(it’s programming dot dev again, isn’t it?)

oh dear, how sad, nevermind.

stalinists, like pigeons, are gonna shit over every place where they congregate. it is a pity that they have half the brain and quarter of the cuteness of the pigeons though.

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…and that’s one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).

there’s this lovely nostalgic thread by the very dude working for baikal, and you can play the game “spot the serb in the thread without looking at the names”.

ironic eugenics is genocidal the same way

there is no unobjectionable eugenics

…or just use the qrencode’s -t ANSI256 or -t ANSI256UTF8 output format and read your qr code directly from terminal.

oh, it’s like russia’s idea of ukrainian and belarussian. fucking orphans of the empires…

this is not people’s laziness; it’s that the practice is deceptive. don’t reinforce the business narrative.

this is quite infuriating, i had a number of mozilla/firefox people telling me that this feature wouldn’t work with opt-in (it’s bullshit though) because too few users would enable it, and neither fucker asked himself : “wait, if we’re afraid we can’t convince our user base to buy-in, perhaps we shouldn’t develop the feature?”

this modern example of censorship is pretty wild: uk actively enforces this ban despite the fact the sdlp mp for foyle, colum eastwood, used his parlliamentary privilege to get cleary’s name into hansard, and at the time i still had a twitter account, the tweets naming the bastard were either reported or sweeped by some internal search. you won’t see cleary’s name mentioned on reddit either.

tbh i used mawhrin-skel just because i needed a new drone, and twitter (at the time) bonked my skaffen-amtiskaw persona – i named the murdering british soldier that cannot be named in the united kingdom (david james cleary); i definitely value other culture books more than player of games. :-)

i would think they didn’t read it carefully, and/or until the end, and don’t realise that ultimately it’s gurgeh’s revulsion at azad’s societal rules, and him fully embracing the culture’s values, that allows him to win and burn the empire to pieces.

yeah, pretending that this is just a misunderstanding of the language is a bit disingenuous, but i’m not going to argue with the results.

this:

i’m amazed that you folks come here from your own will and just type these inane sentences expecting… what? praise?

it would help if you could state your position more clearly. (in case of caryn marjorie, it was clearly not what she wanted, which should be enough, and that before we even consider the ethics issues built-in into the technology.)

(that was mid-to-late 1990s, the cocom was just in the process of being lifted, and the judiciary really did not have much knowledge about the technical aspects of computing)