theowraithical physics
when hackers surreptitiously use programs to harvest personal information without the users explicit permission and knowledge: spyware
when multi billion dollar corporations do the exact same thing:
:hacker_a: :hacker_d: :hacker_t: :hacker_e: :hacker_c: :hacker_h:
rhua
@ivanaf Moreover, I want to encourage honesty and frankness. Admitting lack of knowledge is measurably more helpful than providing the appearance of capability.
rhua
@ivanaf I started aggressively doing this from the start. I am a particularly bullshit-intolerant person.
rhua
@officialcjunior Yup, there was, but I didn't bother.
rhua
Some people are acquainted with the concept of fractal wrongness.
This here is fractal unokay.
rhua
I deleted my Facebook account 5.5 years ago.
It continued spamming my e-mail address associated with Facebook, so I used its unsubscribe feature to unsubscribe from its notifications.
It did indeed seem to unsubscribe, but today, more than a year after unsubscription, Facebook sent me a suggestion of a friend that was indeed someone that has been a close friend, and someone that I only knew after I closed my Facebook account.
rhua
@ivanaf a very typical situation
asvhl
@dukhovni Thanks for being awesome and for running this instance!
rhua
The XMLHttpRequest achieves the amazing feat of capturing in its name a reflection of JavaScript as a language.
rhua
Watch the movies of the How to Train Your Dragon series for lessons on the dangers of centralization and the benefits of federation.
rhua
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I'll be honest: I expected a Chacarron Macarron reference.
rhua
I'm not sure what's more insulting: that savings account interest is less than pocket change, or that this interest still needs to reported when filing taxes.
rhua
hmmm
rhua
It is important to acknowledge both:
1) Democrats and Republicans are both problems.
2) Republicans are much worse.
rhua
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Modern-day leftism is blaming everything on White men even if there's a clear more accurate source of the problem.
rhua
I love it when tables on Wikipedia feature a potpourri of various horizontal line segment characters used by different editors to indicate a negative sign.
rhua
Do you think MIT has more students whose major is an odd prime or whose major is an even prime?
rhua
Few events are as encapsulating of America's sick perversion of capitalism as the Super Bowl.
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