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aquabeagle commented on My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards thehustle.co/phone-scam-g... · Posted by u/lxm
Seems like the FTC or some other government agency could save a lot of people a lot of heartache with a PSA targeted at elderly people. Commercials during daytime TV basically saying no one will ever legitimately call you and ask you to buy gift cards as a method of payment.
aquabeagle commented on Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive spacejam.com/... · Posted by u/olingern
As is Heaven's Gate's website - http://heavensgate.com/
If we spent our time changing specs every time someone somewhere gets offended by something that didn't even happen to their generation, we will be spending all our time doing only this.
Use whitelists.
I think we're supposed to call them "allowlists" now.
aquabeagle commented on Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Cannons vice.com/en_us/article/dy... · Posted by u/elsewhen
Amazing how in a supposedly litigious society like America it's possible to deploy a device which causes intentional, indiscriminate, permanent injury across a crowd and not get sued into oblivion. Bit like how tobacco, asbestos and Kinder eggs all incurred product liability because they weren't intending to be damaging to health, but gun manufacturers aren't liable because their products are supposed to be dangerous.
And making a video about how to defend against them can get you sued.
aquabeagle commented on Haiku R1/beta2 has been released haiku-os.org/news/2020-06... · Posted by u/waddlesplash
I've tried Haiku a few times and liked it, but it feels like the beta label has been around forever and is not doing them any favors. It's 2020, you're not publishing software as a big-box release in stores, just cut a release already and then keep iterating!
From Wikipedia:
It wasn't until September, 2009 that Haiku reached its first milestone with the release of Haiku R1/Alpha 1. Then in November, 2012 the R1/Alpha 4.1 was released, while work continued on nightly builds.[8] On September 28, 2018, the Haiku R1/Beta 1 was released.[9] On June 9, 2020, Haiku R1/Beta 2 was released.
Almost 11 years and it's still not out of beta?!
On 6.6 and newer, just type sysupgrade and that's it.