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[00:24:28] <exec> 08└─It goes into the animal world too! Did you know female lions catch the prey but it is the male lion who eats first sometimes leaving nothing for the females!
[00:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─That's how it used to work, before SJW lions took over. Now all lions share equally in catching prey, and they use transgender bathrooms.
[00:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe they had read (using TCP over time machine, which has been developed sometimes in the future) studies like Endocrine disruption by dietary phyto-oestrogens: impact on dimorphic sexual systems and behaviours [google.com], so they ruled out soy for males. Which means gender inequality, in this p...
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[00:24:33] <exec> 08└─The lionessess tried to complain about that (they are females after all): - lionel - wat - we hunt prey for you - i noticed - you stay behind in the shadow doing nothing instead. we tired. - so wat - so today you get no gazelle. - so tonight you get no cock. - ...fuck... - i see you changed idea. go...
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[00:24:53] <exec> 08└─It's probably above your target price, but I really love my Kobo Aura One. You need a big pocket to put it in, but the 7.9" 300DPI screen is great to read from. Waterproof, wifi, and reads everything. Pay the extra and get the 'Sleepcover'. The newer Forma model also looks nice but I haven't seen on...
[00:25:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02 - 06Mathematicians Develop New Theory to Explain Real-World Randomness - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:01] <exec> 08└─I thought this was what statistical mechanics was for? Or perhaps mathematicians don't read enough... Essentially, if you apply the boltzmann distribution within the microscopic states that occur within a molecular configuration (yeah I know a bit fiddly), you get the dynamics of living systems. Ent...
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[00:25:04] <exec> 08└─"Einstein’s theory of Brownian motion" Except that the relativity jew was late to the party. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part of his PhD thesis The Theory of...
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[00:25:42] <exec> 08└─is that people do not learn from history.
[00:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─It's always possible to revolt. I realize that first thing every morning when I look in the mirror, and go "gawd, how revolting" :-) Well, it's really just a joke. Unless I'm going out somewhere special, I don't bother looking in the mirror. It's not like I can see it well enough to begin with ......
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[00:26:57] <exec> 08└─That is a very revealing comment. It just makes me wonder how your neighbours view the angry, drunk arsehole who yells at their kids all the time. Also, it turns out that not only are you frightened of Hispanics, Blacks, Jews, Gays, New Yorkers, and Californians, you're also scared of young white...
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[01:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:26] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. All male lions just eat, sleep, and fuck all day. "King of the jungle," my ass.
[01:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:28] <exec> 08└─The analysis of 23 individuals
[01:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Unpicks Root Causes of Separation Anxiety in Dogs - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:49] <exec> 08└─There are cats on three adjacent houses, they job is to make sure no cat enters our property. And you get to see how high a collie can jump pursuing a cat running on the fence!
[01:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:57] <exec> 08└─That also gives you the ability to find out if a particular model tends to vent with flame or if the screen will shatter if you sneeze too hard before you buy.
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[02:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:22] <exec> 08└─Yum, there's nothing more tasty than peat moss mixed with arsenic. Fuck, when faced with a choice during the apocalypse, I'd choose the Purell or the Listerine over the Scots.
[02:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:23] <exec> 08└─A jug of hand sanitizer won't save you. Isolating yourself will.
[02:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:25] <exec> 08└─Soap and water are cheaper and more environmentally responsible. Hand sanitizer if necessary, but not necessarily hand sanitizer. Or to avoid chapped hands, body wash with moisturizer. A lot cheaper than hand sanitizer and won't give you chapped hands and cracked skin - both ways for girus s to get...
[02:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:27] <exec> 08└─They could have kept everything as-is and marketed their whisky as hand sanitizer. I mean after all, strong liquor should kill bacteria on the skin just as well as hand sanitizer. Imagine that: washing your hand with 30-year-old Glennturret: now that's posh Coronavirus fighting!
[02:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─It does seem to be sort-of a jet set disease--the more you travel and mix with people that travel it seems the more likely you catch it. Aren't they the booze snobs too?
[02:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:32] <exec> 08└─I always used Bacardi 151 for my disinfection needs, but it was discontinued right before the bio attack on our soil. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:34] <exec> 08└─Good lord! A bottle of rum with a flame arrestor on the neck. Now I've seen everything. The raw spirit that comes out of my still is roughly 80% alc/vol and there no way I would drink that.
[02:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Attack DAWWG [334] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:36] <exec> 08└─Imagine that: washing your hand with 30-year-old Glennturret: now that's posh Coronavirus fighting!
[02:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe the PhD should look closer. I assume she'll find she can even tell which are male and which are female just by looking at their skeleton. Now if that isn't unequal, I don't know what is.
[02:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:50] <exec> 08└─How is that NOT being the king???
[02:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:52] <exec> 08└─Males continued to eat more of the traditional crop, millet, while females consumed more of the "new" foods such as wheat and soy
[02:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 067.5-Inch E-Ink Display is Powered Completely by Near Field Communication (NFC) - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:13] <exec> 08└─Do you think this technology is viable for making automotive Instrument clusters? I would love to be able to reconfigure my display in the event of something gone amiss, and would rather not drag out my OBD2 stuff.
[02:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:39] <exec> 08└─Regardless, Pedo Guy ignored a direct order from the authorities. In news just in, the factory will close as of next Monday.
[02:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic, 3d Printing, and Patents; Update Corrects Initial Reports of Lawsuit Threats - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:37] <exec> 08└─Such things are beginning to happen here too. In a classic overton window scheme, the state is mediating family relationships. Red socialists, or righty socialists, doesn't matter, the trend continues. All a matter of control, as usual.
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[03:24:34] <exec> 08└─Why not I drink my grandpa's semen and I'm only 52 years of age. He sure has a dance in his step after every milking session.
[03:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:35] <exec> 08└─Be ready for lots of problems [readitquik.com] We're giving too much to Amazon, need to cut back on that shit
[03:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:52] <exec> 08└─Above 80 is questionable, but anything below that I consumed numerous times. That's including rubber alcohol for early mainframe disk drives cleaning and aircraft braking fluid. Fear not.
[03:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:53] <exec> 08└─It was nice in cocktails, but especially useful when added to a bowl of ice cream for a visiting lady. All the usual medical/cleaning tasks as well.
[03:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:55] <exec> 08└─Isolating with alcohol (kalsarikännit, look it up)
[03:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:57] <exec> 08└─TempleOS rare commercial + THEY GLOW trailer - terry davis (related) + "Programming Love" starring Terry Davis and Druid Focket = TempleOS rare commercial from 2011 https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] = Terry Davis: THEY GLOW - Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com
[03:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:59] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, if you just mix E85 with glycerin, it'll be over 70% ethanol. Somebody, get this recipe viral on twitter. By Monday morning I expect the nation's gas pumps to be empty (because morons will substitute regular after the E85 runs out), and everyone's hands to smell like gas -- both of wh...
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[03:25:02] <exec> 08└─> The raw spirit that comes out of my still is roughly 80% alc/vol and there no way I would drink that. Why not I drink my grandpa's semen and I'm only 52 years of age. He sure has a dance in his step after every milking session.
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[03:25:04] <exec> 08└─> Yum, there's nothing more tasty than peat moss mixed with arsenic. That didn't stop me from being kissed by a frog and turned into a righteous prince in the swamp that dog has no balls that dog is getting raped THE DOG IS GETTING RAPED!
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[03:25:06] <exec> 08└─--- added to a bowl of ice cream for a visiting lady Dude, Mr Weinstein, that sounds rapey AF.
[03:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:21] <exec> 08└─while females consumed more of the "new" foods such as wheat and soy, Dr. Miller says. That wheat and soy foods were important components of childhood diet
[03:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 067.5-Inch E-Ink Display is Powered Completely by Near Field Communication (NFC) - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:45] <exec> 08└─E-ink is prevalent in the sense that anyone with a modern e-reader at least knows the term and even those without one have probably encountered it and know what it is. "flippy dot" is something I have never heard of before and never given any thought to, despite (after clicking on your wikipedia lin...
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[03:25:46] <exec> 08└─Instrument clusters typically need to update much, much faster than any e-ink display I've ever worked with. If they can get the refresh rate up there, I agree it would be a -killer- application for it, though.
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[03:25:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks... I am still working on HMI for my Arduinos, and am always looking for ways of reducing complexity, connections, and power. I am quite thankful janrinok ran this one. I will probably buy one of those eval kits and see if there is some way of making a simple way of displaying data from Arduin...
[03:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Develop New Theory to Explain Real-World Randomness - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:59] <exec> 08└─What jew? You mention jew and then don't even mention a jew. I'm confused.
[03:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Unpicks Root Causes of Separation Anxiety in Dogs - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:52] <exec> 08└─Speaking as a professional dog trainer with experience spanning 50 years and thousands of dogs... in a nutshell, the root cause is snowflake humans unable to take charge of the dog. Dogs are wired to be followers, not leaders. If you aren't the boss, the dog feels like it has to be the boss. The bos...
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[04:24:24] <exec> 08└─It's always a tradeoff... - economies of scale/expertise - reliability - security/privacy Some things it is wise to farm out... And some things it is really foolish to do so.
[04:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:49] <exec> 08└─mmmmmmmm, the fine smoked peat moss and arsenic taste of the Islay 🥃 Maybe you would prefer the slight rubbing alcohol and plywood taste of the Canadian Club Classic, it's surprisingly good 🥃
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[04:25:31] <exec> 08└─I've got a mid-1980's Nissan pickup with an RPi in it, with a bunch of custom sensors feeding data to it. Currently it streams it to an apache page which a smart-phone sitting on the console can display. If you come up with a better plan, I'd love to see it and maybe work to improve on it. I'm worki...
[04:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:21] <exec> 08└─There's a long list of peasant revolts, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] most of which failed, generally due to professional armies being better organized and often having better weapons. The revolts after the black death were quite unsuccessful, even with the pe...
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[04:26:23] <exec> 08└─Going for a funny mod? Peasant revolts almost always fail against the authoritarians. They have professional armies that are always better organized. That's why the American Forefathers (actually it was a pretty common belief at the time) considered having a professional army to lead to tyranny. It'...
[04:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:25] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I fail to understand why we keep electing people who work against our common interests.
[04:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:27] <exec> 08└─Don't wait long. That money isn't going to spend itself.
[04:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:07] <exec> 08└─That's because you aren't a marketeer.
[04:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Unpicks Root Causes of Separation Anxiety in Dogs - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:43] <exec> 08└─Yes you can have bird degenerate into creatures unable to fly like chickens, for your convenience. The key word being "degenerate".
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[05:24:29] <exec> 08└─Its' not even that. Never give any corporation that kind of fucking control. Charge ME over data access charges? From MY server? Pass that smoke please, it must be good. If you don't want the costs of managing it, then outsource the management. However, at no time do you give away actual control. Ha...
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[05:24:30] <exec> 08└─NASA didn't just get tired of managing it, or hosting it, they got tired of the whole idea of storing their own data on something they own. I suspect something a bit more... irregular. It's not logical, or even rational. cui bono?
[05:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:55] <exec> 08└─Absolut offered to do something similar, https://www.foodandwine.com [foodandwine.com] . Since it's vodka I guess there wont be much of a production alteration.
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[05:24:57] <exec> 08└─Aye, stay and you may die. Run and you'll live -- at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell Covid19 that it may take our lives, but it'll never take our whi...
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[05:24:59] <exec> 08└─Soap is also much more effective than hand sanitiser, since the hydrophobic end of the soap molecule destroys the lipid membranes that surround Covid19 (as well as many other things, herpes, HIV, Ebola, Zika, etc). So the most effective thing you can do is to wash with soap, which surrounds the viru...
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[06:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Cause Problems for Genetic Research - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:20] <exec> 08└─Genetic research causes probelms for bacteria. So yeah, fuck you.
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[06:24:33] <exec> 08└─Why? It happened with scientific publishing. Almost all scientific advances are locked behind a 75 year copyright wall. This business model works.
[06:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Insights into US Flood Vulnerability Revealed from Flood Insurance Big Data - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:25] <exec> 08└─Most people pay no attention to whether a house is located in a flood plain. Many others who are aware seem to think the cheaper land is worth the risk. They engage in motivated reasoning to underestimate the risk. It's so easy to avoid such locations, and just plain dumb to build and live there. Th...
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[07:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:35] <exec> 08└─Could someone explain what "egrets costs" are to those of us not foolish enough to store our data on some stranger's servers, or use Docker, or Meat, or Slack, or Zoom? So, the cloud has a golden parachute instead of a sliver lying?
[07:25:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:09] <exec> 08└─That's how it used to work, before SJW lions took over. Now all lions share equally in catching prey, and they use transgender bathrooms.
[07:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Develop New Theory to Explain Real-World Randomness - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:55] <exec> 08└─Swimmers in Brownian motion puts an image of buttsex in my head. Tell me you don't feel it too?
[07:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:39] <exec> 08└─I just wanted to say poppycock. Nothing more, nothing less. Carry on.
[07:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:40] <exec> 08└─They will struggle to understand the concept then just declare you 'mentally unwell' and ask for your facebook account instead. When you tell them you don't have one either its lockup in padded cell time.
[07:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom Sues Netflix for Shrinking Cable Box Market - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:41] <exec> 08└─Hilarious. You claim to know all sorts about the law and have given all sorts of wrong information about it. But this one takes the cake. You literally gave the exact opposite definition of "tolled" [wikipedia.org]. Netflix would be claiming the exact opposite as they want the SoL to run, not toll....
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[08:24:34] <exec> 08└─There is no real easy answer to that one, it depends on what type of deal and account you have. https://aws.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[08:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:03] <exec> 08└─Sounds like at least one AC ignored the warnings to not drink the hand sanitizer...
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[09:24:45] <exec> 08└─The catch is that paywalled SCIENCE is not SCIENCE anymore, it is OCCULTism. Fuck the meaning of words huh, anon? We are NASA We have the brightest minds We have billions of financing We are specialized in hi tech mission critical stuff We need to store petabytes We can't be bothered to put up a sto...
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[09:24:46] <exec> 08└─dunno, anyways local solutions plus distributed encrypted by defaul schemes for backup (tahoe lafs, siacoin, blockstack, storj...) feature very reduced regrets cost.
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[10:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Cause Problems for Genetic Research - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:38] <exec> 08└─With that MDA. It can cloud your judgement.
[10:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:56] <exec> 08└─Ransom.
[10:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:57] <exec> 08└─Wait, they sent you to the moon and even you doubt it?
[10:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:59] <exec> 08└─I don't doubt the lunokhod. Or the placing of a mirror. There is ample wiggle room between "sky is a dome" and "the lunar mission of 1969, more intent in depicting astronauts than the moon they were supposedly exploring has actually happened as told by the media plus they erased some tapes with the...
[10:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbWolf [2774] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Insights into US Flood Vulnerability Revealed from Flood Insurance Big Data - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, ok, not directly related to the article, but I grew up in a place with a lot of water. There was one spot which went under a bridge. Being the low point, water naturally collected there in heavy rains, but was equally whisked away by the drains and pumps. When they expanded part of the area, i...
[10:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Develop New Theory to Explain Real-World Randomness - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:26] <exec> 08└─The evolved solution to swiming, i.e. the flagella actually produce a molecular corkscrew (in E.coli - other bacteria have different mechansims). And this is the cool bit, it only *works* in a fluid!! So do some googling, we've built models. Fully energetically costed at the molecular level, where e...
[10:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:10] <exec> 08└─Funded by the Fundie owner of Hobby Lobby, who don't want to pay for your whorish lady parts medicines. But will pay for faked artifacts from the holey lands. Like, a "Pearl of Great Price", or the "James, brother of Jesus" bonebox that was on offer not to long ago. We just need to convince them tha...
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[11:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:23] <exec> 08└─If you really want hi-fidelity gaming, why aren't you using a desktop PC?
[11:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:25] <exec> 08└─If you need it, you have your hdmi from your console to your reciever and the reciever breaks it out to spdif (if it's not HDCP encoded and refuses to output via S/PDIF.) The primary reason for S/PDIF back in the day was that the alternative was analog copper wires, which did cause signal degradatio...
[11:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06curl up 2020 and Other Conferences Go Online Only - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:38] <exec> 08└─Libre planet 2020 was also done online, with jitsi.
[11:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:07] <exec> 08└─It's a cloud service. They're trying to make it rain.
[11:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:37] <exec> 08└─Don't drink the hand sanitizer, even if it smells delightfully like Glen Alba.
[11:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:38] <exec> 08└─151 indeed. Try some of this [sunsetrum.com]: 84.5% ABV. If you really want to go nuts, there's always everclear and it's ilk [wikipedia.org] at up to 95% ABV.
[11:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 067.5-Inch E-Ink Display is Powered Completely by Near Field Communication (NFC) - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:24] <exec> 08└─Eval kit: https://www.waveshare.com [waveshare.com] And I already have another instrument cluster mechanically, although not electrically drop- in, compatible with my van. It is my goal to rebuild the instrument cluster so it's all driven via I2C, then I can program...
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[12:25:32] <exec> 08└─Chinese coronavirus may kill us, isolating ourselves will.
[12:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:33] <exec> 08└─Knock yourself out. It will be like drinking alcoholic snot.
[12:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:51] <exec> 08└─Don't submit to newspeak, for that is a slippery slope. If I say "gender inequality" I imply gender is a thing and equality is to be desired. Sex based differentiation is instead correct (unless you have data about the culture in bronze age families, which I doubt). If you can't say heil hitler and...
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[12:27:18] <exec> 08└─The American military is all volunteer. The Air Force is not going to drop napalm on Boston. Tanks are not going to roll on Houston. The supply depots and infrastructure that serve the military machine are all around us, surrounded by American rabble. But let's suppose there is an army that will fol...
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[13:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03danaris [3853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:23] <exec> 08└─Wait, so...treating people like human beings with valid needs, both physiological and psychological, rather than robots who have to compete to prove Who Is The Best (and thus worthy to survive) ends up with healthier people?!?! Color me stunned. Dan Aris
[13:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:32] <exec> 08└─Here we are, with S/PDIF being tossed into graveyard of obsolescence, long before I ever had the need to use it.
[13:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Warns Of High-Severity Software Defined-Wan Flaws - 4054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:41] <exec> 08└─Based on my experiences--across vendors and platforms and what people think it really means... SD-WAN is actually all stuff that already had been done via configuration anyway, and often on disparate components that allow for a more modular or non-vendor-specific approach. It still required one or a...
[13:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06curl up 2020 and Other Conferences Go Online Only - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:50] <exec> 08└─On March 4th, Red Hat [redhat.com] announced that they were moving Red Hat Summit [redhat.com], the company's annual, 3-day gathering for customers, partners & community members, to a virtual event [redhat.com]. This virtual event is free to attend.
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[13:26:37] <exec> 08└─I agree, these are more static, although usually easy to read. These might be good for smaller displays that have things like compass direction, temperature sensor readings, "check engine light" details, etc. They could be a complimentary display component to keep the main "good" screen from being t...
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[13:26:38] <exec> 08└─Some later models lacked an external SD slot, but still had one inside, if you opened the case: https://goodereader.com [goodereader.com]
[13:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:19] <exec> 08└─Regardless, Pedo Guy ignored a direct order from the authorities.
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[14:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:22] <exec> 08└─Oh no, life must be kept challenging! Otherwise people become slack and soft. And that's unhealthy. If life is too easy, soon the entire nation devolves into a bunch of whiny crybabies and special snowflakes. The percentage of moochers will be much more than 47%. These degenerates might even elect l...
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[14:24:23] <exec> 08└─kinda obvious like so much today. We had centuries of misery replaced by super tech, if you can afford it. 100 years ago the richest on the planet didn't have what the millenials have in their pockets. Life is short and very finite - allowing a human time to look after themselves and family without...
[14:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:25] <exec> 08└─> early life, income, and health insurance interventions have the potential to improve health. yep, of the insurance company the most tech advanced country in the world has people afraid to break their ankle because the system allows insurance companies to agree on a different price for reimbursemen...
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─> most tech advanced country By what measure? To pick a few random ones... US loses here (broadband speed, basic estimator of tech): https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and here (publications in general): https://en.wikipedia.org
[14:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:38] <exec> 08└─SPDIF uses light beams and that's really cool, so I'll miss it. HDMI is a 100% shitshow that frequently overlooks the interests of the user to enforce DRM, in various broken & incompatible ways. Signs of things to come.
[14:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:40] <exec> 08└─You didn't need optical even back then to have noise free audio carried over your cable. Copper wires carrying an analog differential signal with possibly a braided shield over both wires would've worked just fine. For a long wire run, slightly higher voltage signals would improve noise. Digital don...
[14:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─Xbox Series X Will Feature Audio Ray Tracing, Director of Program Management Reveals [wccftech.com] Sony’s Next-gen PS5 3D Audio is Taking Steps a Big as Graphics and is a Dream Come True, Composer and Dev Say [wccftech.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The...
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:25] <exec> 08└─> If you don't want the costs of managing it, then outsource the management. So in your world, outsourcing doesn't cost anything? Whatever they were smoking, you were inhaling secondary fumes of.
[14:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─You don't seriously mean you don't believe in the moon landing? Laughs Out Loud.
[14:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─It sounds like the MBA spreadsheet monkeys have full control of NASA's strategic future of internal systems. Failing to understand the fundamentals of a complex system, and then confidently making sweeping, long-term decisions is really the strength of your typical MBA bureaucrat. Champagne and bonu...
[14:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:31] <exec> 08└─> It's a cloud service. They're trying to make it rain. Shower of gold for Amazon. Golden shower for NASA.
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:33] <exec> 08└─Ygrette's that hottie from north of the wall. However, "egress" is a lovely old word with its roots in Latin, often found in the opposite context to "ingress" (the being the old pair of prefices ex- and in-). The "-gress" part is quite common, it's found in congress, aggression (why did I think of t...
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[14:25:35] <exec> 08└─Cut back, or simply close tax loopholes. Maybe the govt ought to threaten them with some multi-billion tax bills? Lovely profits you've got there, it would be a real shame if someone were to tax them, capisce?
[14:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:37] <exec> 08└─Eww, nasty term, terrible connotations. It's more something wholesome like rent seeking.
[14:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:39] <exec> 08└─your argument pro the human landing on the moon is noted.
[14:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:41] <exec> 08└─Can't happen. Insider trading is permitted on Capitol Hill. Our congress people and president are profiting right now, as we speak, from the panic [bloomberg.com]. And as usual, 90% of them will be reelected. SNAFU!
[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─gradior, ĕris, gressus sum, gradi v intr dep to walk, procede
[14:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:16] <exec> 08└─So!...I can get drunk AND turned on at the same time! Yuuummmmy! :)
[14:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:34] <exec> 08└─The whole idea of egalitarianism is bullshit. The modern push for it by the post-modernist crew is one of the greatest tragedies of our time.
[14:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:36] <exec> 08└─Egalitarianism should be the last resort when you cannot achieve justice. Instead we have e.g. social justice, whose inherent coarseness makes it already an oxymoron. For example, if all shipping of African slaves to the US were perchance made by jewish people, should jews be considered accomplices...
[14:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Discloses Dozens of Critical Photoshop, Acrobat Reader Flaws - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:15] <exec> 08└─> Is there another software company that has patched as many vulnerabilities over the years as Adobe? Wow! Impressed by such a level of diligence! Even more so than Microsoft.
[14:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:50] <exec> 08└─In other words, you want one thing, most people want another. So the way to ignore their wants is to label them "sociopathic". Sorry, this is a democracy. Society has to consider everyones' wants, even the allegedly sociopathic people, not merely consider your wants.
[14:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:51] <exec> 08└─You can still take out.
[14:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:53] <exec> 08└─Most people want evil. 95% of them vote for it or choose to let it happen, usually, like with you, it's for personal gain, or to be eaten last. You're in good company.
[14:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom Sues Netflix for Shrinking Cable Box Market - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:13] <exec> 08└─They say: "hard work never killed anyone". But why take the risk.
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[15:24:19] <exec> 08└─You have no respect for us self flagellants who come here to punish ourselves.
[15:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─I got a whole week in, of well over a million PPD, with my newfangled vidya card. Well, if you have any genuine interest in the trials and tribulations of a folder, just look at this - https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com [extremeoverclocking.com] To add insult to inj...
[15:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:40] <exec> 08└─Everyone collectively helping the poorest would be . . . OMG . . . evil socialism!
[15:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:41] <exec> 08└─These degenerates might even elect leaders that reflect this decadence
[15:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:54] <exec> 08└─A digital signal carried by a copper wire works just as well as one carried by fiber. Neither are bothered by noise on the transmission line.
[15:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06curl up 2020 and Other Conferences Go Online Only - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:11] <exec> 08└─When the stock market plunged, the local billionaire's yacht parade was suspended - however then Donald Trump invested $1.5T of taxpayer's money into propping up stock prices. Yacht parade is back on yay!
[15:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:51] <exec> 08└─Petabyte: (noun) When you try to pet your dog and it bytes you.
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─Other problems are that all the footage I recall having seen back in the time (after deepfakes contemporary video evidence is worthless in this context) looked like a 60s sci fi movie. Oh c'mon! The escape scene [youtu.be] was great! Where have you ever heard a better film score?
[15:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 067.5-Inch E-Ink Display is Powered Completely by Near Field Communication (NFC) - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:18] <exec> 08└─If you want to hear things truly obscene. Ask how much they get to pay per year for those things.
[15:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Precision Mirrors Poised to Improve Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:42] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but I read the paper behind the link!
[15:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Precision Mirrors Poised to Improve Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:44] <exec> 08└─Ha-ha! NERD!
[15:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:20] <exec> 08└─They'd do it for the greater good.
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[16:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03noelhenson [6184] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─Guys, you are honestly doing a great job. Keep it up!
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:24] <exec> 08└─Would it perhaps be possible to make certain stories sticky on the front page to? That might make it easier instead of having to repost it over and over again. For "emergency" posts that can stay on the front page (top or bottom) for X hours, days or whatever time units you feel like applying.
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:26] <exec> 08└─Aristachus sticky.
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─Looks like they've mostly been handing out CPU work, as both CPUs (a Ryzen 7 3800X in one machine and an A10-7700K in the other) have been kept more or less busy, but the GPUs (both Radeons...an RX460 and an HD6800) have been idle. The RX460 was getting work for a little bit, once I had the driver a...
[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:03] <exec> 08└─If you need it, you have your hdmi from your console to your reciever and the reciever breaks it out to spdif (if it's not HDCP encoded and refuses to output via S/PDIF.)
[16:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:04] <exec> 08└─>A digital signal carried by a copper wire works just as well as one carried by fiber. Agreed. I never really understood the point of optical S/PDIF when copper wires are so much more robust and easy to work with. More "high tech" I guess. Fiber optics have an advantage that they're pretty much comp...
[16:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─Overall the entire cloud storage thing does seem to be summed up along those lines -- or the drug dealer special where the first taste is free and after that not so much. Upload all your data to us, almost infinite storage, next to no costs. Then they charge you for downloading your own data. It's a...
[16:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:29] <exec> 08└─Yet, you've already had one civil war where city's were burned by the volunteer army and more recently a few times the army has been called out against labour unrest or even ex-military unrest after WWI. Just have to divide the country up and make sure the army unit ordered to roll their tanks is fr...
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[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:33] <exec> 08└─But is that because he doesn't wash?
[17:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─Idea: what if there were, say, a button at the top of the story that I could click and be brought immediately to the comment section of a story? Hey! I can do that!
[17:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:36] <exec> 08└─Now I've seen what you did at the dev server, and honestly, I don't like it as it is. There's lot of grey empty space to the right of the “posted/by” and dept. line, but instead of using that, you add the skip button below, centered with nothing but wasted space left and right. This also gives t...
[17:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:59] <exec> 08└─Let the govt pay for everything. I certainly don't need the stress of a job.
[17:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:15] <exec> 08└─I never said digital signals couldn't run over copper wire. Hell, that's exactly what they do over common Ethernet cable.
[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:16] <exec> 08└─Your statement of digital signal degrading ungracefully is a bit unfair. If you say an analog signal inherently degrades gracefully I will give you that. On the other hand no signal is nowadays passed without any form of modulation and these in turn degrade gracefully, or where the datastream, is no...
[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Warns Of High-Severity Software Defined-Wan Flaws - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:24] <exec> 08└─Personally, I *AM* against the various soft networks. Not the concept itself, but for the layer of indirection that keeps you from actually understanding what is happening on the network. It doesn't do anything that you couldn't already do with the pre-existing technology, it just adds buzzword comp...
[17:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06curl up 2020 and Other Conferences Go Online Only - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:35] <exec> 08└─Encouraging yacht owners to gather in groups? Finally, a Trump policy I'm in favor of!
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:18] <exec> 08└─It's how many egrets you can afford. What you do with those birds is up to you, though.
[17:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:52] <exec> 08└─ACs prefer Sterno.
[17:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:54] <exec> 08└─EverClear and it's also good for removing adhesive residue.
[17:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:14] <exec> 08└─(unless you have data about the culture in bronze age families, which I doubt)
[17:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:16] <exec> 08└─Do you happen to have a pile of bronze age teeth you haven't told anyone about?
[17:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:18] <exec> 08└─They needed the extra nutrition because they were breastfeeding until 2.5 to 4 years of age.
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[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fine-Tuning Radiocarbon Dating Could 'Rewrite' Ancient Events - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─Know how to rewrite history? Change the dates.
[18:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:56] <exec> 08└─about the possibility of adding themes. I've been a subscriber for three years and wasn't aware of that feature. VT100 ftw. Thanks, guys.
[18:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:58] <exec> 08└─First -- I'm logged in, posting as AC. Normally view in green VT100 mode. FireFox 60.9.0esr on Win7Pro. 1. Went to the https://dev.soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] link, opened in a new tab. I was not logged in on the new tab--fair enough, it's another instance of SN, default red color scheme. Whe...
[18:25:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03danaris [3853] 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:13] <exec> 08└─Wait, so...treating people like human beings with valid needs, both physiological and psychological, rather than robots who have to compete to prove Who Is The Best (and thus worthy to survive) ends up with healthier people?!?! Color me stunned. Dan Aris
[18:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:22] <exec> 08└─So what we need is a more sharply progressive tax structure. We don't want the 0.1% getting all soft and snowflakey! No more trust funds, they cause affluenza.
[18:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 1705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─That's just the beginning. The billing and price uncertainty is beyond insane. If getting an oil change was billed like health care, they wouldn't tell you the price up front at all. Even after the oil change, they couldn't tell you how much they were going to bill or when to expect it. Over the nex...
[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─As the fairly famous clip from the Newsroom carefully documents, there is absolutely zero evidence that the USA is the greatest country in the world at anything other than (a) bombing and drone strikes mostly hitting civilians, (b) locking people up, and (c) taxing ordinary people to line the pocket...
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:44] <exec> 08└─Consoles with standard SSDs would have seen a significant User experience improvement. The nice and fast SSDs they are shipping with, will have an even greater positive impact on the user experience. Let alone, just game load times. OS booting, listing/accessing videos, audio, etc. The next gen cons...
[18:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:45] <exec> 08└─The 16GB shared RAM is kind of sad to see as a typical gaming desktop would have a dedicated GPU with 8GB of RAM with 16GB+ of System RAM, for a total GPU+System RAM of 24GB+. Still, It's a significant upgrade from last gen.
[18:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I understand your argument. Obviously modulation is required - that's the only way you can send a signal wirelessly - analog signals are all modulated as well AM radio = Amplitude Modulated, FM = Frequency Modulated. Even modem = MODulator/DEModulator. Nothing special about modulation....
[18:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─Heck, S/PDIF actually explicitly includes digital transmission over a copper wire with RCA jacks as an option in the spec. Why the expensive, finicky optical toslink variant is the one that became popular is beyond me. Only thing I can think of is that "optical" sounds high tech. Though I could also...
[18:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:50] <exec> 08└─We can't be bothered to put up a storage company so that we can also EARN from the enterprise..
[18:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:52] <exec> 08└─Not rent seeking. It needs to sound better than ransom or rent seeking. A wholesome sounding term. Cloud Services
[18:27:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:19] <exec> 08└─Soap is also much more effective than hand sanitiser, since the hydrophobic end of the soap molecule destroys the lipid membranes that surround Covid19 (as well as many other things, herpes, HIV, Ebola, Zika, etc). So the most effective thing you can do is to wash with soap, which surrounds the viru...
[18:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:29] <exec> 08└─lolol knew you were a bit of a nutter
[18:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:31] <exec> 08└─Darwin Award in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1
[18:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:33] <exec> 08└─Cool! Thank you.
[18:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:35] <exec> 08└─A jug of hand sanitizer may not save you, but if the alcohol content is high enough, you won't care. Isolating yourself means you have to have virtual parties to toast each other using hand sanitizer.
[18:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:37] <exec> 08└─Won't this be needed as a vehicle fuel?
[18:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:00] <exec> 08└─I think you didn't get what I intended to be the context of the phrase, if you are able to discern how many genders existed according to those people, then you have enough data. Else nope.
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[19:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:49] <exec> 08└─Be simpler to just show the story header and the comments. Also reduced the bandwidth required, since even using css to hide stuff doesn't mean it's not still downloaded. Same bandwidth, save energy, more responsive, save the planet one step at a time.
[19:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:51] <exec> 08└─You have no respect for us self flagellants who come here to punish ourselves.
[19:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:53] <exec> 08└─Guys, you are honestly doing a great job. Keep it up!
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:55] <exec> 08└─Basically, that already exists. Well, not exactly a button. But the “n comments” under the story summary at the main page loads the story page and positions it right at the beginning of the comments. The only improvement I would suggest is to make the link not just span the number, but also the...
[19:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:05] <exec> 08└─according to the covid page, there are no CPU units for covid from https://foldingathome.org [foldingathome.org] "All projects are using the new GPU-accelerated Core22 based on the open source OpenMM biomolecular simulation engine." The the covid work units should be GPU (...
[19:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:07] <exec> 08└─I'm currently crunching for project 14578 and 14329, both being coronavirus projects, on CPU. Got a spare ESXi with dual EPYC 7401. I wasn't able to get many workunits until I split the 48 core slot into 3 slots with 16 cores each. Even now there are times when one of the slot idles, not really sure...
[19:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:46] <exec> 08└─I used SPDIF only once but found out in the settings that HDMI would have better audio bandwidth. It had something to do with which device was better at decoding the light.
[19:29:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DimestoreProstitute [9480] 02 - 06Digital Surveillance of Citizens Deployed in COVID-19 Fight, Rules Send Genie Back to the Bottle - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:10] <exec> 08└─What you're suggesting requires people to open their eyes and I don't see that happening.
[19:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:15] <exec> 08└─Most people want evil. 95% of them vote for it or choose to let it happen, usually, like with you, it's for personal gain, or to be eaten last.
[19:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:16] <exec> 08└─He could be either trolling or legitimately mentally ill. When you're depressed, paranoid, or in some other state the world and its people all seem wrong somehow. His world view seems rather dark. As Jim Morrison sang, People are strange, when you're a stranger. Faces look ugly, when you're alone. W...
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[20:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─Hey Musk, why aren't the first to go up in one of your contraptions?
[20:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:26] <exec> 08└─"Musk, why aren't YOU the first to go up in one of your contraptions?"
[20:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:28] <exec> 08└─Because I have a lot of useful idiots volunteering to be guinea pigs. I'll go up when I'm sure it's safe for me to do so. Elon
[20:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:30] <exec> 08└─Young people believe they are invincible. Nothing can hurt them. Technology is absolutely trustworthy, as long as it has pretty graphics, and especially if it is in the cloud (like Dragon 2 briefly is).
[20:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:57] <exec> 08└─Be simpler to just show the story header and the comments. Also reduced the bandwidth required, since even using css to hide stuff doesn't mean it's not still downloaded. Same bandwidth, save energy, more responsive, save the planet one step at a time.
[20:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:58] <exec> 08└─If I could have my wish list, you would include hidden "skip to story" and "skip to comments" links at the very top of the document, use the semantic tags, and follow the other accessibility guidelines.
[20:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:00] <exec> 08└─There is not skip to comment button anywhere. Mzaybe just do this a simple button - one to story top and one to comments top, and super fancy one to unread comments top. ALWAYS show them.
[20:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:28] <exec> 08└─> 100 years ago the richest on the planet didn't have what the millenials have in their pockets. Here is what the rich today value : Handcrafted clothing Fresh cooked meals Live entertainment Servants Personal transport in luxury Holy shit, same as ancient times
[20:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:52] <exec> 08└─If you want a semi-serious answer to that question, because some of us got fed up with the ever changing hardware specs required to play games on them, it seemed like a hardware upgrade cycle was required every time another PC game developer decided to push the envelope with their latest release (lo...
[20:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:56] <exec> 08└─Not what I meant. Sometimes outsourcing can save money. Obviously it does, otherwise there wouldn't be a lot of outsourcing.
[20:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:38] <exec> 08└─151 is discontinued? Fuck, now we will have to use everlcear or something that tastes even worse to breathe fire while camping.
[20:27:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ancient Teeth Reveal Bronze Age Gender Inequality - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:53] <exec> 08└─How is that NOT being the king???
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[21:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they be asking them to submit feedback (and provide them an example) to Google with those complaints? That way Google can incorporate the feedback and maybe make WebComponents less like what they're complaining about.
[21:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:26] <exec> 08└─One corporation should not have control over the World Wide Web.
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:28] <exec> 08└─Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:30] <exec> 08└─that's incredibly naive. google doesn't give a flying rats ass what people think. it has it's own priorities: it's trying to take over the world.
[21:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they're leaving the planet at just the right time! Once this is a success I expect the elitist one-percenters will be booking their tickets straight away. Hopefully we can get them on the SpaceX Arc "B" and improve the lives of the millions "left behind".
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─or are they sending the virus to contaminate the ISS? what could go wrong
[21:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fine-Tuning Radiocarbon Dating Could 'Rewrite' Ancient Events - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:52] <exec> 08└─You really don't know what an error bar is, do you?
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 2557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─Now I've seen what you did at the dev server, and honestly, I don't like it as it is. There's lot of grey empty space to the right of the “posted/by” and dept. line, but instead of using that, you add the skip button below, centered with nothing but wasted space left and right. This also gives t...
[21:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:16] <exec> 08└─Bah! Preview, I meant to click Preview!!!!
[21:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:18] <exec> 08└─Re:Came in to bitch... about the possibility of adding themes. I've been a subscriber for three years and wasn't aware of that feature. VT100 ftw. Thanks, guys.
[21:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─Well, I meant either show the headline + story, or headline + comments. No need to repetitively show the story. Either people read it, or (as pointed out above) they haven't.
[21:25:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─> early life, income, and health insurance interventions have the potential to improve health. yep, of the insurance company the most tech advanced country in the world has people afraid to break their ankle because the system allows insurance companies to agree on a different price for reimbursemen...
[21:25:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:46] <exec> 08└─So what we need is a more sharply progressive tax structure. We don't want the 0.1% getting all soft and snowflakey! No more trust funds, they cause affluenza.
[21:25:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─As the fairly famous clip from the Newsroom carefully documents, there is absolutely zero evidence that the USA is the greatest country in the world at anything other than (a) bombing and drone strikes mostly hitting civilians, (b) locking people up, and (c) taxing ordinary people to line the pocket...
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─He needed to find out if it blends :-)
[21:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:46] <exec> 08└─Is "don't want to disappoint the stockholders" a good reason to ignore a public health warning? Perhaps, but it probably depends a lot upon which chair at the table you're sitting in.
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[22:24:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─One corporation should not have control over the World Wide Web.
[22:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I'm just saying if you don't like that library, having two people at google read your complaints may have more of an effect than having two web developers across the board. And if the web developers complain, you get more of a multiplicative effect too.
[22:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:33] <exec> 08└─Things like Single Page Applications (SPA) along with tools like Angular are the way of the future. No one wants a shitty, slow, server-side generated bunch of woo-tang that is reloaded every time you want some small data source. Like it or not, the old way is mostly out for anything that is data dr...
[22:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:36] <exec> 08└─I remember back when Microsoft was a good company with fun products, prior to the IBM PC. Microsoft FORTRAN. Microsoft Adventure (eg, colossal cave) Other fun products. Of course, Microsoft BASIC in early personal computers (pre IBM PC). Then I remember back when Microsoft was evil and Apple was the...
[22:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:38] <exec> 08└─Yyu just have to look at CSS abuse like that art piece https://codepen.io [codepen.io] to see that webcomponent are not required for opaqueness! The only reason the pale moon devs are writing this letter is: they do not have the technical manpower to support this nor anything...
[22:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful . . .
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:42] <exec> 08└─Also explains why they (PaleMoon) wanted to disallow NoScript, because the user having control of what Javascript code runs on their machine is bad for, um, for, well, bad for advertisers?
[22:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 4, Disagree) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:44] <exec> 08└─We need to get back to Gopher[70]. Now. Only necessary changes to original protocol are: 1. Support for UTF-8. Make it a standard mode. No graphics, just Unicode. 2. Support for ipv6. Maybe, ipv6 only this time. Allow only single source of all information for one page. 3. Support for encryption mode...
[22:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:46] <exec> 08└─I would definitely be interested. Or UseNet NEWS. Like alt.barney.must.die.die.die
[22:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:48] <exec> 08└─Stop using god dang "frameworks". I can compile linux kernels at a fraction of time it used to take. Web? The same damn banking/commerce/media sites makes me nostalgic of the dial-up days.
[22:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:50] <exec> 08└─Now Google's evil. What's so hard about this?
[22:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:52] <exec> 08└─I loved reading usenet especially when google made a web front end for it (google groups). Unfortunately that eventually turned it into an utter spam shite fest that killed it. I've not gone there for years. If someone knows how to get usenet through a web portal please tell!
[22:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:54] <exec> 08└─Are Apple evil these days? I consider them indifferent. They tend to stick to their walled gardens, and don't go fucking up other peoples' shit.
[22:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Fine-Tuning Radiocarbon Dating Could 'Rewrite' Ancient Events - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:15] <exec> 08└─You mean the crowbar I stuck up yo ass? Yeah. that's my cousin's.
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:44] <exec> 08└─Re:Another option Be simpler to just show the story header and the comments. Also reduced the bandwidth required, since even using css to hide stuff doesn't mean it's not still downloaded. Same bandwidth, save energy, more responsive, save the planet one step at a time.
[22:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:45] <exec> 08└─If I could have my wish list, you would include hidden "skip to story" and "skip to comments" links at the very top of the document, use the semantic tags, and follow the other accessibility guidelines.
[22:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:47] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. I also access the net through my phone, so I tend to be careful (2 gigs/month doesn't go far. Good thing I don't do social media - a real data plan hog).
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:49] <exec> 08└─No, side effect of being so sweet. That, and proper spelling.
[22:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:40] <exec> 08└─One other advantage of S/PDIF is that eliminates ground loops. I had an annoying 60 Hz hum hooking up my PC to my receiver. Analog was bad, a digital copper link was better, but S/PDIF completely eliminated the hum as there is no electrical connection whatsoever. With that said, I would assume this...
[22:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06curl up 2020 and Other Conferences Go Online Only - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:59] <exec> 08└─SUSEcon is now digital only. https://www.susecon.com [susecon.com] Basically, there is no choice in this anymore
[22:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:16] <exec> 08└─no shit. fuck that treasonous sheriff. be glad i don't have musk money. tesla would have an armed division.
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[23:24:36] <exec> 08└─We need to get back to Gopher[70]. Now. Only necessary changes to original protocol are: 1. Support for UTF-8. Make it a standard mode. No graphics, just Unicode. 2. Support for ipv6. Maybe, ipv6 only this time. Allow only single source of all information for one page. 3. Support for encryption mode...
[23:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:42] <exec> 08└─Angular and "SPA all the things" was the wave of the previous decade. Fortunately, I'm starting to see more people talking about server-side rendering, combined with JS loading the data-driven portions. That means the first request can contains a full page again, and the page updates can be served a...
[23:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:44] <exec> 08└─Does it require content to be hosted by Google, or give preferential treatment to Google? Does it lock down technology in such a way, whether by patent, licensing, or NDA, that it cannot be implemented by free software or equally by all commercial interests? Does it require some type of authorizatio...
[23:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:57] <exec> 08└─Because Crew Dragon is for NASA astronauts, and he's not one. Good chance he's one of the first to ride on Starship, though.
[23:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:39] <exec> 08└─Permanent Aristachu sticky at the bottom, refreshed daily, from the check-yo-white-privilege dept.
[23:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:40] <exec> 08└─When writing a comment, I sometimes scroll back up to the story to cut-paste something into my comment, like this: ...it is kind of long to scroll down through...
[23:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:34] <exec> 08└─Okay, now that actually makes sense, thanks. Ditching copper doesn't reduce noise in the signal itself, but it eliminates noise introduced into the electronics as a side effect of the electrical interconnect provided by the copper. Of course you could theoretically electrically isolate the signal ca...
[23:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:36] <exec> 08└─If you picked up a 60 Hz hum in your sound while using a copper digital connection, I can tell you that it is impossible for that 60 Hz interference to be due to the digital transmission. Clearly the analog part of that circuitry was getting the hum. As you say, it could be a ground loop. That would...
[23:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:25] <exec> 08└─In this mornings newspaper (yes, I still have a paper delivered) there was a story about a local boutique vodka maker that had switched over to making hand sanitizer. His only problem was going to be filling thousands of little dispensing bottles--he doesn't have a packaging line, was going to use h...
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