* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

GitLab removes its 'starter' tier: Users must either pay 5x more or lose features

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Happy

Well played.

East London council breaks off 20-year Oracle relationship to shack up with cloud ERP nobodies by year's end

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Not seeing the downside

Oracle vs anyone else. I'd say they made the right decision.

Google, Apple sued for failing to give Telegram chat app the Parler put-down treatment

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If you can't tell the difference between demanding civil rights and genocide and insurrection, maybe you should stay in school.

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Re: A polite suggestion to Mr. Ginsberg

Seems many commentards here don't understand this.

The new Nazi are not spouting off ideology. They are plotting AND COMMITTING, genocide and insurrection.

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Re: @Overunder Am I bad for not...

...and it was a big mistake to defend them. Nazis will NEVER have any legitimacy for any reason.

US cyber intelligence officer jailed for kidnapping her kid, trying to hawk top secrets to Russia in Mexico

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Hence "budget".

Fedora's Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome

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Holmes

As I was saying

Told ya so.

North Korea infected infosec bods with backdoors via dodgy blog pages, Visual Studio files – Google

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FAIL

So much for the experts

Really? Professional, top of their field "ITSEC" folks got taken in?

Are you effing kidding me? No wonder we're all boned.

What's a COVID-19 outbreak? Amazon gets all Trumpy over Alabama warehouse workers' mail-in vote to form a union

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Re: The stupidity of the NFL player's union ...

Bwahahahahahaha.

Pro athletes have the best unions in the world. Did you NOT know this?

Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break

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Price vs performance

I have yet to see any phone over $200 that has a compelling reason to buy it. As another poster pointed out, this year's hot pick tech, is next years discount and the year after, budget phone.

After 2-3 years, I can get this year's hot tech for $200 or less. And that's how I'll continue to base my purchases. Becasue no damn phone is worth the stupid money being asked these days.

Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community

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Re: If Debian does not work then there are lots of others....

Exactly. Sometimes it's best to move on. There are plenty of alternatives.

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This. If it takes too much fiddling, then why is anyone wasting their time with it when there are so many alternatives?

I'm all for alternatives. To each their own. But sometimes it's better to just move on.

Five years after US promised crackdown on ticket-snaffling bots, the first prosecutions are in... and are a slap on the wrist

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Re: There's a simple solution

An even simpler solution: stop going to overpriced shows.

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Best quote I saw on this

A slap... on the wrist band.

We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news

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Meh

There are no good guys in this fight, but Google needs a reality check.

Back to the office with you: 'Perhaps 5 days is too much family time' – Workday CEO

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These people have lost their minds

The pandemic is surging to new levels, but yes, let's all go back to the office, shall we?

We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing

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Many of us have been saying this for years. Nobody listened.

Parler was a vile and beyond the pale chat board, but nobody is stopping them from buying their own hardware.

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Parler for planing, Zello for on location.

Zello is not happy either.

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Re: "inciting and planning the rape, torture, and assassination"

Terrorists are funny that way.

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Re: What about places that hinders me to enter if I don't abide to their rules?

It does... and even more specific laws about sedition and insurrection.

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Re: What about places that hinders me to enter if I don't abide to their rules?

How does an imaginary nightclub compare to very real sedition and insurrection?

Can you even hear yourself?

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Oh NOW they want corporate regulation.

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Evidence says otherwise. Do try and keep up.

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Re: Trump's you-tube account has been suspended as well

Tik Tok already banned Trump.

How's THAT for irony? :)

Pirate Bay co-founder criticises Parler for its lack of resilience

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Hate to break it to you, but those stories of antifa and BLM storming the U.S. Capital were not true.

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Re: Geeks versus Politicians

Thanks for proving my point while comparing apple to oranges.

You came so close to the trifecta.

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Re: Geeks versus Politicians

Parler's situation is not a matter of opinion. It openly promoted racism, sedition, insurrection and violence and death.

Allowing that is how history repeats itself. Not understanding that is also how history repeats itself.

Backers of Planet Computers' Astro Slide 5G phone furious after shock specs downgrade

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Re: Should it be a surprise?

BA DUMP BA!

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Coat

Astro... Slide?

For a moment there I read something else.

Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing

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Nothing can fix stupid

No amount of "smart" devices can fix mass stupid.

Four women seek release from forced arbitration to sue Infosys for widespread gender discrimination

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Forced arbitration should be illegal

Force arbitration is a direct violation of due process.

It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol

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As usual

Microsoft gonna Microsoft.

Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'

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Re: Is it just me.....

No, it's not just you. What should be a really simple operation, and was at one time, has become some kind of byzantine puzzle game.

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Well said.

Dropbox's user interface has also been a useless mess for years. Maybe they should focus on that.

Salesforce relieves Republican National Committee of its tools citing 'risk of politically incited violence' across the US

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Re: in the wrong intellectual space

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and commits insurrection like a duck.....

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Re: A good contract

Sedition and insurrection is not free speech, you twat gobbler.

That's about has "cancel" as it gets.

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Re: So this is what we're going to have for the next 4 years

Years. They spent years setting this up.

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Still can't see the difference between free speech and sedition and insurrection, can you.

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Re: @Cederic - Small correction

One minor change:

The BLM actions were spontaneous reactions to documented incidents of official overreach and unnecessary violence.

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Re: Is it too much to hope...

Those chickens have finally come home to roost.

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Re: Everyone of these moves

One does not negotiate with terrorists.

81 million people told them to get bent. That's how elections work.

They can "accommodate" themselves like adults or suffer the consequences. Sedition and insurrection is not a game. Extortion is not "accommodated."

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Re: The real truth...

Exactly.

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Re: Everyone of these moves

Then they can rightly go down with it.

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Re: Everyone of these moves

You are Neville Chamberlain and I claim my five pounds.

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Re: A good contract

Sedition? Insurrection?

Oh wait, that was the Republicans.

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Re: Picking sides

Nobody cares what criminals think.

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Re: Liberty speech

Well said.

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Re: Picking sides

Take the politics out of... politics?

Can you even hear yourself?

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They are not "reconsidering". They are actively cutting off all donations and funds and some are even asking for their money back.

The corps are leaving the sinking ship, like, well, you know.

World’s largest dark-web marketplace shuttered after Euro cybercops cuff Aussie

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Excellent news

See title.