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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by abstractbeliefs on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:12PM (#17990000)
The other thing is that `/e/`, with the slashes and all, is the exact name of 4chans softcore hentai board.
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by labster on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:18PM (#17991871)
Let's just be glad they didn't name it /d/, and then use it to run a Squid cluster.
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by rijoja on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:55PM (#17990389)
and without the slashes one of many names of a particularly popular party drug
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by peterwwillis on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:09PM (#17990536)
"Hentai, ecstacy, and data ownership? Take my money." - Grandma
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by sannee on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:43PM (#17990768)
To be fair, people call drugs by myriads of names. Context usually helps to disambiguate between LSD and MySQL.
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by hansjorg on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:30PM (#17991136)
The default MySQL table engine (MyISAM) isn't actually LSD compliant.
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by lozenge on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:57AM (#17993806)
MyISAM hasn't been the default since 2009
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by some_account on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:09PM (#17990531)
Call it Evasion OS. I think it's a cool name that has an "e" in it, and it's really about evading the massive data gathering going on.
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by tzakrajs on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:31PM (#17990681)
May as well call it extraterrestrial os because no one on Earth is going to use it
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by 0x8BADF00D on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:46PM (#17990794)
That’s pretty brutal, I’m sure they will have a niche of users.
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by liquid153 on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:58PM (#17990881)
hahahaha
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by chooseaname on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:55PM (#17992040)
Not gonna ask. Nope. Not gonna.
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