I don't think serious conversation like this is a place for reaction GIFs.
I'd be more interested in criticism of the content, rather than the format. There's aiming for serious, and then there's just posturing.
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Aelinsaar commented on A huge crack is spreading across one of Antarctica’s biggest ice shelves thestar.com/news/world/20... · Posted by u/BudVVeezer
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Aelinsaar commented on Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA reuters.com/article/us-in... · Posted by u/mudil
...It's like they have no idea what "Evidence" actually means, or frankly what the hell Snowden actually did; it wasn't selling hacking tools on the black market!
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Aelinsaar commented on A Map Showing Every Cargo Ship digg.com/2016/every-ship-... · Posted by u/mrb
The constant exchange between the west coast of the US and Japan is so regular!
Aelinsaar commented on The Internet of Poorly Working Things mondaynote.com/the-intern... · Posted by u/kawera
Apart from the fridge that, once upon a time could show you your Google calendar[0], I have yet to see any IoT device that actually requires a cloud service for its functionality.
Why can't things be built to just use local TCP/IP connections? Those work just fine on my local network, and they work just fine if I flip my VPN on when I'm not on my local network. Anything that actually needs some kind of server piece should have a server that can run locally.
[0] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/Uhfp...
I would imagine it's the same thinking that puts multiplayer in every game, and just generally wants to keep a live connection to everything, always.
Aelinsaar commented on The Internet of Poorly Working Things mondaynote.com/the-intern... · Posted by u/kawera
> A look at the so-called Smart TV reinforces the observation about CE culture. In less than two years, the CPU inside the TV quickly becomes obsolete and can’t be upgraded while the display itself easily lasts a decade, and software updates are persphinctery, if they happen at all.
Evocative term ("persphinctery"), what does it mean? A web search mostly references mondaynote.
Given the limited google search results, it would appear to be a very neo neologism.