SaltSong

joined 9 months ago
[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the link.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This covers my thoughts about damn near every "helpful" feature this side of auto-complete email addresses.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What is it that you're concerned about? Assume that I have no idea what either the new or old Mozilla privacy policy is, please. I tend to assume that all such are a pack of lies and everything is spying on me.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

It probably does, but you've got too limit yourself to just one flavor. American antisemites are not gonna get on with Muslim antisemites.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Larry Niven is not up everyone's taste, but I find that his Laws, such as they are, stand up reasonably well. On writing, he said this:

f you've nothing to say, say it any way you like. Stylistic innovations, contorted story lines or none, exotic or genderless pronouns, internal inconsistencies, the recipe for preparing your lover as a cannibal banquet: feel free. If what you have to say is important and/or difficult to follow, use the simplest language possible. If the reader doesn't get it, then let it not be your fault.

I wish this was taught in schools.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

I suspect that they are just going to be instructing the companies on which speech they should be censoring, and which amplified.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 31 points 9 months ago

I find it hard to believe the NSA would even let him in the door.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You know, I might be a little more ok with this, if it actually stopped school shootings.

But I doubt it will.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would be suspicious of any big company trying to set up a manufacturing facility. Jobs, yes. We need jobs. But the company is not here to provide jobs, they are here for cheap labor. They area here because they hope the desire for good jobs will blind people to the environmental risks of the project.

And I would expect a Chinese company operating in America to be more of a risk then any other combination I'm aware of. The American people don't trust regulations. The American government doesn't enforce regulations. And the Chinese culture, as far as I can tell, believes that regulations exist to be broken. Three groups that have no use for anything that will protect the environment is a recipe for toxic waste releases.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 0 points 9 months ago

I'm relented reminded of the joke about the medical students.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 27 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure that the main reason Google funds Mozilla is to be able to avoid claims of monopoly on browsers. I don't think we can have it both ways.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago

I was looking forward to it, but then I got here, and find that it suits me.

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