CarelessExpert

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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Man I'm really looking forward to this story blowing over so HN can stop being spammed with this flamebait.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> AR is going to be bigger than mobile and the PC AR will be a niche product constrained primarily to industrial applications. There, we've both made our blind predictions, now we get to see who's right!
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
It's both. By continuing to tap into supplies, you keep the cost of carbon-producing fuels (and their carbon intensive extraction industries) low enough that they remain price competitive with renewables; a price which is further subje
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Yeah, I truly do not understand what's causing Hacker News or Reddit to drag their feet. My guess is they've simply done the calculus and decided the number of impacted users doesn't justify the cost, and meanwhile, they alr
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> What is it with this guy and his desire for a hero narrative? LOL, that's practically every SV CEO. They all want us to believe that a) they were the underdog, and b) they were the hero in their own story. What I can never tell i
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
And this debate is why Framework's approach to port modularity makes so much sense and why it's not just a gimmick, despite what early critics were saying around here.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
The short answer is: yes. Loans expand the money supply.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Paranoia.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
If I see persistent attacks from an IP I'll step in and blacklist the host proactively by setting up an evergreen iptables rule. It's incredibly rare but it happens once in a blue moon.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Look at the content on the blog: it's all heavy right wing Christian content. In that context it's clear this is a classic piece of religious propaganda, intended to set up an us-vs-them mentality so as to bind their community tog
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
For folks curious about this space there's also the (very small) IndieNews, which allows publishers to submit links using webmentions: https://news.indieweb.org/
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of gotify. I use it to receive notifications when my backup system does its job, activity from my bittorrent client, alerts from fail2ban, and I'm sure a bunch of other things I'm forgetting about. Since it u
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> May I ask why you do this? Do you not think that others would want to discuss/debate/argue about the topic? Because unoriginal political flamebait is off-topic for this site. From the site guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most st
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
You really gotta wonder how Dave would feel if a white person tried to explain to him how a joke he saw as racist wasn't actually racist, and besides, my black friend said it's fine... There must be some analog to "mansplaini
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
I wrote up a whole reply but yours was flagged and then unflagged and my comment was lost... Anyway, just be aware you have allies. I've just given up participating on HN when these topics come up since it's gotten so utterly pol
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Fun fact: The parent's comment was briefly flag killed. No idea how it came back, but... just goes to show, things haven't changed as much as you might think.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
"zero knowledge encrypted cloud storage solutions" that still enable the state to inspect that data for illegal content or evidence of illegal activities, are an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy. And that might be true.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> Exactly, Debian has you covered depending on your needs. I run Debian Stable on servers and Debian Sid on my desktop and laptop. Had 2 or 3 non-booting Sid systems over the course of 20 years, none or which weren't solved in 10 mi
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
First and foremost, package recency. If you run stable, which is released as snapshots ala Ubuntu, the packages are ancient. If you run testing, which is a rolling distro ala Arch, they're a lot newer and pretty solid, but security upd
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Unfortunately the container breaks certain extensions (e.g. keepassxc-browser). And that's ignoring the fact that, at least on my machine, the flatpak fonts look terrible for some reason and I often run into issues with the Gnome th
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
This is an excellent point. If "operating profit" also includes app store revenues, payment revenues (remember, Apple requires apps use their payment platform), and content revenues, the likes of Samsung, et al, are at a serious
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Define "competition". Apple has a minority of the actual handset market, but they have a majority of the profits. You can speculate as to why they can wring so many extra dollars out of their customer base, but it's not clea
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Do you really think Berkeley, of all places, working to make BSD available to the world for free, including excising all that proprietary AT&T code, wasn't engaging in a political act? That the open source and hacking cultures of t
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> Keep your politics out of my computing and open source, please. Open source started as a political movement . Are you gonna ask me to keep the government out of your Medicare next? :) (no, that's not an invitation to debate broad
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> And Microsoft could ask the OEMs to push a UEFI update that enforces secure boot with only the Windows keys. I don’t think they will though. Well, let's be fair: They could try, but again, that'd require those OEMs to coope
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> Then it's not an Ivy Bridge running multiple external displays on KDE. Tiger Lake (whose microarchitecture I just learned is Willow Cove) running Gnome via Wayland (damn HiDPI...), single external display via USB C dock plus an on
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
Just gonna jump in here and say: not cool. Yours is, to say the least, a disproportionate response and pretty unnecessary.
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> We can do both. We should do both. So, other than for the intellectual curiosity (which is absolutely a great reason!), I have a simple question: why? Edit: By the way, thinking about it, I have my own answer to this question: So t
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> I just find this attitude incredibly frustrating What attitude? The attitude that Apple's hardware is closed and Apple should be criticized for building a walled garden? That we should, where possible, invest in open hardware an
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by CarelessExpert 5y ago
> What disappoints me is a "generation of folks" who can't tell that openness is a spectrum And Apple is very far on the closed end of that spectrum relative to their competitors, and always has been. There is simply no ar

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