(((Thinkaholic))) is antifa

Another refugee from Muskrat's $8-chan, lurking quietly in the virtual corner of the party with an IPA. He/him. 60% politics, 20% geekery, and 20% random AF. Team Oxford Comma until I die. Trans rights are human rights.

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2024-09-09 01:19:23

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@npub1a4t…eauf In the corner, Grandma looks worried….

2024-08-27 02:23:23

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@npub1fpr…lyph Deepest sympathy. May his memory be a blessing, and may the paw prints he left on your heart never fade.

2024-04-09 01:58:32

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@npub19fc…ay3c I mean, he’s great but I think Magneto has to be in the conversation.

2024-02-06 02:55:51

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@npub1fzp…dkks @npub1gsk…hkeq
I'm just waiting for my older stepkid to move out so I can reclaim my home office and set up my ANS500 coffee table again.

2024-02-06 02:54:27

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@npub1gsk…hkeq @npub1fzp…dkks A lot of chicken-and-the-egg there, IMO. If more people had bought Xserves there would have been more development, but also by the end of its run the Xserve CPU was a couple generations behind the current chips in Dell/HP competitors. "If you build it they will come" is a risky way to run a business, but "wait until they come before we build it" ain't great either.
But that's a whole 'nother discussion.

2024-02-06 02:51:42

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@npub1fzp…dkks Yeah, and it can also lead to feature bloat as product management crams in 60 new features in hopes that each of them will bring in a few dozen new users. Nothing is perfect.
The big thing I see is that we've gone from multiple models to subscription as a one-size-fits-all approach. I want developers to get paid. I want there to be financial incentives to make and support great software. But IMO sometimes a subscription model is a square hole and we're just hammering our round pegs in.

2024-02-06 02:43:41

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@npub1fzp…dkks @npub172q…lhd7 My biggest problem with the app store model as it currently exists is the death of the paid version upgrade. Back in the day, if I'm a happy user of Foo 11 and you release Foo 12, I can look at the new feature list and decide if it's worth my $70 .
But with the "upgrades free" app store model, you have two choices: subscription revenue, or abandon Foo to work on Bar and later abandon Bar in favor of Baz. Given those choices, yay subscriptions! But I miss the old model.

2024-01-10 06:13:11

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@npub1u4k…vxe4 I have not; I know the acoustic version from their MTV Unplugged recording.

2024-01-09 20:59:55

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@npub1u4k…vxe4 @npub1ske…j4np The original was perfect for all my teenage feels, and the acoustic is perfect for all my 50-something feels.

2024-01-03 19:37:18

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@npub19fc…ay3c Heavy pacifist strain — back in the '80s when my teenage self was waving signs around at nuclear freeze protests there were always a few Mennonites there. And nowadays I volunteer for Family Promise, a nonprofit that partners with churches and other organizations to provide shelter for unhoused families with children, and the Mennonite church is one of our host sites and punches above their weight in doing good.
I'm not a Mennonite, but I respect the heck out of the ones I've met.

2023-12-19 16:28:00

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@npub15th…6nvx
"On Christmas day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore,
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four." — Tom Lehrer

2023-12-07 20:01:51

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@npub19fc…ay3c I'm so old that I remember when "a 9/11 worth of deaths every month" was a big deal. Now, apparently, it is quite literally the cost of doing business.

2023-11-23 23:01:11

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@npub1qep…hklj @npub18yl…pegw And some heroes’ capes flutter in the wind they make themselves….

2023-11-23 01:08:30

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@npub19fc…ay3c Next you’ll tell me that the “content of their character” speech wasn’t the only thing he ever said or wrote!

2023-11-17 20:58:49

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@npub19fc…ay3c @npub1kk5…e0ds @npub1gxt…j9na @npub14rn…5zzk @npub1uuv…zpxv
I wrote a paper looking at Black American attitudes toward American imperialism during the late 19th/early 20th century and there was a lot of cognitive dissonance because on the one hand they could see the racism against Filipinos mirrored the racism they experienced but also the Republican party was both the party of imperialism *and* Black civil rights.

2023-11-16 18:36:43

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@npub19fc…ay3c I mean, racism is about structural power, so for my white Anglo self to be a victim of racism I would need to be in a system where Black or Brown people are systematically advantaged so the hypothetical "reverse racist" can turn their anti-White prejudice into racist oppression. I am not aware of any such systems, but I suppose with an infinite number of parallel universes....

2023-11-16 17:47:31

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@npub19fc…ay3c There's a quote from a far-right Peruvian general/president: "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law." I think that's basically the US view on international law and war crimes; they're a cudgel to bludgeon our enemies with, not a standard to which we hold ourselves or our friends.

2023-10-28 21:57:30

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@npub1jc0…sldg I've gone full dad mode; now when I see those young women in skimpy outfits instead of wanting to chat them up I want to tell them to put on something warm before they catch their death of cold....

2023-08-30 20:57:32

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@npub19fc…ay3c In a lot of cases it’s mental health issues that the person is self-medicating, and sometimes those devolve into drug issues. But if we could house them and help them get treatment for their mental illnesses, the drug issues would never start.

2023-08-17 03:39:45

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@npub189n…satx Quick, eat ice cream in the living room in your underwear while you can!

2023-07-14 23:31:18

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@npub1vny…n9q4 I get the sentiment, but it's worth noting that neither the WGA nor SAG is calling for a boycott at this time. When they do, hell yeah cancel all the things; until then I think it's important that we as consumers follow the union's lead.

2023-05-16 14:00:25

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@npub1g2d…83a0 I'm reposting this with alt-text to improve accessibility. You are 100% right — this is not a wholesome feel-good story, this is a society failure masked by individuals' decency.
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