FlownScepter

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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> Whenever a solution to a technical problem is "recompile components of the OS", this means the answer to the same problem in a "non-linux"/non-free system The kicker being that such problems are so rare as to b
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
I'm just going to issue a prediction that as long as "recompiling components of the OS" remains a satisfactory answer to a technical problem on linux subreddits, this will never, ever happen.
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
The description at the end about how it's basically a hostage situation but with the hostage takers trying to be fun is the most excellent metaphor for anything I've ever heard. It's so fucking accurate, and explains why the
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
I said 99%. :P
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
Exactly! They have to. If they can't fill positions that must be filled, changes will be made. But we all have to demand that, all the time. And that also means preaching this to everyone here who is just starting out in their careers.
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> Personally, I'd prefer to give a 1 hour presentation of my work over a full day of technical interviews one after the other. I like this presentation idea - I've only ever seen it done when hiring people with PhDs just out of
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
12 hours of unpaid labor to just get your foot in the door? I'll take the hardest conceivable pass, please. If a company sees no issue with asking for a TED talk just to consider you for a position, imagine what kind of work/life
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> Why is there no value than in people being able to chose a money/investment vehicle they believe to be to their benefit? Because the only thing generated is fake money on a spreadsheet. There is no product, there is only consumpti
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
This 'service' doesn't need to exist. It didn't solve a problem that wasn't already solved, we've had ledgers since the Bronze age, and probably before that. That's not to say that the blockchain itself
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> Can't this be said about literally anything? Not at all. Lots of businesses make money by turning materials and/or labor into products. Other businesses make money solving problems for people or other businesses. However, cry
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
the 2008 mortgage crisis has entered the chat But yeah, fair point. It's pretty much the only 99% safe asset.
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
It would be more apt to comparing the cost of transacting Bitcoin to that of recycling gold instead of mining it, which is not zero, but is substantially less than mining and that's where again, Bitcoin takes another lump. Recycled g
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
Not really, no? When the monetary system itself is as unstable as it is, I struggle to think of what could be a good store of value. Maybe we should all just acknowledge that money is made up and any security it provides depends on tons of
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> Even more fundamental is the adversarial relationship that the culture of policing has developed with the public. The warrior mindset is at the root of so many of these problems. We need to disband all of the police forces and start ag
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
Sure it could exist without it, but it makes the riskiest actual step of the grift substantially less risky.
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
I'm one of those people, generally, but even I'm not signing up to host an email server. Screw that.
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
The only people who recommend self-hosting email are ones that haven't tried it. We have an admin who spends a good 40% of his workweek doing just our email servers. They are a massive PITA.
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
Which is infuriating because people would happily pay even a fairly premium price I suspect for good access to that archive, but of course Google can't just sell a good product for a reasonable price, it has to be FREE******. (Each * h
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> I mean, to step past the common dodge of moral relativism, the whole thing behind this is a tacit agreement amongst a lot of tech-inclined folk that quite a few cultures (including powerful, western cultural movements, past-and-present
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> We aren't seeing all PCs having hardware level censorship functionality inserted into it, as the behest of governments. I mean, that literally did almost happen once, right here in the US of A. And sure, points to you, no country
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
Well incremental reform is on track to kill the planet, so I wouldn't say that's a good way to go about it either.
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> But the "internet routes around censorship" folks are usually talking about company-less code (or information), in its pure sense. Is it company-less, though? Code is useless without the silicon that brings it to life, withou
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> The main issue is how Apple and Google are able to profit from the decision I mean, they're going to do that anyway. They will enter all markets they are able to, and profit as much as they can. That's the entire point of the
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
> Agreed, but this also raises the question: what should their course of action be? To comply with the law. No, I don't like it either, but I also don't like the idea of corporations having the ability to flout the laws of sove
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
I don't think that point resonates nearly as well under a less-democratic country. There's a romanticism that's applied to the Internet as though it can buck any trend or speak truth to power in a way that other prior media h
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by FlownScepter 6y ago
At which point said phone is no longer available for purchase in Pakistan. This attitude pervades tech-inclined folk's discussions of politics, as if the Internet is somehow above the laws and culture of the places where it operates, e