Andrew_nenakhov

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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Not really. Without Stallman, there would be no Torvalds. After Stallman launched the GNU project, the emergence of GNU licensed kernel for x86 architecture was inevitable. It just happened that Linux became that kernel. Had it not, the GNU
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
You'll change your mind when Apple will remove the app that you actually need. For now, you remind me of a certain poem: First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist [0] [0]: https:/&
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
> Surely you don’t want your fellow citizens to fall for Russian, Chinese, Another State Actor propaganda? Centralized Appstore monopolies are best friends of the authoritarian governments. Both Google and Apple readily removed any app t
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I guess it's part of the trend now. Some time ago both Google and Apple rolled out very flat UIs -- Apple in iOS 7 and Google with Material Design in Android 5, and both where mostly flat. I don't know, maybe they were influenced
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I don't have problems with flat. I do have problems with unnecessary borders around buttons. In my opinion, space separates design elements enough and borders, beautiful as they are, with glass transparency effects and other bells and
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I greatly liked flat UI. That was the first time I actually liked iOS design, skewmorphism was yuck.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
No, it isn't. Source: I work with it every day.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
The argument that xmpp problems stem from XML format is the silliest of all: from 15 years of working with xmpp, we had all kinds of problems, but none of them were caused by XML format.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
On the contrary, xmpp is a very good protocol. The problem with it is that most of extensions are bad: half-baked, often contradict or duplicate other extensions, and sometimes solve only part of the problem that they intend to solve. Discl
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Well, I'm that Gmail user who used POP3 fetching from my previous email from day 1 of using Gmail. I guess I'll have to set up IMAP then, at least until the time they'll take it away, too.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I think we have reached the point when AppStore / Google Play must be spun off from Apple / Google and made to work as a separate companies, and have access to Android / iOS platforms on equal terms with other vendors. We hav
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Just yesterday I was told here that Trump administration pressured to remove Jimmy Kimmel show from air, and how fascist it is. Since then, Kimmel's show appears to have been reinstated, and it turns out that Biden administration pre
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Yeah right, socialist party of workers was against socialism. /s Socialism is ecinomic system where state ("workers") control the means of production. Nazi Germany fully controlled all production in Germany, in full accorda
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Pretty much. USSR, Maoist China, Castro's Cuba, Putin's Russia, Nazi Germany, Starter's Britain. Everywhere you can find socialism, you find that opposing views is the first thing socialists suppress.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Btw, the latest news just dropped:. somehow private company defied the 'fascist' government and reinstated the cancelled show in question. Uh oh how do you even explain it to yourself?!
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
> That's his point of view. He became a victim of gun violence which he said is worth the cost. You are lying again. He became a victim of a targeted political assassination. Such assassinations happen in every society, whether they
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
> and literally said that gun deaths are a worthy price for the 2nd amendment This is, of course, a lie. By omitting important context you present it as a political point for what you perceive to be your side . In fact, strict gun contr
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
> government swiftly, immediately and directly cancelling a show from a private company That appears to be a false statement. Private company made that decision on their own after public pressured it to. A fitting quote by no other but M
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
From my experience, YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook. I can't personally say about BlueSky, but I heard it is a very left leaning also.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
You must have been asleep for the last 10+ years when leftist cancel culture was all the rage. Should I remind you how LEFT reacted to deplatforming Trump, Parler, Gab, firing of Carlsen? Everyone of note cheered for it and celebrated. Now,
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Free speech is always the first victim of socialists.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Server-centric computing is just more efficient, and it usually becomes less popular only at because means of communication aren't up to the task at the moment. 1. In the beginning, there were mainframes and terminals. You saved resour
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
That's professional deformation, because signals are supposed to be clear and easily identifiable among noise.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Yeah, an unarmed protester was killed by armed security personnel. Truly, those protesters were the greatest threat to democracy in the history of the US. But seriously, damage from BLM riots is estimated to be over 1 billion USD and the nu
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
> It's because they couldn't stomach being led by someone who wasn't white. I tend to think that many white people voted for Obama in part because he was black. Like, we elected this guy, can we now finally put aside the
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Yead, the bias immediately kicks in: > Perhaps he is given more grace since his words didn't incite an insurrection which he watched closely and refused to intervene for hours in the hope it would succeed. Yeah, tweeting non-stop ur
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I’m rather confident you’re not really familiar with Charlie Kirk’s speeches. Sounds like you’re attacking a caricature pieced together from carefully edited snippets you saw on social media. Next time you feel the urge to denounce someone,
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Well, it is indeed jarring when supposedly objectively and truth seeking journalists suddenly turn into adoring fans, so maybe my metaphor works on more than one level.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I'm glad that you conceded that you blatantly lied about Trump having Mein Kampf on his night stand, thank you for this. > In what world your argument is anything but clutching at straws?! Get a grip, he openly hates Black and Latin
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
No, thank you, but the word I needed was something that would describe a warm, loving embrace, like when you take a pet in your arms and caress it (I even pushed this metaphor further in the next comment, about loving puppies), and I believ

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