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4 days agoI haven’t used them in years, but it still makes me sad. Had lots of nostalgia for them. RIP.
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As long as the AGPL remains enforcable.
Now this is much better than getting ads in your Start Menu.
1·10 days agoJames Howells. Quite a sad story. For those unaware, I’ll give you the short version:
In 2013, Howells mined close to 8,000 BTC and saved his private keys (which is like a password to get access to your BTC) to his laptop’s hard drive. Months later he absent-mindedly throws it in the trash. Next morning he realizes what he’s done and tries going to the local garbage dump to search for it. He grew obsessed with finding the hard drive. It got to the point where his wife left him and took the kids with her. To this day he’s still trying to get his local government to give him permission to dig through the city’s garbage dump.
Semi-rant
His plan to retrieve his lost crypto was doomed from the start. When the garbage truck came to pick up his garbage, it had its own trash compactor inside, which would have crushed the hard drive to bits, meaning the hard drive most likely died before it even got to the landfill. And even if the HDD wasn’t destroyed, the data on it would have likely been corrupted after sitting in garbage for 10+ years. And even if they managed to recover the data, if he tried to sell any of his BTC it would crash the market. He should have just cut his losses from the beginning and spent more time with his wife and kids. Now, this fool’s errand to retrieve the (likely-dead) hard drive will be his legacy.
163·11 days agoAnd if they ever run out of Toy Story characters, the Marvel universe has thousands of other characters…
Not to mention other Pixar film characters.
I see.
My condolences, that must sting.
Out of curiosity, what was the name of the company?
I thought the whole point of crypto/blockchain technologies was to avoid government regulations?
EDIT: Never mind, they’re suing because the SEC declared them as securities, which the artists don’t want.
You may not have gotten rich, but at least you can say on your resume that your technique is in every decent CDN + compression tool!
I switched to Proton Mail in 2019, and recently started switching to their VPN service to use port forwarding. Glad to see Proton is putting their money where their mouth is.
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Oh, the horror! (Not that we’ll be seeing ads anyway.)
Honestly I’m not sure why they discontinued Mint KDE Edition.
“Yo dawg, I heard you like adblockers…”
151·1 month agoI’m so disgusted. This is just wrong, no matter how you try to justify it.
Because how are people supposed to enjoy the movie in that horrible CAM quality? At least wait for the WEB-DL.
Thanks, fixed.
On it.