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by CivBase 5y ago
By "scalable" I assume you mean "centralized". As in the repository is hosted on a single machine, so you only have to worry about one machine meeting the hardware requirements for storing all that data. That scales be
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by CivBase 5y ago
"Right to repair" also means you can take it to an expert of your choosing. I don't know how to fix many problems my Honda and I could certainly take it to a Honda dealer if/when I encounter such problems, but I'm
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by CivBase 5y ago
Since when have the Googles and Apples of the world genuinely cared about "safety" beyond a means to advertise a product?
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by CivBase 5y ago
Despite being a big fan of right to repair, I really didn't like this article. It gave me the impression that the only way to fix things is to impose regulations on manufacturers in the form of design restrictions and support requirem
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by CivBase 5y ago
This misses the point of what makes a contagion so bad. An outbreak of a contagious disease is bad because victims do not (usually) consent to them and often has limited or no means of protecting themselves against infection. A nicotine a
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by CivBase 5y ago
Is it, though? COVID-19 is scary because you can't reasonably eliminate your risk of contracting it without significant mental, social, and economic sacrifice. But I'm not worried about getting lung cancer because I just don&#x27
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by CivBase 5y ago
Ed is the standard text editor.
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by CivBase 5y ago
I've always been surprised by nano's ubiquity since it comes across to me as a very niche application. It's a highly-accessible, bare-bones text editor... for a terminal, where the overwhelming majority of users will be &quo
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by CivBase 5y ago
FLoC is Google's loophole after disabling third-party cookies in Chrome and promising they "will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web"[0]. FLoC is a new tracker to replace third-
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by CivBase 5y ago
Part of me is amazed that so many apps continue to rely exclusively on the Google Play Store for distribution and monetization. With Google's track record, it's practically negligent to build a business which is completely depend
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by CivBase 5y ago
I kind of agree, although I'm not sure it's fair to say that the problem with Android is that you can't easily replace it with another OS. That's not really an Android problem. It's incredible what a smartphone c
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by CivBase 5y ago
Yes.
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by CivBase 5y ago
"In the case of fdroid, apps that violate open source licenses are not allowed" ...on the main repository. AFAIK, there's nothing stopping Google or anyone else from setting up their own F-Droid repository to distribute apps
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by CivBase 5y ago
As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you've publically released an SDK and invited third parties to form businesses off of developing software for your device, you have no right to represent the device as an appliance. At that poi
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by CivBase 5y ago
I can add third-party repositories to F-Droid. The default F-Droid repository may be a walled garden but as far as I can tell the app and protocol are definitely not.
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by CivBase 5y ago
Stuff like this is why "general computing" devices should (and will hopefully) never die. I just plug my laptop into my TV via HDMI and I can stream video, browse the web, play games, and do whatever. That solution has served me
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by CivBase 6y ago
Linear compute is the ideal solution. Parallelization is a useful tool when we run up against the limitations of linear compute, but it is not ideal. Parallelization is simply not an option for some tasks. Nine mothers cannot make a baby
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by CivBase 6y ago
> because they've assumed that coders who rely too much on google (or other search engines) simply can't or don't want to learn languages enough to do stuff by memory. How do these people expect developers to learn if not
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by CivBase 6y ago
> You don't need to, they're fast enough. You had me with everything except this. Any time someone claims the current state of computing hardware is "enough" I'm reminded of that fake 640K quote. There is no in
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by CivBase 6y ago
You can do this, but it has consequences. Money is not inherently valuable. It's a medium we use to store and exchange value inherent to scarce goods and services which people demand. To be a stable representation of value, money
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by CivBase 6y ago
I run into this problem all the time at my work. The company loves to fund new solutions to our problems, but those solutions never pay out because the company has no plan or funding to maintain the solution once the MVP has been developed
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by CivBase 6y ago
From the award video: > How do you make sure that everybody has a voice but also feels safe? That question was never directly answered and, frankly, I don't think there it's possible to strike that balance. Even now there are
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by CivBase 6y ago
> Why 5 weeks? [...] It's not often enough that it will annoy users. You know what's annoying? Asking me to change something that I've already said no to, especially when you don't give me an obvious way to turn it o
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by CivBase 6y ago
That is an excellent point. I wasn't aware there was a distinct separation like that. If a news outlet can demonstrate that their publishing arm is organizationally unaffected by influence from their business arm, that would alleviat
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by CivBase 6y ago
> However is there any evidence of the dangers being a reality in this instance? Are we specifically talking about a news organization softening its coverage on a sponsor? There aren't any examples which spring directly to mind, bu
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by CivBase 6y ago
Serious question: which news organizations should I consider paying for? It appears like a negative feedback loop to me. News orgs are bad because they optimize for clicks and "engagement" to drive ad revenue. News works rely on
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by CivBase 6y ago
I've re-read your post a few times and I'm sure it wasn't your intention, but it keeps reading to me like "bad things have become the normal and people should stop pointing it out". Whether or not there is a better
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by CivBase 6y ago
I don't know near enough about Nvidia or ARM as organizations to justify why I don't like this purchase. I just see two big names being consolidated yet again and I don't like it. Even when the buyer isn't directly com
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by CivBase 6y ago
I know, I know! But I didn't make the bus wide enough for all the iron plates and copper plates I'd need to increase green circuit capacity. I could upgrade to blue transport belts, but that will take forever!!! How could past
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by CivBase 6y ago
> I'm a huge proponent of Firefox on desktop, but the new Firefox on mobile is just awful awful awful. I strongly disagree. There are certainly issues, many of which are a result of the recent redesign, but I still find it a much b

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