raven

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[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Self assured STEM dorks and their consequences

[–] raven@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for mentioning this. Bookmarked.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Using chromium, ungoogled chromium, brave (reactionary baggage), vivaldi, opera, etc is not good enough. We must switch to Firefox specifically.

All the Chrome forks I mentioned above use the same chrome rendering engine, called blink. When you use blink you're helping google take over the web. Firefox is already on the shitlist of every major website because they refuse to prevent the user from installing things like adblockers and privacy extensions like Chrome does with manifest v3 and soon with their new Web Environment Integrity system. They cannot wait to throw up a "your browser is no longer supported :(" page for all Firefox users, and when that happens it will be over for our fox friend.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

What ads? That's just a friendly and helpful product reminder blob-no-thoughts

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

And then you can make great use of absolute numbers over more contextualized relative numbers/ Here's a made up example:

frothingfash why did it cost 700 million to vaccinate every American??
$700 million / 300 million Americans = $2.33 per vaccination, insanely cheap. Less than you spent on gas tax getting to and from work today.

I'm always immediately suspicious when someone starts throwing around absolute numbers like that.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And if there's some issue of people making modifications to that code that should reasonably be illegal, that part could be made read-only. I can't off the top of my head imagine what people would want to modify but shouldn't but if it became a problem it would be easy to fix.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The problem with the computer parts is that they're closed sourced and tivo-ized. Computers could be as flexible and tractable as mechanical parts.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

If we're talking about the 80s one I couldn't disagree more. It has little to do with the book but as its own thing it's perfect.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] raven@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It would be good for you too. I see less whining about having to read two pages in 5th grade classrooms.

But in fact you don't have to! No one is forcing you to engage.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What specifically related to socialism?

[–] raven@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

If trots manage to start up a successful revolution I will drop everything and support them

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