IanSanders

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by IanSanders 6y ago
They may not want to encourage it. Being able to run linux comfortably would make users less dependent on the ecosystem
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by IanSanders 6y ago
There are people who's livelihood depends on illegal drug trade, doesn't mean it should carry on
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by IanSanders 6y ago
> PDF warning It's 250KB, orders of magnitude smaller than an average website!
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by IanSanders 6y ago
> Computers are still machines, and we still tell them what to do by programming them. It is still possible to stay out of what you describe above, it is still possible to work on low-level code, on real products, on things that matter t
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by IanSanders 6y ago
You mean Nvidia or Intel
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by IanSanders 6y ago
> I get that it's just terminology but it's always struck me as odd that buyers would affiliate themselves so strongly with a brand in an open, competitive marketplace. I feel the same way about politics
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by IanSanders 6y ago
>certain old-time online communities are available and haven't been swamped Would you mind sharing some of the links, please?
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by IanSanders 6y ago
We just need to put more value in human integrity. It's too easy to do "the wrong thing" with 0 consequences
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by IanSanders 6y ago
I don't get why it's either one or the other; nothing will tick all the boxes. Just run both side-by-side
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by IanSanders 6y ago
> It's a matter if taking a couple of minutes to educate people. While it sounds nice in theory, is just unrealistic. We'd also need to educate people why they cannot use random proprietary rental application on their mobile
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by IanSanders 6y ago
It's probably more feasible to require them to be disclosed after a period of time
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by IanSanders 6y ago
Politicians are part of the danger. Judging from the history, greater danger than the dangers we are allegedly being saved from
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by IanSanders 6y ago
When the manufacturer of your printer offers a "driver-only" download, rather than "complete customer experience" version, it is quite small. Also linux.
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by IanSanders 6y ago
Just like people got tired of "fancy" user interfaces and minimalism became somewhat fashionable, I hope the same will happen architecturally, possibly after especially bad yet-another vulnerability and breach.
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by IanSanders 6y ago
>One that reliably runs all the javascript needed to support modern Twitter/Facebook/GMail/whatever style webapps? That can stay within the browser or some shared library. It absolutely doesn't need to affect unix&#x2
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by IanSanders 6y ago
> So you still need Chrome/Firefox I think for most people learning unix, understanding chrome/firefox boils down to knowing "there is a chrome/firefox repo somewhere, it gets compiled/packaged for your distro so
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by IanSanders 6y ago
>Nowadays we expected programs like: `Twitter` I didn't, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Let a website stay a website. I expect it to be free and maintainable (from both developer and user perspectives).
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by IanSanders 6y ago
>Purposefully How is that going to be determined?
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by IanSanders 6y ago
Did MS give up on fixing VS bugs and just went 180? Or did they plan VSCode to replace VS but then discovered it would be too much work?
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by IanSanders 6y ago
> re-subscribing takes just 2 button presses It always does. What about cancelling?
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by IanSanders 6y ago
>low power/noise how does that compare to RPI?
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by IanSanders 6y ago
Ha, I did not.
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by IanSanders 6y ago
Can I point out, that's a nice domain name.
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by IanSanders 6y ago
I see many of the previous changes/actions by Google as hostile/harmful [1][2][3]. I do not want Google to have any say on the future of the web whatsoever, it being a financially motivated body. [1] https://news.ycombi
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by IanSanders 6y ago
>I would love to hear the justification. "We require you create an account so that we can protect your personal data."
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by IanSanders 6y ago
I disagree. Take oculus Rift as an example. You own a game (on a different platform) which supports VR (including your device). You plug your Rift in, calibrate the sensors/room and start playing the game. You shouldn't even need
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by IanSanders 6y ago
My guess is elevated application running on the PC. If they could push a desktop facebook client with admin permissions, they would in a heartbeat
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by IanSanders 6y ago
>It is all about the features, not the age Tell that to someone doing basic tasks such as reading textual articles online and sending emails via some gmail web interface
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by IanSanders 6y ago
>commodity goods being driven to razor thin profit margins. that's not the only factor
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by IanSanders 6y ago
If it runs on aws, it must be decrypted at some point. If it's not, then you're using it as a storage only. There are studies on "decryptionless" data computation but nowhere near practical stage yet

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