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Kent Sharkey wrote: That was the service a lot of people hated when it was released, wasn't it?
Yup, and journald (the buggy module) was one of the most hated components (because Linux wallahs dearly love wading through plain-text log files).
I have to say, though, that it didn't make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: wallahs
What is a "wallah?"
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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systemD is still widely hated in Linux and BSD communities alike. Funny that natural competitors like BSD & Linux hiss in harmony at the simple mention of system --always makes me laugh. Yep, system is considered simile to an STD (and I do not mean standard --think penicillin).
I was unaware of that...
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Facebook Inc. is among the technology companies leading the race to develop artificial intelligence. But Americans don’t trust it to do so responsibly, a survey from a U.K. think tank has found. Oooo, that's got to hurt
Right in their trust issues
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Next headline: Those two thugs down the street who just robbed your house and killed your cat are more trusted than Google.
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That makes sense.
The army's too dumb to get it right, while fb's too evil to use it right.
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...and this surprises anyone?
It's scarier to think about how the fact would catch anyone off-guard. AI is excellent when watching Jeopardy, but the reality of the matter is: Skynet like spaceships are no longer fantasy, based on previous commercial control over security/personal related information exchange and constant catch-up with patching/hot-fixing argument has become fact in that Identity theft and viral/malicious code targeting AI platforms will occur. Robocop also comes to mind and how about Tron --remember those movies?
Google is great, like many others in their own ways, but security demands more than commercial focus and commercial entities & investment groups are idiots in the field of security. Always connected & clod centric homes will become a battlefield eventually as is already starting.
Facebook on the other hand --wouldn't let anything "Facebook" control or automate anything in my existence to include, but not limited to toilet paper dispensing.
The fact that we're sociological addressing matters concerning AI relational to large, trend setting global companies with proven records in incompetency should raise coconsciousness regarding the current state of our 'digital social climate." 
I was unaware of that...
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Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas. Really Sad, Sayonara
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Surprisingly interesting (given that one of the opening statements is: "a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development", which led me to believe that I would sleep through it).
I was never into feeds, channels, portals, etc, so the article partly filled a gap in my knowledge, which makes a pleasant change.
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RSS (in contrast to popular perception) is not dead, it has only been assimilated most notably by services like JSON friendly web APIs. The unfortunate side-affect of RSS simile is that control is often relinquished to the whims of API providers, so no argument there.
I was unaware of that...
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Last year, four of the largest U.S. cell carriers were caught selling and sending real-time location data of their customers to shady companies that sold it on to big spenders, who would use the data to track anyone “within seconds” for whatever reason they wanted. They're so sorry...that you caught them (again)
Or I could go with a quote from Animal House, but some people might be offended by it. But it is so appropriate.
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And whoever bought my location data is now sending nasty letters asking for their money back.
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Do it!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The problem is that The Machine exists, but it's not governed by Harold's ethics.
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Windows sysadmins wake up on Wednesday with an almighty Patch Tuesday headache. Now Win7 users can get the full Win10 experience!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now Win7 users can get the full Win10 experience!
... Is the perfect comment.
There is a slight difference, though: my machines won't just update on microsoft's the hackers' command, and then stop working properly; I have to actively tell them to update and stop working properly.
I wonder if its better to do that now or later. Ms' current standards dictate that machines and programs should not work efficiently or well, and I do like to maintain standards, so sooner is probably better.
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It's all conditioning.
Migration is in full effect now.
Butcher 7 up real good then 10 might not seem so bad, right? 
I was unaware of that...
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This is my story of the first successful open source project at Microsoft and how it paved the way to where we are today. "The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love"
Of course I could have gone with, "You say you want a revolution?"
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Hmm.
Another one of those sites with a 900,000-word explanation of what data they slurp, but that does not give an opt-out.
Actually, that's not strictly true. You can opt out if you create an account with them.
The full process for opting out (after having created an account)?
Delete the account.
I love it when greedy idiots think they're being clever. Watching them dance is very entertaining.
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I recently figured out how to get images (such as wall papers) without actually going to a site and clicking buttons to download. In google (and using FireFox), right click the image, and select "View image info" in the menu. You'll get a dialog box that lists all of the images on the download site page, with your image selected. Simply copy the url and paste it into the address bar in your browser, and then right click to save the image.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Cool. It works in PaleMoon, too!
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Did you mis-post this? I don't see the connection to the op... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I feel it's my duty to note web-sites that try perverse or sneaky ways to get around obeying European privacy laws (and I then 0.0.0.0 them in my .hosts file).
You should be happy that those laws were put in place. You might not get the full benefit of them, because of where you are, but some of it filters through, as it makes the worst offenders more visible (and reviled).
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So your argument is with medium.com, not the article per se??
ok.
Their privacy policy is 11 pages or about 3000 words, give or take. Medium Privacy Policy – Medium Policy – Medium[^]
Seems more digestible than "900,000" words as you claimed.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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