from small installations) completely screwed the electricity market. Remove those and the price will sky rocket to where such a gimmick should be.
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25 Jan 2021 18:50
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Comment on: Google Shuts Down Internet Balloon, “Loon” Project Due to High Operational Costs - Activist Post
There is going to have to be at least two different satellite systems, or you're just moving the big tech problem from one company to another that requires you to have their equipment.
Be careful what you wish for.
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25 Jan 2021 18:41
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