Edward Torvalds @EdwardTorvalds@mstdn.io
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Computer nutter. Likes reading fiction.
"I carry my cloud in my back pack"
"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school & there it all happened"
Joined Aug 2017
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So true about software industry:
It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes.
— Keith Braithwaite
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John Taylor Gatto passes away 😭 😭
The time when breaking into government office to do a good deed was cool
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2quc-iQ96R0
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What if privacy law was as strict as copyright law nowadays? You are not allowed to copy any private information about someone until 70 years after their death, even if it was non-commercial, and you can sue the heck (that is: €€€) out of someone if they do.
And then do the reverse to copyright law: copying anything copyrighted is the standard, creators who don't want it are refuted with "Oh, but you don't have something to hide, do you?", and Big Tech and Government actively help people to copy work from creators and to spread it further.
Interviews are simply an exercise in who can say what they think the other person wants to hear, but with more enthusiasm.
employee survey: how do you rate your CEO?
facebook employee: well, he's currently answering questions in court about privacy violations at facebook but he labels his own food in the office fridge so it's 50/50
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the time in history when hacking into computer was cool and legit
If only my Linux laptop were to be as battery and power efficient as my android phone...
India high speed train breaks down on first trip
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47264743
Google's reCaptcha totally hates Firefox and its user. Damn it!
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GitHub censors deepfake source code for non logged in users? (Try incognito) - https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap
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A tale of two brothers and their power over Indian media. www.aljazeera.com/programmes/l… #Media #India #Journalism #Corruption #Asia
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India, the World's Second Largest Internet Market, Is Turning Its Back on Silicon Valley
http://bit.ly/2SYklJF
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Google caught lying about reason behind ad blocker change - https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-backtracks-on-chrome-modifications-that-would-have-crippled-ad-blockers/
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Awesome BSD: Curated List of BSD related software
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Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/researchers-scared-by-their-own-work-hold-back-deepfakes-for-text-ai/ by @thepacketrat
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Close Clinton ally gave $467,500 to wife of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who was investigating Clinton https://t.co/AE8EkX5o4Y
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Google’s Manifest v3 is Bullshit: Performance is not an issue - https://whotracks.me/blog/adblockers_performance_study.html
- Pronoun
- He/His
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- KDE Neon
- Hero
- Sherlock Holmes
- Genres
- Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Paranormal, Adventure
Computer nutter. Likes reading fiction.
"I carry my cloud in my back pack"
"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school & there it all happened"
Joined Aug 2017
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