charonn0

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You Linux users sure are a contentious people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

And it didn't even accomplish anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You just need to have faith.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So can a dotfile, or any other kind of storage. There's really nothing inherently bad about the registry. Its reputation as a place to hide things in is equal parts selection bias, users' lack of technical understanding, and the marketing of "registry cleaner" apps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The Enterprise-B launch was attended by a gaggle of reporters and camera people.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Unpopular opinion: The Windows Registry, a centralized, strongly typed key:value database for application settings, is actually superior to hundreds of individual dotfiles, each one written in its own janky customized DSL, with its own idea of where it should live in the file system, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's hardly a controversial position that the Reign of Terror had virtually nothing to do with the nobility or monarchy, both of which had been abolished by that point; and everything to do with the suppression of political dissent by means of state terror.

The lesson of the Reign of Terror is not "kill the rich". It's not even "kill your enemies". It's "normalizing political violence will inevitably, maybe literally, blow up in your face." People who equate the guillotine and Reign of Terror with successful political violence, or even successful economic and political reform, are not just wrong but dangerously wrong, and need to corrected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Partner represents and warrants that it shall not introduce into WhatsApp’s Systems or Infrastructure, the Sublicensed Encryption Software, or otherwise make accessible to WhatsApp any viruses

The technical definition of a "computer virus" is actually quite narrow, and true viruses are rare these days because they are passive and slow compared to more modern malware types.

A strict, literal reading of the text says that all other kinds of malware are acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

James Clerk Maxwell. If it uses electricity then it's based on Maxwell's equations.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's catastrophic and they'll never come back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Time to violently storm the Supreme Court, then. After all, they approve.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"A cuddly juvenile pornomorphic bear."

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