charonn0

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

To the boiler room of hell. Allll the way down.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 69 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You Linux users sure are a contentious people.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

And it didn't even accomplish anything.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

You just need to have faith.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: The Windows executable format is originally based on an old Unix executable format.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

“The filter is powered by a Large Language Model (LLM) that’s trained on moderator actions and content removed by Reddit’s internal tools and enforcement teams,” reads an excerpt from the page.

Eww, gross. I was never a moderator, but that would annoy me.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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