Come to Australia mate

We will send our rejects to America in exchange

Each popularity-contest host is identified by a random 128bit uuid (MY_HOSTID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf). This uuid is used to track submissions issued by the same host. It should be kept secret.

Oh, and by default, IP, unless usetor is enabled

A machine I’d is just a hash too

Can you explain to me how you track Mac address, serial numbers over the internet.

Just fyi, the backend project I made 20 years ago was hardware related. There’s potential reasons to grab this info…

But, if it is a concern, I’m sure they’d welcome submissions to improve the parsing and allow things to be filtered.

In fact, popcon could be used for digital fingerprinting technically

In all likelihood, op never spoke to the manjaro developers either

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Don’t like it, don’t opt in

Even Debian has popcon

There are lots of benefits for developers to gather telemetry.

Don’t like that? Fork and do your own distro (presumably though you don’t contribute anything to open source, so id expect such people to simply whine and get angry at contributors)

I’m guessing most countries would try to recycle batteries locally. Or/and throw them onto solar systems straight away

Yep.

That’s how dictators work

They’ll shit on top of the country and try a self fulfilling prophecy . Over time, people will believe it. They’ll create a negative mindset

Then when they’re elected they’ll do the opposite. Their supporters will simply change their mindset.

“Nicky jam is hot”. The fact that Trump didn’t even bother to know about him when thinking he was a female onstage I’m guessing would have been the first red flag for him

I operate a hiking group…

People who are leaders, and people who pretend to be are completely different

When shit hits the fan, the ones who pretend become immediately obvious. Because you can’t shit talk your way when real leadership is needed

And sorry, but I’m my experience, the heavily right wing in our group are generally what cause these issues in the first place. And people most concerned with who are alphas, or who are beta “cucks” are never alpha

And don’t forget… It had to be a totally unanimous verdict between 12 random people to convict him for the tax fraud at least.

So an incredibly high bar had been set, and 100% of them still convicted him on 100% of counts.

And he’s also a rapist obviously

Yeah… I used to sell Apple gear.

When Apple announced the Mighty mouse 20 years ago, everyone was super excited. There wasn’t much info, and we were almost wondering if it was a touch sensitive button on it.

What we got though was a mouse which gave you RSI any time you clicked the right button.

Now, I have a Mac Studio. Every PC has the power button on the top or front. This guy? Nah, lets put it on the back! And the M2 is a professional machine, so lets ship with 8GB ram only… And MAKE IT SHARED VIDEO MEMORY!

And lets stick an ARM chip with no raytracing on it, because thats what people crave

Apple insider are already framing this as not a design flaw but an advantage somehow

Last I saw they just claim it’s just comedy and the left wing has no sense of humor

They’d absolutely hate shows like Brooklyn 99 because there aren’t really any racist jokes, and it’s too “woke” for them

That’s spot on.

If you look at actual funny people, they’ve worked out a way to do it without being heavily racist.

If you look at shows like Brooklyn 99, they did an amazing job at respecting everyone whilst being hilarious. The parts of this nonsense I saw, was just cringe. It seemed like they were trying more to advertise racism than going for humor, because even my mates are funnier and they’re not professionals

It feels like they were probably surrounded by yes men their whole lives so have lost touch

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I also learned how to program at 13 in my free time

I didn’t ignore any subjects in school. In fact, I actually did well in high school…

But I’m sure people will try to look at my life and try to make thousands of different excuses to explain that, especially if I founded Microsoft. But it was just because I enjoyed programming and worked hard too.(Like I spent days copying coffee from a basic book for a game)

They can. There was that court case where the cases cited were made up by chatgpt. Upon investigation it was discovered it was all hallucinated by chatgpt and the lawyer got into deep crap

Ie wasn’t even a factor until years later. There was no compelling reason to use anything other than ie until Firefox (to end users, Netscape and Mozilla was comparable to ie). It had no impact on the initial success of Windows. Netware failed because it was crap compared to windows 95 too. Their competitors simply didn’t compare to windows 95. That’s not bullying. They were too busy competing with windows 3.1

Windows 95 wasn’t that unstable either. Maybe you had bad ram in your system or bad drivers . Sure the NT kernel was better, but Windows 95 was perfectly usable and was used. It did crash. But it wasn’t a regular thing. You’re acting like it happened daily.

Osx was only released in 2001 and macos required Apple hardware Windows 95 succeeded because it actually worked and had broad hardware support

You keep talking about IE, but Windows was successful before most people had the Internet. Internet explorer only became anti monopoly consideration because Windows had already managed to be

Also, how do you expect people to respond when you disrespect them and make assumptions about their experience and age to try to add credibility to your argument at their expense? If you don’t know how old I am, don’t assume I’m young. I’m not . And fyi, one of my projects was mentioned in Linux format 20 years ago, so don’t assume I wasn’t heavy into Linux either

I never said he wrote dos. They bought it from cpm if I recall

I said he was a developer well before Ms dos

He was a hard worker from the beginning. That’s why he was successful

Our first family computer was a 8086.

So don’t speak on behalf of me please, or make assumptions

Explain your answer.

To literally anyone at that time, Windows 95 was a game changer. It brought many things including proper plug and play, and less screwing with autoexec.bat

The competition was Apple. Apple started going bankrupt because of this. Bill was a coder from 13 years old. They weren’t a monopoly until much later.

He was going to be successful regardless. His initial fortune was from Windows 95 which sold 7 million copies in 5 weeks