BrotherBisquick

You aren't a woman either.

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Jealousy is a stinky cologne, Pierre.

How exactly does Kagi bill you for going over your monthly limit?

Do they send you a bill at a later date, or are you meant to refill your balance before you can make more searches, or what?

I assume they don't keep your credit card on file and charge you for each individual extra search.

Who is "Sweeney" and how is he hostile towards Linux?

An exhaustive list of leftists who care about democracy:

There are legitimate reasons to dislike the man but it's so obvious that the mob is just grumpy that Musk allowed criticisms of the Democratic party line to exist on Twitter.

> It’s not a popular opinion on this site

Oh come on.

Why does a social media site need to enforce "safety?" What is "safety" anyway?

It's not "opinions I disagree with," I hope. Because labeling that "unsafe" is a new level of Orwellian.

Would you be amenable to a program like Keepass?

Your password store is a single file, it can be encrypted, backed up (or not), distributed/synchronized between your devices (or not). It belongs to you, not to a third party.

The inevitable rejoinder is, "what happens if someone gets that file?" Well, what happens if someone gets your piece of paper?

There's malware on the iOS app store?

What's the point of all that garden-walling and 30% tax and hoops you have to jump through if there's still malware?

> Because while the naming is pretty bad, people do actually know it's the latest generation console.

Do they? I don't. At this moment, I couldn't tell you the name of Microsoft's newest console, because their naming convention is so convoluted. Meanwhile, I can tell from a glance that the PS5 is newer than the PS4.

Granted, I'm not a console gamer, but neither are (most) parents buying consoles for their children.

"Ehh, people will know what we're talking about" seems like a haphazard marketing strategy.

> When will the mass media stop feeding people with that crap?

They won't, and that's why I think we, as a society, need to move past journalism.

That sounds like sarcasm, but it isn't. And I know what you're thinking- "oh but a free press is one of the legs of the tripod of society!" Well it was, decades ago. Now it's literally all tabloids and propaganda. It's time let it go.

We have various tools that allow individuals to securely communicate with each other. Let people communicate the news, word-of-mouth. We don't need bloggers and corporations anymore to put a spin on the facts.

"Democracy dies in darkness" is a threat, not a plea. Do you listen to cancer when it admonishes you, "don't excise me, or you'll be sorry!"

Which market does Apple monopolize?

And that there is why the system of volunteer moderators doesn't work.

You bring up legitimate concerns and you're met with either stony silence, or you get called an asshole.

> Why don't you mod then?

because the current crop of powermods have a stranglehold on who and who cannot be appointed to be a mod, and they refuse to take applications from anyone with opinions right of Trotsky.

No one's saying being a mod is easy. We're saying we want the power-hungry extremists to get out of the way, and to let reasonable professionals do the job instead, professionals whose only interest is to enforce the rules as written, and not to exclude people who disagree with them.

Your argument is circular, and is perverse. Your powermod friends are hurting the community, and everyone is calling for them to step down, and you respond with "hey you do the job if you think it's easy!" WTF? We can't do it because you won't get the hell out of the way!

The powers that be have deemed that they don't care what the "free labor force" wants or thinks. They care about the experience of the users, not the experience of the rulers of petty internet fiefdoms.

Reddit has indicated that it wants to pay for content moderation. So be it. Who are you to tell them how they run their company?

Maybe when we move away from "volunteers" then the "volunteers" can get real jobs that pay real money! It'll be good for them.

Reddit mods are addicted to power. If they don't ban anyone for 48 hours, they get the shakes.

> Its product is volunteer work by moderators and users to produce value.

Reddit's moderators are petty tyrants, half of whom are mentally ill and drunk with power. They're a drag on Reddit, not an asset.

I say do away with the entire concept of volunteer moderators. The idea is superficially sound but experience has shown us that it attracts bossy scoundrels who take themselves too seriously and make internet discussion boards miserable for people with real jobs who don't wear knee-high striped socks on a regular basis.

Moderators should be paid, anonymous, and completely detached from the community which they regulate. More like watchmen from Plato's Republic, less like Steve the lipstick-wearing commissar.

I could never get past the idea of a key sending a different keystroke than the one printed on it.

Yes, I know you're not supposed to look at the keyboard as you type. And I don't. But I still don't like it. It sets off "this is dumb" alarm bells in my head.

And because it's impossible to replace every keyboard I own or use, or physically rearrange their keys from QWERTY to Dvorak/Colemak, i'm stuck with QWERTY.

Look, this is interesting, but why can't this be a blog post?

Why does it have to be chopped up into individual chunks and put up on twitter?

Yes, that or "man up."

> an attacker overpowering you and shooting you with your own gun

I know you're not arguing otherwise, but this never happens, and it's one of those annoying arguments that anti-gun people use to justify banning and confiscation.

I can never go back to X11 and I think the greatest condemnation of it is that we're still talking about screen tearing in 2023.

Screen tearing is something that simply shouldn't exist by default. A person should be able to count on its absence, like a person should be able to count on a basic USB keyboard working without any headaches.

Now I'll brace myself for the "I've never noticed screen tearing" from people whose brains run on a different refresh rate than mine does.

...or rallying to the defense of the Duchess of Sussex, a literal princess married to a family of billionaires, while kicking poor white workers in the teeth because the latter are suspicious that a man belongs in a woman's locker room.

Just to establish that I don't buy into this bullshit and to make it known that people like me exist, "Alyssa" here is a man, and will never be a woman.

Everyone in the replies to this comment are naming places so dark and grim in Winter that I personally couldn't survive there. A summer in the southwest US is easier on me than even a mild winter in the northeast.

HN confirmed for Hyperboreans.

John Oliver is an outrage-peddler with no particular qualifications.

So?

> 2. Ad revenue is a very large portion of income for most creators.

Maybe we're moving past the societal stage where being a content creator is a real job.

Maybe people aren't meant to make a living from putting videos on the internet.