naranana

Tech people believe in real ID because most tech people are leftists.

Leftists call racists "racists" because under their own set of values that's a horrible thing to say. Imagine if a tech guy was outed as a racist. That'd be the end of his career. Look at what happened to Brendan Eich when it was discovered he doesn't support gay rights.

What they don't understand is that there are more economy sectors other than tech and places other than San Francisco where your life won't be ruined if someone discovers you're a racist. So, real ID is pretty much irrelevant for a big part of the population. That's why it doesn't work.

All boards are moderated in a completely different way. Most of the boards have a pinned post with the rules. Most moderation occurs stealthily.

Also, racism and doxxing are not comparable at all.

I like it too but I've found it to be pretty buggy sometimes, especially if the contents of a folder change or the folder itself is deleted while you're viewing it, you get an endless stream of Delphi exceptions.

"National Asphalt Pavement Association", it's like America has a lobby for everything.

It's normal: you make such a big investment (moving to an open office), you have to pretend you didn't screw it up good.

Like when people pretended they liked standing desks because they spent $1000 in one. Imagine standing still for eight hours a day.

To the author of the article—you have a very tiny typo, garderning instead of gardening.

Clickbait: it's not like Google is removing their launcher from the Store, it's just Google Now Launcher being superseded by the Pixel Launcher.

SoulSeek

You are on Facebook. All your data is there. You simply can not log in any more.

I wonder what they'll do when there's nobody left to buy the products. Maybe they can sell them to the robots themselves?

>now that government censorship seems to be becoming the norm

How is the US government censoring anything?

>open hardware/software/hackability

It's an Allwinner SoC. I doubt there's anything open about it, they probably won't even give you the GPL'd code you need to run it.

>The laptop's clearly not "bad" in some objective sense

11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Allwinner A64 ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor with Mali-400MP2 graphics, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of eMMC storage

Everything about that is objectively bad. Those are the regular specs any piece of consumer hardware would have over ten years ago. I'm sure an ancient Pentium 4 would simply crush that processor.

>It's probably subjectively bad to many people, in which case it's clearly not meant for them

What kind of a public would this laptop have? With those specs you can barely run a web browser.

Why do you need a hotspot? You don't need a computer at all. Chances are, if you need subsidised internet, you can't afford a computer, anyway.

The point is that you don't need a landline/broadband for any of those. 3G and a smartphone is more than enough.

The author of this story flatly ignores the fact that the Lifeline program -- by law -- was never meant to subsidize broadband. It was VERY explicitly intended to subsidize only basic telephone service. Read the law.

If Congress wants there to be a broadband subsidy for the poor, it needs to specifically authorize one. The current law simply does not provide for it, and the FCC needs to obey the law.

>I had a period of about 3 months where Amazon just couldn't deliver to my house.

And Amazon can also ban you forever from their service, for example if you return too many things in a short period.

Imagine if that meant you couldn't buy anything at all because there aren't any competitors.