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Microsoft addresses Windows Recall backlash, promises to fix security issues and make it opt-in in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] kevin@programming.dev 169 points 3 months ago

We have seen this game 100 times. Opt in for now and then turned on for everyone 6-12 months later. It's just a temporary move to handle the bad PR.

What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] kevin@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

You are correct, I had forgotten about the last experiment with the light shining across a distance. For some reason I thought that the gyroscope was the one that they ended on.

Bob may have been confused about the shape of the Earth, but he was still a person with family and friends. A good thing to remember about all of these people.

What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] kevin@programming.dev 30 points 10 months ago

The documentary was called "Behind the Curve" and featured Bob Knodel. Unfortunately he passed away this year. https://www.robertsfhsc.com/obituary/RobertBob-Knodel

It looks like you still believed in the theory though. He had a YouTube channel that was devoted to flat Earth conspiracy.

The state of the internet 2023 in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] kevin@programming.dev 137 points 1 year ago

Yep, you send me html, my browser can interpret it any way that I want it to. If I want to ignore all of the image and script tags, I can. I don't need Chrome or even Chromium. As Stallman says, you should know what is running on your system.