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"Giving money to J.K.Rowling is the same as giving money to eradicate transgender people. I'm sorry, but it's true."
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"Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.
The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it."
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
Just before 3am yesterday, we had to evacuate at an apartment, possibly because someone pulled the alarm as a “joke.” There was no fire so we all had to wake up at an ungodly hour for no reason.
Yesterday my wife’s friend, a fellow immigrant already traumatized by an increasingly kafkaesque immigration system, was enraged because she believed a 4/1 article by a real news site about TSA requiring transparent luggage soon.
C’mon, false alarms and fake news stories is so basic.
“How can we implement half-baked UI ideas faster?” isn’t the computer science problem that was screaming out for a solution, however extravagant. What we still need a solution for is “the user clicked/touched a spot based on what was there 0.1s ago but we auto-updated with new info, launching the person into a frustrating new state they have to undo, with no obvious path to the thing they actually wanted.”
Like seriously this is a fundamental problem with reactive UI.
About trans rights:
They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.
When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.
So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.
Okay, folks, gather 'round, because you are not going to believe this one. My friend who is working at NASA told me this confidential news , but i can finally spill the beans: NASA is officially running NetBSD.
Yeah, you heard that right. Turns out, when you need an OS that can literally run on a potato *and* survive the vacuum of space without a hiccup, you do not mess around. They have been working under wraps with their deep space division on something they are calling "AstroBSD."
Apparently, the Perseverance rover on Mars? Yeah, it is not just taking pretty pictures; it is crunching data with a custom NetBSD kernel.
This just proves what foundation has been saying forever: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" From your ancient router to a rover on another planet.
#NetBSD #NASA #AstroBSD #AprilFools #OpenSource #Portability #MarsRover #SpaceTech #GeekHumor
As NZ moves towards a social media ban for children under 16, Charlotte McLauchlan argues that forcing kids to change their behaviour is the wrong approach.
She says it's the social media giants which need regulation and this is our chance to get it right.
If our politicians weren't so trivially tribal, there'd be a damn good case for cross-party cooperation on this issue.
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