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I get Arch's whole minimalist thing, I really do. But not even providing man-db in Base? C'mon people. That's just absurd.

@techUr great stream. I love Alien Isolation even if it terrifies me. You should have seen my front room when the alien glitched through the floor!

"People said the iceberg had spikes. I think it might have been Godzilla!"

"No"

"How do you know, you weren't there"

Owned

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My son has become obsessed with The Titanic and Godzilla, and inevitably has started to theorize these two things are connected, because people might mistake an iceberg for a Kaiju....

I'm sure we've all seen the Scottish snow truck's GPS tags, but here it is for those that haven't...

Lol Twitch overdubbed Metallica's set at Blizzcon for fear of DMCA action.

The internet really is fucked.

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the abbreviation A.D. stands for "Anno Domino's" but if you look back in history you will find that the year 0 A.D. was actually about the time when Little Caesar's was started...

What in God's name is going on at Twitch. I don't understand young people.

twitch.tv/desertheartsrecords

Bezos as the Mandarin is perfect juxtaposition on this Reuters piece.

It's been a week for big tech. Will anything happen? Don't hold your breath.

reuters.com/investigates/speci

Reminds me a lot of tobacco in motorsports. They're not advertising to get people to smoke cigarettes! Definitely not. What a terrible idea.

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What strikes me about the 🇦🇺 Facebook dispute is how much of a middle-man big Social is. They claim they get nothing from news, but they made news about $270mil USD last year.

They all play this game "Not our content" they say. Then why do they do it? The idea of tech companies existing on pure altruism is absolutely hilarious.

Facebook and I think. big tech in general are going to have their own winter storm this year. I can feel it.

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FB is sadly a part of communication infrastructure now for many communities. With health consequences. Yes we should not be using it. But consider the audience they are trying to reach via this network. We all need to do better and help our friends and families not to rely on FB
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In the name of making a few bucks, @Facebook appears to be putting the health of Australians at risk

I do not see this playing out well for them. As …
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Nothing I hate more than vendors that want to meet using $ProprietaryPlatform that needs binaries on your computer or extensions.

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I hate to say it because but AWS Chime is actually really fucking good without a dedicated client-side app.

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