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Re:Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘cen...
on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:59PM (#26570766)
I can't imagine Twitter/Facebook/etc. actually changing what a user wrote, in any context. This does reveal something about Reddit and I would be less surprised to learn they are editing other posts.
Re:The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:41PM (#26562952)
Do you really imagine a USA that didn't lock down doing as well as South Korea and Taiwan? Look at our numbers with the lockdowns.
The Asian countries were only able to do what they did because they were prepared, culturally and logistically, for a viral epidemic before one arrived.
Re:Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:48PM (#26480271)
I have long ago turned all of Google's activity tracking preferences off and erased the existing activity, yet once in a while some Google service reveals to me that it knows something it shouldn't.
Re:Is Being Salaried a Scam?
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @05:06PM (#26459178)
A lot of (most?) tech industry workers change jobs every 2-3 years and develop no particular attachment to or long-term plans for remaining at a company.
Re:Gnome 40 Introducing Headless Native Back End, Virtual Monitors
on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:46PM (#26440060)
Yes, wlroots is such a library.
Re:Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their influence
on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:02PM (#26362066)
Looking at the source code suggests that Kiwi is based on Chromium 77. A shame; it's a great idea. We need a mobile browser with extensions.
Re:Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO
on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:25PM (#26324740)
This is the textbook example of what not to do with SQL queries. You can't even learn SQL or an SQL library API without being warned against this a dozen times.
If the CTO pushed this code, and the processes the CTO themself is responsible for designing did not catch this, it is safe to say the CTO is incompetent.
Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:16PM (#26187745)
How many orders of magnitude in the Bitcoin CO2 footprint estimates do you think this vague theory can account for?
Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:03PM (#26187638)
It is estimated that the carbon footprint of a single Bitcoin transaction is 660 lbs of CO2 (not a typo), equivalent to that of 670,000 VISA transactions.