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  • Federated social media from before it was cool

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  • Huh. Well, everybody I hung out with knew about it. IIRC moderation was tacked on after USENET had already taken off. If a newsgroup wasn't proposed with moderation then it couldn't be moderated, so most of them weren't. It's pretty wild that they didn't understand how desperately necessary it would be. In order to get a group to be moderated you'd have to get a proposal for an entirely new group through the committee, which was nearly impossible. The process was so slow and bureaucratic that the web literally just showed up and stole it all in what seemed like overnight. I remember when I switched over... it was like 2002, 2003? I've never had as much fun on any web forum as I had on USENET though. Those were fun times. And don't get me started on the web's lack of threaded discussions. Drove me NUTS.

  • Donald Trump's iPhone Wallpaper Is Just a Photo of Himself

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  • I asked my SO what she thought his wallpaper might be. First answer: himself.

  • Federated social media from before it was cool

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  • Yes pardon me I left off the word "largely" before "unmoderated." We all knew it was possible, but it didn't matter because, as you point out - nobody really did.

  • Federated social media from before it was cool

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  • Google buying Dejanews, the largest archive of all messages, and merging it with the travesty that was (and still is) Google Groups just about killed the whole thing.

    Well that and the fact that it was unmoderated which eventually led to it being populated almost exclusively with mentally ill troll savants. USENET by the end was the digital equivalent of a horror zoo of abused monkeys slinging shit all over everyone and themselves.

  • TIL the woman who played Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch is a queerphobic Trump fan.

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  • A concentrated effort by bad-faith actors who understand that the only thing Americans love more than being told they're right is being able to feel smugly superior. Tap into that with the power of social media and voila.

  • TIL the woman who played Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch is a queerphobic Trump fan.

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  • “by now, we know that the vaccine was not safe or effective.”

    Also yet another a dangerous moron who thinks they're a fucking genius.

  • Elon Musk has regularly talked with  Vladimir Putin — and faced 'implicit threats': report

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  • They don't need any dirt on him, he's a fucking coward. All they have to do is point to the window, ask him if he is familiar with the term "defenestration" and assure him he will become intimately familiar with it unless he starts behaving the way Moscow wants. Yet another reason billionaires should be taxed out of existence like they used to be.

  • Elon Musk Sure Seems Scared After That DOJ Warning on His Dumb Lottery

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  • Absolutely goddamn tax them out of existence. Yesterday.

  • McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ Trump’s GOP

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  • In case anyone was wondering, this article makes abundantly clear that McConnell is (still) nearly as big a bag of shit as Trump is. He is a loathsome, worthless human being who deserves nothing but contempt. If I got to be president and had a congressional majority the first fucking thing I would do is put two new members on the SC to nullify the two illegitimate members that were put on the bench thanks to this fucking turd.

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  • Hot take, English got it wrong. I've never heard a frog make a sound like "ribbit".

    It's a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.

  • Supreme Court leaves in place Pennsylvania law barring people under 21 from carrying guns

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  • So do you suppose the SC is basically saying "quit bringing us these piss-ant rulings, bring us the real shit" by basically ignoring this one? Takes no work to just ignore it, but requires a lot of work to write up a contentious 6-3 ruling? I can't understand it otherwise.

  • Liz Cheney says she has ‘no faith’ speaker Johnson will certify the 2024 election: he’s knowingly done ‘unconstitutional’ things to ‘placate’ Trump

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  • No, that's why I said "I'd like to think." Because I don't.

  • Liz Cheney says she has ‘no faith’ speaker Johnson will certify the 2024 election: he’s knowingly done ‘unconstitutional’ things to ‘placate’ Trump

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  • If they take control of both houses of congress, I would like to think one of the first things they would do is expand the supreme court with the justification that denying Obama an appointee was straight-up unforgivably unethical. And suspend the filibuster to do it.

  • FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation

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  • Now if only they could do the same with the stock market. But the conspiracy theorist in me believes that all this manipulation is being done hand in hand with certain arms of the government in order to maintain the government's appearance of solvency and to control inflation in the face of what appears to be nearly unlimited spending. Just keep moving around fake money using a million different utterly opaque methods.

  • Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up • The Register

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  • Yeah except:

    Five other companies that we know of sued by Sable – Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, SonicWall, and Juniper Networks – settled out of court.

    Then they are forced to pay out $225k and are "destroyed?" I don't think so. Sounds to me like the fucks behind this are taking their money and running, lest somebody sue the dogshit out of them like they deserve.

  • Living up to his reputation

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  • This was what I was thinking. If she put quotes around "thank" and used unceremoniously instead, the post would read closer to what it sounds like she intended.

    Edit: I only just noticed a couple of things: first, this post is five years old. Second, she responded with full-throated support of Rick. So despite the fact that he is pretty well understood as a POS around most Trek communities these days, Denise doesn't seem to want to be lumped in with that.

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  • Nice straw man. Nobody said the community was going to "Linux-sized" nor that it was going to be built in a "few days," nor that it was going to have paid devs. It's like you're being intentionally obtuse.

    There are already multiple supported forks of Firefox and while it doesn't take much to maintain such forks when they are being fed a large part of the codebase by Mozilla, if you think such a project would not pick right the fuck up where Mozilla left off if Mozilla tried to pull a Google and get behind Manifest V3, you are, I believe, mistaken.

    Mozilla itself owes its existence to Netscape's failure in the face of unfair competition by Microsoft's Explorer. Netscape released its source code, Mozilla was founded and the power of open-source created Firefox. Chrome's halfhearted support of Mozilla is itself owed to the fact that they don't want to get spanked over Chrome like Microsoft was over IE.

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  • As if installing and using something else means you can't have Chrome lying around for that one stupid website.

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  • Yes, and we will drop Mozilla when it drops uBlock as well. We will all get behind whatever open-source browser stops ads, and it will very quickly become the most widely used browser. Why? Because everybody despises fucking ads and you can't curb-stomp them into liking ads, that's why.

    Google can spend all the money it likes trying to piss on users and tell them it's raining but at the end of the day, a new king will be crowned and if it isn't Chrome and it isn't Firefox, then it will be something else.

    And no, FOSS doesn't need money behind it. FOSS needs a dedicated community behind it. Assertions to the contrary are FUD constantly being seeded by Google, Microsoft and their ilk to destroy competition. This is an existential necessity for Google, you can bet they are doing everything in their power to maintain the status quo.

  • Free sample only $9.95

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  • No sense worrying about it then. I know I don't.