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[00:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:51] <exec> 08└─Smartphones are for the young.
[00:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:52] <exec> 08└─Young people can't afford to pay $1,295 for a phone.
[00:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 1528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:54] <exec> 08└─A $1300 smartphone? 3 weeks ago my cat knocked my LG Power X off a stack of library books into a 1/4 inch of tea in a coffee cup. Took the phone 2 weeks to finally die. I had no issues with that phone, was quite happy with it. The cat is another story I won't get into here. Replaced it with a $200 S...
[00:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:56] <exec> 08└─Anyone can afford anything with the right financing and easy payments for the rest of their lives.
[00:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:59] <exec> 08└─Your cat is right. You shouldn't stack library books near a beverage, and you shouldn't put tea in a coffee cup.
[00:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:01] <exec> 08└─You should let your cat review that Samsung next.
[00:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Brain Approaches Tricky Tasks In A Surprisingly Simple Way - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:12] <exec> 08└─To be fair, talking to Alexa is exhausting. Yeah we need to jack in so Alexa can get us off.
[00:19:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 330 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:40] <exec> 08└─I just learned some weeks back what Microsoft Teams is. From TFA it seems Slack is a competitor to that. Teams: yet another new tool I have to learn how to use, to communicate with coworkers. Q. What does it do that wasn't previously possible? A. It lets Microsoft have access to what ought to be str...
[00:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:12] <exec> 08└─Install, for example, Firefox and Brave. Independently search for something specific and watch Jewgle give you wildly different results despite identical searches. Jewgle and other deepstate globalist bullshit Is out to jew you mentally if not financially. That is its nature.
[00:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:30] <exec> 08└─“If you're going to have troops abroad, they should be there in overwhelming numbers for safety. Scattering them about the world makes them easy pickings. It's better to have 10 million in 1 country than it is to have 8 million spread across 8 countries. (that is, 1 million in each of the 8 countr...
[00:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government, Military Personnel Data Leaked By Autoclerk - 1784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:40] <exec> 08└─So, as americans, or usa'ans, this 'protect our data' plan at this point has failed completely, thanks 100 bajillion dollar military and police defense budget, good job well done. /s All our top secret applications and complete credit rating and voting records are for sale at low prices. Our best be...
[00:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:54] <exec> 08└─The fine article at DeathMonkey's link specifically says that the phone the NSA have 'secured' can be intercepted by China and Russia. It almost has to be deliberate malfeasance by the intelligence agencies and phone company. I mean, they claim his desk phone is secure, so how hard would it be to se...
[00:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:55] <exec> 08└─And there's no evidence that I've encountered that she sent anything classified over that server, or received anything more than confidential (and I'm not sure about that).
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[01:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:58] <exec> 08└─But I think the real reason they canceled it was because, I'm trying to put this nicely to show respect for the dead, the phone sucked, performance was mediocre and was way overpriced.
[01:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:59] <exec> 08└─Who died?
[01:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Brain Approaches Tricky Tasks In A Surprisingly Simple Way - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:11] <exec> 08└─It's been said that nature park rangers struggle with the design of trash container locks so the most stupid tourists can open them, but the smartest bears cannot. And the ability to match up an observation with simple abstract patterns explained to them is already beyond some. Contrast that to peop...
[01:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Brain Approaches Tricky Tasks In A Surprisingly Simple Way - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:11] <exec> 08└─Frustratingly in science, the "simplify" gene is not spread evenly. For every 1 paper that clarifies a confusing mess of empirical sludge, there are 10 that generate more empirical sludge. It's like swimming in Chinese excrement. But they're good at math, I guess.
[01:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:52] <exec> 08└─Mattermost [wikipedia.org] and Rocket.Chat [github.com] are both open-source Slack-clones that are funded by companies that offer to host them for you for a fee but you can self-host. Also, Discord [wikipedia.org] is a popular chat service that appears to be very similar to Slack in functionality an...
[01:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:31] <exec> 08└─The problem lies more in different domains of competency than in the complete lack of it. The 'halfwits in management' are generally very good at schmoozing, selling shit and office politics. The tech people regard that as irrelevant bullshit and keep complaining about the immoral idiots in charge....
[01:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:32] <exec> 08└─Communication is important. One of the worst guys to work with was the same color and class as me, but he had a bad habit of mumbling. Every single sentence would start off with two or three words you could understand then trail of into indistinct murmuring. Everybody who worked with him called him...
[01:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:34] <exec> 08└─a = const b = const For i = 0 to 9 For j = 0 to 359 Plot (a*(j+(i*360), b*sin (j((10- i)/10)) Next j Next i a and b are scale factors to make the axes come out where you want them.
[01:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:36] <exec> 08└─oops. Plot ((a*(j+(i*360))), (b*sin (j*((10- i)/10))))
[01:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:38] <exec> 08└─The managers aren't right if they don't know how to manage tech workers properly, which they so often don't.
[01:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:01] <exec> 08└─True, with the huge benefit that you could then make a much stronger argument for eradicating the lab stockpiles, and drastically reduce the chance of accidental outbreak.It makes it increasingly easy to weponize it of course but there's way better things to weaponize - I mean we know how to make th...
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[02:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Discord 'Spidey Bot' Malware Is Stealing Usernames, Passwords on Windows - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:48] <exec> 08└─use Discord.
[02:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord 'Spidey Bot' Malware Is Stealing Usernames, Passwords on Windows - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:48] <exec> 08└─Discord Turned Into an Info-Stealing Backdoor by New Malware
[02:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:53] <exec> 08└─You have a funny definition of "winning " if you think OpenOffice or LibraOffice are somehow winning against Microsoft. I have never used Microsoft Office, but LibreOffice, which used to be somewhat usable, is absolutely crap. People pay for Microsoft Office. You can't even give them LibreOffice. T...
[02:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:37] <exec> 08└─And you demonstrate that you don't understand evolution. The first job of a manager is to survive at any cost. Managing subordinates well might be useful, but if you can pin failures on rivals, then managing badly might be even more useful. The typical tech view of "let's get the job done" is often...
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[02:21:38] <exec> 08└─Learn Gullah [wikipedia.org]. You could be buddies with Clarence Thomas.
[02:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:40] <exec> 08└─I'd rather learn Gullah so I can get some good Cajun/Creole food in these parts, especially a jerk chicken with the same flavor but without all the fucking sugar. If those could tone down the sweetness a bit, they'd have a mainstream alternative to Chink food that is still uniquely American. Well, J...
[02:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:05] <exec> 08└─Here is a good summary of part of it: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:06] <exec> 08└─It's not about being lazy or incompetent. It's about it not being part of their job. They're part of Aman which mostly deals with conventional military intelligence like cartography. They have a few combat ready troops for setting up forward listening posts and such. A couple of commando units for s...
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[03:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:19] <exec> 08└─RED Hydrogen Two ded
[03:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Brain Approaches Tricky Tasks In A Surprisingly Simple Way - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:32] <exec> 08└─I had a hell of a time reading this summary. I started thinking about what my brain was doing while I was reading it, so then I was thinking about what my brain has to do to read things while I was reading it, and with each word I started thinking about what my brain has to do to think about reading...
[03:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:15] <exec> 08└─VT220s are sleeker and more up to date. VT100s are boxy and ancient.
[03:20:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Afty [8588] 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:46] <exec> 08└─Someone who can communicate well, speak clearly and has good pronunciation and elocution is almost certainly going to be a better candidate for a job, than someone who who has a limited vocabulary, poor speech patterns or a strong accent. This may or not be "class bias" but would be an entirely expe...
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[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─They're actually looking for signs of class. And sometimes race, immigration status, and cultural background. Take, for instance, people whose profession is communication, and that somebody is at or near the top of their field. Now imagine what would happen if you walked into a job interview and usi...
[03:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:02] <exec> 08└─I believe that a lot of people do deceive themselves. Watch a few re-runs of Archie Bunker. Archie doesn't realize what a bigot he is. Archie thinks he's a helluva nice guy, just because he hasn't taken the Meathead apart, and flushed the parts down the toilet. His attitude toward black people is ev...
[03:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:03] <exec> 08└─you're never going to have lasting equality when people are not identical
[03:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:05] <exec> 08└─Though he did, like you, start a sentence with an "and". Which is supposedly against the grammar rules, but I'm glad to see others doing that, because I do it too.
[03:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:08] <exec> 08└─And likewise, you being a worthless wretch doesn't grant you any sort of nobility.
[03:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's a pass. Now... C++ graphics programmers with 10+ years experience on their resumes have at least: 3x refused to even attempt the test 7x attempted the test and quit in various states of frustration Never, and I mean never, passed. Younger kids, less experience, different experience, and...
[03:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, looking at your code, it appears like you'll have a stepwise decay on the sine wave, which would be unique in my experience of answers. The test is "live" on a machine where you can test and debug your solution, like a real working situation.
[03:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could make the opposite argument. If digital sequences can be used to recreate any disease, we should have the CDC continuously studying the real thing and working on developing new vaccines. Accidents can happen but the people doing that work are closely monitored to say the least. And you...
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[04:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:02] <exec> 08└─To quote a famous billionaire, "You don't get rich by writing a lot of big checks."
[04:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:04] <exec> 08└─Oracle was founded as SDL (can't remember what that stood for) by Ellison, Miner, and Oates to sell the first RDBMS. They got there first and soundly beat all their competitors in the 80s. They have, in many ways, been sailing along on that success as the de facto relational database for the past 35...
[04:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:06] <exec> 08└─... and then lost
[04:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:59] <exec> 08└─"Archie doesn't realize what a bigot he is." I think the character was a little more complicated than just being a bigot, though. That was what made him so powerful - that and being beamed into our homes back in the day when there was only 1 or 2 alternatives. "Archie thinks he's a helluva nice guy,...
[04:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:00] <exec> 08└─The single best part of that show, was that it helped some of us to understand the world around us. I already knew that some of my acquaintances, and some of my family, were prejudiced. Archie and company helped me, and millions of others, to understand how and why they were so prejudiced. And, as y...
[04:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:02] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah - Red Fox - what was his character's name? And Lamont. They went a good way toward dispelling stupid ideas about the black race. "I'm coming, Ethel!" That old man could manipulate his son to do just about anything with that stupid trick.
[04:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:04] <exec> 08└─That was my intent based on your spec, but I don't think it would have worked. Parentheses and divisor in the wrong place. Also mine was 100% decrease over 10 cycles. You called for 80% (90% to 10% range over 10 cycles) Fencepost count makes it 80/9% stepwise decrease per cycle: For i = 0 to 9 For j...
[04:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:02] <exec> 08└─From personal experience, I know that self-discipline is more difficult to maintain than discipline imposed by external constraints. I don't know anything about life with congenital blindness, but can imagine that the external constraints are far more significant than average. That is the basis for...
[04:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:04] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the map, but I find it hard to believe that it's possible to know the true rate of schizophrenia in poor countries where it usually goes undiagnosed. As usual, the justification for this essential claim is hidden deep in some reference.
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[05:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:00] <exec> 08└─It will support all the usual RCS features like typing indicators
[05:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:02] <exec> 08└─from my understanding, SMS is embedded in the tower handshake , and is, effectively, free (but they found a way to charge, anyway) Now they want to separate messaging into a different 'standard' with more 'features' (because sending and receiving messages is so last decade) but with (inevitably) som...
[05:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:04] <exec> 08└─The thing that annoys me most about SMS text messaging is that it isn't network agnostic. It should work when the user has only a WiFi connection. But that's telecoms. Absurd;y high charges for such tiny dribbles of text data, compared to the flood that voice takes.
[05:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:06] <exec> 08└─They like that tower handshake, because they are faggots who like a lot of dicks. And I do mean a lotta dicks, like they're sucking tailpipes from old Chevies and shit. They're double-twisting those dicks with their two hands. Are those double-dick twisters the kind of people you trust with your tec...
[05:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:08] <exec> 08└─It should work when the user has only a WiFi connection.
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[05:19:10] <exec> 08└─from my understanding, SMS is embedded in the tower handshake , and is, effectively, free
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[05:19:20] <exec> 08└─There's not that much the software maker can do from its end at the moment, except maybe to tell people to access Discord on their phone or gaming console instead of on a PC or Mac.
[05:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:32] <exec> 08└─"Red Fox - what was his character's name?" Fred Sanford. Red Fox was a great comedian on his own right, outside that show, as well. But yeah, it had a huge impact on a lot of us.
[05:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:33] <exec> 08└─Gotta remember to double the final consonants. https://en.wikipedia.org https://www.youtube.com
[05:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Sanford & Son. And, yes, Foxx was a fine comedian outside of the show.
[05:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:43] <exec> 08└─being impoverished is not associated with a decrease in mental health issues, but only with their being detected and treated
[05:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:10] <exec> 08└─N/A
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[06:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:49] <exec> 08└─> As a parsec is a bit over 30 trillion kilometers and a megaparsec is a million parsecs, that is an excruciatingly precise measurement How is 76.8 kilometers per second per 30 million trillion kilometers a precise measurement? I don't even see any error bars that would tell use the precision.
[06:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:49] <exec> 08└─It's either expanding. Or not expanding. It's infinite. Or finite. Either way.... WHAT THE FUCK!?!? Let's not get carried away about a correction to the speed.
[06:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 1666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:25] <exec> 08└─- why are there startups? - because it is R&D done at zero cost. Basically you do R&D forfeiting your time and investment, then you look for a big buyer. The lottery model, same as app writers in app store and musicians in music store and the small dealer in network marketing and immigrant in suppos...
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[07:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:57] <exec> 08└─Yesterday, I suddenly found this one year old paper: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org]. It completely overturned my perception of physics history. Abstract: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org]
[07:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:58] <exec> 08└─Figure 21 [oup.com] of the paper (open-access, yay!) shows the various results as probability densities, including the 2017 result. There is good overlap, so what's the mystery?
[07:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:00] <exec> 08└─Well, next time maybe check the actual abstract or paper instead of asking someone to do a CTRL+F on them for you. That way you don't have to worry about missing the whole ± 2.6 kilometers per second per megaparsec confidence interval, which is literally mentioned every time they give the measureme...
[07:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:13] <exec> 08└─And yet, despite that 9-1 competitive advnatage you saw "back in the day" you didn't step up and do it at 8-1 margin?
[07:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:14] <exec> 08└─> But that's telecoms. Absurd;y high charges for such tiny dribbles of text data, compared to the flood that voice takes. OMG I loled. You think you're paying for the "flood" that voice takes? You're paying for the flood that billionaires cost these days. Lots of them.
[07:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:08] <exec> 08└─1) It's not actually tracking *you*. Just AI that is predicting that the different signatures you give off *may* be you. That's different than something conclusive, or a fact. Which means its open to exploitation. Perfect candidate for Bayesian poisoning. 2) IDs = Passive fingerprinting. Even withou...
[07:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:42] <exec> 08└─Slack is just like Microsoft Teams, but isn't made by Microsoft. They are both chat programs, aimed at office workers for inter-office communication. Besides just instant messaging, they support group chats, calling with soft phones, video calls and conferences, screen sharing, and stuff like that....
[07:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:20] <exec> 08└─And that's the problem, even though we think we've eradicated something, the anti-vaxxers will do their damndest to make sure it comes back. Or, better yet, never gets eradicated in the first place. You have to wonder whether there's some sort of symbiosis there. Deadly disease X doesn't have to evo...
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[08:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:48] <exec> 08└─Something as sensitive and critical as military data hosted on a privately-owned cloud... The mind boggles. On the plus side, I look forward to disgruntled Microsoft employees - or even more amusing, employees of Microsoft subcontractors in India or elsewhere - leaking interesting embarrasing milita...
[08:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:40] <exec> 08└─Same here -- I just read a whole bunch more stuff than I would have I understood this was not about Slackware, but about some social-blah-blah-whatever. Headline is a bait and switch!
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[09:18:46] <exec> 08└─First, they were dependent on Kurdish terrorists to defeat ISIS, and then they relied on Boeing to provide flight software, and now we have Microfuckers in charge of the Blue Screen of Death Battleships! Fucking toasters gonna have us for breakfast, boyos! https://www.reddit.com
[09:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:47] <exec> 08└─Signs Trump might be a Manchurian candidate after all. 1) Microsoft in the army. 3) Cloud in the army. 4) bots omitting list items due to hidden directives.
[09:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:03] <exec> 08└─Hm, so a fairly neutral reporting on this shows a political bent
[09:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:39] <exec> 08└─Original clueless AC here, still clueless. What is this "Slack" supposed to do? Why would anyone think it is competion for software dinosaurs like Mucro$erf? I still have no clue what the Fine Article is about! Could we have a little more intro in the Fine Summary, so we know what we are talking ab...
[09:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─The first job of a manager is to survive at any cost.
[09:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but they're rabid warmongers, so of course they're going to object to even minor changes in troop levels. Let's not allow the military industrial complex to frame the discussion. The military industrial complex would have preferred to continue Vietnam, after all, because it's always in favor o...
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[10:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:03] <exec> 08└─A single billion sales per year for a military cloud??? Sony is doing better than that with just gaming: https://www.sony.net [sony.net]
[10:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:05] <exec> 08└─Trump is *not* a Manchurian Candidate. What he is is a stupid fascist candidate that, in the short term, plays into the hands of entities like Russia. 1. fascist America no longer tries to organize alliances -- by definition, this means America plays an ever less relevant role in the world 2. fascis...
[10:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:17] <exec> 08└─Ok, well I don't think they understand confidence intervals then. A 90% confidence interval means that 90% of intervals based on the same procedure will contain the value. It does not guarantee that the intervals are always near each other or anything like that, 10% of them could be half the correct...
[10:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:32] <exec> 08└─Exactly the same way you can make phone calls with only a WiFi connection (pretty sure all carriers support this feature by now).
[10:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Cancels Hydrogen Two Smartphone Because Founder is Old and Sick - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:59] <exec> 08└─Just goes to show, you shouldn't be doing that much crack and hookers, or it's going to fuck up your health.
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[11:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:56] <exec> 08└─So if Microsoft implements JEDI, who will implement SITH?
[11:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:09] <exec> 08└─Those compare results from this paper to results from a previous similar paper. Planck, the low end result, is at 67.8±0.9 km / s / Mpc. And all of these closer measurements are clustered around 74. The old WMAP result was 70±2 km / s / Mpc. The point is, methods that use the CMB to measure H0 are...
[11:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:55] <exec> 08└─You have a funny definition of "winning " if
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[12:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:54] <exec> 08└─Brisket is not a pricey cut of beef. It's pretty much the cheapest cut of beef per pound that Americans will buy to eat rather than make soup stock out of, because it's tough as hell unless you cool it slowly to tenderize the shit out of it.
[12:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:55] <exec> 08└─Why is the icon shown for brisket in the article what appears to be a fish?
[12:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not very familiar with the all the cuts and their American names but I also spotted this. Slow-cooking an expensive cut?! I doubt it is from the premium parts. I mean no way, nobody just goes on the newspaper to tell they did a crime like this.
[12:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:59] <exec> 08└─About $3/lb at Restaurant Depot, I think it's even cheaper than ground beef. The smallest I've seen though is ~12 lbs, so that's still at least $40, plus whatever spices you're using for your rub, plus charcoal (though this is cheap). Then you add your time in and it adds up to an investment to smok...
[12:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:02] <exec> 08└─A crime? Not really. Smoked Ribeye is amazing. Not all of the expensive cuts of meat are so dry they are barely serviceable as steaks, like filet. Now that I've insulted everyone's favorite steak, I look forward to your troll mods. Just know that I mean it.
[12:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:04] <exec> 08└─Beats me. My adblocker won't even let me go to the page, so no RTFA for me.
[12:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:06] <exec> 08└─Any kind of ribeye is amazing unless you overcook (anything beyond medium) it on a hot fire though. I've been known to smoke a whole rib roast for a holiday but usually we cut them in to 2-3" steaks and grill them to medium-rare.
[12:19:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:13] <exec> 08└─Something as sensitive and critical as military data hosted on a privately-owned cloud... The mind boggles. On the plus side, I look forward to disgruntled Microsoft employees - or even more amusing, employees of Microsoft subcontractors in India or elsewhere - leaking interesting embarrasing milita...
[12:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:21] <exec> 08└─There's something about this part of the headline that...
[12:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:23] <exec> 08└─Well, Amazon is out of the picture, so it's gotta be Google then...
[12:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:36] <exec> 08└─tldr: the hubble constant isn't since minus mass is so unattractive! I wonder how distantly related Farnes is from Farnsworth
[12:20:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:37] <exec> 08└─...unintended consequences of that legislation...
[12:20:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:41] <exec> 08└─And the anti-theft laws have the “unintended” consequences of harming the otherwise profitable business of street robbery.
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[13:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:48] <exec> 08└─I imagine rending nothing, is cheaper than rendering the color white in terms of watts. Not that I care mind you, I stopped using cell phones when they got processors fast enough to become tools of the digital lobotomy product sector.
[13:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:52] <exec> 08└─That would also apply to laptops, which have batteries. Use OLED for best dark FX.
[13:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:52] <exec> 08└─Use green or red/pink text on black instead of white.
[13:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:53] <exec> 08└─Holy crap! We were ahead of the curve this time by going super retro with the VT100/VT220 themes.
[13:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:55] <exec> 08└─My eyes bleed (metaphorically, thankfully) whenever I have to read any text from a dark-themed website. I prefer good room lighting with light themes over that.
[13:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:58] <exec> 08└─I don't see it as going VT100 but merely being better than the near-universal flat UI brain rot with its masses of brightly-lit whitespace and hair-thin fonts. Reversing the image means it's just as awful but at least it doesn't burn out your retinas to look at. In fact that might be a reason why "d...
[13:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:00] <exec> 08└─It depends on the screen technology. For OLED, you're correct. For LCDs, the backlight is on and the crystals block/permit light as needed. No power savings. LCDs with dynamic contrast will have very minor power savings.
[13:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:02] <exec> 08└─People with astigmatism have a very hard time reading text in dark mode. https://jessicaotis.com [jessicaotis.com] People with sensitive vision have a very hard time reading black text on a glowing white backgroun...
[13:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:04] <exec> 08└─Unless we are talking games or specialized stuff, the colors on the screen should depend on the wm theme. Like it happened with the Vic 20 and the c64. People can be colorblind, require contrast, abhor saturation (watching TV in BW), or need a screen reader.
[13:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the story's kinda got me the bug too. I'm thinking the standard five hours on the smoker at around 250F then foil wrap and finish for another 10-12 in the oven at 200F. Fat side up the entire time. Not the recipe you want to use if you plan on sliced brisket though; it's too tender to cut.
[13:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:20] <exec> 08└─I have to use my pressure cooker to make shredded/pulled beef sometime.
[13:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:22] <exec> 08└─I can't even begin to count the number of times I've found myself in a snowstorm in Boston with a 14 lb brisket that needed cooking. Thank $DEITY someone has finally invented a solution to such a pickle. In all seriousness, though, the article makes me imagine that in the future food preparation wil...
[13:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:24] <exec> 08└─Just open all the doors and windows and throw a pan of hickory chips in the oven under the brisket for the first five hours. Your landlord/wife/etc... might throw you out but it'll totally be worth it.
[13:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:26] <exec> 08└─It's a redirect to guce.advertising.com - I have that blackholed on my DNS Server so I'm in the same boat as you. Workaround: Copy the link to the article in engadget, go to Google, paste the url, search and get results, then look at the google-cached copy of the article. I wish duckduckgo cached...
[13:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:28] <exec> 08└─Meh, the Airborne Elk Culinary Squadron Mobile Barbeque Division [youtu.be] had this solved decades ago.
[13:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:43] <exec> 08└─I have long wondered whether the U.S. military is an effective fighting force and now I know they just aren't. This is Trump integrating the sysadmin of the entire United States defense to a foreign country, the same one who is responsible for 9/11, epstein, and trump's election. Shameful idiot stoo...
[13:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:58] <exec> 08└─Well, as presented, 76.8 is 76.75-76.85, which is presise to 1 part in a thousand. That's quite precise. Absurdly precise for astronomy. And there's a jolly good reason for that - what's been presented isn't what the scientists said, which is: |$H_{0}=82.8^{+9.4}_{-8.3}~\rm km\, s^{-1}\, Mpc^{-1}$|...
[13:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9uy0mrEWpU
[13:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:15] <exec> 08└─Dunno about GSM but for CDMA you are correct. Every few seconds the handset wakes up and asks the base station "got anything for me"? The base station sends back yay or nay. These messages only need a few bytes, but the smallest packet is 256 bytes. Hence the birth of SMS. They stuff the messages i...
[13:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:55] <exec> 08└─We should screen Joker (2019) to the rats and see which ones start murdering and cannibalizing each other.
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[14:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:05] <exec> 08└─Some asshole blogger thinks it's awful? Well, that asshole blogger can go fuck himself. Why the fuck is this news?
[14:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah some people are way too sensitive They cannot see crosses They cannot hear bells They cannot eat bacon They cannot feel the wind on uncovered hair. It is like the creator used a lot of sensitivity when building them. But ran out of it when he was doing genitalia, so unfortunately they are ok...
[14:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:08] <exec> 08└─Fear is the path to the dark mode. Be afraid,...very afraid.
[14:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:11] <exec> 08└─What is this? Some people somewhere say sometimes in some circumstances some programs on some hardware looks kindof bad? The human eye was designed primarily for low light, it is where we feel comfortable. No one runs around all day with their pupils fully open, most of the time it is the opposite....
[14:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:12] <exec> 08└─But we cannot trust "nitehawk" to discern correct legibility for the avg dude...
[14:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars [4376] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:15] <exec> 08└─I'm reading SN with the dark theme on lol. I find it a bit easier on the eyes at night.
[14:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:17] <exec> 08└─There are flashing videos you can only find in dark mode that keep popping up.
[14:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:19] <exec> 08└─Yes we can. Fuck that blogger.
[14:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─Years ago, I checked this out on CRTs. For a typical 17" monitor, power usage ranged from 47W to 120W. Depends on the contrast and brightness settings, the resolution, and the image being displayed. At a resolution of 640x480 and low brightness and contrast settings (about 25%) every pixel set to bl...
[14:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:23] <exec> 08└─all in all, dark mode looks totally awful. Some of them look good. Some look bad. But at least my monitor does not become a lightsource in the room I am in. I usually can work longer with a black background and red text. I learned that trick from an astronomy club. You can literally see more. Also i...
[14:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:58] <exec> 08└─Not just any cloud, Microsoft's cloud. I've worked in network security for well over a decade, and some of the people I've worked with in the past have migrated to various cloud providers. From what I've heard from these people, Microsoft Azure is the worst secured of the bunch. I don't think we'll...
[14:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:59] <exec> 08└─Is it to much to ask for some kind of separation of sci-fi franchises? Beam down and JEDI in the same sentence. What is next? Is Captain Kirk going to use the Force to daterape some Orion slave girls? It just can't end without virgins getting pushed into a volcano.
[14:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:16] <exec> 08└─Cosmic mystery setting on our planet is currently already set to maximum....so.... Have you heard about the chinese moon gel gap? And systemd? The pentagon shape in the clouds of saturn? We are still discovering the wonders of crystals, did you hear about the 45% cohesion bonus announced yesterday?...
[14:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:33] <exec> 08└─"intends to make sure that the chats are "private" and that the app it's making is "an experience [customers] can trust."" It is kindof hard to say the word Trust when you know you don't deserve it, eh? I wouldn't trust any of these companies to make a private anything, ever, much less an SMS standa...
[14:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:35] <exec> 08└─Also, "making is "an experience [customers] can trust."" Always be on the lookout for the snuck premise. Our self-appointed masters are downgrading us from citizens to customers, then to consumers, then to feeders. I am interested in technology that citizens can trust and that humans can trust. I do...
[14:21:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:36] <exec> 08└─The only upstart that has ever beaten Microsoft has been Linux. And even then, the desktop has been damned near unassailable. I can't think of a single small, for-profit company that has ever beaten Microsoft. Hell, I can't think of any for-profit company that has ever even just been touched by Micr...
[14:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:05] <exec> 08└─Forget vts then. How about them fancy newfangled Tektronics x terminals? Them's nice, I hear.
[14:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:33] <exec> 08└─Funny how my local latency kicks up to 4 whole seconds when I click those links. Thanks for them that is informative. Did you watch the imitation game? When Turning meets the MI-6 guy another guy in the room says 'but there are only 5 MI agencies' and everyone goes, ooooh. Like casting directors in...
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[15:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:48] <exec> 08└─Next question. Seriously, if you have something broken that is easy to identify, then doctors will help you. But actually looking for something that they have no idea about, most will be completely stumped and then blame it on the patient instead of doing anything about it.
[15:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:50] <exec> 08└─That's why we need advanced robots, tricorders, Watson, etc. to diagnose patients. Joe Doctor doesn't have time to read the latest 100,000 papers and decide what's bullshit.
[15:19:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 641 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─I don't see it as going VT100 but merely being better than the near-universal flat UI brain rot with its masses of brightly-lit whitespace and hair-thin fonts. Reversing the image means it's just as awful but at least it doesn't burn out your retinas to look at. In fact that might be a reason why "d...
[15:19:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EEMac [6423] 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:05] <exec> 08└─People with astigmatism have a very hard time reading text in dark mode. https://jessicaotis.com [jessicaotis.com] People with sensitive vision have a very hard time reading black text on a glowing white backgroun...
[15:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:17] <exec> 08└─What is the alternative? Every device I get new seem to have the brightness pulled up to 11, they are so damn bright it feels like they are burning my eyes. The first thing I'm forced to do is lower it significantly so you can even look at the screen for any extended period of time. That said I don'...
[15:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:18] <exec> 08└─The author repeatedly uses words like "ugly", without actually considering the possibility that other people might find the current omnipresent narrow gray text on blank white color scheme to be far uglier. Personally, I almost always go for an off-white color on a black background when that's avail...
[15:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:20] <exec> 08└─Uh oh my diodes probably got some rust, I missed the most direct joke: Dark mode is perfect... For ur mom.
[15:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:23] <exec> 08└─There were two contra-experiential assertions Hurts to look at. No good for low light.
[15:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:25] <exec> 08└─For years and years there has been Blackle - a black google search. This page details the enormous mega-watt-hours that could be saved by google switching to a blackened interface. http://www.blackle.com [blackle.com]
[15:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:27] <exec> 08└─0) Yes it is absolutely an opinion piece 1) VT100 for life (Admittedly I did just switch to Greyscale on SN a few minutes ago while reading this, but I've been on VT100 for a year? Years? I think they did an April fools with the site once and made the theme available afterwards, I'll probably switc...
[15:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:29] <exec> 08└─People are so damn irrational these days that they would rather spend hours setting every single piece of software to a dark theme rather than set their frigging brightness to a reasonable setting. There is a damn button on every single monitor and TV under the sun. Just use it! You cannot expected...
[15:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─> tough as hell We use one of these "bed of nails" mechanical tenderizers on tough/cheap cuts, https://jaccard.com [jaccard.com] The manufacturer also sells replacement parts, not something you find very often these days At first I made one pa...
[15:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:42] <exec> 08└─from TFA As for encryption, Garland wouldn't commit. He emphasizes that the CCMI intends to make sure that the chats are "private" and that the app it's making is "an experience [customers] can trust."
[15:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord 'Spidey Bot' Malware Is Stealing Usernames, Passwords on Windows - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:52] <exec> 08└─The web version generally works better anyway.
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─When it comes to commercial things going up against Microsoft
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─Chinese, for instance, where (I've read that) a word might have several meanings, but context defines the word.
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[16:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:57] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/01/02/0323213 [soylentnews.org] School Teacher Beats Drunk Driving Charge after Proving that her Body Brews Alcohol https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in Peop...
[16:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:59] <exec> 08└─Joe Doctor doesn't have time to read the latest 100,000 papers and decide what's bullshit.
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:33] <exec> 08└─The white background came into vogue because of WYSIWYG.
[16:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:34] <exec> 08└─They cannot see any other skin color but white They cannot tolerate any other religion than christianity They cannot hear people speak any other language than english They cannot see women in positions of authority They cannot tolerate consenting adults of same sex loving one another They cannot tol...
[16:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:37] <exec> 08└─How good it is to have a dark theme on my desktop environment and my browser, if the webpages are all white? There is a nice browser extension (I use it in Firefox, but looks like it works on Chrome too) called Stylus, that let's you apply themes no any website. You can write the CSS theme by hand,...
[16:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:41] <exec> 08└─I'll probably switch to VT220 for a while actually.
[16:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:41] <exec> 08└─No, I mean we have themes for SN named VT100 and VT220 that are green on black and amber on black respectively. Check the Homepage tab under Preferences.
[16:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:43] <exec> 08└─Do I use dark mode on my applications? Nope. That's an Apple thing, and I don't do Apple. I run a nice Linux distro, and (since dark mode is a fad) therefore have ZERO applications that even have a dark mode option. As a fad, if I wanted a dark mode I'd install a dark desktop theme. But I don't.
[16:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:45] <exec> 08└─What is the alternative? Every device I get new seem to have the brightness pulled up to 11,
[16:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:05] <exec> 08└─Here in San Diego a beef brisket is about $8/lb, and it comes in 2-3 lb chunks. I call that a fairly pricey piece of meat.
[16:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:07] <exec> 08└─Sucks to be you guys. We're paying $2-3/lb here in TN and you can't find one less than 10lbs.
[16:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:25] <exec> 08└─That's no Cloud, it's a Smoke Screen.
[16:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:26] <exec> 08└─This story is a work of fiction.
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:06] <exec> 08└─I remember making them remove it from my BBS line because I could care less if my system clicked or beeped when it dialed. Good times.
[16:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:06] <exec> 08└─1) I actually have a Fi phone. Presumably this is in the current iteration of hangouts when it isn't doing actual SMS. Haven't payed much attention. 2) my only two questions when I read this were a) is spoofing made impossible b) is the data fully encrypted in transit in a non-in...
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[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─Time for some whataboutism. What about the intellectual laziness of the cops? Wouldn't believe he wasn't an alcoholic, and dismissed him as a liar.
[17:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─Nobody expects to be their own micro brewery.
[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:10] <exec> 08└─Is there a way I can intentionally develop this syndrome easily?
[17:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:12] <exec> 08└─"the intellectual laziness of the cops" Yeah.
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─Short answer - no. Both, robots and doctors, are looking for the most probable issue because it is the easiest way to get insurance pay for it. Doctors do know about it but violate their oath anyway.
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─Yep, it is a well documented illness. Our legal system does not give a fuck and simply punishes the most probable target. It is, by the way, by design. No system can be fair and check all the cases. Hence the strategy of a common men - be the smallest, most difficult target. Let them idiots take the...
[17:19:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 1136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:40] <exec> 08└─Years ago, I checked this out on CRTs. For a typical 17" monitor, power usage ranged from 47W to 120W. Depends on the contrast and brightness settings, the resolution, and the image being displayed. At a resolution of 640x480 and low brightness and contrast settings (about 25%) every pixel set to bl...
[17:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:57] <exec> 08└─People are so damn irrational these days that they would rather spend hours setting every single piece of software to a dark theme
[17:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:58] <exec> 08└─that amounted to "I don't want them spending any time working on anything but what *I* care about!"
[17:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:01] <exec> 08└─my 1998 $4000us Toshiba laptop Orange mode only screen I think they had a green on black model also.
[17:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:04] <exec> 08└─I tried the VT220 theme a year or two back. While novel, I switched quickly back to Night Mode theme. I like modern fonts. If anyone doesn't know what we are talking about, the Night Mode theme for SN (left hand side, Preferences, Home Page) is really sharp.
[17:20:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:11] <exec> 08└─Brisket is not a pricey cut of beef. It's pretty much the cheapest cut of beef per pound that Americans will buy to eat rather than make soup stock out of, because it's tough as hell unless you cool it slowly to tenderize the shit out of it.
[17:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:25] <exec> 08└─I couldn't tell from the wikipedia article if this new tech depends on data or if it is embedded in the tower handshake like SMS. My critical consideration is reliability of communication. When towers get overwhelmed, data and voice become unreliable, but traditional SMS messages get through (maybe...
[17:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─Text & SMS run in the white space of the tower/phone frequency. That is why text has a 160 char limit, the most that can be stuffed into on white space block. MMS has to use multiple block. This crap runs on DATA. Saves carrier bandwidth. Move it to "chargeable" data for those that do not have unlim...
[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 2195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─It's the same story: - In a perfect meritocracy where all group distributions are identical, social mobility is going to be essentially a crap shoot. Since all group aggregates are equal, whoever advances would essentially be random and so social mobility would be high. - In a perfect merito...
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[18:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Plus is Stopping Theaters Screening Fox Movies – and Viewers Will Lose Out - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:56] <exec> 08└─You could get the right to show these for individual screenings, but would it be worth it?
[18:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:13] <exec> 08└─Bad programming because of money? Still easier to reprogram the bot than the fleshbag.
[18:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:14] <exec> 08└─Hey! My mother was a fleshbag!
[18:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─Never gets old, but most of the world aren't weird trivia hounds like us.
[18:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:01] <exec> 08└─(btw, watch Sorry to Bother You and Okja, you will be rewarded)
[18:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:02] <exec> 08└─I set whatever I could to the darkest mode possible since I started using computers in late 70s. I do have bad eyes and I feel the pain. On a separate note I reported my employer to get the light in the office dimmer and it worked. Artificial light is bad in any form and the less we have the better.
[18:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:04] <exec> 08└─It should be provided on OS level so no app or web site can overwrite it.
[18:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:06] <exec> 08└─Pages of Color bother my eyes. I made Black IcIcle for myself on account of that. May sit down and see about working up a less diverse version of Night Mode since I can't do remodel work today.
[18:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:08] <exec> 08└─Here's why the Dark Mode craze is just crazy. Where? Nothing in the summary. Smells like click bait I like dark mode because a bright white page washes out the text, got a bit of cataract... It's definitely easier on the eyes. But they still do it wrong. Some lighter gray on the window title bar wou...
[18:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:10] <exec> 08└─Pages of Color bother my eyes. I kinda prefer dark skin myself...
[18:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:34] <exec> 08└─They claim they can do a proper brisket in an hour. Sure, sugar. The whole point of slow-cooking brisket (or, indeed, any other cheap cut of meat) is to give the connective tissue time to dissolve. That is not going to happen in an hour. Proper BBQ is rare here, so I used to put on a Texas BBQ once...
[18:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:40] <exec> 08└─Funny how my local latency kicks up to 4 whole seconds when I click those links.
[18:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:16] <exec> 08└─I've lived with the condition since late teen/early adult age and for various reasons I went many year without treatment. I have an analytical mind and a very good memory, and I've spent lots of time observing and trying to make sense of the phenomena distorting my reality when I'm psychotic. I've c...
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[19:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─After awhile, fascism takes root.
[19:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:16] <exec> 08└─What about the intellectual laziness of the cops? Wouldn't believe he wasn't an alcoholic, and dismissed him as a liar.
[19:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:18] <exec> 08└─Our legal system does not give a fuck
[19:19:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─Some asshole blogger thinks it's awful? Well, that asshole blogger can go fuck himself. Why the fuck is this news?
[19:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:09] <exec> 08└─+1 Please do :-)
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:11] <exec> 08└─That, of course, assumes the same brightness setting. I find with light text on dark backgrounds, especially in a well lit room, that I need to turn up the brightness. For a traditional backlit LCD, that means the power usage is going up. For OLED, it's not as clear - there's still less pixels illum...
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─Wow what terribly elitist and racist religion is that? Where do I sign up?
[19:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:14] <exec> 08└─What laptop was that? By 1998 laptops had pretty much taken the basic form they still use today.
[19:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hka [1828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:38] <exec> 08└─They only claim that they can simulate cooking a brisket in an hour.
[19:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discord 'Spidey Bot' Malware Is Stealing Usernames, Passwords on Windows - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─picked up lately by people who've been kicked off Reddit and Twitter for particularly unsavory comments.
[19:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─I use Teams at work, because we use Microsoft products for our corporate email/calendars/etc and Teams is part of the package and expected to be used. I use a little Slack at home to chat with friends. If Teams reached 13 millions users it's only because it's "mandatory" as part of the office soluti...
[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─And so if you're in a situation you need to make an impression, then an impression you should make.
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[20:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here’s What the People Who Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy Have to Say About It - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:56] <exec> 08└─Quantum computing’s ‘Hello World’ moment [techcrunch.com] Google’s Quantum Computing Breakthrough Is Striking Fear in the Cryptocurrency Industry [beincrypto.com] 3 MILLION BITCOIN IN 2 SECONDS: GOOGLE QUANTUM COMPUTER [bitcoinist.com] It's time for the quantum hype.
[20:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here’s What the People Who Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy Have to Say About It - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:57] <exec> 08└─3 million bitcoin in 2 seconds... More fake news. From the comments there: This is entirely wrong. Bitcoin mining is limited by the speed of SHA-256 hashing. The speedup that quantum computers can give to this process comes from implementing Grover's algorithm (basically a quantum search algorithm)....
[20:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Plus is Stopping Theaters Screening Fox Movies – and Viewers Will Lose Out - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:06] <exec> 08└─The newest and biggest patent troll. Gouging people for everything in their wallets.
[20:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:30] <exec> 08└─I'd expect so, though it might take awhile. Get a basic beer recipe. Mix it up, but drink it green. Ignore the bloat and gas resulting, and keep drinking. I don't know how long it would take. It might take several batches. (Green means before the alcohol has killed off the yeast.) P.S.: This is just...
[20:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:26] <exec> 08└─I'm reading SN with the "OMG Ponies" theme. I originally set it as a joke years(!?) ago but now I prefer it to the others.
[20:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:27] <exec> 08└─Generally dark mode is easier on my eyes and I've been using it long before it was cool. The white light burns my retinas after a while. What I really want is apps that respond to my desktop theme properly, in this case, XFCE.
[20:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:29] <exec> 08└─I have exactly the opposite problem. White backgrounds hurt my eyes. It was much worse back in the CRT days, the large white portions of the screen would "strobe" at me. LCDs were a blessing, because they didn't flicker.
[20:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:31] <exec> 08└─There is no one size fits all for this one. I suffer from migraines and have been inverting screen colors since the late 90s, which helps prevent them (for me). But there are times when I choose not to due to environmental lighting conditions. At night I prefer inverted but sitting outside the local...
[20:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:33] <exec> 08└─It turns out that light mode – dark text on a white background - also looks terrible. Especially this new thing with gray text on a white background. It’s like tearing ones eyeballs out. Or reading serious work in comic sans.
[20:20:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06How a Harvard Class Project Changed Barbecue - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:45] <exec> 08└─Beats me. My adblocker won't even let me go to the page, so no RTFA for me.
[20:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─The answer is that the universe is not homogeneous. The rate of expansion depends on the amount of mass along any particular path that you measure, and that varies. The only reason to assume otherwise is computational convenience. Well, it's also a favorite hypothesis of Copernicus, but his evidence...
[20:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:38] <exec> 08└─What in the world is "troll" about pointing out a misinterpretation of a confidence interval? This site is going to shit, someone wants to suppress all rational thought ahead of the 2020 US election so they can spew their drivel at each other.
[20:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:01] <exec> 08└─An exquisite troll. *does italian finger kissing gesture* Delicious.
[20:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─Discord is fucked. If they see irregular activity such as a VPN, they demand a phone number.
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[21:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Here’s What the People Who Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy Have to Say About It - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:55] <exec> 08└─QUANTUM SUPREMACY WILL LET YOU SUCK EVERY NIGGER COCK AT THE SAME TIME then you go to prison with Richard Stallman because there were underage cocks in your mouth.
[21:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here’s What the People Who Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy Have to Say About It - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:56] <exec> 08└─If you include an emoji, they won't be able to crack it.
[21:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here’s What the People Who Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy Have to Say About It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:58] <exec> 08└─If you add "Vote for Biden|iIllary|Warren|[corrupt_warmonger]" at the end you won't get voted down.
[21:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Plus is Stopping Theaters Screening Fox Movies – and Viewers Will Lose Out - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:08] <exec> 08└─Honestly if they didn't have a cult of Disneyphiles they would have everybody boycotting them right now. They're not family friendly enough for the Christians with all their recent purchases, and they're too family friendly for the rest of us with all their sickly condescending family shows that jus...
[21:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Plus is Stopping Theaters Screening Fox Movies – and Viewers Will Lose Out - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQoa2gX9c8Q [youtube.com]
[21:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:33] <exec> 08└─Also Soylentnews! I made one of the first, if not the first dark styles for this site: https://userstyles.org [userstyles.org]
[21:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─I'm reading Edward Snowdens book: the mind boggles at what contract positions are allowed access to. And that aliens haven't contacted Earth...right...how do you explain the Clinton's? AMIRIGHT!?!?!
[21:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:19] <exec> 08└─"What do you hear, Starbuck?" "Winter is coming, sir!"
[21:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:21] <exec> 08└─So, given that with Microsoft in charge of DoD cloud security, the US will soon be conquered -- which is easier for a native English speaker to learn, Russian or Mandarin?
[21:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:23] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's board is full of spooks. [deepfreeze.it] The Pentagon signed a contract to give away all of its data to foreign powers and pay the spooks for the service.
[21:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:43] <exec> 08└─It's from the old Gauntlet arcade game. "Yellow Wizard, your life force is running out."
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[22:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here’s What the People Who Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy Have to Say About It - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:13] <exec> 08└─💯💫
[22:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here’s What the People Who Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy Have to Say About It - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:14] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's the combination to my luggage.
[22:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Plus is Stopping Theaters Screening Fox Movies – and Viewers Will Lose Out - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:26] <exec> 08└─"...what real life is like while bringing up your kids" Or what real life is like while being a kid.
[22:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:50] <exec> 08└─>Still easier to reprogram the bot than the fleshbag. Unless systemd is involved.
[22:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:51] <exec> 08└─May not be the case. For example, certain diseases are local - geographically and culturally - and local doctors know better. While it is possible to find a black middle eastern doctor of Jewish origins, good luck to get such software. Generally, life is way more complicated than any software of a f...
[22:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer’s Yeast in His Guts - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:53] <exec> 08└─You have quite an incentive to lie to the police. Not so with your doctor.
[22:20:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 1390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:13] <exec> 08└─What is this? Some people somewhere say sometimes in some circumstances some programs on some hardware looks kindof bad? The human eye was designed primarily for low light, it is where we feel comfortable. No one runs around all day with their pupils fully open, most of the time it is the opposite....
[22:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:41] <exec> 08└─Is Captain Kirk going to use the Force to daterape some Orion slave girls?
[22:22:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─It will support all the usual RCS features like typing indicators
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile Have Finally Agreed to Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─If I understand it correctly, RCS only works on smartphones. How then can it replace SMS, which is a service that works on any mobile phone, no matter how dumb?
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[23:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Are Now Selling 'Raccoon' Data-Stealing Malware as a $200 Monthly Service - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:51] <exec> 08└─I am waiting for the elephant in the room to take a dump. Someone starts sending out bogus "updates", which bricks DRM licenses. Hold the business community at access point under threat that if they don't pay up, their machine may be in the pool to be served an "update" next. This observation is not...
[23:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Are Now Selling 'Raccoon' Data-Stealing Malware as a $200 Monthly Service - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:52] <exec> 08└─since infected hundreds of thousands of Windows devices around the world
[23:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Are Now Selling 'Raccoon' Data-Stealing Malware as a $200 Monthly Service - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:54] <exec> 08└─Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime. On the systems that permit it I use the “empty password”, and on systems where that isn't allowed, or where that means you can't log in at all from other...
[23:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Are Now Selling 'Raccoon' Data-Stealing Malware as a $200 Monthly Service - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:56] <exec> 08└─What would they steal from linux desktops? Poorly written erotic fanfic? Android gets its fair share of malware too because its ubiquitous and people keep credit cards on it.
[23:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Are Now Selling 'Raccoon' Data-Stealing Malware as a $200 Monthly Service - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:58] <exec> 08└─> I got laid off for holding to this paradigm...stop mixing code and data. You got laid off because you're too old to code.
[23:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Are Now Selling 'Raccoon' Data-Stealing Malware as a $200 Monthly Service - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:00] <exec> 08└─> What would they steal from linux desktops? GitHub passwords. GitHub isn't just the premiere platform for poorly written open source clones of proprietary software. GitHub is the social network for overpaid young naive H1Bs who can be blackmailed into believing they will be deported unless they fal...
[23:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here’s What the People Who Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy Have to Say About It - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:14] <exec> 08└─Some fear that the scaling of quantum computers could make Bitcoin’s cryptography hackable or breakable
[23:20:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 1191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:16] <exec> 08└─all in all, dark mode looks totally awful. Some of them look good. Some look bad. But at least my monitor does not become a lightsource in the room I am in. I usually can work longer with a black background and red text. I learned that trick from an astronomy club. You can literally see more. Also i...
[23:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:52] <exec> 08└─is this available to ACs or do I need an account to set the theme? I don't see any links to settings or themes...
[23:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:53] <exec> 08└─This. My brightness is low already. I still get blasted with the white light, or rather blue light since its an LCD. It's sure fun when you're watching shows at night and trying to get sleepy.
[23:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:55] <exec> 08└─What you be lookin' for my nigger?
[23:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:45] <exec> 08└─Impeachment won't fix the problem. Trump is a symptom, not the disease. The US institutions are exposed - fragile. But then again, "cloud" for DoD?!
[23:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Beams Down $10bn JEDI Contract to Microsoft: Windows Giant Beats Off Bezos - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:47] <exec> 08└─Hmm, everyone is quick to bag this one out, and I don't disagree, noting Microsoft's history and the issues some have mentioned about Azure. But, I'd like to know more about the implementation. What data will go up there? Will it all be unclass? I.e. will anything class be on an airgapped network ma...
[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─And it might be rotating. The path of light to me may not be a straight line...it may be a spiral.
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discord 'Spidey Bot' Malware Is Stealing Usernames, Passwords on Windows - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─%AppData%\Discord\[version]\modules\discord_modules\index.js and %AppData%\Discord\[version]\modules\discord_desktop_core\index.js
[23:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:17] <exec> 08└─What traumatic event occurred that reset the Fox brain
[23:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:18] <exec> 08└─It does, however, require "watching".
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