BearhatBeer

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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Government censorship nannies from, likely, the FBI (re: Twitter Files), in their partnership with YouTube, decided that's bad and they don't want people searching for it. Turns out all this corporate censorship that's been g
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
There's still time to switch your career path. You don't have to do this.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
How come a file format has a .cargo directory in the project tree?
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Looks like Musk might be cutting the data brokers out entirely. Normally social media companies and ad networks have to share their data with data brokers who then use this information to track you across the Internet and assign a (likely o
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
GP of the reply chain was referring to how at a point in the past Usenet was allegedly more difficult to access. That's why some of my responses were in the past tense - I was disagreeing about how, back then, it was more dif
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Welcome to City 17 whrrrrrr SNAP
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
It never died, it reach a low point of participation about a decade ago, and has slowly been gaining steam again ever since. Some portions of Usenet have always stayed active even through the tough times. As social media dies due to various
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
HN has promoted stories just like all other big corporate media sites. You can usually see them languishing in the list with very few comments, people are great at identifying and skipping inline ads disguised as legitimate content. Every s
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
That’s another reason why Usenet was better. There was an IQ test to see if you were above 90 just to get going with it.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Even easier, no web search needed. All you needed to do was search the group list for relevant terms. All the Usenet clients supported searching the group list. Then you just tick the checkbox and the articles were downloaded. Much much eas
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Usenet doesn't have a UX by itself, it's a protocol. The user experience is entirely dictated by the software used to access it. And Outlook supported Usenet all the way from the word go. Macs didn't even come with any email
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Usenet faded because ISPs all conspired to drop it, en masse, in the early 2000's. Used to be every ISP from Comcast down to the mom and pops had Usenet. Now it's not just uncommon, it's nearly impossible to find any ISP that
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
This will force the development of a sort of new cockney rhyming slang designed to fool the AI, which may include the use of allegory and symbolism which AI is pretty terrible at, especially in any real time task, at this time. A sort of le
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
I simply use calc in emacs, it has arbitrary precision (really bound by process memory limit on modern systems).
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Something like Silverblue will only ever work with a rigid set in stone ROM-friendly base. You can't even do fixes with that, so Linux is right out. Lisp on bare metal, FORTH, anything. BASIC. It has to be small.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
I feel like a computer running ZFS and serving files, is fine. And it should itself be treated as a strage device with a full parallel backup even though this has cost. But your computer shouldn't run ZFS, that's for the big boys
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
>right Government spying isn't a "right," the government doesn't have rights. Just a fine point but important.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Firejail proves you can sandbox most anything, OpenBSD has their pledge and unveil too. I guess there's a gradient there but each program should be written or constrained to only being able to access what it needs ideally. Per-task gro
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
I think some day rather than the current paradigm, even including declarative package managers and environments and distros, the future will be per-user and even per-app chrooting or jails, or something similar. Apple already uses something
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Early on, Unix was in use across the phone company and normal people used it for their every day tasks. All Unix users read the manual. Otherwise you're not really a Unix user.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
I'm looking to see if there is a table for power consumption with the thing all "lit up" and operating at various speeds but it doesn't have it in the datasheet.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Get rid of golf couses first. Synthetic might not play as well but it's already been tested around the world.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Classic MS community engagement post right here.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Isn't it amazing how many celebrities have parents who were in military intelligence or NASA or other government jobs? What are the odds?
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
If they're wrong, they've lost whatever credibility remains. That's the problem with these huge bet propaganda pieces. If you fail in your prognostications, the reader will disregard what you have to say in the future. CIA wo
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
Just proves anonymous expose and investigation is superior to attaching your name and identity to your muck raking. People will kill you for uncovering their secrets.
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by BearhatBeer 3y ago
I never got into Blu-Ray because I can do math and they never settled on an HDR format which was universal. In fact I still prefer Laserdisc, the colors were better, no re-grading ruining my favorite flics.