brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago

I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

It's an explanation of Wilhoit's Law, really, which will always resonate with misanthropes.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

I've always called Word documents and PDFs "dead-end formats" (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there's no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 20 points 6 months ago (7 children)

None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 52 points 6 months ago

I had that computer, and it was much more than a calculator, unless you mean a modern programmable one. This one could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a receipt-sized printer you could get.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NQheo52J3BM

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

You may be right, but it seems to me that sleeper cells need direction. Otherwise, they'll interpret their ideology divergently. They may block progress pretty effectively, but it'll be hard for them to make gains in a shared direction.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

I thought it was interesting and original until the pointless cat scene and the complete lack of an ending.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is all true, but there's not clear line of succession after Trump, so they'll splinter. Redirecting the fervor to some new dear leader will take a long time. The Trump thralls are entirely invested in him alone.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 27 points 7 months ago

As I've said elsewhere: I wonder what controls Mozilla has in place to prevent gradual takeover of their board by those with an interest in removing Firefox as a competitor. We've watched the sleeper cell in the Supreme Court transform that body into an illegitimate partisan puppet. Mozilla's actions over the last few years would make much more sense if it were being manipulated into self destruction.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This was also my recent experience on PopOs!

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Mobs cannot be reliably wielded for long, as Mussolini found out.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 21 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It's literally impossible to fully boycott Amazon, I've been trying for years. Even if you buy elsewhere, often you'll find out after the fact that Amazon does the shipping or payment processing.

We should nationalize their monopoly or break it up.

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