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2 years agodiscuss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUsDk8wjRPs from them kills me every time

Doubly funny when it first came out because IIRC Slackware ha just released a new version

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2 years agodiscuss

Scam artists have to be superficially nice to their victims otherwise they'll never gain their confidence.

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2 years agodiscuss

But no less financially destructive

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2 years agodiscuss

I'd be able to do it easily and sleep at night like a baby.

How many hours, days, weeks, months, and years did he steal from the people who bought crypto in FTX? Most of them were workers, using their wages (which means trading their working hours for money) to buy crypto. How many years of their time did he lose?

If there was real justice in the world, they'd take the amount of money he lost, divide it by the average hourly rate of the account holders, convert that to years, and then make him serve each and every single one.

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3 years agodiscuss

WotC has multiple Marvel sets coming out for Magic over the next few years, so who needs a design staff?/s

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3 years agodiscuss

The number of years of savings he stole from people is less than the maximum time he can get in prison, so if anything, he's getting off light.

If there were justice in this world his mind would be put in a simulation and he'd be forced to do all of the things that the people who lost money did to get theirs in real time. Let him feel that loss before you then wake him up and make him spend the rest of his time in prison.

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3 years agodiscuss

So long as they have rich parents, a dick, and white skin they'll have plenty of opportunities

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3 years agodiscuss

Love that his "uwu im just a small lil bean oh gosh shucks gee im sorry" defense didn't work.

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3 years agodiscuss

> How else do you propose that companies monitor their sales and marketing efforts?

There are several ways:

  - Have a specific URL for each entry into the sales funnel - you see this on YouTube with things like "go to blahblahblah.com/witty-tag to sign up and get my discount"

  - Look at the referrer URL if you don't want separate incoming links per entry

  - Ask for a referral code when someone is creating their account - this allows you to track entry from people referred into the product

  - Have a field on the signup page where you ask this question instead of invading the user's privacy to get it

There are many ways that don't involve sticking a ton of trackers on a signup page, a page that by definition, all of your users must go through at least once and part of the face of your company. To me, it's not a good look that these trackers are there and invasive.

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3 years agodiscuss

> There's some analytics from Tiktok, Clarity, Reddit and Spotify

This is completely inexcusable from a fintech company. It shows me, as a potential customer, that they're not serious - either they're trying to get acquihired or they have no idea about privacy.

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3 years agodiscuss

This sort of thing makes Wayland less defensible to me then - why fragment the user and developer base even further?

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3 years agodiscuss

No wide support for nVidia binary drivers either

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3 years agodiscuss

"Simply add screenshot and screen capture functionality to your favorite compositor and add a code path in your app to detect what compositor you're using at runtime and call the right methods" - Wayland developers

Better hope the compositor of the week you're using that hasn't yet been abandoned is based on wlroots so you have some chance of it working.

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3 years agodiscuss

The tooling around Perl has also gotten better over the last decade or so while also allowing you to pack everything to run on even ancient machines running old Perl 5.

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3 years agodiscuss

I recently watched "Gone with the Wind" with some friends. In hindsight, it's nothing more than Lost Cause propaganda, but I don't think it should be revised. It should be shown in context with the history of the Lost Cause at the time and with what the reality of the war actually was about.

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4 years agodiscuss

Probably less entertaining if you're a family member of Apollo Legend.

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4 years agodiscuss

They stole my apes, Odo. https://youtu.be/DrbDWq64BNg

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5 years agodiscuss

>Under X11, you are basically running every application with root, always.

This is not even remotely true. You are able to snoop on events that use the X server - typically programs run as your user or programs that you have chosen to forward to your X server.

You are correct that the X server gets all events from all clients and therefore can log keys.

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5 years agodiscuss

Not really though.

XFCE works fine under X11. Stay with X11 in that case, but it's incredibly arrogant and dismissive of the Wayland folks to say "your use case will work under Wayland, you have no excuses" and then also say "well, actually, it will work if you force your upstream to port your DE to it".

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5 years agodiscuss

This should be fixed soon: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...

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