pbtflakes
Re:Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?
on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:20PM (#14035735)
Other instances of Mastodon can make their own decisions in terms of banned content, and other instances can choose to not federate with them.
Re:Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?
on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:06PM (#14034928)
Mastodon.social would ban them, and if other instances don't police content sufficiently then Mastodon.social doesn't have to federate with them.
Re:Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters
on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:47AM (#14031956)
Unintended behavior would be more accurate.
Re:Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value
on Monday April 03, 2017 @01:33PM (#14025017)
That's not how the math works out, according to Nasdaq.com Tesla's P/E was -53.63 for 2016 and estimated -103.48 for 2017.
Re:IBM Selectric Typewriter and its mechanical digital to analogue con...
on Saturday March 04, 2017 @01:07AM (#13789579)
The appendix to this video [0] goes into the specific operation of the Whiffletree mechanism.
IBM Selectric Typewriter and its mechanical digital to analogue converter [video]
Re:We Tried Slack and We Deeply Regretted It (2015)
on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:10AM (#13696036)
Whoops, hadn't heard about that case. Nice to hear the FCC is addressing deceptive marketing/contracts.
Re:We Tried Slack and We Deeply Regretted It (2015)
on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @09:44AM (#13695818)
This being distinct from that by being entirely undocumented, instead of burying the data limitations somewhere deep in the contract.
Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
on Saturday February 11, 2017 @05:01PM (#13625092)
If you're converting Org documents to PDF, you can use Pandoc (http://pandoc.org/) to automatically convert & send through pdfLaTeX.
Re:RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0
on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:29AM (#13581019)
I believe the English-language term is "letter of the law" for literal interpretations and "spirit of the law" for interpretations based on what something is meant to do.
Re:“DRM is Used to Lock in, Control and Spy on Users”
on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:59AM (#12911950)
It's right there in the 13th Amendment. Just look at FPI/UNICOR, a government-owned corporation founded in order to exploit prison labor.
Re:How Two Seattle-Area Brothers Made Dwarf Fortress
on Thursday June 09, 2016 @09:36AM (#11869260)
The stock character set is modified code page 437.
Re:Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5
on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:31PM (#11754893)
From what I recall, videos that are long enough (such as NASCAR replays) require the flash player.
Re:US Senate website says use HTTP instead of HTTPS
on Friday May 06, 2016 @11:04AM (#11644449)
Not even that they're unable, there's a valid certificate & they're deliberately not using it for the site.
Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit
on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:12PM (#11556982)
Created an account because my friends use it and I'm getting more involved with programming, no plans to astroturf involved. Though I have been thinking about a part-time job over the summer…
Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit
on Saturday April 23, 2016 @01:18PM (#11556411)
Reason being it's a semi-private beta, not public release. Invite-only lets them ease into managing a larger userbase and the associated content.