Gazoche

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by Gazoche 3y ago
> We've had too many offensive messages to keep this stream going. We can't have nice things.
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by Gazoche 3y ago
I actually tried, but it didn't work. Barnes&Noble just wouldn't let me place an order (but still let me create an account on the US store, weirdly).
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Sadly, the DRM-free versions of his books seem to only be available on US stores. I tried to buy The Stormlight Archive from Australia but could only find DRM'ed copies, probably because of international publishing deals. Still, I wis
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Call me an old man yelling at the cloud, but I just don't understand the hype of connected lightbulbs. In absolute, would I like to be able to turn off the lights from my smartphone? Well, sure, if there was absolutely no cost to it. B
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by Gazoche 3y ago
That's how I wrote it originally, but thought an upside-down thermometer would look strange. Oh well.
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The boiling frog of digital freedom(gazoche.xyz)
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Hardware attestation chips like TPM. Which, coincidentally, Microsoft just made mandatory.
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Well, I hope your monitor is ok. You're talking about the popularity of Linux as an alternative, I'm talking about its viability. It's viable because it runs web browsers just as well as Windows and that's all the averag
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by Gazoche 3y ago
If it comes to this then desktop Linux will go from viable Windows alternative to obscure hobby OS overnight. The inconvenience factor of having your life split between two devices is just too high. This is the same way that SafetyNet kille
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by Gazoche 3y ago
But the question is, who and what is going to be allowed to connect to the corpweb. Running an adblocker? Sorry. Using a non-Chromium based browser? Nuh-uh. Running an old machine with no TPM? Sucks to be you. Running a Linux distribution?
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by Gazoche 3y ago
..which will rapidly be branded as "child porn devices" by politicians, then promptly outlawed after public outcry.
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by Gazoche 3y ago
TPM chips. They became a hard requirement for Windows recently, and I don't believe this is a coincidence.
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Even assuming the VM workaround works, this would be catastrophic from an usability standpoint. Linux has been making giant strides towards increasing accessibility and lowering the friction of adopting it as a daily driver, while preservin
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by Gazoche 3y ago
It's already happening on smartphones with the proliferation of SafetyNet requirements. Once a few generations of Android smartphones have passed and most current devices support the required hardware, all banks can just make SafetyN
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Yes, just like you can still use Android phones that don't pass SafetyNet. But good luck doing anything useful with them.
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Pretty sure that's the main goal.
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by Gazoche 3y ago
> If you want to go through the OOTB setup and use a local account, you'd better not connect to a network (which it's very pushy at getting you to do.) Pulling the ethernet plug to get a local account doesn't even work any
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Technically inclined people, perhaps. I think you're underestimating what the vast majority of Internet users are ready to put up with.
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Oh they could make it work. But what they actually want is to funnel people away from 3rd party apps an into the official one. They could have just removed the API, but instead they set it to a ridiculous price that no app dev can afford. T
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by Gazoche 3y ago
They're clearly not trying to sell it as a gaming product. But assuming the device is successful enough, there's nothing stopping Apple from selling controllers as add-ons in the future (for a hefty price of course).
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by Gazoche 3y ago
There's also group 3: people who don't give a damn about crypto's actual use cases but see the line go up and think they can make a quick buck by buying at the right time. I'd wager that group 3 is much larger than group
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by Gazoche 3y ago
Bitcoin only "outperforms" year-to-date because it massively dropped last year. You could make that table tell the opposite story by adjusting some date ranges. It's like saying tulips outperformed every other assets for a fe
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by Gazoche 4y ago
The fish shell ( https://fishshell.com/ ) and its fantastic auto-completion. It now replaces bash as the default shell on all my machine and is the first program I install when connecting to a fresh cloud instance.
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by Gazoche 4y ago
But the reality is that we're fast approaching a future where every service assumes you have a smartphone and leaves you SOL if you don't. As an extreme example, my previous workplace had a "smart" lock on the door that
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by Gazoche 4y ago
Today I did an experiment. I opened up Facebook (the desktop version), scrolled down 40 times, and categorized every post I saw in my timeline. The result was roughly 30% ads, 30% "suggested" posts of random memes, 30% updates to
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by Gazoche 4y ago
> Our customer base is already crypto-native, which is what makes this possible. You've said it yourself. If the only way to accept crypto payments is to have a "crypto-native" userbase, what does this say about its utilit
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by Gazoche 4y ago
Ha! I made something similar with a Telegram bot :) https://github.com/Askannz/nag#http-endpoint
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by Gazoche 4y ago
Same. I ended up writing the steps in a file because I could never remember them. It's not very complicated but a bit counter-intuitive: instead of pulling everything from the remote you first have to recreate "repository" wi
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by Gazoche 4y ago
Adding to the choir. I like the web UI of Duplicati but found it buggy and unstable, which are definitely not things you want in a backup system.
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by Gazoche 4y ago
Pretty cool, and it seems to work on AMD GPUs as well. I've just tried it on my RX6800 with the ROCm build of PyTorch.

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