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[00:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:54] <exec> 08└─You seem angry, was their Rabbi having trouble with your pecker and accidentally lobbed it all off?
[00:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:56] <exec> 08└─Correction: "So if you have one criminal downloading copyrighted content"
[00:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:58] <exec> 08└─Do you have a link?
[00:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:00] <exec> 08└─Hold that thought while I get my pitchfork!
[00:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:02] <exec> 08└─Epic surname...
[00:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 3337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:58] <exec> 08└─I think my old Apple II still works, though I haven't turned it on in perhaps a decade. And there's a 1959 car in my garage. First year of the new model, in which Ford upgraded the engine from the old flathead to ... overhead valves, woohoo! Increased the horsepower from 33 to 39, which increased th...
[00:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─I have a 1935 Western Electric telephone, with the necessary subscriber set (ringer box - where the ringer is and where the phone jack connects) that I use with Google Voice. The phone is wired to the subscriber set which is plugged into a Panasonic PBX, which in turn is plugged into an Obihai Obi20...
[00:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:02] <exec> 08└─There's no serial port to get time from an NTP server, so I have to adjust the digital clock biannually for AEST.
[00:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:04] <exec> 08└─> I have a clock radio I bought in the early 80s I have one like this too, a premium for opening a bank account, same timeframe. Still works OK, years ago I disconnected the internal speaker and added a remote wire to a nice mini-speaker--sound quality is great for a little table radio.
[00:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:06] <exec> 08└─I have a plane that my Grandfather bought before the most recent unpleasantness we had with the Germans. My Mother thinks he would have bought it about 1934 or so. It still works fine.
[00:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─I have a 1950's vintage Shopsmith 10-ER. Mostly, I use is as a drill press, lathe, and disk sander. It also has a jointer attachment. Recently, I've been looking at replacing the AC induction motor with a variable speed motor (like from an old treadmill) to get a bit more power and so I don't have t...
[00:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:46] <exec> 08└─"jew waterbags to ashes" Probably preferable to a life getting raped by Italian pedophiles.
[00:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:47] <exec> 08└─It is called PR and morality, but sure you can try and give it a negative spin. Poor dogs, their whistles should never have been associated with you lily white cowards.
[00:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:50] <exec> 08└─Are you off your meds again or what? Jesus fuck, "vaccines marked 666?" We. Have. Been. Over. This. Before. "Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast, for it is the number of a man, and the number is sixhundred-threescore-and-six." Neron Qaisar in Gematria. Revelation was speaki...
[00:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:22] <exec> 08└─That's my concern as well. All building codes I've seen required buldings over a certain height or density to be made of concrete or steel. They also require a certain number of cross braces. I feel the same way about this as I do about driving over wood bridges.
[00:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:41] <exec> 08└─If it's like our Moon, it would stop drifting after the Sun dies but well before the trillion year mark. https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com]
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[01:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:04] <exec> 08└─We (the taxpayers) paid them to build a ton of capacity years ago, and they paid a bunch of executive bonuses with it instead. Hey, they got away with it, so why not? Why not do it again? Get a big hand-out, build 12 more miles of fibre somewhere on the east coast, and pay the rest out as bonuses. G...
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[01:22:18] <exec> 08└─Nah, we have a handy buzzard that drives them off.
[01:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:07] <exec> 08└─There was a lot of real crap put out in those magical nostalgic days. In fact, during the late 60s and 70s there was even more crap as there was a major quality control problem in many US industries. The thing is: By now, all the crap already broke! It's only the stuff that stood the test of time, s...
[01:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:09] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it! Er, let me rephrase that...
[01:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:11] <exec> 08└─Still having an old working black beauty wall set from the mid 60s hanging on my kitchen wall. As of sometime last year, it still dialed out. I should check it again to make sure the switching system in my town still understands pulse dialing.
[01:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:13] <exec> 08└─1. does my body count? 2. 1936 Hamilton watch (not used everyday, but tells the time happily) 3. 1939 Norton ES2 (not currently running - half way through 12 volt conversion)
[01:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─You are correct that only the hardy stuff is left now, but you cannot deny that modern equipment is, on the whole, flimsier. After opening up to China with their unbelievably cheap (at first) but shoddy goods, there was no way for quality goods to survive. They were simply not price competitive. The...
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[01:23:18] <exec> 08└─I still have one of these too, an LED digital watch from Texas instruments. I think I got it in 1976?
[01:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:30] <exec> 08└─The picture in the German article doesn't look like engineered wood. The knots are a dead giveaway. Chemical treatment also limits what it can be recycled into.
[01:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:31] <exec> 08└─The traditional use cases were wind powered gristmills and irrigation pumps. And by 'traditional' I mean in common use over a thousand years ago, and possibly dating to the 17th century BC. That we know about.
[01:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:16] <exec> 08└─The prevalence of darker colored animals and insects increased relative to lighter colored ones due to decreased predation of the more camouflaged. The color variations already existed. Moths are the thing I've always heard as the example. With coal pollution turning everything black and grey, the...
[01:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:17] <exec> 08└─Actually I think there was always a mixed population of brown and black squirrels, with the black being rare until the industrial revolution and then the brown becoming rare. Natural selection in action but not recent mutation. There is a mosquito that has actually evolved into a new species that in...
[01:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:42] <exec> 08└─Well I actually read the summary and saw this, The result: "Only the traditional swear word (the F-word) had any effect on pain outcomes," said Stephens.
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[02:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:06] <exec> 08└─Just read this... FCC awarding another $16 billion to address U.S. areas lacking broadband service. https://www.reuters.com [reuters.com]
[02:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:07] <exec> 08└─The proposal also will allow low earth orbit satellite systems, such as those made by SpaceX, to take part in the auction. SpaceX is developing a low latency, broadband internet system using low Earth orbit satellites.
[02:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can literally see the fiber box from my property but Cox wanted $10,000 and a 3 year contract (in addition) to get it the few hundred feet to my house. Instead I have 3mbps dsl from at&t that goes down constantly, sometimes for days at a time. If I call at&t they tell me I am welcome to canc...
[02:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:12] <exec> 08└─Didn't AT&T get in trouble for this un-unlimited scam? I'm hoping Mike has taken his complaint to the authorities since Cox told him "Give us more money, use as much as you want," he agreed to do that and now they're saying, "You're using too much of that unlimited we're selling you for $50/mo, we'r...
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[02:22:14] <exec> 08└─Oh, forgot to mention - the satellite broadband they are using USF/recovery funds for are 1mbps so it doesn’t even qualify as broadband under the fcc definition: https://www.viasat.com [viasat...
[02:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah my mother threw out my grandmothers old (1960s?) Hoover vacuum cleaner as well a few years back, before I could stop her. I still worked great last time I saw it. Most modern vacuum cleaners are useless.
[02:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:24] <exec> 08└─...The real kicker is that watch. I was surprised enough that it still displayed a time. Even more amazing, when I adjusted for the time zone (having moved) it was just half an hour off...
[02:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:27] <exec> 08└─...3. 1939 Norton ES2 (not currently running - half way through 12 volt conversion)
[02:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:29] <exec> 08└─Probably the same batteries (silver oxide?) they put into the cartridges in the Super Nintendo games. I've still got my Super Nintendo from the early 90's and most of the games, probably about 25 of them. Not all of them use a battery, but for all the ones that do use a battery, they are all still w...
[02:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:31] <exec> 08└─I like old computers and I get lots of old things as I usually take damaged hardware and repair it. Until 2017 I was actively using HP LX palmtop from 1994. It gave up as its hinge broke and I still don't have a working replacement - OK, I can buy an UMPC, but it works only a few days on one battery...
[02:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:11] <exec> 08└─Lumping in the current management with those of 80 years ago is a bit of a stretch. I know it's very witty to point that out, but what you're effectively saying is that people and corporations are incapable of change. If that's the case then there's no point in trying.
[02:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:47] <exec> 08└─Well building 120 metre high wooden towers is probably the new part. Traditionally wooden structures were not very tall
[02:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:49] <exec> 08└─Laminated Sitka Spruce may be strong and light enough. It was/is a common aircraft construction material, including the propellers I believe.
[02:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:35] <exec> 08└─Actually, according to wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], the flowers complex design works better for large-bodied hymenopterans (bees, wasps etc) when it comes to pollinating with butterflies not being good milkweed pollinators.
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 2395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:36] <exec> 08└─It is true that USDA organic allows pesticides, but the pesticides have a tiny fraction of the half life of those used in conventional agriculture. The upshot of this is that the consumer of organic produce and insects/birds are much less likely to be exposed, but farm workers who apply shorter live...
[02:28:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 609 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:01] <exec> 08└─For those outside the US and Europe, here's a quick summary of streaming in Australia, specifically of Britcoms: Netflix: We don't have it. Lightbox: We don't have it. Amazon: We have it but you can't watch it there. BBC: We have it but you can't watch it there. Apple TV: We don't have it. (Some of...
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[03:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:48] <exec> 08└─We prepare for collapse instead just making things better? Are we that fucked up?
[03:22:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:07] <exec> 08└─Correction: "So if you have one criminal downloading copyrighted content"
[03:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:17] <exec> 08└─In reality, the uploaders are usually the targets of copyright sting operations, since they are so much rarer than the downloaders.
[03:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:32] <exec> 08└─A USB Zip250 drive. I love the nostalgia of that thing. I use it for small archival jobs in case it gives me the click of death. (20 years?) I have a JVC Kaboom box in the garage complete with guitar and mic amplifier and a beat pad. Tape deck went out on it a while back. I plugged an Amazon Dot int...
[03:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:33] <exec> 08└─Does my 1930's lathe count?
[03:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:35] <exec> 08└─I had one of those LED watches from Masters' Merchandise Mart - I think I got mine in 5th grade (would have been ~1977) for about $30. Mine didn't last more than a year or two.
[03:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:37] <exec> 08└─.. and the cloth-covered wiring, and the vulcanised tape,... LEDs now come in standard fixtures [dynamoregulatorconversions.com] Have some jokes [mez.co.uk] and an argument that he didn't deserve the reputation [mossmotoring.com]
[03:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:40] <exec> 08└─You could possibly convert it to solid state using a CF card, if it is such a good mp3 player.
[03:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:42] <exec> 08└─Gas tank rusted through and started leaking
[03:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:44] <exec> 08└─Our house (built 1963) came with a Sears/Kenmore whole-house vacuum cleaner. Not sure if it was original, but sure looks like 1960's vintage. Works great, there is a centrifugal separator that catches the big stuff (empty the canister every couple of years) and the rest of the exhaust goes outdoors....
[03:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:25] <exec> 08└─What does woke-culture have to do with facial recognition software?
[03:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:27] <exec> 08└─> IBM's hardware can still run someone else's facial recognition tech. This is what I think. In recent years, IBM has focused on iron, so to speak.
[03:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:05] <exec> 08└─Of course they only give you a poor quality allen wrench to put it together. And the directions for assembly as hard to read and crappy as well.
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[04:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:52] <exec> 08└─Uhh... it's a minimal operating environment for a Z80, sort of like CP/M from nearly half a century ago but not as sophisticated. Why is this news? And if the news is Forth, that's also half a century old and since Forth is interactive it's been a sort of shell/operating system from day one. In part...
[04:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:53] <exec> 08└─1995-ish, we did a project with a bunch of 6811's - one team member insisted on using his "familiar" 8088 can also do 6502 "free" compiler, the rest of us used Cosmic C which had an actual, functioning 6502 optimizer. The difference in the assembly code produced was dramatic, the optimized code was...
[04:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:56] <exec> 08└─Forth seems popular with hobbyists who want to (re)invent a complete machine S/W architecture from the bottom up, with an interpreter running the whole show. Forth is a seductive choice because the language is SO SIMPLE. It's simple because there is not much distinction between the Forth "VM" (the g...
[04:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:58] <exec> 08└─CP/M doesn't self assembles on those kind of resources. Is microforth self-hosting on its target machines?
[04:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ealbers [5715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:00] <exec> 08└─I mean seriously, wtf? I wrote a z80 forth interpreter in the 80's, on trs-80 model 1...why the f are we reading about this??? These things are lovely, but really people, can we please move ON!
[04:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Treasure Trove Hidden in Discarded Computers - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:09] <exec> 08└─I mean outside of shredded 'security' ones for certain datacenters, the average consumer hard disk consumption is going down dramatically, which meats the future supply of magnet recycling from Hard Disks is going to dwindle appropriately as well. Given all this, how much of a bumper market will rec...
[04:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Treasure Trove Hidden in Discarded Computers - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:11] <exec> 08└─After hording every hard drive I've pulled from a computer for my lifetime, vindication. Tell me where to send them and I'll tell you who to write the cheque to. I also have a garage full of catalytic converters if you are interested.
[04:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Treasure Trove Hidden in Discarded Computers - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:13] <exec> 08└─In a few years they can start recycling the rare earth magnets out of electric car motors -- orders of magnitude larger than HDD magnets. I'm thinking primarily from wrecked cars at first, the average life of an electric car should be fairly long.
[04:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─"low latency" That is a relative term, it's allowed to mean anything the speaker wants it to mean in US law.
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─It was Jewish Moslems like (((Jonathan Hutchinson))), (((Nathaniel Heckford))) and (((Lewis Sayre))) that done it to me.
[04:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:00] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure exactly how old the radio is, and it hasn't been plugged in in a few years (simply because I don't use an alarm and the radio has gone to shit.) But it was working when last plugged in. Any item that hasn't broken since the 1980s digitally I still have around somewhere, given different...
[04:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:01] <exec> 08└─My desktop PC is from 2007. It's a a Core2, barely breaks a sweat doing everything I need it to, swapped out the spinning rust for an SSD some years ago but that's all the changes I've made. And it's using a Model M13 which is at least twenty years old. I stockpiled two more of them for when the fir...
[04:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:03] <exec> 08└─I have some odd-looking stone tools with funny five-sided figurines engraved on them that my grandfather brought back from an expedition to Antarctica, do they count?
[04:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:06] <exec> 08└─... Have some jokes [mez.co.uk]...
[04:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 2634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:08] <exec> 08└─"but you cannot deny that modern equipment is, on the whole, flimsier" In many areas, yes I can. It's not across the board, but few things are. But, when I was a kid in the 60s, it was doing very well to get 100,000 miles out of a new car. On average the amount of miles/lifetime of cars has increase...
[04:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─"1. does my body count?" Mine's like a Temple. Old, crumbling and probably haunted. That said, it's gotten me through 6 decades so far.
[04:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:12] <exec> 08└─Oldest thing I have that gets regular use (every harvest), is an old hand crank corn sheller. I had to turn a new handle for it, and cleaned up the rust with phosphoric acid when I acquired it, but besides fresh grease, it has needed nothing since. This thing has hundreds of years of work left in it...
[04:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:52] <exec> 08└─Titan caught Saturn coughing and sneezing and is trying to edge away slowly so as not to cause offense.
[04:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:05] <exec> 08└─Okay, I have no idea if that's legit Spam or just a whoosh. Anyone want to clue me in if it's the latter?
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[05:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:53] <exec> 08└─So instead of a dozen digit serial number, you have a multi gigabyte scan file. How efficient.
[05:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:07] <exec> 08└─Did you actually READ the submission? His point is a self-hosting environment, which means you would need a C compiler... so be able to compile the environment on the environment (thats what self-hosting means). How exactly do you plan on fitting a C compiler in 5k?
[05:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:08] <exec> 08└─"build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of HER design"
[05:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:10] <exec> 08└─The started music of CollapseOS is to preserve the ability to program microcontrollers in the case of civilizational collapse. However, it's the capability to produce hardware that is the issue, not software. How will they produce microcontrollers to program? There are enough rpis and arduinos aroun...
[05:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:12] <exec> 08└─*The stated mission
[05:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Treasure Trove Hidden in Discarded Computers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:23] <exec> 08└─I reuse the magnets - they're quite good as an alternative to key hooks. You can be quite sloppy and they still stick. Also used them to help hold a metal door shut.
[05:22:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─We (the taxpayers) paid them to build a ton of capacity years ago, and they paid a bunch of executive bonuses with it instead. Hey, they got away with it, so why not? Why not do it again? Get a big hand-out, build 12 more miles of fibre somewhere on the east coast, and pay the rest out as bonuses. G...
[05:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─No, Jared's name just came to mind... What are you? some kind of weirdo?
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:17] <exec> 08└─In the computer area, I have a leg up for old. I sorta collect old computers. I've got a Win 98 box that's an AMD K6/2 sitting right next to the I7 laptop I'm typing this on (though it's a fairly old I7. A 2670QM and it's newer than my other I7 laptop which is first generation). Admittedly, I brough...
[05:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:01] <exec> 08└─If they were really serious about being anti-facial recognition, they’d pledge to to license any of their considerable patent portfolio to anyone doing facial recognition
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[06:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:52] <exec> 08└─If you go and polish, peen, coat, or treat parts after completion, what happens to their scan compatibility? This isn't effective if you're trying to hide something in plain sight, but if you have something you no longer wanted traceable, adding a polish step along with a serial removal, while price...
[06:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:53] <exec> 08└─you have a multi gigabyte scan file. How efficient.
[06:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:55] <exec> 08└─List of issues: - It can't be typed into a form on a website. - Your camera sucks, we can't find your item in our database. - Your item isn't found in our database. It must be counterfeit. - Your item is damaged and can no longer be verified as authentic. - Your item has been tampered...
[06:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:58] <exec> 08└─If you really want to keep traceability, you'll add an x-ray or ultrasonic scan or something similar to the data source. Parties interested in using untraced parts would have to replicate the whole part then. (On a related topic, I've always wondered how expensive it might be to replicate a Ferrari...
[06:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:00] <exec> 08└─To add to this on the gun side: Your gun has been rattling around a toolbox for the last three years, it is unserialised. You've taken it hunting, it's been rained on, snowed on, dragged over hill and dale, bled on and slept on. It doesn't look the same. You've had it breathed on by a gunsmith for a...
[06:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:02] <exec> 08└─Well, according to the article, they did every single one of those tests and they can still figure this out.
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Treasure Trove Hidden in Discarded Computers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─You can be quite sloppy
[06:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:55] <exec> 08└─And almost none of them did it for personal gain. They are heroes in the fight for information to be free, and the fight for my porn collection to fill my hard drive.
[06:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:56] <exec> 08└─My father in law has worked for a phone/internet provider for several decades and is now on the board. I am always getting in arguments with him over this. He and the people he work with feel that for "unlimited" anyone using in excess of 250gb/month are "abusing their good graces" and that "its not...
[06:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:26] <exec> 08└─My grandfather's lathe.
[06:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:28] <exec> 08└─Heinkel
[06:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:30] <exec> 08└─Don't use it to grind grains or even coffee. Not only you'll end with sand in your food, but it'll destroy your rock in a few years.
[06:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:32] <exec> 08└─A few tens more and you'll know for sure you were right as a kid about its only use. That is, if the prostate allows you to use as intended. (grin)
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[07:21:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:47] <exec> 08└─List of issues: - It can't be typed into a form on a website. - Your camera sucks, we can't find your item in our database. - Your item isn't found in our database. It must be counterfeit. - Your item is damaged and can no longer be verified as authentic. - Your item has been tampered...
[07:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:51] <exec> 08└─Industrial revolution: Interchangeable parts. Woohoo! We can fix something without having to custom job the part or chuck the whole box. We finally have the ability to make things to tolerances close enough for this to work... ...but not so close that we can't fingerprint the part with 21st century...
[07:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:53] <exec> 08└─and then... the power cuts out
[07:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:55] <exec> 08└─This won't work across the life cycle of an item. Surface characteristics change. Scratches, dust or grime build up, new paint job. It's easy to stick a new sticker with the same serial number on an old item. Restoring or maintaining surface characteristics in their pristine post-manufactured state,...
[07:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:57] <exec> 08└─Their claim is that so long as a minimum of 10% of any of the surface features identified as being present in the original scan exist, they can still identify the item...one wonders if the face recognition mob have looked at this, considering that we've all got a legitimate excuse now to wander arou...
[07:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:14] <exec> 08└─Forth has been taken higher up than you might think. People have even written object systems in it, and added lambdas and other things that you might not expect. It's an odd thing to do, but I'm quite confident that Forth is flexible enough to overcome the word size "restrictions" of which you speak...
[07:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:15] <exec> 08└─How exactly do you plan on fitting a C compiler in 5k?
[07:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:54] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with him feeling this way at all. After all if he called the plan "MAX 250GB/month" plan nobody would complain. A lie is a lie is a lie...
[07:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:55] <exec> 08└─They are heroes in the fight for information to be free, and the fight for my porn collection to fill my hard drive.
[07:23:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 744 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:53] <exec> 08└─I have a 1935 Western Electric telephone, with the necessary subscriber set (ringer box - where the ringer is and where the phone jack connects) that I use with Google Voice. The phone is wired to the subscriber set which is plugged into a Panasonic PBX, which in turn is plugged into an Obihai Obi20...
[07:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:29] <exec> 08└─1. does my body count?
[07:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03quixote [4355] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:30] <exec> 08└─Bought some time in the first half of the 80s. Used ever since. Looks almost as new as it did back then. Still the best calculator I've come across. I wish Hewlett Packard had kept that engineering-first flame alive. They made legendary stuff when they were focused on engineering.
[07:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:32] <exec> 08└─I want to say part of the issue there was due to SILO becoming shittier. I found it harder to get "newer" kernels to boot because SILO would usually just self-destruct in new ways.
[07:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:16] <exec> 08└─Punch'em in the face and be done with it.
[07:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:17] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the energy expenditure of burning corpses
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[08:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:48] <exec> 08└─The Fed is shoveling more than that into Wall Street every month
[08:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:06] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered how expensive it might be to replicate a Ferrari 250 GTO
[08:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:07] <exec> 08└─I modded you up, because those are pretty much all killer issues. Plus two more: - Any object subject to surface wear (the phone in your pocket, for example) will change its characteristics over time. - Any object that has been repaired - had an externally visible part replaced - will no longer matc...
[08:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:09] <exec> 08└─The only test in the article that actually made any sense was the "grit blasting". This was tested on a titanium part, which is obviously not representative of most products, and they don't say how they test was carried out. All criticism aside: if the required level of photography really is within...
[08:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:28] <exec> 08└─-survivor -wat no eat me pls -no I need z80 -for wat -to run collapseos -there is heap of pc next to that building -i know, all windows on x86, I need z80 -have you found any b4 -yep in a vibrator. Nap it is a Morse code buzzer -pretty useful -yep but not as b4
[08:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:09] <exec> 08└─I prefer "big jiggly adult woman ass" porn to "little boy gangrape" porn, but keep pushing that narrative that IP laws are about protecting children and not raping every law abiding citizen's wallet.
[08:23:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:18] <exec> 08└─I'll start with the site's codebase! *slaps soylentnews.org* This bad boy is made of pure UTF-8 compatible spaghetti with a bit of IPv6 flavoring. (Taco started development in 1998)
[08:23:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:27] <exec> 08└─I have a rock I use to crush garlic, hammer in nails, and other tasks. It still works great. My kids laugh at me and ask when I'm gonna upgrade to an iHammer, but I say who needs rounded corners.
[08:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 3368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:47] <exec> 08└─Really? I'd be hard pushed to name something flimsier now than before. Though my phones have had LCD etc. screens for 20 years, they've taken any number of tumbles and never cracked or broken. I don't have any kind of protection on them except maybe a thin rubber casing on the corners, I hate all th...
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[08:24:48] <exec> 08└─Hah! I've got a pair of 1959/60 Cornwalls. Amazing bass, but the early mid horns beam like crazy and can have a nasty harshness. I threw the drivers on a pair of huge vintage altec horns which helped but I need to make some new crossovers.
[08:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:51] <exec> 08└─A Family Play Farm, a Playground, and a Jumbo Jet. My parent bought them for me in the 60's. My three younger brothers also grew up with them. My parents kept them and their 10 grandchildren played with them. Last year they passed them down to me, and now my grandchildren are playing with them. I al...
[08:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:53] <exec> 08└─Oldest I have is a "CASIO QUARTZ DQ-580" alarm clock, bought in the early 80s. It is still used daily. I could not (and still cannot) stand the ticking of a regular alarm clock, so bought the quartz one. Apart from the silence when I was falling asleep, the huge benefit was I could set the alarm tim...
[08:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:55] <exec> 08└─Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
[08:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:41] <exec> 08└─Wew lads who wrote your history books?
[08:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:43] <exec> 08└─Yet you don't get paid to be cremated? Hmm
[08:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:45] <exec> 08└─I thought priests were experienced, you should give em a bad review.
[08:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:47] <exec> 08└─I guess you don't read replies, which makes this one redundant.
[08:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars_stefan_axelsson [3590] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:26] <exec> 08└─There aren't any termites in Sweden, so that problem can be removed from the list.
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[09:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:48] <exec> 08└─Why can't they shovel in my pocket... umm... for a change?
[09:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:50] <exec> 08└─You can buy Australian LGP in Japan cheaper than in Australia. Almost worth importing to sell for a profit. Coal is sold to India for a price that is scandalous. Mining is a job for many, but what they don't see or perhaps care is that their country is selling off limited resources cheaply. IT peopl...
[09:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:52] <exec> 08└─They can totally see the result of their greed: their account balances going up and up. Or did you think they actually cared about anything else?
[09:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:13] <exec> 08└─Interesting point in light of the fact that in open carry states a lot of people now look like they are heading out to rob a stagecoach...
[09:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:33] <exec> 08└─if you are a student of history you realise collapse is inevitable. the myth of infinite progress is a capitalist invention non-aligned with reality
[09:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:57] <exec> 08└─> Apple iPod from 2006. I've replace the battery twice Lawsuit incoming.
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[10:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:40] <exec> 08└─The maintainer believes civilization is likely to collapse by 2030. Thinks this 40 year old tech will be the most advanced stuff we can handle after the collapse. Yeah, I also thought, "WTF?"
[10:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:22] <exec> 08└─Sippenhaft [wikipedia.org] A feodal and nazi practice. Nice job, Cox.
[10:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:05] <exec> 08└─At least partly, that is due to consumer demand for thin small electronic devices.
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[11:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:50] <exec> 08└─When I read about this company, I felt it was too good to be true. Although their proposal is interesting, I think it will take much longer for their method to be a viable candidate for a vaccine. A scheme such as this, is mostly used to cash their stock when the markets hype your technology. They m...
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[11:22:01] <exec> 08└─too bad nobody getting these subsides reads soylent news and can "explain" their side of the equation?
[11:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:03] <exec> 08└─Wind turbines spoil the view from my golf course. Love, Donald.
[11:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:46] <exec> 08└─Such a small subset of C, while very small (but also, depending on a multi-megabyte kernel), is much less useful one might think. You might find writing a self-hosting OS in this language very awkward.
[11:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:47] <exec> 08└─Collapse is also a myth of sorts. One gets stuck on the notion that a collapse is complete and absolute, as if a stock market collapse would set the indexes all the way down to 0. The collapse of the Roman Empire was by no means so total. The political leadership changed dramatically. Some engineeri...
[11:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:50] <exec> 08└─Poor victim!
[11:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Treasure Trove Hidden in Discarded Computers - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:01] <exec> 08└─I also horded every harddrive I ever had, but they can't have them until they pry them from my cold dead hands. All my data no matter how trivial stays where it is.
[11:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I too have a HP 11C (with original manual) which works fine. I think it is from 1985 I also have a CASIO PB-110 Personal Computer with Data Bank that works well Aristo Slide Rule (Model: Studiolog) Circa 1970 in mint condition A Philips 2-Band Clock Radio (Model: D-3090) used daily It is pleas...
[11:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:18] <exec> 08└─Sure, if you paid through the nose back then and bought something high-quality, of course it was better than the cheap Ikea junk that people buy just to have a bookshelf, but that's not a fair comparison. A dining table is now something you pick up in your lunch hour and pay less than a day's wages...
[11:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03xorsyst [1372] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:21] <exec> 08└─I'm still woken by this every day, never got around to using anything more modern. It has FM, 24 hour time, dimmable display. Don't need anything else, and don't want my phone in my bedroom.
[11:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:23] <exec> 08└─What, am I supposed to chew my coffee beans? No, I am not bothered about specks of sand; I have always been a hard rocker.
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[12:21:53] <exec> 08└─Fucking amazing.
[12:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:54] <exec> 08└─According to one video by Terry Davis, TempleOS was meant to be a "space alien trading post." In another two videos, he mentioned he had had a "space alien." So according to King Terry, TempleOS is all you need! You're not communing with "God", you're communing with aliens! --------------------- Whi...
[12:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like you really put your foot in your mouth with that one...
[12:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:05] <exec> 08└─Since coronavirus vaccines basically never worked, what medical breakthrough did happen in these months that makes a coronavirus vaccine feasible? The Bergamo area had a terrific vaccination percentage due to an earlier meningitis scare (meningitis is not related to coronavirus but when you get vaxx...
[12:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:07] <exec> 08└─they are talking about pushing covid vaccine on the youngsters.
[12:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:09] <exec> 08└─Wasn't this predicted in Plandemic?
[12:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, and a significant part of that is going to bailout banks who are funding fracking in the US (which is a big loser with $20 oil)
[12:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:09] <exec> 08└─"Self hosting" is more than a little bit of a pointless exercise. Note: those 6811 compilers from 1995 were running on 1995 hardware, itself not too far removed from 8 bit capability, and with not too much effort a fully kitted 6811 (64K RAM, etc) could run a good C compiler with that 1995 level of...
[12:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:11] <exec> 08└─The idea is to have an OS that can still be deployed to another machine after the last modern computer dies.
[12:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:13] <exec> 08└─That's a weird combination of pessimism and optimism. After a real collapse the best we'll be able to manage is an abacus. Too much computer stuff, whatever level you're contemplating, is dependent on highly integrated specialists. After something slightly less major any desktop system should work a...
[12:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Treasure Trove Hidden in Discarded Computers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:26] <exec> 08└─Recyclers have been buying cat converters for a long time already. I just sold one last year for $200
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[13:21:52] <exec> 08└─I SHOULDN'T do anal on the first date?
[13:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:53] <exec> 08└─This seems to be filled with general and vague statements. It's hard to find any actual and interesting data or breakdowns. Did it work equally well for men and women? I find no such statements, breakdowns or data. I might have missed it but then it didn't really stand out, instead they seem overly...
[13:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:55] <exec> 08└─You don’t need to study dating, the general population has already published a shit-ton of advice on it and you will only verify the general wisdom.
[13:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:57] <exec> 08└─Well the name of the paper is "No pain, no gain ..."
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:20] <exec> 08└─Vote Libertarian (Jorgensen/Cohen 2020): Our Response to Stimulus Money for Bailouts [lp.org]. "The government could be returning $6,000 to every person, but instead, it is planning to give $1,200 to each adult under a certain income threshold." Or question the exchange theory of value, socialized p...
[13:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─You are not the first one to have the idea of a replica of an expensive collector car. For example, Pur Sang in Argentina build exact replicas of several Bugatti and Alfa-Romeo models from the 1920-1930 eras. The price is *considerably* less than the genuine article. They use (to a great extent) the...
[13:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:10] <exec> 08└─> any desktop system should work as long as it keeps running Exactly. Collapse OS is for after that moment.
[13:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─Why Collapse OS?
[13:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─Is the author insisting you use that language? People are entitled to their opinions, where we draw the line is when they employ coercion to force those views onto others. That was the problem with '80s social conservative Christians as much as it's today a problem with SJW, BLM and Vanilla ISIS typ...
[13:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not sold on the idea there will be a collapse. But consider that if there will be, creating CollapseOS can be the work of one or just a few contributors while preventing the collapse might take organized effort by tens of millions of people - or maybe hundreds of millions. It's not fucked up to...
[13:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Treasure Trove Hidden in Discarded Computers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:30] <exec> 08└─Do they still make magnetos? I thought all modern electric motors used field coils.
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hman [2656] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:49] <exec> 08└─Green round vacuum tube. 4 Valves. One "Selenium rectifier diode", cartoon tube with a whole lotta small-coin sized discs. Germanium-Selenium-copper sandwiches if I remember correctly, can't check right now. Brand is "Scuola Radio Electra", self-built (not from me) as a kit here in Italy around the...
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[14:21:59] <exec> 08└─don't be white don't be male
[14:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:01] <exec> 08└─Don't be an asshole.
[14:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:15] <exec> 08└─Psycology is to Science what morphine is to awareness. These papers and studies cientific mud. Everybody knows the best way to get partners in love is to try hard and try often. And that's why I remain single.
[14:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:16] <exec> 08└─"General wisdom" along with "common sense" and other such concepts are in fact things that are well worth studying since science very often proves them wrong. Humans are *spectacularly* bad at figuring out what actually works in complex situations, and tend to fall back on superstition instead - ass...
[14:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:18] <exec> 08└─The entire "hard to get" concept is harmful. When a high status person rejects a lower status person they are not playing "hard to get", it's not an invitation to continue pursuing or harassing them.
[14:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:21] <exec> 08└─It also helps A LOT to be handsome or beautiful. People will fall in love with you over a photograph.
[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─Making the chase harder is the exact wrong way to attract me. If a lady seems uninterested in engaging me then I will assume that and move on. "Playing hard to get" is not the same thing as "taking it slow". "Taking it slow" is my preferred way to meet a lady.
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─generations of expertise and ridiculously high standards of craftsmanship that may or may not be matched by your DIY effort
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─Full custom sports car builds (of relatively low-tech stuff like the 250 GTO) run in the 100-200K range. For that amount, you can series produce 250 knockoffs that won't fetch even $100K on the open market, because the people who are pushing the values up to $2M+ don't really care about the function...
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─The whole thing about "rare old Ferraris" is that the accepted history is well documented and easily available. If a "previously lost" serial number of a particular car shows up on the market, more likely than not there's documentation of what happened to that particular serial number and the curren...
[14:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:44] <exec> 08└─If you read https://collapseos.org [collapseos.org] it states: Therefore, Collapse OS won't be actually useful before you and I are both long dead. However, communities with good foresight will immediately start to work on creating post-collapse computers because a lot of work will have to...
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[14:24:56] <exec> 08└─I got a hand-me-down Volt-Ohm meter from a GTE technician, I received it 30 years ago and I'd guess it saw about 30 years of active duty. The probe wire insulation has seen better days, but it still works as well as it ever did (mirror backed needle gauge). The remarkable thing is that the Ohm meter...
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[14:25:00] <exec> 08└─Of course it does. ;-) ^_^ 8^D :~( :-/
[14:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:09] <exec> 08└─The Embrace part is actually not so much to be feared. It is merely the warning to beware of the Extend part.
[14:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:09] <exec> 08└─I did watch the Mission Impossible episodes. Both as a kid when they were broadcast. And some years ago when they were all on Netflix. 7 seasons. They were somewhat interesting. But dated. It also starts to become apparent that there are several basic formulas which various episodes follow.
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[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─This is a simple Cover Your Ass document because otherwise eventually someone would sue, and win.
[15:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:51] <exec> 08└─Will I be kicked off if I say defunding the police is an asinine idea? What about if I say Black Lives Matter is an awful militant organization that is dividing the country? What if I say I would never kneel in front of black people to beg forgiveness for being of white race? We all know how these c...
[15:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:53] <exec> 08└─It's more like it gives legal cover to kick someone out for arbitrary reason. Yes, the "rules" are vague and arbitrary in definition.
[15:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:55] <exec> 08└─You might not be familiar with the code of conduct issues that FreeBSD has dealt with over the last several years, including the fairly big chunk of cash they sank into things like a diversity specialist (whether the donors wanted it or not), or the concerns that it made white heterosexual males int...
[15:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:58] <exec> 08└─OpenBSD's is simple: "Don't piss off Theo" [mail-archive.com].
[15:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:00] <exec> 08└─Can you explain to me what the police and BLM have to do with BSD engineering? Any such discussions in the development communication channels, including issues, pull requests, IRC, code comments, and commit messages, are irrelevant and likely to distract from the quality of the engineering. It sound...
[15:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:02] <exec> 08└─If I were to write a code of conduct, the troll in me would have several design goals: * make the adoption of the CoC by an organization somehow be a violation of the CoC * make it mutually exclusive with all other CoC on other projects, such that it is impossible to conform to both CoC Other ideas?
[15:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:04] <exec> 08└─An extra requirement of parsing lawyerese for the privilege to be an unpaid coder is obviously a disincentive; while for a paid corporate drone assigned to the project, it is nothing different to the things they have to endure anyhow. The obvious conclusion is, the CoC push is designed to remove fre...
[15:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:07] <exec> 08└─If an engineering group needs a CoC, then the problems may already be too big to fix. Maybe.
[15:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:09] <exec> 08└─Having just read the old CoC and the new LLVM-based CoC, I'd like some clarification. What are the controversial parts? The old document seems to specifically ban a bunch of politically-motivated speech and actions that would definitely derail any engineering conversation. I can't imagine anything t...
[15:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:11] <exec> 08└─in minecraft.
[15:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:13] <exec> 08└─Make it more lines of legal code than the software code in your project. Somewhere in there, sneak in a nursery rhyme. Mary Had a Little Lamb is a favorite. IIRC, there was a famous case of that being sneaked in to a bill at some point.
[15:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─The Dutch COC is probably one of the oldest gay clubs in the world. https://www.coc.nl [www.coc.nl] This was before being gay was fashionable :-)
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Hard to want.
[15:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe in 2024, start working now to make that happen.
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/how-australia-is-being-screwed-over-its-gas/news-story/4187e60617aec18e87d57453cfca0167 [news.com.au] https://theconversation.com [theconversation.com]
[15:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─More zeroes, more outrage from the innumerate masses! Profit!!!
[15:23:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─you have a multi gigabyte scan file. How efficient.
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah. You'd probably not want to claim it's a proper GTO, but hey, a 250 SWB messed up in in a bad attempt to look like a GTO in the early 80s, with an African paper trail of a 400i (with a legit 400i serial) would be good enough for single-figure-million entry level collectors. :)
[15:28:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:44] <exec> 08└─Fun fact - organic produce is often coated in even higher levels of pesticides than "normal" produce. They simply use naturally-derived pesticids instead of synthetic ones. Welcome to what happens when Corporate America is allowed to lobby for the watering down of food labeling laws.
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[16:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:13] <exec> 08└─You are correct. It all has nothing to do with engineering which is my point. However, the CoC enforcers have repeatedly shown that any opinions that don't match their hard Left political opinions no matter where expressed will get you "cancelled." Recall Mozilla and their former CEO Brendan Eich wh...
[16:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:14] <exec> 08└─No, here's how... mv Code_of_Conduct >> /dev/null
[16:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─Don't you see your argument is why this whole thing is so absurd to begin with? All of the crap they're mentioning has nothing to do with anything related to coding. People want to bring all their bullshit politics into coding and then get butthurt when it doesn't work out however they hoped talking...
[16:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:19] <exec> 08└─Kneeling can be seen as a sign of respect, or it can be seen as a sign of submission. When putting one knee down was started by the BLM movement (yes, it was actually black people who started doing this), it was ment as the former. If you see this as the latter, it's because you choose to do so; it'...
[16:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting if you could work some polymorphism into your CoC or perhaps word it in a way that people trying to wield the CoC against others are in clear violation of the CoC.
[16:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:23] <exec> 08└─Now the mob (sorry, PROTESTORS) are commanding the police to kneel! kneel! That sounds like a demand for submission to me.
[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─Naaah. It just creates a management class who can rise by learning the process and not the necessary skill. Identical to what has happened to all universities I've worked at. The "skill" class is at the bottom - that's trivial work stuff that you hire Chinese 21 year olds to do. The trick is to conv...
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:28] <exec> 08└─As opposed to the respectful attitude of police in the USA?
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─The Kapernick knee during the national anthem you say was a sign of respect. To oppressed black people, I assume. But he deliberately chose to do it in such a way as to simultaneously DISRESPECT America by kneeling when everyone else was standing for the national anthem.
[16:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─What do people do in gay clubs?
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─> general and vague statements Social "science".
[16:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─"General wisdom" along with "common sense" and other such concepts are in fact things that are well worth studying since science very often proves them wrong.
[16:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─Want too hard.
[16:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:07] <exec> 08└─No, this is Pump 'N Dump. Insider trading would be if they ran out and bought a bunch of stock before announcing an actual successful vaccine.
[16:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─Surprise, the vaccination for X isn't effective against Y. Neither are vaccines for A-W, even if you get them all. As for children, they are not spared from COVID. When they get it, they get it bad and it tends to have worse after-effects.
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:26] <exec> 08└─Forth works quite well on a 16-bit machine. It's compact. But put it on a 64-bit machine ... suddenly every code syllable is 8 bytes wide instead of two. Compactness is gone. You'd want to go to a variable bit-length encoding. Simplicity and elegance are gone.
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─Actually, many places DO enforce a style guide where you've got to do ridiculous things to ensure gender inclusion for a non-gendered subject. The standard for a singular non-gendered pronoun is "he, him, his." I am sorry some people fail at English grammar.
[16:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:30] <exec> 08└─You are right. There is a reason Forth use peaked in the 1980s. Forth was a very good fit for the machine architectures and what was expected of them at the time: 16 bit CPU, no real OS as an abstraction like we have today, and single user machines running a single app at a time. Also, a simple comm...
[16:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─My response was to your statement (in fact, I bolded the section in my reply) about porn on your hard drive, not copyright laws. You said: They are heroes in the fight...for my porn collection to fill my hard drive.
[16:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast Radio Burst 121102 Repeats Every 157 Days - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:21] <exec> 08└─What are those [sci-news.com] numbers you reference? Seem kind of off.
[16:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast Radio Burst 121102 Repeats Every 157 Days - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:22] <exec> 08└─Interestingly enough though this wouldn't actually matter. Because it's a ratio of 90:67. No matter whether you use a shorter or longer time frame, you'd have the exact same minimized ratio. Actually what is really kind of weird is that (90 + 67) * 2 = 314. Granted again you could argue that I'm ass...
[16:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast Radio Burst 121102 Repeats Every 157 Days - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:24] <exec> 08└─What are those [sci-news.com] numbers you reference? Seem kind of off
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[17:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:51] <exec> 08└─How many more dead people will it take for people to finish making a drug dealer a hero?
[17:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:52] <exec> 08└─According to one video by Terry Davis, TempleOS was meant to be a "space alien trading post." In another two videos, he mentioned he had had a "space alien." So according to King Terry, TempleOS is all you need! You're not communing with "God", you're communing with aliens!
[17:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:54] <exec> 08└─How many more dead people will it take for people to finish making a drug dealer a hero?
[17:22:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 20 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─Don't be an asshole.
[17:22:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:11] <exec> 08└─Can you explain to me what the police and BLM have to do with BSD engineering? Any such discussions in the development communication channels, including issues, pull requests, IRC, code comments, and commit messages, are irrelevant and likely to distract from the quality of the engineering. It sound...
[17:22:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─If an engineering group needs a CoC, then the problems may already be too big to fix. Maybe.
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─Fuck each other in the ass in the bathroom. At least at the hotter clubs.
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, the main points [github.com] seem more like something your mother should (but apparently didn't -- bad on her) have taught you: be friendly and patient, be welcoming, be considerate, be respectful, be careful in the words that you choose an...
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─I could've sworn the current protests were triggered by a cop kneeling. Maybe he was holding it wrong. What's Apple's opinion on this?
[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, he wasn't kicked out based on a CoC, you'll say. But he would be under FreeBSD's CoC, no doubt using the same logic Mozilla used.
[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─putting one knee down was started by the BLM movement (yes, it was actually black people who started doing this)
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─The *ideals* embodied in the constitution are much more important than a flag or a song. Peacefully (and silently, in this case) calling out violence and casual brutality that flies in the face of those ideals shows *great* respect for America. Much more so than running people down [citylab.com] wit...
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─Put in a modern lyric so that adoption requires copyright infringement.
[17:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─The phallic nature of the acronym for Code of Conduct triggers me. It's yet another stone in the pillar of andro-centric patriarchy that is constantly being shoved down our throats. I won't rest until the name of these codes is changed to something more welcoming to people of all backgrounds, perhap...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─More hate-crime bait.
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─Do you have some links for your outlandish claims?
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─Can you explain to me what the police and BLM have to do with BSD engineering?
[17:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:54] <exec> 08└─'Hi. I'm John Smith. Fuck off with everything else, let's get to coding.'
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─People seem to want what they can't have. I've definitely noticed women being barely able to contain themselves around me until I gave an indication that they could have me. At which point, most of the time, they'd lose interest. IMHO though it's a maladaptive strategy. It may have worked previously...
[17:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─More stalker-bait.
[17:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:52] <exec> 08└─It makes a certain kind of sense, but not much. Most of the consumer-grade equipment will be unusable due to age, EMP, or failed infrastructure, so you could see the knowledge disappear entirely in areas within a generation. Hydro and wind should be mostly unaffected, although installations could be...
[17:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:53] <exec> 08└─Chuck Moore is still designing forth chips - greenarraychips.com.
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[18:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Espionage Group Targets U.S. Utilities With Sophisticated Spy Tool - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:49] <exec> 08└─Jihadis aren't good enough with computers to do this, they prefer suicide vests.
[18:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Espionage Group Targets U.S. Utilities With Sophisticated Spy Tool - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:50] <exec> 08└─Is this [pinimg.com] why our utilities are still hooked up to the internet?
[18:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Espionage Group Targets U.S. Utilities With Sophisticated Spy Tool - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:52] <exec> 08└─Until utility managers start getting prosecuted for putting Windows on important networks, this isn't going to stop.
[18:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─Facial recognition is out of the box, Pandora. You won't put it back in. Now, we deal with it, like we deal with all of mankind's other diseases. Regulate it, or something - but you can't make it disappear back into that magic box full of evils.
[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:06] <exec> 08└─Too bad this abuse of power didn't trigger demonstrations and conversation about the underlying cause of all of this instead of the effects. Namely, unconstitutional laws (the drug war mainly) and seditious, oath-breaking enforcers.
[18:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:08] <exec> 08└─How about we start a service where you can pay $19.99 a month to be excluded from police databases? Since Zoom determined that people who pay subscription fees aren't criminals, this is an ideal way to separate law-abiding citizens from the riff raff.
[18:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be cheaper just to wear whiteface when you're passing counterfeit bills?
[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:12] <exec> 08└─Yep, you won't stop surveillance. All we can do is make sure nobody has the advantage. That's the only way it can be "regulated".
[18:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:14] <exec> 08└─You really need to rinse your brain, the libertarian bleaching is getting pretty bad. Here, since your brain isn't functioning let me give you an example: "Every man woman and child must be carrying a loaded firearm at all times in case someone tries to murder them. Making sure nobody has the advant...
[18:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─I was just thinking, as Runaway is often wont to do, that facial recognition might be handy when faced with hundreds of "deputized" Homeland Security Agents (Der Heimatschutzabteilung) who have no identification or badges or numbers or authority, so it is hard to distinguish them from cosplaying mil...
[18:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─What, you got cameras with frickin lasers? *sigh* For people like you we really need the dumbass mod
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─Read it. The LLVM one is kind of an anti-SJW one they ninja'd past everyone. The very first rule is "Be friendly and patient." That should rule out everyone spazzing the fuck out over having a simple disagreement, as they're being neither.
[18:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─well, to be fair, the new CoC says stupid shit like "egregious (subjective) violations outside of FreeBSD channels" (paraphrasing). So the OP could be in a political forum and still get the boot if FreeBSD were sufficiently Bolshevized.
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─"Personal insults, especially those using racist or sexist terms." "personal insults is bad but racist or sexist ones are double baddy points" what a bunch of fucking fags. i'd like to kick the shit out of whoever wrote that.
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─How on earth did engineering organizations get along CoC free before?
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─So taking a knee is bad now? This is all so confusing how the rules keep changing.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─The ideals are embodied in the flag and song as well.
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─So was Nancy Kerrigan.
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─one thing i don't like about some of these CoCs is the way they are written to require positive action instead of detailing negative actions that won't be tolerated. Sure it sounds better, but is more open to abusive enforcement in the long run and the paranoid in me says this was on purpose. Like B...
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─This [archive.org] is the crap they had. The current version is rolling back most of the shit they puked out initially without having the balls to admit that this entire code of conduct stuff is complete nonsense that only exists because of virtue signaling and the fear of being seen as 'bad'. There...
[18:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─This [archive.org] is the crap they had. The current version is rolling back most of the shit they puked out initially without having the balls to admit that this entire code of conduct stuff is complete nonsense that only exists because of virtue signaling and the fear of being seen as 'bad'.
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:25] <exec> 08└─OK here's the new SoylentNews AC-endorsed Positive Action CoC. - Change your hair color to pink. - Get gender reassignment surgery. - Stop eating meat. - Buy Apple products - Spend all your money at LGBQT2-run tattoo parlors.
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─The ideals are embodied in the flag and song as well.
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─Well. That puts Tonya Harding [wikipedia.org] in a *very* different light.
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─Whooosh!
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─And that differs from regular clubs how?
[18:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─Hehe, I almost posted an addendum to my own post saying non-gay clubs can abuse the bathrooms too, but you did it for me. Less anal in the non-gay clubs, though, in favor of other holes.
[18:23:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 612 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─"General wisdom" along with "common sense" and other such concepts are in fact things that are well worth studying since science very often proves them wrong. Humans are *spectacularly* bad at figuring out what actually works in complex situations, and tend to fall back on superstition instead - ass...
[18:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:01] <exec> 08└─If someone I'm into is acting uninterested, I'm going to conclude that one of these is true: 1. They're genuinely not interested. Fine. If you're not interested, I'm going to move on. 2. They're lying because they enjoy a "chase". Fine. If you're going to lie to and manipulate me before we're an ite...
[18:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:14] <exec> 08└─> foetus cells Don't forget the mercury!
[18:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:59] <exec> 08└─If I'm going to spend US$150K+ on a custom car, I'd like it to look like a 250 - but I'd want it to drive a hell of a lot more modern than a "real" 250. My 100,000 miles in a 1980 Honda Civic was more than enough lo-tech driving thrill for me.
[18:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not that educated on the subject, but doesn't a hash change if you change even the tiniest bit of the input? Get a wear mark or blemish and that could completely alter the hash rendering it useless.
[18:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:03] <exec> 08└─Parts produced sequentially on modern CNC equipment can share at least 99% of tooling marks, and have all features within .0001" of each other. Can it distinguish between those parts?
[18:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─.... after they've been cerakoted? Or case hardened? Or etched?
[18:26:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 833 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can literally see the fiber box from my property but Cox wanted $10,000 and a 3 year contract (in addition) to get it the few hundred feet to my house. Instead I have 3mbps dsl from at&t that goes down constantly, sometimes for days at a time. If I call at&t they tell me I am welcome to canc...
[18:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─I would check to see, if you have any point-to-point wireless ISPs available in your area. It's the only reason why I've had a decent connection, which has actually improved over the last couple of decades.
[18:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but I loved the show as a kid and was glad to see it show up on Disney+. I am not the same Anonymous Coward as OP though.
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[19:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Espionage Group Targets U.S. Utilities With Sophisticated Spy Tool - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:43] <exec> 08└─Not only in network utilities, I always giggle a bit to myself as I see some system that has crashed -- be it information screens or an ATM -- and you can see that it's running some version of windows.
[19:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:02] <exec> 08└─The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine says that “Excited delirium is characterized by agitation, aggression, acute distress and sudden death, often in the pre-hospital care setting. It is typically associated with the use of drugs Subjects typically die from a heart attack and the majority of...
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:06] <exec> 08└─Just look at the movie "Office Space" and the "flair quota". That's a good start for what the future will look like. “About four years after Office Space came out, TGI Fridays got rid of all that (button) flair, because people would come in and make cracks about it,” reveals Judge. “One of my...
[19:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:08] <exec> 08└─Non-sequitur much?
[19:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─Less anal in the non-gay clubs, though, in favor of other holes.
[19:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:12] <exec> 08└─I can only speak for myself on this one. If I'm driving, and a protest is suddenly in front of me, I will try to get away from it. You do all your marching, and I'll be on my way. If I find myself driving, and a protest blocks a lot of cars together, but it seems like they're just marching through t...
[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─The AC refered to kneeling in the context of the BLM movement. But I'm not surprised to see the typical trumptard point out the tiny flaw in the argument, while completely ignoring his comment about Trump threatening to have the players fired.
[19:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─Recursion would be a good tool for this sort of thing. If anyone complains, just tell them they don't really understand recursion.
[19:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:18] <exec> 08└─Huge societal problems don't prevent good engineering. Proof: existence of good engineering in this world.
[19:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─Careful, one of them might read your comment and get triggered... then they'll have to run to their safe space and get another tattoo.
[19:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:59] <exec> 08└─Your ‘plandemic’ is Conspiracy theory. I want to know who that guy was that predicted the internet would lead to a flood of misinformation. For years it was OK but not anymore.
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, it's not mercury pure, it's another compound. Absolutely safe. Of course you gotta trust them on that since you sign away their responsibility.
[19:24:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─So instead of a dozen digit serial number, you have a multi gigabyte scan file. How efficient.
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:50] <exec> 08└─doesn't a hash change if you change even the tiniest bit of the input?
[19:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:30] <exec> 08└─Look at it this way: working on this keeps them off the streets and messing up traffic. We could use a lot more of that these days.
[19:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:31] <exec> 08└─Hobbies are supposed to be fun. For some people, coding in Forth is fun. I always enjoyed it. Sometimes things aren't complicated.
[19:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:29] <exec> 08└─Hey I want to follow up on this. Can you please cite a source for a single seed that has been treated with neonicotinoids is enough to kill a song bird
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[20:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry your brain doesn't work right, do you huff paint? Drink out of lead cups?
[20:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─2 autopsies, plus the county prosecutors [npr.org], plus what any idiot can see by watching the friggin' video. Oh, plus we find out today that the cop in question both knew his victim when they worked together at a nightclub, and had gotten into a lot of arguments because the cop was being extremel...
[20:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, plus we find out today that the cop in question both knew his victim when they worked together at a nightclub
[20:23:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 917 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:09] <exec> 08└─Don't you see your argument is why this whole thing is so absurd to begin with? All of the crap they're mentioning has nothing to do with anything related to coding. People want to bring all their bullshit politics into coding and then get butthurt when it doesn't work out however they hoped talking...
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─When someone ends up dead from it, yes.
[20:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─I think this is their attempt at grappling with reality, finally there is a minor shift towards anti-Trump sentiment around here. Perhaps some boomers are finally realizing that reality is different from all the conspiracy nonsense peddled by their conservative talk shows.
[20:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:00] <exec> 08└─You and your pal are the idiots for thinking I am some reflexive Trump supporter or that I support Presidentially-forced firing of players who choose to kneel. This proves you can't have a discussion with some people. Your mind is closed.
[20:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:02] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for you to be in prison. Well, better you don't kill anyone, but you are definitely the type who should be under guard if you think someone yelling at you is justification for murder. By your logic every black person should be allowed to shoot cops that approach them for fear of losing th...
[20:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:04] <exec> 08└─Even got 'Gone With the Wind' kicked off HBO [cbsnews.com] Soon the screen will go blank
[20:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:30] <exec> 08└─There's some validity in that but you ignore that most people have a screening procedure. The snarky woman who tests you and then looks like horrified as you walk away could be nuts or it could be she genuinely likes you - never to know.
[20:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID Vaccine Execs Hyped Vague Data to Cash in $90M in Stock, Watchdog Says - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's the point. The reasoning is, vax doesn't work for coronavirus mutated, so everybody get vaxxed against COVID 19 which is on the way out by itself, unless it mutates and re infects. See the prob?
[20:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe in 2024, start working now to make that happen.
[20:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:07] <exec> 08└─2024. This round, either Trump or Biden gets elected. If it is Trump, there is no way Republicans allow anyone like him to be nominated again. This leave his most ardent followers with nowhere to go and a good chunk of the Dems ousted out by their nominee again. If it is Biden, Republicans go deep a...
[20:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:09] <exec> 08└─What we have is essentially a reverse carbon tax! All we need to do now is have the money move the opposite direction. Now might be a good time to get other companies on board then BLAM we reverse it on them .
[20:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:11] <exec> 08└─This round, either Trump or Biden gets elected.
[20:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The End of Serial Numbers--High Definition Scans - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:44] <exec> 08└─Here we have some sort of image hash, which is a different beast.
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[21:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:52] <exec> 08└─The pandemic reminded these companies that without their users, they are not worth a penny. So I hope that this will fundamentally change the way they are treating their workers.
[21:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:54] <exec> 08└─All it's demonstrated is that the chasm between the haves and the have-nots is ever widening. Those who can afford to have others put their lives at risk doing menial, low-paid, exploitative jobs, can pay for the privilege of having other humans do their dirty work while they stay in their satin-lac...
[21:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:56] <exec> 08└─This was just announced... County health officials are recommending that everyone who participates in a protest should consider getting tested for COVID-19 as they are at higher risk. Looks like the idiots demonstrating just fucked up the curve. Expecting a shitstorm...
[21:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:58] <exec> 08└─The poor bastards that call people to get their political opinions are now under attack by the Man Child formerly known as having "the best words" The demand, coming in the form of a cease and desist letter to CNN President Jeff Zucker that contained numerous incorrect and misleading claims, was imm...
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[21:22:00] <exec> 08└─Weren't you assholes bleating about yuhr freedums just a few weeks ago? Saying grandma and grandpa have to die for the economy? Either you magorons are stupider than ae thought or we seriously underestimated the infestation of shills
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[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─2 autopsies, plus the county prosecutors [npr.org], plus what any idiot can see by watching the friggin' video. Oh, plus we find out today that the cop in question both knew his victim when they worked together at a nightclub, and had gotten into a lot of arguments because the cop was being extremel...
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─The early reports were that they had both worked at the same nightclub, but the nightclub owner wasn't sure they'd overlapped shifts or interacted. Now we have people who were working there saying "Yup, they both worked at the same time, and yup, they had beef."
[21:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:51] <exec> 08└─Clearly he's a wise man.
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:53] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, there's still lots of stuff you can watch: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(film) [...
[21:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:55] <exec> 08└─Feeling smart today?
[21:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─Let's not count those who were killed in the riots, then. It makes the return on protest investment look awfully bad.
[21:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:59] <exec> 08└─finds his dead name
[21:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:01] <exec> 08└─I have something that I don't want anybody to know or talk about. And I decide to (1) put it on the internet and (2) talk about it.
[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:03] <exec> 08└─Important thing is both kneeling trends were started by mediocre football players known more for their kneeling than their ability to play.
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:05] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you want to add them to your bonfire
[21:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:08] <exec> 08└─Black people would have less cops coming after them if they weren't in the middle of committing crime. Cause and effect. It doesn't take a genius, but maybe it does take at least an average IQ. Gentle Giant George eas a career violent criminal, and while what happened to him was wrong (and the polic...
[21:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─How would you know?? Judging by your penis obsession there is a bit to unpack there.
[21:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:12] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, let us go back to pretending cops don't murder people and that white supremacy is a good cultural basis. "That boy ain't right."
[21:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─Using their language gives these idiots more power. Their concept of privilege is can be summarized as "demographic reputation." So everywhere you read "privilege" in their text, substitute it with "demographic reputation" in your thoughts and in your replies. Doing this will reverse their obfuscato...
[21:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:16] <exec> 08└─Was he Bjorn again?
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─Of course a normal person has a screening procedure. For instance, any woman interacting with any man has to concern herself with whether the dude in question will rape her given the opportunity, because it's a common enough crime that being concerned about it is completely rational. But I think you...
[21:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:44] <exec> 08└─So, the GP should totally offer his ass up on the first date?
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[22:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:58] <exec> 08└─Looks like the idiots demonstrating just fucked up the curve. Expecting a shitstorm...
[22:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:59] <exec> 08└─More importantly, who cares? I gots mine.
[22:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:01] <exec> 08└─It's just supply and demand. So long as there's someone willing to do the job at a low pay (and for menial jobs, there's always someone), then the pay for that job is not going to be higher. If you want higher pay, you need to put yourself into a group with lower supply than demand. Nature is far mo...
[22:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:03] <exec> 08└─... by eliminating some of their competitors. And after the second wave, they'll be getting done juicy tips.
[22:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:05] <exec> 08└─The rate at which they need to directly reverse their position from the previously held one seems to be increasing in frequency.
[22:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Espionage Group Targets U.S. Utilities With Sophisticated Spy Tool - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─The Register does a series on those sorts of crashes called borkborkbork! which is quite fun.
[22:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─Why would you link to an article on a site called lawofficer.com, whose about page says?: The Law Officer Brand began in 2005 as Law Officer Magazine and is the industry leader in law enforcement news, original content and training. Law Officer is the only major law enforcement publication and webs...
[22:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:43] <exec> 08└─So you're saying he wasn't killed because of systemic racism, he was killed because he was a dick (as well as a counterfeiter)? Glad we cleared that up.
[22:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:14] <exec> 08└─Where the fuck is my 4K UHD release of Song of the South?
[22:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─I was a small donor. I did write and tell them that I wouldn't be contributing further while the new CoC was in place, and that I would also not be expanding my existing FreeBSD code contributions (mainly to ports), small as they were. That stuff all adds up. And from the point of view of a contribu...
[22:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:17] <exec> 08└─Just work off the paradox of tolerance. "Every action taken in this project should be done in an inclusive matter. You should not exclude or call out anyone for any reason other than the technical merit of their code. This includes exclusionary actions due to sex, gender, orientation, politics, reli...
[22:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:20] <exec> 08└─You, good sir, are going to the wrong non-gay clubs.
[22:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─the CoC enforcers have repeatedly shown
[22:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:24] <exec> 08└─don't be white don't be male
[22:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:26] <exec> 08└─Feeling smart today?
[22:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─You can yell at me without surrounding my car. If you yell at me without surrounding my car, I won't do a thing to you. I don't want to do a thing to anyone. If a crowd is simply walking by on both sides of my car on its way to somewhere else, I won't do a thing to them. I shall now be very very spe...
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─You and your pal are the idiots for thinking I am some reflexive Trump supporter
[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:32] <exec> 08└─Bonfire? Sorry. You must have me confused with your white robe wearing buddies. I'm all about the marketplace of ideas [wikipedia.org]. Which is a big reason why I'm on SN. Aside from the mostly divisive drivel and the sockpuppeting of your AC Trumptard alter-ego, why are *you* here?
[22:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:35] <exec> 08└─This is the problem, we speak different languages. To most people "white supremacy" [newdiscourses.com] and "racism" [newdiscourses.com] have clear meanings, the left have redefined the words while being less than honest about what they mean when they use the words. In this way you hope to sneak bul...
[22:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:37] <exec> 08└─Nah, straight trannies are A-OK.
[22:24:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:55] <exec> 08└─Making the chase harder is the exact wrong way to attract me. If a lady seems uninterested in engaging me then I will assume that and move on. "Playing hard to get" is not the same thing as "taking it slow". "Taking it slow" is my preferred way to meet a lady.
[22:25:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 1063 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:02] <exec> 08└─If someone I'm into is acting uninterested, I'm going to conclude that one of these is true: 1. They're genuinely not interested. Fine. If you're not interested, I'm going to move on. 2. They're lying because they enjoy a "chase". Fine. If you're going to lie to and manipulate me before we're an ite...
[22:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:07] <exec> 08└─Finally, participants in our experiments interacted with confederates who were relatively attractive
[22:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why 'Playing Hard to Get' May Actually Work - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:09] <exec> 08└─If you are into that I don't see why not.
[22:26:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 16 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:46] <exec> 08└─Why Collapse OS?
[22:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:58] <exec> 08└─I think the more interesting task for someone preparing for a collapse would be writing a textbook on how to go from smelters and iron ore to Apollo-mission level computers. I also think the fact that so much can be done with 8k RAM is an indictment of 21st century society. Capitalism, to its credit...
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[23:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Flash Points to Long-Sought Source for Enigmatic Radio Bursts - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:52] <exec> 08└─They have developed compression algorithms that are so effective that they can transmit all of their pornography in milliseconds. Impressive.
[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:09] <exec> 08└─It is your position you need be concerned about. The deeper you push your head in the sand, the more vulnerable the other end.
[23:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─The talking head will invent some "explanation" for nothing happening, never fear. Something about "righteous anger having anti-virus properties" or somesuch. Doublethink is the road to success.
[23:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:13] <exec> 08└─I just looked at Hennepin County [hennepin.us] in Minnesota which contains Minneapolis. Despite all that protesting and rioting, there isn't any increase in cases relative to the rest of Minnesota (most which didn't see such crowding). (7540 out of 22464 in roughly May 23 to 9674 out of 28869 on Jun...
[23:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:15] <exec> 08└─I expect nothing much to happen. One thing I'm glad for the rioters to have done was interrupting the Covid-19 scaremongering on MSM.
[23:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:17] <exec> 08└─While I agree with your statements, that doesn't make it ok. Forever striving to a more perfect union/society and all that. On top of that, companies such as grubhub/lyft/uber and what have you, are then essentially vultures: aiding and abetting a more cruel society.
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─Yet.
[23:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Has Covid-19 Affected The Gig Economy? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:21] <exec> 08└─Another way is to increase demand for labor. Even high supply menial labor does better when there's more employers. Gig economy does that. So do policies that are friendly to creating and growing businesses.
[23:22:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─Why would you link to an article on a site called lawofficer.com, whose about page says?: The Law Officer Brand began in 2005 as Law Officer Magazine and is the industry leader in law enforcement news, original content and training. Law Officer is the only major law enforcement publication and webs...
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─He was killed because his killer was a dick. Systemic problems of unaccountability were revealed when he didn't even get a reprimand for killing-on-the-job. The systemic racism was revealed in how the police union boss reacted to the killing: Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Office...
[23:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─Look, bro, I do hate the police for personal as well as humanitarian reasons. The system made them pigs all right. However, in this particular case, the cop was likely right. See, he new the career violent crime "victim" who was on multiple drugs and behaved accordingly. Besides, we have to prove th...
[23:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─the cop was likely right
[23:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:05] <exec> 08└─Let me make a prediction. Quite soon during a large protest a group of unidentified snipers on roofs will shoot both - police and protestors. Than the revolution really starts. (this playbook was used through out, most recently in Ukraine)
[23:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Use on Protesters - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:07] <exec> 08└─The main problem is that the law became a racket business. It is a form of tax that local authorities extract from the People. Police officers are forced to bring as much money as possible or else. The other problem is that the society needs folks who would do low paying jobs. The solution is either...
[23:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:49] <exec> 08└─Thugs die on their feet in fights. George was lying on the ground with someone kneeling on him. He died like a rug.
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:50] <exec> 08└─I hide the fact that I vaporize some ayrlcyclohexylamine (mostly Methoxieticyclidine, sometime Eticyclidone, use to do diphenidine but it's now as illegal as the grandaddy of ayrlcyclohexylamine: PCP) on Friday night and I am somewhat ashamed of this. But drug use is a core part of my identity equal...
[23:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:52] <exec> 08└─In other words: you must choose between interacting safely with a LEO, or being allowed to submit pull requests?
[23:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:54] <exec> 08└─So you're a reality denying feelz over realz fool. Got it.
[23:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:57] <exec> 08└─You're nuts, must be a Fox viewer.
[23:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New FreeBSD Code of Conduct - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:59] <exec> 08└─Ever since the slaves were freed you white boys have been terrified of retribution. I can 3D print you a set of pearls if you need.
[23:25:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 062019 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly $500 Billion - 1006 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:53] <exec> 08└─You can buy Australian LGP in Japan cheaper than in Australia. Almost worth importing to sell for a profit. Coal is sold to India for a price that is scandalous. Mining is a job for many, but what they don't see or perhaps care is that their country is selling off limited resources cheaply. IT peopl...
[23:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:18] <exec> 08└─I once wrote a threaded-code concatenative-language interpreter in assembler with a garbage collector. The garbage collector was written in the same language it was collecting for. And it could collect code, including its own code. It was fun, but not greatly useful. The thing was a toy. I also had...
[23:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collapse OS -- Why Forth? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:20] <exec> 08└─Very interesting sounding chips.
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