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  1. Re:A trusting bunch on Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now you probably think "what they have in Scandinavia isn't socialism" but that is just you have to remember that according to the American conservatives anyone who wants to fund schools or healthcare is a socialist.

    Actually I think the socialism we and our neighbors in Scandinavia have is an unsustainable disaster that in the case of Sweden has already irreversibly destroyed a previously outstandingly great country. What once made Sweden great and wealthy was proper incentives for economic productivity and high trust between people. Then the socialists took over and for a while restrained themselves in milking the productive portion of the population dry. Those times are long over. Now the situation is so bad that I've heard a swede say he would rather not work because that would give tax money to his government that is ruining everything!

  2. Re:When all is said and done... on Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming you are right

    He is.

    I'm some kind of glorious asshole

    You are.

    all my friends are just wrong

    They are.

    does that justify threats and sending stuff to my wife?

    No.

  3. Re:Here's hoping for success! on Kenya To Use Alphabet's Balloons For Rural Internet (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If it does the same to population growth there as what developed nations are experiencing, yes.

  4. Re:Strong Maybe? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    uMatrix is vastly superior to NoScript. I use uMatrix on Firefox.

  5. Re: Imagine this on Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released (devuan.org) · · Score: 1

    If you don't need to make those calls in the first place, why pay the subscription?

  6. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    no one listens to math or electrical waveforms; our ears detect motion in air.

    You might hear with your ears but you listen with your brain. You can definitely listen to math or electrical waveforms.

  7. Re:Leftists are Envious on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, not throwing riots to suppress speakers on campus. Classic fascist tactic. Do you get paid to flame non-commies or to give fascists a good name?

  8. Re:Leftists are Envious on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the context of grandparent post it's obvious your shit just got called out and now you resort to this? Weak.

  9. Re:Leftists are Envious on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That's easy, just look at what gets deleted off youtube and you have your answer. Hint: it's not the left.

  10. Re: This is about cutting development costs... on Open Source RISC V Processor Gets Support From Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, and Tesla (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 2

    How very german.

  11. But that's okay, because YouTube (a.k.a Google) is also biased.

    You can't just throw a grenade without evidence. Provide proof that google has a reputation for delivering deliberately incorrect information.

    Try starting here. http://tinyurl.com/GoogleGesta...

  12. Re:What's a good browser for 2018? on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, Firefox always fails the one and only web browser benchmark that actually matters: how fast users find the browser to be when browsing web sites.

    This is bollocks, it is Chrome that fails the one and only web browser benchmark that ACTUALLY matters: not crashing all or at least a large portion of your tabs multiple times a day. I switched away from Firefox before 57 because of how buggy it got but it was still better than Chrome.

  13. Re:What's a good browser for 2018? on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome constantly crashes all my tabs, has since it came out and it still hasn't been fixed. When it does work I don't find it faster than the alternatives, but even if it was I don't care how fast a browser is if it doesn't actually work.

  14. Re:Going to be some resistance to this one on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    >You do NOT have to move If this were true I would still be on 10.6, back when the OS was reliable and all this annoying crap hadn't been added yet. At some point you stop getting security updates and homebrew stops working. Staying behind more than a couple of versions is unfortunately not feasible for internet-connected devices.

  15. Re:What's a good browser for 2018? on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Safari is a good vanilla browser, but the extension ecosystem is relatively weak.

  16. Re:What's a good browser for 2018? on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Vivaldi, Brave, and modern versions of Opera are all basically just Blink

    But that's the good part of Chrome. I switched to Vivaldi from Firefox personally.

    Firefox is no good, especially after Firefox 57 totally ruined its formerly-rich extension ecosystem. In my opinion its UI and performance are also terrible. So it's not an option.

    Performance of Firefox is actually alright again, better than Vivaldi is for me now even though Vivaldi was faster when I jumped ship. The most critical extensions for me do have versions for current Firefox also. The problem with Firefox for me now is that I have lost trust in Mozilla having the users' best interest in mind and by extension in Firefox.

  17. Re:What Apple was doing was opposite, going longer on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The battery indicator doesn't work under these conditions. I had a couple of random shutdowns when battery indicator was over 30% on my iPhone 5 before I started wondering how come my phone lasts for days now without a recharge. If it wasn't for the lack of security updates for a 5-year-old phone I wouldn't even be looking for a replacement.

  18. Re: Missing Usability on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Judging by how gnome is defended as noob-friendly, no way.

  19. Re: People Still Use Desktops? on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Specs don't tell you if something is slow or not at all.

  20. Re:Clickbait article. Not related to speed on Firefox 57's Speed Secret? Delaying Requests from Tracking Domains (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It isn't a false sense of speed at all, you really are getting the content you actually want faster.

  21. Re:fucking krauts on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    If Merkel wanted to maintain quality of life for germans she wouldn't have let the country be overrun by migrants either, so we can safely rule that out as any kind of motivation for her actions.

  22. Re:Only took a year to support Sierra on Audacity 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 0

    As if you needed any more reasons to avoid the newest versions of OS X...

  23. Re: This is how software should be on Audacity 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I've been using Audacity for a decade and I've never had to look up how to do anything in it. If you can't figure it out you've probably just never used an audio editor before.

  24. Re:"the iPhone 8 models didn't sell out during..." on Apple's Latest Products Get Rare Mixed-Bag Reviews, Muted Reception (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's weird, you'd expect a site like dxomark to have tested the Lumix CM1.

  25. Re:Apple is a software company on Apple's Latest Products Get Rare Mixed-Bag Reviews, Muted Reception (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    iPhoto is no more, it was replaced by Photos. The thing that irks everybody about it is that it doesn't give you easy access to the files, you have to export them, otherwise it's okay. I only use it for syncing photos from my phone, not for serious photos. I was never a big fan of iPhoto so I'm not going to complain, but OS X in general has gone downhill since 10.6, tons of annoying new features nobody wanted that just get in the way and old stuff breaks.