duckhelmet

Takes the prize for stating the blindingly obvious.

Interesting watching Reddit self-destruct.

> d. None of the above

e. Ok, what personal stuff would you want to talk about?

“I have noticed certain trends. When stories that focus on structural barriers faced by women in the workplace, or on diversity in tech, or on race or masculinity—stories, admittedly, that are more intriguing to me, a person interested in the humanities, than stories on technical topics—hit the front page, users often flag them, presumably for being off topic, so fast that hardly any comments accrue.”

a. That's because there is no barriers to to women in the tech workplace. It just that they have a social life outside computers.

b. This is a tech forum, we only want to read tech stuff.

c. Your imaginary travails are of no interest to us.

“Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

> how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders

And water is wet .. same with so-called social media with their endless likes and friends. Addiction machines by any other name.

Could I have another down-vote please /s

> This topic was posted earlier today but was seemingly killed..

I don't like you cause you contradicted me the last time, therefore I'm going to mod you into oblivion :]

It's understandable why these were modded into invisibility ;) --

@nancyhn: “The banking industry is a fraudster's paradise. The difference is they don't get arrested, they get bailed out with bonuses. It seems there are a lot of short memories here who don't remember 2008.” --

icepat: “If you rolled back every bitcoin transaction ever made you would end up with people in debt because the transaction fees were paid. This makes bitcoin into a scam. The miners in total are guaranteed to win, everyone else in total is guaranteed to lose. Some people haven't realized their loss but it's there. It is an ingenious scam because it's not the scammers who hype it up, no, it's the marks because the only way they can get ahead if they hype it up. The miners get their cut no matter what.”

“This is not the same for say, gold, because gold can be made into, say, electronics which now can be sold for more than the sum of the cost of the components. Stocks pay dividends etc.”

“Since so fundamentally it's a scam, is it a wonder other scams are built on top?”

> Interesting: he says that the famous 1202 error may sometimes crash the spacecraft and sometimes land successful in some other cases .. The Apollo 11 landing was not a tragedy be sheer luck.

I recall reading somewhere that the 1202 error was caused by someone switching on the rendezvous radar, in the event of a quick take-off. This caused the computer to continuously seek for a radar lock on the orbiting craft that was not going to occur. Nothing like this happened in the simulator.

> That has nothing to do with this article, though.

"Is there any lgbtq agenda in Africa to begin with?"

> Define, please, "family values".

A family consisting of a “cis” man and a “cis” woman, raising children generated through sexual congress.

“Planned Parenthood Federation of America honored the Pearl of Africa, a unique documentary from the inside of the Ugandan LGBT movement.”

https://archive.is/BNBWP

“New law could allow GCHQ to monitor UK internet logs in real-time to tackle fraud”

;)

> Why there are so many cybersecurity vendors ..

Because the innovators still cannot deign a “computer” that can't be compromised by opening a malicious email attachment or clicking on a malicious URL.

> I'm pretty sure every last bit of what we hear about it is propaganda. Empire doesn't happen by chance.

We're going to fight to the last Ukrainian /s

> Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.

The bat virus they were doing gain-of-function research on at the Wuhan Lab came from miles away.

"Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...

> The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to

“Wuhan lab workers were sick in November 2019, intelligence suggests”

https://www.livescience.com/covid-lab-leak-wuhan.html

What Happens When The Federal Government Stops Paying For Covid-19 Tests, Vaccines And Treatments? [forbes.com]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2022/09/05/what-wil...

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine authorised for use in infants and children aged 6 months to 4 years [www.gov.uk]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pfizerbiontech-covid-19-v...

Waning of vaccine effectiveness against moderate and severe covid-19 among adults in the US from the VISION network: test negative, case-control study [bmj.com]

https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-072141

CDC Altered Minnesota Death Certificates that List a Covid Vaccine as a Cause of Death [brownstone.org]

https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-altered-death-certificat...

Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says [wsj.com]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807...

The evidence is becoming ever more clear that the Covid-19 virus leaked out of China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. [forbes.com]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2023/03/30/laborato...

> Why is there no government-built social media?

There is, it's called Facebook, Youtube etc. Twitter was part of that until Musk bought it and published the Twitter Files.

I saw another report where asking the students to keep a journal monitoring their mental health caused stress.

@LorenD: "For the record, I've never had a WLAN issue in 3 years of Linux (Ubuntu and then openSUSE). I can't attest to GPU as I don't have a dedicated GPU though.

GRUB has also been quite the happy camper in my experience (at least if you don't go mucking about with config files)."

How dare you not have a problem in a discussion on Linux. (Not just there yet :)

Have they tried invading Russia /s

Most of the tech infrastructure is held together with twine and chewing gum. One great solar storm could knock it out. A.I bla-bla .. blockchain bla-bla .. cloud bla-bla-bla

‘One of the most interesting things about Microsoft's Halloween Memo is the concept of "de-commoditizing" protocols’

Don't they mean monopolizing the protocols /s

@IronWolve: "Linux desktop experience does suck .."

Same ole same ole FUD .. it even does phones better than MICROS~1

PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/pureos-mobile/

Is that video being financed by the MICROS~1 advertising department. From the title to the weird presentation, it's almost as if it was designed to drive people away. Linux OK for the geeks but not your average user /s

"ubuntu 3D Desktop" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE

Unreal Engine 4 Demos on Linux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd90ZkCCgKY

2006 is calling, it wants its FUD back /s

"A Brief History of Microsoft FUD" http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57261/index.html

"Ubuntu 20.04 For Windows Users"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBCE-ZH_xLA

Have you ever tried using a bicycle?

Scientology: did some alien make a bet that he could get the daftest religion ever to take hold in 1950s America?

"The Underground Bunker: Latest News"

https://tonyortega.org/scientology/

"Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Remini:_Scientology_and_t...

"When customers set up a Linux virtual machine in their cloud"

Yea, make sure to mention Linux in relation to vulnerabilities. Then pretend Microsoft is to the rescue with OMI. A FUD piece for Microsoft masquerding as a technical article.