TheMongoose

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You can now join Bluesky without an invitation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Maybe I should at least reserve my real name on it…

*gets asked for mobile number

Nope, don’t care that much.

If you had one chance to eat or drink something poisonous without dying or experiencing any health repercussions, what would you try? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Fugu. I’m far too much of a coward to try it normally.

German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm in two minds about that. One the one hand, yes, of course - as all the original COBOL folks die off, the skills will be even rarer and thus worth more.

On the other hand, if we keep propping up old shit, the businesses will keep relying on it and it'll be even more painful when they do eventually get forced to migrate off it.

On the other other hand, we know it works, and we don't want to migrate everything into a series of Electron apps just because that's popular at the moment.

NSA Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Yes. The answer to this isn't to restrict what the NSA can do, the answer is to stop people's privacy being a legally tradable commodity.

Dont be fooled by cable news in c/[email protected]
Why does America say 'merry christmas'? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

The song goes “We wish you a merry Christmas”, so that’ll always be there for as long as the song is popular.

Plus (also because of the song, I assume), you say “merry Christmas and a happy new year”, not “happy Christmas and a happy new year”. Too much happy there.

xkcd #2869: Puzzles in c/[email protected]
Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 188 points 10 months ago (24 children)

Should copyright for works that old be expired? Yes!

In the actual world we live in, was this guy ever going to avoid being sued so hard that his grandchildren will be embarrassed for him? No!

You've got to admire the lemming-like devotion to the legal cliff he threw himself off though. Writing a sequel to not only a copyright work, but one that is still in the cultural zeitgeist thanks to a 20-year old wildly successful series of films? Ballsy. Subsequently suing one of the largest companies in the world and the estate that produced the original works as infringing his copyright?

Chutzpa, I believe the term is.

Ted Cruz wants to stop the FCC from updating data-breach notification rules in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

It's like they're all reading the same copy of 'how not to be a garbage human being' and doing the exact opposite of each lesson...

do you guys have this movie? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

“Rent for £3.99”

But I already pay for Amazon Prime, wtf? Greedy bastards…

Humane’s AI Pin (smartphone that projects on to your palm) launching soon @ $699 + 24$/mo subscription + integrates with openAI in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That was my first thought when I read this:

The Pin isn’t always recording or even listening for a wake word, instead requiring you to manually activate it in some way

Clankers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you're saying... only a clanker can call another clanker 'clanker'?

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