Winamp (1997) >it was created by justin frankel while he was still a college student >the famous slogan “it really whips the llama’s ass” came from an internal joke and was kept as the official tagline >its customizable skin system helped define how users personalized software in

How military conscription happens in Russia—a thread Gosuslugi (the Russian digital ID system) has become a central hub without which life in Russia is almost impossible. Through it, people obtain documents, schedule doctor appointments, and more recently, receive electronic

I remember those things, they were fun but i don't miss them. The biggest irritation is the cloud, account and license everything era. There would be a lot of ways to customise stuff if not for this garbage consumer mentality. The new tinkering era is creating new hardware/setups

His crime: torture, rape, killing civilians. My crime: reporting & exposing atrocities. Germany rolls out the red carpet for former ISIS Ahmed al-Sharaa — while sanctioning me, a journalist, so I can’t feed my children. Tell me again about European values.

Love them or loathe them, you have to admire the serene beauty of a wind turbine. It’s a bargain cut by engineer-poets with mother earth, a song at sunrise to bless the new day, but with a thousand tons of rare earth magnets and precision engineering. It's also the gambler's

Most people don’t understand the gravity of what Steve etched into Bitcoin. Evidence that the WIV was putting a Furin cleavage sites into a 20-30% mortality MERS virus. Not maybe.. found in their own published data as a contaminant. There is no hiding from this crime. If they

The modern internet is a prison. Every SMS, every email, every connection is logged, tied to an ID, and sold. When we started building KYC.rip, we realized we couldn't rely on traditional infrastructure to build escape pods. We needed to go dark to run our own ops safely. So,

After they failed to support Orban at the beginning when Brussels started with nonsense. Cancelled the Budapest summit and made him look like nobody....noooow the Trump admin shows up in support when their popularity is net negative?! Orban should have declined this...but w/e.

Didn't use Adobe for viewing PDF files for the past 20 years. Things like this make me believe that most people are masochists.

We used to be proper tech nerds.

The governments collecting your data became life threatening situation. The buroecracy will change when they end up on the receiving end. And that just happened. Surveillance state is double edged sword.

Why is this better than a multi generational household?

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Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong. Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names". For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless

Cameras already destroyed large part of youthfulness. Being free to explore, to make mistakes, to say unrefined and stupid toughts, and just generally to feel relaxed in social settings without the fear of someone abusing those moments of being human and young in general.

Worth reposting.

This is a good deal and i can't match the variety. But i can offer 2 for one deal and a return of VAT if you are foreigner.

WE ARE THE AMNESIA GENERATION AND THE INTERNET IS DISAPPEARING AROUND US. Remember that site? That video? That person? The have been erased… According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a

At least now we know that humanity will survive the next 9 WWs.