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that cringey moment five minutes into california love where dr dre, who was doing *so well* up until that point, calls it "frisco"

the official delineation between childhood and adulthood is when you stop pirating software

it's weird how emotionally opposed people are to the concept of corporate personhood, as if it's an inherently bad thing. corporations aren't real, so corporate human rights are just human rights for the people who comprise those corporations.

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i like the blob.cat instance and the people there (like @mewmew) and also their cool bot: @comicbot

what are your favorite websites? my top ones are hn, fediverse, nytimes, and some blogs. i would like more websites because i am taking a few days off after working for over two weeks straight and like doing things other than reading books. pls advise

if you ever wanna be reminded how many idiots there are in the world, live through a pandemic or have a really popular blog post on a technical topic, or both.

(tbh most people got it and understood it, and i'm surprised how little blatant idiocy was surfaced.)

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You've heard of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time; now get ready for Falsehoods Terrans Believe About Sapients

when you look up a dictionary word on macOS, and it's not in the local dictionary, a big "search with google" button appears. clicking it always opens safari, not your default browser.

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what is a reasonable monthly maximum to spend on personal cloud infrastructure? like, on the high end?

if your unsubscribe link in your email results in a login form (and i'm not already unsubscribed when i see it), you are kindly invited to go fuck yourself with a chainsaw.

here's looking at you, meetup and twitter.

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what epic facebook fuckery is trying to inject facebook spyware into my (tls only) webpage for 3100 of my visitors and smashing into my CSP? is this browser extension malware?

i think the worst part about tech, tech people, privacy people, linux people, pc weenies, et c, is the insanely pervasive "well uhh this is the way we've always done it, so we like it this way, and you should stop"

ya, cool. do you like computing like it's 1997 still? i know some of you actually do, but tbh that sucks. i got into being a hacker because we were using *future* technology, not "whatever was in use when we were 15, but forever".

hmm, apps have to request internet permission in android.

developer.android.com/training

is this surfaced in the gui? can you deny an app permission to speak on the network on first launch?

why has desktop linux not adopted the android permissions model?

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