AndyMcConachie

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by AndyMcConachie 10mo ago
He's just having fun.
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by AndyMcConachie 10mo ago
But can it still run gorilla?
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by AndyMcConachie 11mo ago
This is wonderful. Thank you Thunderbird!
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
Another good one for this is Localsend. https://localsend.org/
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
Is paper considered open source?
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
I rent VPS's in a data center and run services on them. I feel like I'm self-hosting. The days of me running a server in my own home are long gone. I don't want to deal with the power requirements, the noise, or the hardware.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
I guess giving it to Juan Guaido would have been too obvious.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
Happy daily user of FeedBro in Firefox here. I've been using it for 3 years and it's exactly what I expect it to be. It just goes.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
Is this a threat or a promise?
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
Trump is 100% American. I wish people who said things like this, or who believed that Trump is/was a Russian agent could see how silly and racist they look. America's problems are not caused by foreigners. They're caused by A
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
What better lesson could there be? Learn to hate corporate America early so you're not disabused later in life.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
As a Dutch citizen Chat Control is the first time I genuinely wish the Netherlands was not part of the EU.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
The answer to this is a physical switch on the machine that enables/disables hackability.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
I still do banking through a random reader at ABN AMRO. I really hope they never get rid of it because I trust that little dumb plastic device 1000% more than my phone.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
Russia weaken NATO? Wut? Denmark is in NATO. What does NATO even mean if the leader of NATO (USA) is attempting to take territory from another NATO country? The point of NATO is to keep Europe tied to and subservient to the USA (ie. Atlanti
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
There is no going back to "normal". The American Empire is failing, the imperial boomerang is in full effect, and it will continue to destroy American democracy from within. Revolution is required.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
Because sinophobia, or put in a more crass way, racism, imperialism, and patriotism. Why should I care if the Communinst Party of China is spying on me? They can't get at me. I have no connection to China. I have no property there and
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
PG has become a parody of himself.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
You could elect Democrats and it would be just as crappy. They'd just talk nicer to you.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
I can't even ping irs.gov right now. HTTPS request to www.irs.gov times out. Great government we got here :(
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
If there are no consequences for missing a meeting then I know I don't need to be in the meeting.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
> Tbh I’d say 99% of the criminals won’t know about this. It's not about criminals. It's about the police, government spy agencies, and other knowledgeable threat actors.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
I agree. I love using Graphene OS. Came for the security, stayed for the lack of bullshit.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
100% agree. The question of whether I should install lib-X for language-Y using Y's package management system or the distribution's package management system is unresolved.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
> I don't see enough talk about reducing the amount of data collected in the first place. It's because the power's that be want all the data and none of the liability. The easiest way to comply with any privacy regulation
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
The Irish DPA held secret meetings with Facebook about sharing EU citizens data. https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/schrems-slams-sl... The rot runs incredibly deep.
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
This is everywhere in the EU. The Dutch government put out an RFP for MS Outlook licenses. RFPs are supposed to be vendor neutral, so I don't understand how an RFP for something that only a single company sells can be vendor neutral. T
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
This author doesn't really understand quality and starts out by defining it purelt in subjective terms. Then makes the mistake in the rest of the article by following this subjective reasoning by talking about perceptions of quality as
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
There are already so many specialized machines in construction. When I was a kid I thought we needed exo-skeletons. Then I watched modern construction happen and realized we already have all these wild Bobcat like machines doing all the hea
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by AndyMcConachie 1y ago
Kinda hard to be inclusive if no one uses your browser. The greatest thing Mozilla could do for inclusiveness is to have more users. Not treat your users like children.

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