Angry_Autist (he/him)

Sounds like you never had to deal with government contracts then

So my mentor’s mentor used to program for some ancient TI machine that used drum memory. He was a master of his craft and wrote his code deliberately so it would physically align with the next rotation of the drum, ensuring the fastest reads possible, and it cut tons of time off of every process run on them.

I can’t even imagine what it is like to even write naked binary, let alone make sure every single one of my operation sets are the same length.

Arguably it was perfect optimization.

He still got laid off with zero thought when the time came.

I’s there a lesson here? I don’t know, I’m drunk

No it was a shitty OS with very VERY little hardware support,

and he built it because the voices in his head told him to build a temple and he was too lazy to be a carpenter.

Have you actually installed it? Because I have. It’s BARELY an OS

The ‘security’ mumbo jumbo is mainly to cover his networking incompetence

No, schizophrenia is how you get Temple OS

Ok I’ll just go grab some sand and refine it into silicon then bake my own chips then code my own kernel and OS and applications because that’s the only way to ‘control’ it.

Companies need to be held to regulatory standards about our private data, and the ONLY reason those regulations don’t exist is because every FUCKDAMN politician in the world was born before TV had color

Turning the feature on by default is bad, but

Nope, no further. Downvoted and blocked.

Don’t you fucking try and justify this.

There are no ethical companies, only ones that are currently more profitable to operate as if they were.

The answer will always from now on be ‘yes’, for every annoying privacy invading toggle you have to change, it is in the best interest of the software creators to force you to do it in the way that benefits them most.

Our opinions are no longer as important as their ability to harvest our data.

Tactics on how to spot propaganda

shared stories of propaganda sources exposed

Little know practices of the putinbots for study purposes

there’s a fucktonne of stuff that’s better than 35 renditions of ‘no shit sherlok’.

Can we get a little deeper of a discussion as our top comment please? We used to be better than this…

Most upvoted top 2/3rds of the thread are all repeats of the same ‘yeah no shit’.

The remaining 1/3 is actual discussion…

Nearly all media is owned by conservative white men that willingly court fascism if it means lower taxes.

You’d be surprised the things they can figure out with modern forensics, maybe low oxygen in the remaining tissue, maybe a special enzyme that activates in the lungs when you are carbon dioxide poisoned.

The leaps in detection technology even in the last ten years are astounding.

In higher circles, wealth is considered a measure of competence.

It is a core tenet of capitalism: “Well if he’s such a bad businessman, why is he so rich?”

One of the ways they hide their incompetence is buying the talents of other, actually skilled people.

Another is ostentatious displays of wealth to impress other members of the owner class of your absolute flushness of cash and calmness of mind to keep faith in whatever your schemes are this week to stay relevant

Billionaires should not exist, and a trillionaire is simple an abomination

You are using a special character that is likely reserved internally

I can pinpoint the exact moment: When the admins actively gave t_d a full pass on anything they wanted to do in 2016.

That single act drove away more users than any previous exodus.

wtf is this I don’t speak emoji

What a clever and well written response that clears up any speck of doubt in my mind about your capacity for communication.

I’m not really interested in talking about sovereign nation powers with someone who got their political education from wikipedia.

Try elsewhere, thanks.

This is why I fucking love the internet.

I mean, I’ll never take the time to get this knowledgable about image formats, but I am ABSOLUTELY fuckdamn thrilled that at least SOMEONE out there takes it seriously.

Good on you, pixel king

Money and racism