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by Barrin92 1y ago
can you expand on what sort of rationality would lead a person to consider an at worst annoying pop-up to be more dangerous than data exfiltration to companies and governments that are already acting in adversarial ways? The US government
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>And it has absolutely fucking nothing to do w/surveillance; this could have happened anywhere, at any time in history, with or without technology. It absolutely has. This is what real everyday surveillance is that shapes people&#x2
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Just by taking a glance at the most popular packages ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages ) Pretty much every browser that isn't Firefox including Chrome, VS Code, most proprietary software like Slack, Zoom, Spotify, man
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by Barrin92 1y ago
There's always been this security theater of people recommending arch because they "don't trust the companies" or Canonical or what have you but frankly I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner. Well or maybe
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by Barrin92 1y ago
"The implications are big. The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete. Why send your plaintext when another service can compute on your ciphertext? " Why do people always do this thing where the
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>unless the vice is alcohol there is no exception to alcohol for this. Anybody who was a teenager or older in the aughts remembers "alcopops" (might have had a different name depending on where you're from). Lots of countr
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by Barrin92 1y ago
there's not any genuine forks. They're all dependent on Google, see Vivaldi last year announcing they'll drop manifest v2 support. They're all pretty much cosmetic reskins. Whoever puts up the money for development makes
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>This is an amazing rant! Is it? The guy is "highly offended" (???) by playful language and color themes and does the performatively enraged internet guy thing of being shocked that Mozilla has a political agenda, despite the
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by Barrin92 1y ago
> This is strictly an issue for proprietary software. it really isn't, as Google Chrome and Chromium shows there's no clear dividing line in the real world. Linux isn't developed by Bob the free software enthusiast, take a
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by Barrin92 1y ago
i didn't find it to be a big issue because helix doesn't have different key bindings as much as it simply has a reverse grammar. If you think of vim as a language to manipulate text objects (which is what it is basically) everythi
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>but Megalopolis was a self-funded project which is completely out of left field sure, but it was self-funded and it was completely panned by the audiences which I think was undeserved, from a lot of people because they found it "we
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by Barrin92 1y ago
It's a good thing in a world where the pot of money is so small it doesn't influence what it's betting on, it's a bad thing when you're talking about Zuckerberg or Lehman Brothers, because when they decide to put th
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>as exhausting to read as Neuromancer the exhaustion is the point. Gibson is great because he turned the essence of the genre, media oversaturation, into a prose style. Cyberpunk is all about everything being in your face. Things are fla
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I don't really understand the logistics of this to be honest. From the article it doesn't sound like these people have false IDs, they just make fake LinkedIn profiles? In a lot of countries certainly here in Germany your employer
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Japan never really did counter-culture as mainstream as the US does. "Mainstream counter-culture" is certainly a funny turn of phrase. That's largely the problem with it, there's a great book, The Rebel Sell [1], ab
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by Barrin92 1y ago
you can pay for services they've tacked on the browser, just like you can with Firefox if you want to, but neither of them are, as the author demands, going to charge for the browser because they know perfectly well they might as well
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by Barrin92 1y ago
> "Some might worry that people would flock to alternatives if Firefox became a user-funded product. I disagree. In fact, I think the exact opposite is true. Right now, people are leaving because they dislike Mozilla’s business mode
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Quality has a meaning and a definition and a field of study attached to it Yes and I gave you that definition in the first part of my response. That someone in the semiconductor industry made a poor and colloquial choice of words when h
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Quality is a measurement No it isn't, as in it literally isn't. Quantification is the process of judging something numerically, objectively and in measurement. Qualification is just the opposite, judging something by its nat
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>The other is unbounded It isn't. Your demand and your attention are finite too, in fact they're so finite that competition for it is already extreme . There is so much more for you to consume out there that prices in virtual
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Ultimately the process of taking an input and making it more valuable is an application of energy. most of the increase in value comes out of getting more output out of the same input, which is what the application of intelligence is su
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language/accent obviously, dress, manners and also English people in particular look distinct physically given that most white Americans are more likely to have Northwestern European ancestry. The stereotypical "American white guy
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by Barrin92 1y ago
It's an observation that precedes likes and modern influencers, as Baudrillard noticed in his 1989 book America : "The skateboarder with his Walkman, the intellectual working on his wordprocessor, the Bronx breakdancer whirling
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by Barrin92 1y ago
The person in question has a relatively rare medical condition, for most people dark mode reduces readability as a darker screen leads to more pupil dilation which causes halation. (which you can test out yourself if you stare at dark mode
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by Barrin92 1y ago
China is literally making energy that cheap using solar. They add about an entire United Kingdom's worth of solar energy every year (about 270 TWh), that's 100x(!) of what they add in nuclear capacity (which is almost nothing). Ev
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>SusSE was one of my favourite distros it's honestly a crime that they don't get more traction. Tooling they've put out like the Open Build Service (which is distro agnostic), is fantastic. I've been using Tumbleweed
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>Society underestimates the chasm that exists between an idea and raising sufficient capital to act on those ideas. The AI sector, famously known for its inability to raise funding. Anthropic has in the last four years raised 17 billion
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>2025 were so close we're not even close right now. Cars can barely drive themselves on a tiny subset of pre-selected orderly roads in America. We sort of have driver assistance on virtual rails. We do not have cars driving themselv
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>but the UNIX ecosystem has great tools too well, the big advantages start when you aren't in the UNIX ecosystem. One of the biggest benefits of using Emacs and Eshell heavily for me is, I have it on a Windows machine.
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>I feel... uneasy about the idea. Are games art? Yes, which is precisely why they shouldn't be treated like a commodity. Nobody is telling artists what art they can make, what the initiative is about making sure public continues to

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