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  1. Re:Finally a move against the REAL threat on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you feel better after this long rant, but basically you're the one who looks like a tool, not the other guy.

  2. Re:Charlottesville on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    The Charlottesville incident was a legal demonstration of the RIGHT that an illegal mob of the LEFT attacked violently.

    A death is always a tragedy but this whole situation got out of hand because the LEFT behave as usual like a bunch of wild animals. If they had registered their counter-demonstration with the police and had kept to their side of the street, none of that would have happened. Instead they went there throwing glass bottles, hitting people with baseball bats and bike locks, and looting.

  3. Re:Not sure, this was a good decision on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Tactically the police robbed themselves of one of the best intelligence sources they had on the extreme left.

    The police doesn't need this kind of intelligence. All they need is the green light from the politicians, then they can go pick up a troublemaker or two and they'll topple the whole pyramid because those people have no loyalty, they're just in for the lols.

  4. Re:Speaking as a lefty on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    as Noam Chomsky noted

    Noam Chomsky is a buffoon. He once complained during an interview with Larry King that he was silenced and ignored by the mainstream media. He's basically a white Al Sharpton with no cause.

  5. Re: Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Heaher Heyer's death is squarely on the shoulders of the US Left.

    But only the white US Left, as the black US Left wisely mentioned that "#SAYHERNAME IS NOT FOR HEATHER HEYER OR OTHER WHITE WOMEN".

    Heather Heyer’s death is not an excuse to further perpetuate white supremacy and the erasure of women of color.

    https://wearyourvoicemag.com/i...

  6. Re:Don't care on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I change my online identity on a regular basis. That's the best strategy. They can keep terabytes of tracking logs about jdoe411 if that amuses them, when I switch to redsoxfan4life it's going to be a blank slate. The first few times that I did that I was mostly annoyed by the bookmarks I was losing, but I long stopped copying them over. The fresh start is always great.

  7. Re:They use tracking IDs. on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 2

    It's not just cookies. Etags also, and those leave nothing behind that you can see.

  8. Re:This is insane on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 2

    Avoiding the ignorant masses is I guess, the best approach at this point.

    This is no different from the hippies throwing buckets of blood to drafted soldiers coming back from a traumatizing Vietnam experience. It's just amplified because of social media. There's no name for this but those people are emotionally orthogonal to 4chan aspies; indifferent to the suffering they're causing, and at the same time aroused by their collective power.

    The answer is to ignore them, but without bending over when they cross the line. The Debian fork was a proper response to a technical disagreement; this NodeJS fork is bullying, pure and simple. It is unacceptable, and I for one will passive-aggressively resist.

  9. Re: Computing is dead on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 0

    "strawman" is code for "I'm a SJW".

  10. Re:"Unresponsive Leadership" on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With this though, being forked on social justice ground, it's harder to tell.

    It's not harder to tell. This will go down in a cycle of madness. Soon, any company that uses the real NodeJS will be ostracized because they "refuse to stand up to hate". Then people who don't boycott companies who use the wrong NodeJS will be targeted and their customers or employers will turn on them publicly. There's no rock bottom for social madness, it can always go further down.

    This has got to stop. The current social movement is like someone having a nervous breakdown in a stalled elevator and causing other people to lose their shit too; unless someone slaps them to bring them back pretty soon the whole elevator will become a bloody ragefest.

    Don't feed the lynch mob. Ignore them and their forks before it's too late.

  11. Re:This is bizarre on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The guy tweeted a link and made a mild supportive comment about the article. Even if it had been a link to the Necronomicon or the Satanic Bible, there's just no way anyone should get their panties in a bunch over this, even less fork a project.

    What's really happening here is called a witch hunt, and the angry mob was looking for any reason to throw someone in the fire pit and put themselves in charge because the existing leadership was not joining their collective hysteria.

    Fuck those people. This kind of hive mind of limpdickness and bendoverness is a slow collective suicide and anyone who has drank so much virtue signaling kool-aid that they can't see it deserve the nightmarish world they're progressively creating.

  12. Re:Tarsnap on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    No I use it and it's pretty good.

  13. Re:Dev Null on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend switching everything over to dev null as soon as possible. Any of your Linux friends should be able to set this up for you in under an hour.

    That's what I use as home dir since I noticed a ~/.cache/yelp dir a while ago (fuck yelp).

    On the plus side: it never runs out of space

  14. Re:My Home Solution on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    For the cost of a subscription service each year I can buy a larger capacity drive as my data grows.

    Providers are probably less thorough than you anyways, and they don't personally care about your data.

    The problem with your scheme is that it's labor-intensive to setup and you have to monitor it, but you probably don't mind.

  15. Re:Safe deposit box on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 2

    RAID 5

    Don't do that to yourself. The only thing you'll achieve with RAID 5 is slow death by failed rebuilds and corrupted arrays.

    The bigger the hard disk, the bigger the odds that your RAID 5 scheme will shit itself; the smaller the hard disk, the smaller the savings. It's a lose-lose proposition.

  16. Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 2

    I usually dislike when people start with "Disclaimer: I work at ..." and then give a sales pitch.

    But in this case every answer you provided (7 so far) has been genuinely helpful and candid. From the look of it you guys are a pretty decent outfit.

    I use tarsnap for my business and was using S3 so far for other stuff but I think I'll dump S3 and try Backblaze.

  17. Re:AWS S3 Glacier? on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    try to restore from glacier, even just a small test backup, before betting on that service.

    It's not like S3 at all, it's like placing an order for a tape recall from a vault that some dude will handle when he's done watching youtube videos (which is probably what happens).

  18. Re:AWS S3 on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    Glacier retrieval is so slow, it's basically a one-way storage solution.

  19. Re: FreeNAS on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    Until you forget the disk in the bus or at starbucks as you travel between your home and office.

  20. Re:tarsnap ? on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 1

    I use it too, it's pretty good and quite secure

  21. This kickstarter does not include the full recording.

    Here’s what this new campaign will achieve:

    * Preparation and creation of all tracks for recording

    * Physical reproduction of the new scores and parts (PDFs available as rewards)

    * Digital MIDI tracks for all of the music (will be available on CD and digital downloads!)

      * Recording of WC3’s jazzy bar music with live musicians! (will be available on CD and digital download!)

  22. a circular firing squad

    Unless they're using supersonic ammunition or standing shoulder to shoulder and shooting at point-blank range, a circular firing squad is unlikely to cause the kind of damage you're implying because of the combined effects of yaw of repose and the torque vector caused by the inward shooting angle.

    If you wish them harm, maybe you should find something else, such as having them ride naked on a sadleless bike or read the huffington post without an ad-blocker.

  23. Re:Amiga on A New Amiga Will Go On Sale In Late 2017 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The thing about Amiga owners is you can't get them to shut up about their Amiga. It's like the guy who doesn't have a TV, or the guy who rides a bike to work.

    A tornado just tore a path across your city, leveling buildings and splintering concrete structures. Your home is no longer safe, subjected to countless fires, seeping sewage, wild animals and violent looters that even the National Guard can't tame, so like hundreds - thousands - of other citizens, you find yourself waiting in line to get into an emergency shelter put together haphazardly in the mold-infested gymnasium of the nearby middle school.

    The line doesn't move fast, and you're worried as you see the absurdly small crate of water bottles shrinking quickly as people ahead of you greedily grab two, three or even four bottles as they walk by. You try to do the math, half-guessing, half-dreading that there won't be any water left by the time you reach the gate. You already have a debilitating headache because of dehydration; the situation is dire, the future uncertain.

    Then someone puts a hand on your shoulder.

    "Friend," says an older gentleman, his voice so soft, so quiet, like a cool summer breeze. "Friend," he says, "are you okay?"

    There's something in his eye. A glint, a shadow, a whisper of past experiences so painful that they left a permanent mark on his soul.

    "I'm okay," you reply, weakly, with a voice crackling like a pane of glass shattered by the axe of a firefighter. "I'm okay."

    The kind man nods, although you can tell he's still worried.

    "I'm okay," you repeat. "I just wish I could go back home, to my Amiga computer."

  24. Re:Amiga on A New Amiga Will Go On Sale In Late 2017 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My daughter-in-law is vegan but doesn't brag about it at all.

    She doesn't have to, her father-in-law takes care of it.

  25. Re:No Cultural Home on 28 Years Later, Pioneering Tech Magazine 'Mondo 2000' Relaunches Online (mondo2000.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here's a quote from one of the articles in this "magazine that needs a cultural home".

    If Trump and Pence were both to be kicked out of the White House, the next in line would be the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. Steve Bannon described him as “a limp-dick motherfucker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.” In turn, professional communicator Anthony Scaramucci boasted, “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock.” Ah, but Bannon said he wanted to destroy Ryan.

    I don't see the digital technology element, and I also don't see the cultural element. All I see is unfiltered liberal vomit. Maybe it's because I'm not in that cultural home you mention.