BlueTemplar

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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
YouTube has gone mainstream.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
But that's worse in terms of keeping your expenses in check...
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
> Tellingly, purges of Jews continued even after the war in the Soviet sphere of influence. How much of that was specifically because of Stalin ? (Noticeable changes after his death ?)
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Which foreign country is going to invade one third of USA ? (Never mind, Trump never cared about little details like these...)
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Funnily, the original (regulated and temporary!) job description of 'dictator' does seem to fit quite well.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Preach ! The political quadrant is more important than ever compared to the mess of one-dimensional politics : Right wing is economic (neo) liberals, while fascists are top wing center : these will (like a century ago) gladly use left-win
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Not only it's 2025, so anyone still using YouTube(/Google/Alphabet) to make money is complicit with totalitarian extremists, but this ContentID nonsense has been going on since at least 2009, and we have had easy alternatives
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Pretty sure that the main reason Flattr (whether 1.0 or 2.0) failed, was because it wasn't backed by the Silicon Valley ?
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Why would you expect Substack and Patreon to be any better ? They are platforms too, and US-based too, and IIRC Patreon has already been caught at least twice engaging in censorship : against some right-wingers, and some porn. (They are at
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
You might enjoy this : https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509 .
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Well, it would take effort to add custom bangs too, it's not like DDG has pre-made bangs for every website...
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Well, my question then is why didn't you use custom search before DDG added bangs ? Today in Firefox : right click on a search field, add search engine. Pretty sure that this evolved from that separate search field that browsers used t
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
This started out well, but then there are other aspects to consider : Discord, unlike IRC, is killing forums. And is on the Deep Web, meaning that all the lore, all the knowledge is lost to anyone searching for it, including Internet Archiv
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Note how Silksong is a decently small 7-8 Go.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Why then does Path of Exile (especially the new 2, which is only 1-2 steps in popularity below Silksong right now on SteamDB) bothers with still including a predownload torrent on every big update ? https://www.pathofexile.com&#x
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
IPv6 ??
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
I'm still puzzled after all these years : why would anyone use search engine bangs instead of directly configuring custom searches from their browser's URL bar ?
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Isn't the issue with this is that you would first have to know which bible to use ?
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
It isn't so much as bad, as inevitable. And as you say, Wikipedia has the built-in antidote with the other language versions and the Talk pages.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Wikipedia seems like they might check all the boxes here, have they done anything ?
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Piracy + supporting authors (that aren't Amazon-exclusive) in other ways seems to be more ethical ?
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Plenty of people do not work out today. Soldiers do still go through physical training, and this seems to be a closer metaphor than swordsmanship. Quite scary in its implications for the future.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
I agree that it is still too early to call it, but note how SteamOS still hasn't officially come out on laptops/desktops yet.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Wait, but why would you still use Amazon ?
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Well yes, but that's partially on you − I might understand your average person not being wary about these issues, but we're on Hacker News here, these issues have been discussed for decades. The sites also shouldn't be '
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Here's a non-Google link : https://archive.org/details/TheComingCivilWarOverGeneral-pur...
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
> You'll have to forfeit popular messengers that your family, friends, landlord, etc. are on; no more mobile banking; extra fees to use online banking at all; extra fees to legally use public transport; no downloading of episodes or
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
> Change jobs? Ride a bicycle? Move to a less oppressive country? Well yes, why do you seem to frame it like these are impossible ?
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
> The ability to "run apps" was never even on the table in pre-iPhone era. iPhone, ofc, changed it by pioneering the app market It was on the table, between the SymbianOS apps for Nokia or the various Java apps for other smartp
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
> I have no idea why anyone would call these ultra-packed cameras on steroids a "general purpose computer". Why not ?? They have even more built-in 'peripherals' and are much more portable than a desktop ! Also, PineP

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