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Duterte: During phone call, Trump praised my drug war as the ‘right way’
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Rebooting our relations with the US
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Duterte invites Trump to the Philippines

He's just tailoring his message to his audience! There's no way he actually believes that! He's for individual liberties!!!11

I've had RealVNC installed and updated off of Ninite.com for awhile now, and I used to be able to use it and have used it many times in the past in previous jobs. But today I want to use it and I can't because apparently I need to have a subscription. And I can get a home subscription, but that apparently doesn't let me connect directly but instead runs my connections through someone's cloud somewhere.

So I tried TightVNC, but whenever I try to connect I get a message that says "server not configured properly." Everywhere I googled for this message people were saying to try UltraVNC, so I am trying to try UltraVNC.

Except UltraVNC has the jerkiest website I have seen in a long time. Every page I bring up from their site is obscured for 10+ seconds with a shame screen telling me in four languages what a bad person I am for using an ad blocker. And the download page is apparently obscured permanently until I turn off the ad blocker.

Is there a VNC program out there that isn't run by complete jerks, and functions?

Update: when I disabled adblock plus for the UltraVNC download page, the ads seem to be for TeamViewer, a competing proprietary product. That just really does not bode well, does it?

My whole company just switched to using custom timesheet software that I've been coding over the last few weeks. Feels great, although Friday I have to make sure the payroll report adds up correctly, or people may not like me any more!

424 commits in my tree. Something like 4000 lines of code.

Can we agree now that maybe subjecting 4-8 years of your future to the results of a popularity contest is a stupid idea?

Don't blame me; I voted to leave the office vacant. If you voted, you have no right to complain. You agreed to live by the results. Why is everybody so upset? I thought this was the greatest system ever!

Strange people in ballot booths handing out swords is no basis for a system of government.

US election: Trump and the rise of the alt-right

US election: Black Republicans seek converts in Trump's 'war zone'

In pictures: Clinton and Trump through the years

US election: The German comparing Trump's campaign to Hitler's

Oculus VR made "factually inaccurate" statements in ZeniMax lawsuit, forensic analyst says

A recently-granted motion in the lawsuit between ZeniMax Media and Oculus VR suggests that the case could be about to get very interesting, and not in a way that's good for Oculus. The motion to "permit disclosure of any 'demonstrably inaccurate' representations made to court," as reported by Polygon, indicates that an independent expert investigating the case found sworn statements that are "factually incorrect," and that "critical log files" on one of John Carmack's hard drives were deleted prior to its collection as evidence.

I'm too lazy to give this one the research needed to produce a coherent submission, since I haven't been following the case.

I'm taking away your Air Force One privileges.

President Obama ridiculed on Snapchat by daughter Sasha

The president also mentioned that his own iPhone was limited to receiving emails and browsing the internet, and would not take photos, play music or make calls. "My rule has been throughout my presidency, that I assume that someday, some time, somebody will read this email," he said. "So, I don't send any email that at some point won't be on the front page of the newspapers."

US election 2016: Indians' verdict on Donald Trump's Hindi

An uncanny mixture: God, alcohol and even cannabis

A Stray: Finding and filming the real Somali immigrant experience

The Skype sex scam - a fortune built on shame

In pictures: Living off-grid

Fun.

John Oliver Pinpoints A Fake Statistic That Fueled The Opioid Crisis

In John Oliver’s latest segment on opioids during Last Week Tonight, he pulled up one of the key statistics pharmaceutical salespeople used to market prescription opioids to doctors in the 1990s: Less than 1 percent of patients taking opioids become addicted to painkillers. That figure is completely inaccurate, of course, and as Oliver points out, it has a disturbing origin story.