CaptArmchair

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by CaptArmchair 1y ago
I'll put it like this. Close by where I live is a monument for civilians who were taken from their houses and shot by the German occupiers during the last months of WWII. Simply because they were suspected of having distributed pamphle
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by CaptArmchair 1y ago
For what it's worth, pubnix - public accessible UNIX systems - were/are that to an extent. You'd get a free account on some shared system, you log in via a terminal, and you get access to all those things: gopher/gemini&
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by CaptArmchair 1y ago
This an interesting question. Forgive my meandering take on this. We already have a mix of technologies to achieve that effect. Sort of. Simplified, you can host a personal website on shared hosting, a VPS, or wherever, at the same time cha
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by CaptArmchair 1y ago
From the posted article: > EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections > The move continues to expose communities across the country to toxic forever chemicals in tap water If this really were a "team sport&qu
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by CaptArmchair 1y ago
If a pension system is purely based on repartition: yes. But that's not the case in most countries. Pension plans mostly involve pension funds which are rooted in the financial markets. It's the individuals responsibility to max o
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by CaptArmchair 1y ago
Oh, it's not just the "big stories". History is a pretty big flag that covers a lot of territory. At heart, history is about asking perennial questions like "where do we come from?", "how did the past shape us
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by CaptArmchair 1y ago
As someone who lives in one of those locations mentioned in the article: split out locale and language into different settings. Because they are not the same thing. This article explains that nicely. [1] You want your users to be able to ch
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
> personal responsibility A sense of personal responsibility dilutes very quickly as more people get involved. This is a well researched dynamic in groups and collectives. As it turns out, it's very easy to rationalize your own acti
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
> Your standalone web site is like a cactus in the middle of a vast desert nobody cares about Yet, cacti thrive in the desert, uncaring about the opinions of others. > in fact now at a mercy of Google's indexing policies. Inheren
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
I strongly disagree. One of the examples mentioned studies population changes during NZ's colonization. It's part of Maori-led research. Such research provides a better understanding of the history and culture of the indigenous po
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
That's at the heart of this discussion. There are two legal entities at play here: automatic, a for profit company, and the WordPress Foundation, a non-profit. It's believed that the latter carries independent governance over the
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
This depends on the jurisdiction you're in. I.e. Europe's GDPR argues that you need consent to keep someone's personal data. Encryption doesn't equate anonymization, so there's a potential liabity.
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
That's not because of the GPL. The GPL has little to do with barring access to a platform on which code is published. Arguably, if a copy existed elsewhere, say GitHub, then WPEngine is free to use that code according to the GPL. In ot
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
I'm a bit surprised that the author doesn't mention key concepts such as linked data, RDF, federation and web querying. Or even the five stars of linked open data. [1] Sure, JSON-LD is part of it, but it's just a serializatio
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
Take a peak on Reddit's /r/datahoarders or /r/datacurator. There's also https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ who may point you in a direction. Sometimes stations do keep a record of their old broadcas
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
I dabble with Gopher for two reasons. First, it's a simple protocol. Learning about the basics of networking, building your own Gopher client, Gopher offers a great opportunity to tip your toe into the pond. Second, I have the DiggieDo
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
I agree, moreover, this is what the author wrote: > All that aside, the problem isn’t just “bad comments”, because I’m a grown woman and can take critique. The biggest problem is that a portion of those folks take screenshots and share t
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
Potentially more then one might assume. This is an area that needs more research, but initial estimates seem to indicate that an increase in launched very much warrants concern. CBC made this nice interactive graph highlighting the issue.
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
I'd agree. The big differentiator being your own personality and your own outlook / expectations of life and others. There are plenty people around looking to have a date, and maybe more. The big caveat is meeting someone who&#x27
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
Cooking classes, volunteering, sport clubs, the gym, group travel, boardgames, photography classes, dancing lessons, language classes, concerts, movie clubs, hiking groups, etc. etc. Of course, you wouldn't attend those with the explic
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by CaptArmchair 2y ago
30 years ago, you didn't live vicariously through the published perception of the world you friends held 24/7. Social interactions stopped when you put down the phone or went home for the day. If your friends went on a trip, while
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
If de-orbiting is your concern, then I would suggest taking a step back and considering the impact on our atmosphere of increasing the number of launches. This isn't a theoretical question. There's growing awareness among research
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
Balance issues usually are a symptom of an underlying condition. For instance, an elderly relative of mine has had several strokes. While they have regular PT sessions, it's basically impossible for them to automate countering balancin
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
Mongo and Elastic have changed there licenses to the "service-side public license" (SSPL) which is a particular own flavor of AGPL. The OSI has stated that this isn't an open source license. [1] Barring a discussion about whe
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
You're linking to a generalized announcement that mentions research data, but omits mentioning the institution's own research data management services which exist specifically to deal with this challenge. The linked post nowhere m
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
This is where the emerging field of research data management and digital preservation come into play. Reproducibility and vetting research output, as well as other forms of accountability requires research data to be present and available.
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
More to the point, the GDPR is quite explicit on here as well: > Article 3.2 goes even further and applies the law to organizations that are not in the EU if two conditions are met: the organization offers goods or services to people in
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
> Section 8.6 GDPR > Part b. omg.lol does not believe its processing of limited personal data of those outside the United States (if any) brings it within the jurisdiction of these laws. That's a hard disclaimer if there's a
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
In 2014 in Belgium there were two casualties.[1] I still have family in that region. When I was a child, one of things I was taught was to never ever touch anything rusty / iron found in the fields close by when we visited them. Seeing
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by CaptArmchair 3y ago
Historically? The 1783 Laki eruption comes to my mind. Back then, a 25km long fissure with 130 vents opened. About 14km3 of lava and 1km3 of tephra was emitted. Lava fountains were estimated to have reached between 800m and 1400m. Some 20-2

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