The American military machine is a joke.
Posts made by aapis
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RE: The largest navy in the world is TR:wtf:
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RE: Tinder is shit
Some of the apps used by the various sp0rtz teams I play on have similarly terrible built in messaging components. You get notifications but the messages don't render in real time, so you have to constantly force-refresh to see anything. Whatsapp > all of that shit.
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RE: Go stand behind him
@Gribnit Fuck outta here with that legitimate career advice.
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RE: Go stand behind him
@Andrew-Scott Thankfully, no. This is just an example of poor management. They're passing the buck down the chain, hoping someone else would do it. So, I'd recommend doing the same thing, assign the task to the person who should be doing it and go back to Youtube.
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RE: HubblePhone
I'm confused. Do you get 3 phones with the "Herschel" package? Or does one phone have 3 SoC's, storage devices and sets of RAM chips?
This is one of the shinier bitcoin scams, I'll give them that. In it's folded form I think it looks pretty nice. in it's "expanded" form it looks like they're trying to channel those early 2000's vertical camcorders that I always thought were heinous.
Edit: Holy shit you do get 3 processors in one device. Why? WHY?!? I could understand 1.5TB of storage and 30GB RAM, but 3 processors serves literally no purpose.
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RE: Coming soon: Equifax Part 3
@polygeekery The last 2, yes. But I'm not American (or British), so the chances are lower. I don't even know if they operate in my country.
And yes I can, as I had never heard of Equifax before this breach yet you're still claiming that I gave them permission. I gave no such explicit permission to Equifax, ever. Promise. You're trying to make the argument that because some other company says "we may check your credit..." in one of their many long form fine print documents that I have given them permission to know everything about me, but this argument is wrong. You're arguing from a legal perspective (which I don't care about, obviously this company was operating legally - my point has nothing to do with that) while I am arguing from the POV of the average consumer.
If my data ends up on the dark web because this company did not protect it properly, that is wrong. If they got that data without asking me personally for my explicit permission, that is wrong squared. Yes, it may be legal. Lots of things are legal right now. Your pedantry is irrelevant.
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RE: Coming soon: Equifax Part 3
@dcon Depends if you think their customers are the people whose data they own or the government of a country that some of those people live in? I can't think of any reason the US gov't would need anything provided by Equifax, don't they already have the IRS for that?
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RE: Coming soon: Equifax Part 3
Hence why I've never taken out a loan. What a scam.
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RE: Coming soon: Equifax Part 3
At this point Equifax should just admit defeat and cease operations. The only reason they haven't yet is because they don't really have customers, yet somehow they've been allowed to aggregate data on everyone without their permission and without any kind of federal oversight (in any country). Amazeballs.
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RE: All I want for Christmas is a removable battery...
@heterodox Except that is my point. All batteries are removable because literally none of them are hardwired to the mobo. You might find it a hassle, I don't care, but you can't say they aren't removable.
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RE: All I want for Christmas is a removable battery...
@accalia I have replaced several iPhone batteries. What's the problem?
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RE: All I want for Christmas is a removable battery...
@deadfast Yeah, because I totally didn't address that literally one sentence later.
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RE: Shuffling off this mortal coil
@dcoder Where did you find this code? RA2 is one of my favourite games, would love to peruse it's inner workings.
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RE: All I want for Christmas is a removable battery...
All phone batteries are removable. You just need to buy a few tiny phillips screwdrivers and watch some Youtube videos. The battery is, by design and by necessity, the most accessible component of every phone I've taken apart (probably all mobile phones, for all I know). Putting in a new one isn't a big deal.
Unless you're one of those people who wants to carry around 2 or 7 extra batteries and swap them out on the fly during the day. I don't understand your use case and have no solutions for you.
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RE: How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?
@el_heffe said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
I use Firefox Focus on mobile. I like it, but it won't convince me to use Firefox on desktop.
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RE: FlightAware starts using :disco: :horse: Sadness ensues
I don't understand why can't they just fix the UI? Surely all the backend work doesn't need to be trashed.
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RE: I'm too smart to read job ads that I apply for
@the_quiet_one There was a story on this site a year (or two?) ago from a guy who had made a few commits on the mongodb (?) repo on Github who was offended that nobody was throwing money and praise at him just for completing a job application. He finished his blog post with some "helpful" tips for prospective employers to consider. The most important thing, apparently, is that you have to have heard of him.
Sooo cringe worthy.
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RE: I'm too smart to read job ads that I apply for
@apapadimoulis said in I'm too smart to read job ads that I apply for:
further than you imagined possible
Wow, vague hand-wavy sales jargon from an unproven nobody. You're so hired, bro. Just don't have him/her do any math.
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RE: Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows
@marczellm said in Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows:
(Web content running in Safari running in an emulated iOS in an UWP container on Windows 10?)
That is truly fucked up. Does Facebook exclusively hire coding bootcamp grads?
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RE: Security for a public-use touchscreen
@timebandit I didn't even know we had a web filter (meraki) at work until I clicked that link, which is apparently blocked for "adult and pornograpghy". :\
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RE: Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language
@darkmatter That is an accurate description of testicles as well!
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RE: Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language
These listicles are always, always, terrible and stupid.
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RE: Oh Deer...
@masonwheeler Those were random celebrity baby names I just googled. I don't expect to actually meet anyone with a name that weird.
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RE: Oh Deer...
@boomzilla That's fine if it is, it's just a silly name for a white person. Like "Rocket Zot" or "Rainbow Aurora".
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RE: Oh Deer...
We've achieved peak-hipster. Foodies? Check. Vegan? Check. Overly expensive soap? Check. Terrible taglines? Check.
Also, one of them is called "Sharni". I really hope that's an ethnic name.
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RE: Allo for web (not for web)
@boomzilla Yes, but Apple's works with SMS as well (not just iMessage messages). Others may as well, I don't know.
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RE: Is adblocking a DMCA violation?
I used to browse a niche website that used Admiral tech to "control their advertising environment". They don't use it anymore, presumably because they realized that as soon as users got one of their dumb popups they just bailed and went somewhere else.
The "publishing" industry thinks paywalls are the solution to all of their problems. I don't know what the actual solution is, but the fact they no longer have a monopoly over the distribution of written words makes me pretty happy.
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RE: A new StackExchange site
@jaloopa said in A new StackExchange site:
Well now there's a whole site for people with no social skills to ask other people with no social skills how to socialise.
Fucking lol. SO is the last place I would go to learn about social skills. This is the same site which prides itself on being needlessly pedantic about what kinds of questions are acceptable.. why do they think this will work?
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RE: Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
Not sure if this was pointed out before, but this guy works for a company that markets a competing product - "Co-founder of Ably: Simply better realtime messaging". Kind of taints the whole post for me.
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RE: The high price of Bitcoin leads to hardware craziness
People who think they can get something out of nothing, smart? Please. Bitcoin was a scam when it came out. The only thing that has changed is that nobody thinks cryptocurrency is cool anymore so it won't be getting any more media attention.
They may only sell these cards where the regulatory framework is not going to be a burden.
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RE: Would you recommend the product you're working on to your clients?
I work for an ad agency now and we don't market any products yet. The last product company I worked for had a product which I would have used if I was running a specific kind of business online, but as an end user of those businesses I did (and still do) block their services with an ad blocker. So it depends what my "client" is (big business or end user), I guess.
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RE: First there were SolarRoads, now there will be PlasticRoads.
@Steve_The_Cynic I feel like his truck was just not big enough.
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RE: First there were SolarRoads, now there will be PlasticRoads.
Maybe the execution is kind of bad, but I like that someone out there is looking for alternatives to asphalt.
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RE: Can't turn the car radio off
I've never been happier to own an old car. Lackadaisical security, pointless "connected" features, so much conflicting software that you can't turn off the damn radio.. makes you wonder why anyone buys new. Who is asking for this shit?
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RE: Stupid patent lawsuits
@Rhywden Don't tell Americans how to freedom, they don't like that for some reason.
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RE: Fucking Recruiter dumbshittery
@TimeBandit I just googled it, apparently it's like JRuby but for PHP. I don't know why people want to try running everything on the JVM.
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RE: Web USB
@Rhywden Your use case makes no sense to me. Then again I don't know what a "hosted web apps" is, must be some WIndows thing.
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RE: Edge
I can't remember the last time I took Microsoft's word for anything, their promises that this would be a wholly new product is no exception. "Optimized for Windows 10" apparently means "it's only available on Windows 10".
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RE: Google Play FTL
@sloosecannon My country has had NFC payment cards for probably 10 years, maybe more. I only just got one because for the past 10 years I've been with a bank that isn't really a bank. themoreyouknow.jpg
This shit: http://cdn.trend.az/media/pictures/2012/12/19/Master_card_191212_2.jpg
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RE: Google Play FTL
@boomzilla You'd sacrifice security for convenience? On purpose?
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RE: Web USB
code on the web can be updated quickly in response to reported vulnerabilities. Very few driver packages are.
..and what if it isn't? The only fallback you have is relying on vendors to temporarily disable this API, like Apple did with Flash a few years ago, when a significant security vulnerability rears it's ugly head. Hardware drivers are fundamentally different from "code on the web", you can't reasonably compare the two unless your only criteria is that they both contain "code". Unlike network requests, the problem is not verifying who sent the request. The problem is arbitrary code execution on a physical device. All this talk of CORS is completely missing the point! They're trying to apply web-centric thinking to hardware. It doesn't make any sense.
Who is this for? Is there even a single use case?
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RE: Google Play FTL
@Polygeekery There's nothing "new" about chip and pin cards. You Americans are just way, way behind the times.
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RE: Latest .NET Core featuer: backwards compatibility
So.. as a non-MS developer who is casually interested in the .NET Core framework, this changes nothing because the .NET Framework still is not cross platform. Do I have that right? Or does this inclusion of DLLs thing make .NET Framework cross platform?