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  1. Waaah we missed the bubble. on Sergey Brin Says Google 'Failed To Be on the Bleeding Edge' of Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Now we got fields of rotting tulips.

  2. Chrome worse than IE. on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Chrome should never have been allowed to gain a dominant market share. But Firefox conceded market share with dropping XUL and its numerous UI “experiments” too. Google should be forced to have a “browser choice” screen on Android to give other browsers a chance.

  3. If you are too scared to advertise on Reddit Promises Post Sponsors a 'Walled Garden' of Conversation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you are not a company worth my business.

  4. Then release a phone people want on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Removable battery and sd card, unlocked bootloader several years of updates headphone jack and no notch. Is that so hard for phone companies to make?

  5. Extentions need to be protected. We need to have a last known good backup system in place for extentions at risk of being hijacked.

  6. Should have blocked the whole site on EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I notice the german, french and spanish Wikipedias arent protesting.

  7. Total sensory control is coming on We've Reached 'Peak Screen'. So What Comes Next? (wral.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    First it will be maximum defentiion screens with graphics on the other side of the uncanny valley. Then your whole sensory system will be contolled for ads and tracking and law enforcement. There will be taste attacks, smell attacks and other sensory attacks by hackers and trolls. shitposting will become literal.

  8. Wikipedia needs to be hurt on How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia (wikimedia.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wikipedia with its abusive admins, stewards, checkusers, deletionists and reverters needs to stop being the number one search result on google taking precedence over reliable sources. What really made me angry about Wikipedia is it considers the cult games Osu! and Kid Pix as not notable and sent its deletionists after them. I hope The EU creates their own wiki which is edited by competent professionals. See reddit’s /r/wikiinaction for more details.

    By the way, cruzir be cruzin.

  9. Bubblegram reaches 100 billion chucky tokens on Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Been there seen that. We just had the cryptocrash and now we are looking for a new breed of tulip to plant.

  10. Last version of 52ESR on Firefox 61 Arrives With Better Search, Tab Warming, and Accessibility Tools Inspector (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone who needs 52ESR will be out of luck soon as its the last patch cycle. Those with Windows XP, XUL and NPAPI requirements are affected. Also Chrome is discontinuing Marvericks support, which also throws perfectly working Macs into the trash. Don’t give me the “it’s old” spiel, Mavericks is less than 5 years old.

  11. Intel dependant on proprietary Windows apps on Intel Is in an Increasingly Bad Position in Part Because It Has Been Captive To Its Integrated Model (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    Since open source applications can simply be recompiled to any processor archtitecture.

  12. Serves them right for the sugar tax on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    They've been shrinking and increasing the price of our favourite drinks while other drinks get sweeteners put in which taste funny. The sugar demanding masses are fizzed off and they are letting things pop.

    It's amazing how much fizz we put into our drinks, with all the plastic, metal and CO2 involved. The logistics are tightly controlled and just a few things can upset the balance and cause shortages.

  13. Turn it into a folding @ home farm on Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of chasing now miniscule cryptocoins how about giving the folding @ home team a big boost with a huge folding farm. Or if you still want something crypto related then there’s the rc5-72 challenge.

  14. Causing more problems down the line on Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    By removing features from kernels you force people to either use older kernels or force them to back port back to the current kernels. This creates a mess of patches and security holes. With Linux deployments now in the billions due to Android it is a bad idea to remove features as someone is using it somewhere.

  15. Pocket free version of Firefox on Firefox's Pocket Tries to Build a Facebook-Style Newsfeed That Respects Your Privacy (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. We need a Threadripper Mac on On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware (rogueamoeba.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Imagine a Mac with the newly announced 32 core Threadripper in an ATX case that can be fully upgraded. But instead we will get four core 16gb MBPs with inadequate ports again. They didn’t even announce hardware at WWDC because they are so weak at it.

  17. Windows XP still has 5% market share over four years after end of support. It will be interesting to see how it keeps going after the end of Firefox and Steam support. Also when POSReady no longer gets updated. Most of it is in China and on businesses with expensive legacy hardware and software.

    This effects retro gamers the most.

  18. It was Willybot on Bitcoin's Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The big MtGox bubble in 2013 was caused by Willybot. Other bots have been developed since then to pump the price. I seen the price of Bitcoin rise over a 1000 dollars in a minute at the peak of the bubble due to bot activity.

  19. Far too integrated into the operating system for it's own good.

  20. a currency built on malware and stolen power on 5% of All Monero Currently In Circulation Has Been Mined Using Malware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Who would use such money?

  21. Mozilla regretting dropping xul now on Google Disables Inline Installation For Chrome Extensions (venturebeat.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    if i was mozilla i'd be restoring xul support as fast as possible to give chrome refugees a place to get real extensions. But now they rather place the sjw game and give people toy extensions.

    Luckily we have the trio of heroes pale moon, waterfox and basilisk.

  22. Make it bad at mining please on Intel Says Its First Discrete Graphics Chips Will Be Available in 2020 (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    A GPU good at graphics but bad at mining is needed so people can start gaming and designing again. I hope Intel cripples mining capabilities in their card.

  23. We need to smash the money printing machines. on Blockchain's Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular (telegra.ph) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The entirety of the Netherlands is growing tulips instead of food. People are prostituting them selves for chucky cheese tokens entire coal power stations being built just for funbux.

    I hope the 51%ers wreck as many cryptocurrencies as possible to crash the market so the environment can be saved, graphics cards go back to making graphics and people go back to investing into stocks of real companies that provide real services.

  24. This makes all domains pointless on Company Takes Over Well-Known OSS Developer's Name Because the Domain Was Free · · Score: 1

    What's the point of specialist domains like .pizza and .ninja if people only use.com Is there a case of two notable websites sharing the same name but with different domains?

  25. It’s because of miners on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    What’s the point of new cards when miners will buy them all. Better to wait until the bubble bursts before releasing them.