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New comment by kabwj in "Sending 1.2M Tweets"

kabwj — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:43:52 +0000

If you can live with the crappy photo quality.

New comment by kabwj in "Microsoft Word for Android has been installed more than 1B times"

kabwj — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 19:46:07 +0000

Exactly. It comes preinstalled on many mobiles and tablets, like Samsung’s. This number is worthless.

New comment by kabwj in "One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online"

kabwj — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 07:41:36 +0000

Not native. But anyway I disagree that women squat pee. They usually sit to pee here. While men don’t so all the toilet (the appliance) and the ground are full of pee. Result: the whole room stinks of pee.

New comment by kabwj in "One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online"

kabwj — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 07:22:46 +0000

By toilets I mean the room itself, not the appliance.

New comment by kabwj in "Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range"

kabwj — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 07:11:27 +0000

That’s the same thing they said about addresses in bogons ranges and eventually we succeeded in using them.

New comment by kabwj in "One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online"

kabwj — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 07:06:28 +0000

I don’t see how it’s any better that pronouns lose their gender, making them less specific and therefore less useful.

New comment by kabwj in "One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online"

kabwj — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 07:03:41 +0000

Male toilets are always much more filthier than female toilets. If I was a female I’d be pretty pissed if they forced me to use a urinal for men.

New comment by kabwj in "‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi"

kabwj — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:09:30 +0000

Sorry, I meant in the last 100 years or so.

New comment by kabwj in "‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi"

kabwj — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 09:39:49 +0000

People prefer happiness to freedom. I don’t think that democracy is vital to the wellness of a society. It’s just that until now all autocratic societies were ruled by shitheads and they inevitably collapsed. Now we’re seeing an autocratic society that is working fine because it’s being led by intelligent, not-too-selfish people. This is a breath of fresh air since in my opinion democracy is well past its heyday and we have to explore new options.

New comment by kabwj in "Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download"

kabwj — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 08:47:23 +0000

Obviously, since they use the same CDN.

New comment by kabwj in "Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download"

kabwj — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 08:28:01 +0000

No indication of what it means. Has anybody tried to download the same picture from two accounts and see if the data changes? Maybe this is some data they embed into the picture for bookkeeping when inside their infrastructure and they forget to strip it when they let you download it.

New comment by kabwj in "A problem worse than Zoom?"

kabwj — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 23:12:18 +0000

It’s interesting you say this. I work as a web developer, I consider myself to be more or less well versed in security, and it would have never occurred to me that websites can make requests to devices inside the standard private blocks of addresses. I think it stands to reason that these requests should be blocked in the same way requests to the file:// protocol are blocked.

New comment by kabwj in "Google takes another run at social networking with Shoelace"

kabwj — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:32:42 +0000

People who avoid Facebook products as a rule are unlikely to ever consider google products.

New comment by kabwj in "The threat of youth basketball"

kabwj — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:55:13 +0000

Egalitarianism is a lie to make you feel good. Not all people are born equal. Live with it.

New comment by kabwj in "Mobile OS Alternatives to Android in 2019"

kabwj — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:31:41 +0000

“Open source” missing from the title.

New comment by kabwj in "Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil"

kabwj — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:25:05 +0000

Being detained doesn’t equal being beaten up.

New comment by kabwj in "Twitter was down"

kabwj — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:24:36 +0000

Reddit being up for 24 hours or generating pages in less than 3 seconds would be noteworthy.

New comment by kabwj in "Sugary drinks and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort"

kabwj — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:25:17 +0000

>postmenopausal US women

New comment by kabwj in "Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain"

kabwj — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:04:20 +0000

If you are forced to resort to these things to survive maybe you should do something else. Maybe these journalists should learn to code.

New comment by kabwj in "Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server"

kabwj — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 06:53:14 +0000

That’s funny. Windows’ own tool for these matters is called... MRT.exe