TheHalc

joined 2 years ago
[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Absolutely.

"It's just my opinion" isn't a valid defence when you should have kept that opinion to yourself.

"Your baby is ugly" might even be true, but it's not something you actually say to people.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I don't think that really works unless you've got a strong wedge issue that can be used to threaten the main party.

I think you're absolutely right, we need electoral reform precisely so that more diverse views can be represented in government.

For now, though, the priority has to be ejecting the Tories.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Let's get electoral reform first, yeah?

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get that now, I thought you were just being snarky the first time I read it!

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I recognise that security through obscurity isn't something you can rely on, so don't consider my own practices to be secrets and am willing to share them to help others.

I use strong unique passwords stored in a KeePass database, and MFA whenever it's available. I also have a VPN specifically so that I can use public Wifi when I have to (or wish to do something more private on the internet, such as downloading Linux ISOs).

I also have a vanity domain that redirects all mail to a central mailbox, so whenever I sign up for something I can easily use a unique address. This allows me to block specific addresses that produce spam and see where the spammers got that address.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, the man's a lunatic. Still, the idea is that the rebuild, in itself, should be profitable - and then there's the YouTube money.

He'll be making hundreds of thousands just off the traffic this project is bringing to his channel.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't the goal with these rebuild channels to actually try to make money on their rebuilds?

Sure, Tavarish may have spent 600k on the car and 500k in parts by the end, but he should send up with an asset worth 1.5m.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Nope. There's a reason they go after video games that use the red cross symbol for health packs, that dilutes the meaning of what the red cross stands for.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I think Apple users typically fall into one of a few different categories:

  1. "I'm a creative/visionary"
  2. "I don't really understand computers"
  3. "I need a native Unix command line"
[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the link, but I already provided links to all three patents (confusingly, with the same names) that they were making claims on in my reply.

The thing about patents is that they are regularly granted for blindingly obvious processes that should never be patentable. It's not just companies like Google that get screwed by this, it's individual developers, FOSS projects... All sorts.

The patent system is fundamentally broken.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Google doesn't need me to defend them, but the patents in question seem really generic and obvious...

Play control of content on a display device

Play control of content on a display device

Play control of content on a display device

All filed in 2011.

Patent trolls aren't the little guy, nor are they a good thing for the little guys out there.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He said down to the metal.

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