Gormo

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by Gormo 8mo ago
> I'd agree ONLY IF I'd pay no taxes to the government. But since most middle class people pay 40%+ of their income to the state, then the state now has the responsibility to handle those challenges. Well, no, we pay taxes for
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Neo Store looks interesting, but the readme in the GitHub repo includes emojis in the feature list, which is a bit of a red flag for me, especially since the project appears to have started only two years ago.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Not sure I'd agree. "Record album" never specifically referred to anything physical, and just means "collection of recordings", regardless of what medium is used for them. The term "album" by itself did
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> but it's the job of the elected governments to build and maintain housing, education, social and welfare systems for their population that keep up with the challenges of the times I'd say those things are the job of the popul
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Wait, so it's actually a standalone, DRM-free download? If that's the case, then while the term is still somewhat misleading, it's considerably less so than I assumed.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
I'm not seeing anything anachronistic about either term. "Seasons" is absolutely aligned to the way television series are still produced and distributed. "Box Set" implies physical media. Using the latter term to
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> The pretext that a worker is actually a standalone small business confers another great advantage on their employers: it's a great boon to any boss who wants to steal their worker's wages. The only pretext here is the notion
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Apple TV is distributing physical media?
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> and consistent experience across the widest range of terminal emulators. Instead of aiming to provide a "consistent experience", you should instead prioritize providing consistent functionality , while avoiding impeding use
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Some others that I use: * NextCloud -- client for personal NextCloud server; this app is used primarily for file sync, with other features accessed with other apps. ( https://nextcloud.com/features/?filter=Clients#andro
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by Gormo 8mo ago
It sounds like the local ranked-choice implementation is unnecessarily complex and constrained. A simple "rank all candidates from 1 (most preferred) to n (least preferred)" for n candidates seems like the better solution.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
I don't think using AWS has quite the same privacy implications to using Amazon's own SaaS services.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
The best way to get money out of politics is to get politics out of money. The government playing an outsized role in the economy is precisely what draws money into the political process in the first place.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Approval voting seems to me to be worse on all counts that the previous commenter was levying against ranked-choice. To your point, the spoiler effect seems like it would be much worse with approval than with a ranked ballot, since highl
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> Get money out of politics (reverse citizens united) and enact Citizens United was a case about a federal agency attempting to suppress the publication of a movie due to breaching "electioneering communications" rules first in
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Check out The Lounge ( https://thelounge.chat ) and Convos ( https://convos.chat ), web-based IRC clients with media previews, session persistence, and all the modern bells and whistles.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
Bringing it back would require it to have first gone away.
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by Gormo 9mo ago
I think the above comment was about product activation specifically, and not the general concept of copy protection. Of course, whether the method used for XP-era product activation should ever have been patentable in the first place is ano
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by Gormo 9mo ago
More to the point, it's why our political system does not give unilateral control over most of this stuff to the executive branch. That's the reason why the courts are regularly ruling against the administration -- they're
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by Gormo 9mo ago
Tons of these sorts of sites are still online.
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by Gormo 9mo ago
I don't think the main objection that people have to Electron is that it includes HTML rendering functionality. A proper desktop application that includes an HTML renderer for content formatting is a very different thing from a framew
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by Gormo 9mo ago
> The iOS app has never been free and that's the way most people use it these days. Where are you getting the stats that drive this claim? How are you measuring usage on platforms that don't necessarily collect usage metrics,
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by Gormo 9mo ago
The Amiga had huge success outside of "teenage gamers", even if in niche markets. Amigas were extremely important in TV and video production throughout the 1990s. I remember a local Amiga repair shop in South Florida that stayed
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by Gormo 9mo ago
How is it "egregious" that people are obtaining content to use for their own purposes from a resource intentionally established as a repository of content for people to obtain and use for their own purposes?
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by Gormo 9mo ago
> $25-30M per year is a lot for a non-profit $25 million a year is not remotely a lot for a non-profit doing any kind of work at scale. Wikimedia's budget is about seven times that. My local Goodwill chapter has an annual budg
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by Gormo 9mo ago
That Scott Adams is alive and well: https://x.com/ScottAdamsDev , https://www.msadams.com/index.htm
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by Gormo 9mo ago
> Your snipping is making it look broader than it is: you can’t misrepresent someone as being supportive of your product or cause, and you can’t distribute software that makes, or make yourself, likenesses of other people without their p
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by Gormo 9mo ago
Epoch time is absolute. The above command outputs the epoch time expressed with normal notation in your local timezone. No 'site' would be involved.
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by Gormo 9mo ago
> In a pentest scenario, you sometimes have a shell on a system which has no route to the internet, and you lack permissions for a web proxy or you don't have access to one. How would using a proxy masquerading as SMTP be any more v
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by Gormo 10mo ago
"Vice coding" is an interesting Freudian slip.

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