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Newspapers are worse because they are competing with fake news sites and fighting for survival. My dad used to show me audio tapes of conspiracy theories. They had limited reach and were obviously dodgy. That's no longer true.
Alternative medicine existed all along. I was more talking about conspiracy theories like anti vax, than homoepathy, although it's true that 'natural medicine' also recruits on the web
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Politicians have been lying and media has been spreading "fake news" long before the internet, the only difference is the number of people they reach.
At least the internet enables "regular folk" to argue against it.
If the internet has destroyed anything, it's social interaction.
Social media is anything but social and now, neither are we (just the way I like it  ).
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Keeping people at arms' lenght has never been easier!
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Sander Rossel wrote: At least the internet enables "regular folk" to argue against it.
It doesn't though. I reported tons of people gloating over Christchurch, FB did nothing. I got back to back 30 days for calling someone a name for saying Muslim kids deserve to die and then for saying something true in a debating group. I posted a question asking FB why they don't delete actual hate, they deleted my question and blocked me from posting more
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But tons of people still got their say, you just didn't agree 
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Sure. So long as we agree that people who want to kill Muslims have the right to be protected and people who don't, deserve censorship.
I don't think FB has an agenda past money. I think they would prefer that some people are hateful, but that we don't cross paths, and everyone uses FB a lot
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FB != internet, we're discussing it here, aren't we?
Back in the day people wanted to kill witches[^] and if you said otherwise you'd be burned at the stake as well.
Muslims are the new witches I guess, and aside from some laws we haven't really advanced from the killing either.
At least there are some pro-Muslim websites (and FB pages) as well, which weren't available for witches (although witches now have both too!).
Speaking of witchery, the Temple of Satan was recently acknowledged as an actual church by the US government[^].
I'm pretty sure the internet played no small part in it.
And of course sending them death threats over "worshipping Satan" (which they don't) is also made easy by the internet.
Bothersome thing, this freedom of speech 
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Sadly, for most people today, social media sites are the internet
The template of Satan is awesome!! There's a film, I want to see it
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Sander Rossel wrote: Muslims are the new witches
Ah, for some reason I thought we were referring to Russians as witches...at least that what I keep hearing. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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If stories like this hit the mainstream media in New Zealand, it will reinforce the significant anti-facebook sentiment already present as a result of ChCh.
Socially, and Social Medially, I think this is good - I don't envy the facebook guy trying to figure out a system to respond to these types of events. I don't think it is realistically feasible without blocking live streaming.
Which just makes me cynical on Suckerborgs recent statements of intentions.
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I think FB can't work in a way that is good for society, because it is free. They don't have the money to police it.
I have a collection of screenshots of violent threats and rejected reports. I'm trying to get the media interested. But I got death threats to my kids on FB for years and no media ever cared
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No more music stores. No more video stores. Massive destruction of local businesses by online companies that provide no local jobs. The music industry itself raped in a huge way by online theft. The movie and industries have suffered a lot as well. What was left of the real news business pretty much got whacked, along with the bulk of print journalism. Personal privacy has taken a massive hit.
And of course it is the primary contributor to the inevitable move towards undoing the personal computer revolution. We are moving as sure as the sun rises towards most software being rented, not owned, and towards much of the software we even rent not being actually written by the people we rent it from but they are just conglomerating other on-line resources together. We are heading towards software being a paid monthly utility.
And of course it has provided a large conduit for the stupidity, hate, and ugliness that fill so many people on this planet, contributing massively to the insane level of polarization that exists today.
Explorans limites defectum
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Ah, great, merge a code that is designed to be human readable (although not easily comprehensible) into the same page as the mathematically correct coding and discourage calling the mathematically correct one exactly what it is. What could go wrong?
P.S. I guess you have been trying to help the poster who mis-posted in here earlier?
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Fueled By Caffeine wrote: P.S. I guess you have been trying to help the poster who mis-posted in here earlier?
Yes, a comment on his question is what made me look at the Base32 Wikipedia article.
A few weeks ago I saw a question over on reddit where a user was stating that when they used the PiHole Linux distribution as the DHCP client their internet speeds dropped by 25%. Another user mocked him and said it was impossible and received over 60 upvotes. Another 30-40 other reddit users joined in the mockery making fun of the user for believing it was being caused by the PiHole DHCP client.
But because I recently wrote a DHCP client/server I immediately recognized the problem in his logs. DHCP options 24 through 26 are MTU related and has a significant effect on the link speed. Indeed the dhcp client used in PiHole is one of the only dhcp packages that utilized option 24. Most other dhcp clients ignore the MTU option.
My response was buried under 40-50 users mocking the poor guy.
A layperson probably has a hard time finding accurate information. I've noticed that even moderators and site administrators don't seem to recognize true and correct statements from subject-matter experts.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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How narrow minded are you. I propose to incorporate the baseball page as well.
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CPallini wrote: I propose to incorporate the baseball page as well.
That's a great idea. I propose that someone merge Base Running with the Base32 article. 
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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They already say that baseball is the most expensive game, because it's played on diamonds.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Love is the most expensive game. Or, at least, the most expansive.
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wikipedia is like a joke...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Nah, it's not the Internet. It's people that are broken. Or just stupid en masse.
The Internet just makes this much, much easier to see than ever before.
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Interesting. It appears I have once again re-invented the wheel(*). I needed a quick-and-dirty encoding scheme for some short binary data. I started with A-Z and 0-9, and then removed I, O, 0 (zero), and 1 (one) to bring it down to 32 characters. The result looks an awful lot like Microsoft's scheme for product keys.
(*) Yes, I'm aware of the pun given my last name. Sigh.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I love it when people quote wikipedia at me -- I can simply ignore them because I know they're wrong.
It saves a lot of time in discussion.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dødheimsgard - Ion Storm[^]
Dødheimsgard is a band I've known for a long time, but never really listened to.
This particular album has been playing once or twice every few years, but I never really could get into it.
Until now that is.
I decided to give it another listen because I was on my bike at night which brought me back to my teenage years when I used to listen to this more often.
And for some reason the pieces fell into place.
It's labeled "avant-garde black metal" so it's kind of an uneasy listen for a genre that's already difficult to listen to 
Anyway, I could get very much into it this week, so SOTW.
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