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If you're going to do something stupid or better yet illegal, don't record yourself.
Here's a fun Q&A with him on FB: https://www.facebook.com/saint...

Sounds like he got fired and was looking for revenge! Curious what he did to deserve the firing.

Theresa May has announced new plans, saying the era of self regulation is over - and it's for the children:
https://www.facebook.com/10dow...
We're entering a new era of censorship. It will be called 'not censorship, just ...'
as in just deranking, demonetizing, deplatforming, anti-hatespeech, anti-fake news. anti-russian-disinformation, anti-things-which-sow-dissent.

The combination of centralisation of power, surveillance, censorship , PR and secrecy has to go wrong , simply because independent of intent you're removing balancing factors out of the system.

The problem with such standards is manyfold.

People who don't meet that standard are striving for it (but most likely never reach it)
Some even go for operations, my GF wants her "nose fixed". But I like her nose.
My ex GF wanted her labiums fixed. And wanted me to pay for it. I left her ... not because of the money, but I found the idea horrifying ... and she insisted (and her lower parts looked extremely nice and sexy anyway).

I find people who lived a while and arranged with their body and their live, aka being confident, having fun, smile a lot, look back on achievements and look forward for more/other achievements etc. are usually very pleasant and happy and hence: look good! And that means woman around 40 - 50, or 60 depending on way of living, are actually much more attractive than a 20 year old cheer leader.

The way to go is to do a little bit of sports, Yoga would be a start. A martial art or dancing would be better. (Because they are mixed courses, men + women). Or some other work, like gardening.

Point is, you don't need to be super slim to look attractive. You should be in a state, mental state, that you don't worry about your "looks". E.g. about men in the gym. You find any kind of man with muscles like this or more muscles or even more muscles. If I was a girl I would prefer guys who look like ballet dancers. Defined muscles, but not super heavy build up (most likely because that is how I looked from 25 - 30, but it was always my goal to look like that.) I still look like that, but my muscles are less defined (just in case you wondered).

Martial arts as well as dancing automatically bring you together ... no dating site needed it the club is big enough. And obviously you pair up with the other sex automatically often enough. (Well, martial arts as in traditional martial arts ... or Tai Chi/Chi Gong etc. If you only do Muay Thai or kick boxing and only spar with same sex partners ... bad luck)

Both ways of doing sports, build up a basic body constitution ... obviously gardening or farming goes same direction. If you have a basic body constitution, the exact shape does not matter. The grace comes from moving and body posture. A cheer leader who looks good on a photo simply looks ugly if she can not dance, same for a football player. They look ugly if they can not walk, not stand appropriated for a photo etc. The face is irrelevant. You smile: you look good. Obviously YMMV if you have no front teeth.

Point is: it does not matter if you have a bit of a belly, if you have esprie and attitude (insert french pronounciation) you look great. Look at this video: https://www.facebook.com/briti... the guy in question would not look attractive to most people. But in his club and amoung his friends (that includes girls) he is well reputated. (Sorry, can not find the relevant youtube video)

My GF finds herself ugly. I don't know why. She wants the nose changed (from an asian nose with a deep ditch at the brow, to an european one). She has some (few) grey hair and paints it black (that is ok, but with the little bit grey she would look just awesome).
She is very tiny, as in only 5 feet (less actually, 150cm) tall. But besides a little bit of belly, the only fat she has, she is pure muscles. Legs like a weight lifter, broad shoulders, strong arms. I guess she even could beet me at arm wrestling :D I find that extremely attractive ... and she is heavy. I guess about 60kg ...

Slim girls are not automatically attractive. Thin legs which are thin because of hunger are not sexy. Well formed legs of a person who runs, dances, does anything using them, that is sexy. The worst are thin girls with big titts, they are at the edge to be ugly in my eyes, but that is just me.

Anyway, what I want to say: beauty

Partly, but that's only a small part of the bigger picture. It's primarily because he knows there's a storm coming, as soon as Trump is gone and Brexit isn't distracting every moment of British political discourse anymore, the genie he let out of the bottle of political interference is going to cause serious blowback in Russia when it's used back against them in kind.

This threat is already prevalent for him in some ways given that he tried the same tactic to get Le Penn in power in France, but didn't count on Macron turning up as a force of nature capable of capturing votes better than his propaganda campaigns ever could. I have no doubt French security services are already looking at ways to turn the tables under Macron's leadership therefore, given Macron himself was personally targeted by Putin. As soon as other big boys like America and the UK come on board, if their security services aren't already in spite of their inept national governance, Russia, is, frankly, fucked.

So the only thing Putin can do is try and enact laws and powers to control and shut down the internet to try and prevent that, but the irony is that in doing so he's only pissing off his own citizens even more and speeding up his inevitable demise.

And demise in Russia doesn't merely mean a new president, it means being knocked off with nuclear or biological weapons, it's really a case of live by the sword, die by the sword, and this maneuver by Putin is a desperate attempt to try and prevent the blowback from his actions; his policy of meddling could only realistically have worked if it had worked everywhere; but he was beaten in France, he was held back in Germany, and his candidate in the US unfortunately was stupid enough to make the security services his enemy by attacking them, so have managed to remain sufficiently independent as to not be neutralised by the effects of Putin's man in the whitehouse. Even Brexit is now beginning to falter despite once having looked inevitable and despite still seeing significant Russian funding through campaigns such as this that, unlike counter-campaigns such as Best for Britain, are not registered with the electoral commission so as to mask their funding source:

https://www.facebook.com/ads/l...

Mark my words, within the next 10 years Putin is done, and liberalism will return to the West as the natural leaning of human progress. The far-right (I refuse to submit to it's poor attempt at rebranding and call it alt-right) is showing it's true colours as a far bigger terrorist threat to Western society now than even ISIS and will be dealt with appropriately. The tables are turning and this act by Putin is a significant act of desperation in realisation of the fact that he's poked the lion one too many times and a shit storm is brewing for him.

If you type www.facebook.com, you get an error message.

BUT, if you click on a link to a specific page.
Example: https://www.facebook.com/busin...

The page resolves. so, not completely down as we all had hoped.

Fucking MedScape, some alternatives:

http://www.linkoph.com/2019/02/13/man-who-led-team-to-approve-lasik-now-says-it-was-a-mistake/

https://www.10news.com/news/national/former-fda-supervisor-calls-his-approval-of-lasik-a-mistake

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/former-fda-supervisor-calls-his-approval-of-lasik-a-mistake

https://www.facebook.com/medscape/posts/the-phd-who-led-the-fda-team-that-approved-lasik-says-it-was-a-mistake-now-hes-l/10157099404069189/?_fb_noscript=1

Yes yes, you'd think they'd publish clear rules on what is acceptable and what is not... perhaps taking on the form of something like this: https://www.facebook.com/terms...

I mean, seriously? That is your argument? They are a private company, and they are not forced into hosting anything they don't want to.

Permission to use content you create and share: You own the content you create and share on Facebook and the other Facebook Products you use, and nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content.

https://www.facebook.com/terms...

I hate facebook as much as the next guy, but the OP is a bit misinformed, or facebook has updated their terms

Or.... just use a time-based authentication app for your 2FA

https://www.facebook.com/help/...

Very reliable very convenient and nonintrusive.

Everybody was pretending to go for a break today to listen to this https://youtu.be/wNd2bvLvyk4

Most of them on their smart phones watched the Facebook version https://www.facebook.com/theto...

He has become a celebrity in the U.K., i had to go to laundry at the end of the ward with a patient's laptop and patient.
Patients are allowed laptops these days they put them on their beds raise it up into the sitting position and use their wireless.
But we are not allowed a smartphone or laptop on ward so we befriend a patient.

A large retainer for lawyers to issue copyright takedowns for any EU access to my comments on any social media, which I own the copyright to.

That's cute. From https://www.facebook.com/legal...:
"Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on Facebook, you give us permission to store, copy, and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as service providers that support our service or other Facebook Products you use. "

A good start Logitech. Now please bring back the Marble FX Trackball. This was the best thing you've ever made! https://www.facebook.com/Bring...

I find 'personalized' adverts to be morally wrong, profoundly so.

Then, with all due respect, you are uninformed, and profoundly so.

Want to know why? Because all advertising has always been targeted. From the dawn of advertising. Don't believe me? Take a look at the types of ads that they run on any TV show. If a show demographically skews to younger women, they show tampon ads. If a show demographically skews to elderly men, they show Viagra ads. I guarantee you if they reversed this, people would scream that the ads aren't targeted enough.

Where the web becomes a problem is that websites tend not to skew strongly to any given demographic, so personalization has to be done in some other way.

Aside from violating my dignity as an individual who can make my own choices, the sheer volume of advertising guarantees that I will block them out, either mentally or technologically, which means they are misrepresenting the value of the services to the businesses buying the advertising.

You see, this is where your argument goes fundamentally off the rails. The sheer volume of advertising exists primarily because the overwhelming majority of advertising is not targeted well enough. If advertisers knew that everyone seeing an ad had a 50% chance of being interested in that product, the ads would cost a lot more money, they would be a lot more effective, and you would see a heck of a lot fewer ads.

So you're really arguing for more personalization, not less. The alternative to ad targeting is for the number of ads you see to increase fairly dramatically.

But more often than not I am finding them to be factually wrong, in the sense that whatever guess their algorithm is making about me is wildly inaccurate.

This is a sign that ads should be personalized better, not that they should be personalized less. It is also a good argument that you should be able to correct those inferred interests. And at least for Google, you can do just that. And Facebook has that feature, too.

For example a few Google searches for the price of an object is far more likely to mean that I have made a purchase of one than it is that I will be highly motivated to make new purchases daily for the following six months.

Often, that is true. This is why you'd be better off if your purchasing history were part of the data feeding into those advertising engines, so that they could see that you already bought it.

That said, even if they knew you had bought the product, that still wouldn't be the whole story. Say you've been searching for information about a Tesla Model X. At some point, you've probably stopped planning to buy one, and you probably own one. But there are hundreds of companies out there making products specifically designed to work well with that Tesla, and those are much more likely to be of interest to you than, for example, products designed to work well with a Ford Model T.

Or their inference is so exact and narrow as to be transparently absurd. E.g. Local women seeking 53-year-old!

And then there's the ones where I try to find a restaurant in a city I'm going to visit and I can't block out adverts for restaurants for the area where I live (you know, the one place I'm guaranteed not to physically be in any time I travel).

All of these things are, indeed, problems, but none of them make targeted advertising morally wrong. If you got advertisements for restaurants in the area where you were planning to visit, at a bare minimum, you wouldn't find the targeting to be useless then. The only reason you're annoyed is because the targeting is suboptimal. Again, this is an argument for more targeting and better targeting, not less.

TFA says "uploaded" multiple times. Doesn't it seem like advertisers would download (not upload) your info from Facebook?

AFAIK, one of the advertising method available on facebook is that advertisers can upload a list of contact info (phone numbers, email addresses) to facebook, and facebook will match these info to their corresponding accounts, and voila, ads are served to you. I remember this when I review what facebook has on me, and they showed me which advertisers has my email address and upload them to facebook

It's not experimental, it's just well hidden and requires an iPhone that can take "portrait mode" pictures.

I've had that for quite some time...

Look for "3D Picture" when adding media to your post.

I had no such option anywhere, in the Facebook app I have updated just today...

I could add 360 photos. I could post the live version of the photo (basically short video). But I had no option in "add to your post" nor "edit" that allows me to post a 3D photo.

I use the past tense though, because it turns out that to enable this feature I had to view someone else's 3D photo through the Facebook app, then click on "Try it" that appears at the bottom of the 3D photo! After that Facebook will let you add 3D media. I almost never use the Facebook app, only looking at it occasionally in a. desktop browser, so I had never seen that option.

Visit the Hangingpixels Photo Art Facebook account using the Facebook app to get the "Try It" link.... BTW if you also want to see what professional results look like for that feature, that account looks to post a ton of great 3D content (I hadn't been following them before, but am now).

After using the "try it" button, NOW I see a "3D" option in the same menu that has "Photo/Video" and "Tag People".

Although I can't find it now, I had read that Facebook only rolled this out to something like 10% of the user base to start.

The effect is also really bad, since it uses AI to fill in the missing spaces.

I disagree, I like the results from most of the images I have seen. And I am fairly picky about photo quality. The shifting mostly takes attention away from flaws like that around the edges of near objects (I do see it), and in fact probably serves to slightly emphasize the main subject...

Thanks for making me hunt down how to enable this, as much as I dislike Facebook I do like this feature quite a bit and will probably post some images to take full advantage, although I'll probably look more into creating custom depth-maps for better quality photos.

In your lifetime! Join Facebook NOW and repent! Scientology is the only way out! Live to be billions of years, in a galaxy far, far away. Click http://facebook.com/churchofsc...

This link should take you to your Ad Preferences

I'm assuming you somehow messed up the syntax for https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences, I thought a direct link was a good idea so I thought I'd provide it...

Some sections seemed alright, but under travel it thought I was interested in the "Entire Rios Province", somewhere in Argentina - bizarre.

Sorry, here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/ads/p...

The app is inert if it's disabled. It doesn't run. (Disabling it also reverts it to the original version which came with the device, which is actually a bit troubling since although it's supposed to be a space-saving move, it implies that if you don't disable it your device actually wastes storage space on two copies of the app. On some devices, the original version is just a placeholder about 8 kB in size.)

The problem is another app - Facebook App Manager or whatever they're calling it now. It's responsible for keeping Facebook's suite of apps updated. You're supposed to be able to disable it, but on some devices it can't be disabled. I disabled the Facebook app on my Motorola phone, but couldn't disable Facebook App Manager. I found it's activity spiking one day, then noticed that the Facebook had been enabled and updated. So I disabled the Facebook app again, only to find it re-enabled and updated again a few days later. I had been being lazy and hadn't rooted this phone yet, but that's what finally got me to put aside the time one evening to root it. Both are gone for good now.

When Florida State Representative Kimberly Daniels (https://www.facebook.com/State-Representative-Kimberly-Daniels-189630017733619/) asked the congregation the church that she leads (where she's an "apostle") to vote for HB303, which gives students and teachers the freedom to hold religious gatherings during school hours, I politely reminded her that it would give as much freedom to Muslims and Pagans and Satanists as it would to Christians - something that I'm completely okay with, but that I figured she might not be. In response, she blocked me from her official state representative FB page and deleted my comments.

Looks like, with this ruling, I should be able to ask her to unblock me?

Apparently it was only port 80.
All those things you mentioned shouldn't use port 80.

Most people probably haven't even noticed, as their facebook machine goes straight to https://www.facebook.com/ and when they type random shit in their browser to search, goes directly to https://www.google.com/

Delete your Facebook account, do something more useful with the time saved and rest easy knowing they can't monetise you any further!

https://www.facebook.com/help/...

Sure, Lotus Notes was great!
Well, aside from the fact that things like Agents and views were objects in the same database tables as the messages, which meant that any processing of messages had to be capable of also processing any agent that decided to appear...
Or the fact that Lotus Notes documents had limited sizes on their fields, including such problems as not allowing any more than a few KB of data without a line break or the entire message would crash the DB.
Or the fact that support of alternate character sets was late to appear, and very limited then. The number of times I had to base64 encode something because Notes couldn't process it... which meant running into field size and continuous character limits...
Oh! Almost forgot - the incredibly poor performance of processing in databases with tens of thousands of documents. I mean, simply listing the contents might take minutes for a DB located on the local box!
The encryption was weak as hell, unless you ran your own. .ID files were fucked up security problems waiting to happen
Plenty of folks have mentioned the GUI issues.

Sure, back in 1990, Notes and Domino had great features and decent performance. The problem was that they barely changed in the next 30 years, to the point I can sit at a Notes client from 1995 and still know where everything is - because it hasn't changed! Well, except to be ported into piss-poor Java...

I hate Lotus Notes. I HATE Lotus Notes.

Lotus Notes is a horrible piece of garbage, and after a decade of developing for it, I hate it with the passion of a thousand suns. Let it and its creators burn in hell, where they might feel a fractions of what the people forced to work with it had to go through.

captcha: compost

I prefer the form "Even paranoids have real enemies."

However I think this best summarizes my excessively mixed attitude towards Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/group... (The owner of the group should change the group number (default) to something like "FacebookHatersUsingFacebook".)

I guess because it's "conservative" that it's automatically bad. Meanwhile, Antifa (an actual domestic terrorist group) still has a Facebook page and there's no hue and cry about that. I guess some terrorists are bad, others are good - all depending upon what virtue you want to signal.

I moved all my repositories off of github, and deleted my github account. Then I went on a downloading spree and grabbed as much repositories as I could on the day the deal was announced. Since then I've been slowly uploading to notabug doublechecking that I have everything - the goal will be to have an OS that has 0 github maintained code in it, and *definitely* no github code without a license in it. I have a thread on NSA/Facebook if anyone would like to help coordinate this effort.

I will never use github again, and code which treats github code as upstream will be migrated away from github to a non-microsoft platform first. Microsoft can suck sand if they think after a decade of war that I will ever touch any of their products again. If they think they can take over and extinguish the free software movement, they are wrong.

Current task: getting a new gogs instance up since i hit my repository limit on notabug

Technically any misrepresentation of your identity violates Facebook's TOS, para 3.1. So any account from any non-American claiming to be American will get shut down.

Facebook is a private organization, which has the right to police the content of their site in any manner they see fit. Facebook has many content restrictions, which is its right, but the "real identity" policy happens to be content neutral.

My apolgies, it was the rightist 'The Resistance' taken down, not the left-wing one (which is still up), so place it among "the right-wing sites [that] were hit too".

My point still stands.

Tabloid-esque? You mean, like the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News, which have Facebook pages?

welcome to marxist usa.

Left-wing political pages of people who are citizens, such as Reverb Press (main site); Reasonable People Unite and The Resistance getting censored by billionaire owner of a huge corporation is "marxism" now?

Yes, of course right-wing sites were hit too, but this ain't Marxism. This is what happens when people hand over the public square to unanswerable corporations. Censorship is one thing, but censorship for which no democratic or legal redress exists is quite another. We've been so fixated on the C18th fear of the state that we've quite been blinded to the threat posed by our monied corporations.

welcome to marxist usa.

Left-wing political pages of people who are citizens, such as Reverb Press (main site); Reasonable People Unite and The Resistance getting censored by billionaire owner of a huge corporation is "marxism" now?

Yes, of course right-wing sites were hit too, but this ain't Marxism. This is what happens when people hand over the public square to unanswerable corporations. Censorship is one thing, but censorship for which no democratic or legal redress exists is quite another. We've been so fixated on the C18th fear of the state that we've quite been blinded to the threat posed by our monied corporations.

welcome to marxist usa.

Left-wing political pages of people who are citizens, such as Reverb Press (main site); Reasonable People Unite and The Resistance getting censored by billionaire owner of a huge corporation is "marxism" now?

Yes, of course right-wing sites were hit too, but this ain't Marxism. This is what happens when people hand over the public square to unanswerable corporations. Censorship is one thing, but censorship for which no democratic or legal redress exists is quite another. We've been so fixated on the C18th fear of the state that we've quite been blinded to the threat posed by our monied corporations.

Strange, you were supposed to post a video a day.

I'll be making videos everyday in April.

VEDA - Vlog Every Day in April/August

"most recent'"

https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h... on your desktop. Your mobile app is virtually out of your own control, rotsa ruck there.

Of course this tech is being spun to "save the children", but it is also used to screen all advertisements that run on FB. They do not want ads to contain much text - less than 20% of the area of the ad image can be text. This is detected automatically using the technology described, and their system will stop the ad if it doesn't meet that requirement.

We've found that images with less than 20% text perform better.
To create a better experience for audiences and advertisers, ads that run on Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network are subject to a review process that looks at the amount of image text used in your ad. Based on this review, ads with higher amounts of image text may not be shown. Keep in mind that some ad images may qualify for an exception. For example, book covers, album covers and product images usually qualify for an exception.

https://www.facebook.com/busin...

And from the blurb:

detect text that is present, at which point the characters are placed inside a bounding box

Thus the area of the bounding boxes (after performing a union) can be at most 20% of the area of the image.

Please learn basic html K, thanks.

To most technically illiterate learning something as simple as a href is a fad, it is only real nerds know how to do it right these days. That being said be careful what you wish for it seems some nerds are incapable of a simple cut and paste these days so here is the link again """https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhnN4eUiei4""""".

A slashdot where everybody is html literate with enough time to use simple code would be a terrible bore. So the conundrum is that point and click bulletin board interfaces are really good for office workers and for trendy i ass devices used by the tech challenged wantabee nerds that spew chunks of crap utf8 here on / dot. Internet literacy is a problem that is intractable and is why AI and interfaces exist in the first place.

I'll add that Trump is not intelligent enough to recognize the damage he is doing to the country. He may well go down as the last president of the 50 states, and he would likely take that as a compliment. President Camacho was at least intelligent enough to ask for help from people smarter than himself, while Trump fires people who openly disagree with him.

None of the alternatives to Google maps have their own alternative to Street View that is anywhere even close to being as complete, and of the ones that I've tried, they are so incomplete as to be only very modestly more useful than an overhead map in the first place.

What I am trying to say is that OSM in 2010 also was no alternative to Google Maps. And see where it is now. Mapillary is also in the upstart period. Mapillary received 4.7 million images from the Arizona DOT just recently. https://www.facebook.com/mapil...
Sure, it may not be an alternative now, but as fgouget says: the numbers are on our side. In a few years time it will be an alternative and might even serve more purposes than Google Streetview.

Was I seeing Mass shooting memes YESTERDAY on Facebook?!!?

https://www.facebook.com/icarr...

I'm not sure how to objectively draw a boundary.

Protip:
If that schoolboy posted the following clip he would never be in any trouble
https://m.facebook.com/story.p...

has now been strongly linked with more attacks on refugees in Germany

Do we really have to go to Germany for examples of Facebook helping violent racists spread their message? A homegrown Kill Whitey is right here, whatever they are about, their name is certainly encouraging racial hatred. Which needs no encouraging.

But, at least, Facebook have got Alex Jones off, so they have that going for them, which is nice.

And PraegerU, a conservative non-profit group that produces educational videos on conservative issues, was just banned by Facebook.

Meanwhile, leftist hate-speech is suspiciously ignored, until it's pointed out by the media:

In several instances, Facebook ignored repeated requests by users to delete hateful content that violated its guidelines. At least a dozen people, as well as the Anti-Defamation League in 2012, lodged protests with Facebook to no avail about a page called Jewish Ritual Murder. However, after ProPublica asked Facebook about the page, it was taken down.

Yep. "Jewish ritual murder" isn't hate speech, but a pro-gun-ownership political candidate is.

Scary times indeed.

Got a bunch of rabid fans that want the Marble FX Trackball brought back Logitech! Please bring it back newer and better (well just add USB connectivity, it was pretty much perfect the way it was): https://www.facebook.com/Bring...

WTF is security, how to ignore it and deliver your project https://www.facebook.com/nixcr...

https://www.facebook.com/offic...

Sure it is. It's an inherently flawed system everywhere it's tried it winds up destroying.

Please list these inherent flaws.

Hell Venezuela went from the RICHEST country in south America to the poorest.

Factually untrue.

...[no longer need to quote your willful stupidity.]

Because you are WRONG.

Venezuela: How a rich country collapsed

Venezuela is running out of food. Hospitals are overcrowded with sick children while doctors don't have enough medicine or X-ray machines. Electricity isn't guaranteed.

About the only thing Venezuela has in abundance is chaos.

The economy has spiraled toward collapse, and a humanitarian crisis has plunged hordes into needless sickness and starvation.

The country is also in the grip of a political crisis. The referendum on Sunday called by President Nicolas Maduro could erode the last vestiges of democracy.

The vote would allow him to rewrite the constitution and replace the National Assembly, which is controlled by the opposition, with an entirely new legislative body filled with his hand-picked nominees.

Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. Here's how it fell apart.

...

Not just South America - all of Latin America.

Economy of Venezuela

The economy of Venezuela is largely based on the petroleum sector and manufacturing.[15] Revenue from petroleum exports accounts for more than 50% of the country's GDP and roughly 95% of total exports.[16] Venezuela is the sixth largest member of OPEC by oil production. From the 1950s to the early 1980s, the Venezuelan economy experienced a steady growth that attracted many immigrants, with the nation enjoying the highest standard of living in Latin America. ...

From Financial Times:

Venezuela was once one of South America's richest countries. But after 18 years of revolution the economy has crashed and corruption has soared. Now, there are claims that the government of Nicolás Maduro is hiring gangs to intimidate and murder opponents of the regime. The FT reports.

Are you grown up enough to admit YOU WERE FUCKING WRONG?

Are you mature enough to grow a fucking brain, begin using it, and ask yourself WHAT ELSE YOU MAY BE WRONG ABOUT?

Or are you going to double down on DELIBERATELY STUPID CLOSE-MINDEDNESS?

https://www.facebook.com/varme...

See it? I don't either.

All you got to do is to try to speak somewhat open-minded about the invasion of your country and the traitors in your parliament on 4-5 accounts of which 2 have more or less the same name. Get 20 or so month long bans in total and off the new "I'll keep this one clean!" and the old 15+ year old account goes.

Ridicule their laws and ideas and break it and you'll get out eventually :)

LIKE MY #MARS https://m.facebook.com/MARS-21...

Yeah. People don't get that Microsoft have changed and they keep looking for 'malice' when there really isn't. I'm sure the Microsoft developer that built this thing had literally never heard of Gnome when they designed/built it. After all, it was initially designed to cope with the largest git repository on the planet for a team of EMPLOYEES working on a corporate owned project. They were probably thinking of one thing alone: how to make the lives of their fellow developers easier.

THAT'S IT.

(Interestingly, the other big companies out there -- Google and Facebook -- use a similar 'single repository' approach; just neither use Git source control for their main repository. Google uses Piper which is an internal-to-Google-only-tool. Facebook (at at 2014 anyway) uses Mercurial.

Remember it's coping with a 100GB pack file, 3.5M file, 4000 user repository. The Linux kernel is (at 1.5GB), by Microsoft standards, doesn't even count as a medium scale repository!

So, yeah. Lets assume that developers are developers and actually want to solve TECHNICAL problems, not this sort of argument. Even if they're in Microsoft, Facebook, Google, or even, shock horror, Oracle.

And the Slashdot crowd needs to have a good, fucking, hard look at themselves. Microsoft have used this GVFS name for this project for over a year now. It has been announced on Slashdot more than once. It took some dweeb THIS long to notice?

And that shows you how irrelevant Slashdot is - because if Slashdot was relevant, they would have triggered this reaction THE FIRST TIME.

This guy sums it up pretty well with a video on how to create a summer hit in two minutes. Yeah, it's a Facebook video link. Sorry.

For those who don't want the Facebook link, I think this is the same video on YouTube:

How to make hit songs in 5 minutes by ANGEMI