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Much of the technology we use everyday has been shown to not serve their users best interest. So maybe companies will stop using chemical fertilizers in their apps, and just stick with the BS we're used to?
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Good software grows organically, but that's not what the article is about.
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Is that the BS "FDA Certified Organic"?
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Among other things, companies that sign the pledge agree to cooperate when it comes to fighting toxic content, such as child sexual abuse material and terrorist content. They promise to “responsibly address hate speech, disinformation and opinion manipulation.” Everything's fixed people. We can rest easy now.
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Quote: They promise to “responsibly address hate speech, disinformation and opinion manipulation.” Thou shalt not argue!
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I have a dejà vóu
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Kent Sharkey wrote: esponsibly address hate speech
Right, I'd like to see how that works out. What I've seen so far is "Oh, you disagree with xyz??? You posted an opinion that differs from that held by the online mob??? You can't do that! That's hate speech! -- YOU ARE BANNED!!!"
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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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We all know we're attached to our gadgets. But are we attached enough? A new study offers an opprtunity for deep thought and a great opportunity for tech companies. No, it's not the minute before the meeting starts
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux Foundation fellow currently responsible for stable Linux kernel releases shared the lessons he’s learned as a kernel developer that are applicable to other developers at this year’s Linux App Summit. "Don’t make your users mad"
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I love that he points to systemd as a success story. Every linux power user I know raged about their favorite distro drinking the koolaid, and have continued to rage every time they have to do anything related to the functions that systemd borged up.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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lesson learned: don't do linux.
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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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Microsoft’s “Meeting Insight Computing System,” as described in patent filings, would use cameras, sensors, and software tools to monitor the people and the conditions in a meeting, as well as post-meeting surveys, to create a “quality score” for the meeting. 4/5 meeting attendees felt that 4/5 of the meeting attendees were fools
What about the old, "Add the salaries of everyone in the room, and divide by the time in the meeting. Then have the organizer decide if it's worth that much."
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Rant: This isn't an invention; it's a bunch of ideas, most of which a twelve year old could come up with.
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According to a report from the Financial Times, Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Libra could launch in January. But Libra is the sign for September/October
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I wonder... how many tracking mechanisms can be hidden in a blockchain?
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Scammers are trying to steal email credentials from employees by impersonating their organization's human resources (HR) department in phishing emails camouflaged as internal 'back to work' company memos. So I wasted all that time walking downstairs to my office?
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Chris: Why is everyone ignoring my emails?
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In .NET 3.0 we introduced a GC.GetGCMemoryInfo API for library code to get memory load related things (this was used in ArrayPool for example) so it exposed things library folks wanted at the time. "The sweet sweet memories you gave-a me You can't beat the memories you gave-a me"
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The UK is spinning up a new regulatory body, intended to "enforce a new code to govern the behavior of platforms that currently dominate the market." Because if anyone knows good management, it's the UK government
Too political? Or recognized for the sarcasm intended (and could probably also be said for just about any government past or present)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or recognized for the sarcasm intended (and could probably also be said for just about any government past or present) And not only in the UK
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Great news! It turns out scientists have discovered that we're 2,000 light-years closer to Sagittarius A* than we thought. As we continue to circle the drain
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'While Bob never got to play on the big stage, he always followed the band around and got to ride on the bus' "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive." WHAAAAATTTTT?????
No Bob... they are not speaking about you...
Are you? are you? Are you?
I will release the hamsters if you do...
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No, not that Bob (and not Bob my manager... maybe)
TTFN - Kent
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Italy’s Borexino detector has confirmed a decades-old theory, finding the first-ever evidence of a carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle that produces neutrinos in our Sun. Because it's the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?
And here I thought 'neutrino fluxes' were just in Star Trek.
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