JohnFen

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by JohnFen 7mo ago
There's an unusual amount of the "ends justify the means" mindset amongst the dev set associated with Silicon Valley these days, particularly in the genAI crowd. Fortunately, it's not nearly as common overall.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Yes, but the locations of the big transmitters are in well-defended areas and smaller transmitters are easy to replace.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Ah, true. My mistake.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
True, but I'd be very hesitant to trust such statements/contract clauses.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I'm in the US. At least half of the people I know own shortwave radios, although most don't think of them as "shortwave radios". They're more often called "world radios" or some other such synonym. I could
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
The broadcast locations aren't really secret, and don't need to be.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Radios capable of receiving shortwave bands aren't exactly rare among normal people. They're not really "special hardware". Just owning one would not be inherently suspicious. What would be suspicious is being in possess
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
The US absolutely could produce all the food needed for its own citizens (and more). That it currently doesn't is a result of business decisions, not because it's impossible. Different decisions could be made.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I wouldn't trust that guy, or any agency he's in charge of, any further than I could throw him.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
To each his own. For me, these tools take the fun part away and replace it mostly with the parts that I don't find fun. If I wanted to just direct others (machines or not) to do the implementation, I'd be a manager. There's a
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
> at one extreme you have people who can audit software they use and verify that it actually does what it says Unless the software sends data off to the cloud or a sever somewhere. You can't audit what happens there.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
> I have long wondered about the market size for privacy-focused apps. The real problem is how to trust that a "privacy-focused" app is actually privacy-focused. You certainly can't take the publisher's word for it. T
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I seriously doubt that it will accomplish that.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
This makes me incredibly nervous about 401(k)s. I think it may be time to find a different vehicle.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Palantir is an ideological group.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I was looking at various stats and surveys, not going by my personal experience. But if you're asking about my personal experience, I haven't seen any consumer use of it at all, only enterprise and institutional use. That's p
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I tried various ones out over the course of a few years, but in the end found they weren't for me and I went back to using paper notebooks. I won't say they're bad solutions at all, but just that they brought no actual benefi
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
It wasn't that obscure in the US before Linus used it, although perhaps its use was regional? I certainly heard it frequently. "git" still means "asshole" in my mind first, and I have to recontextualize that default
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Certainly. But it's still a minority use case. Perhaps someone else will (or did) write up a how-to for support mesh networking in your homebrew router.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I would if there were any on the market that were acceptable to me, but there aren't.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
If you're tech-savvy and building your own router, you can add those advanced aspects in if you want them. I'd be willing to bet, though, that the overwhelming majority of people who use consumer routers aren't doing anything
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
(I don't tend to flag these unless there's been a deluge of them or the outage is over) There are numerous, much more reliable, services that address this. "<x> is down" posts here tend to be inaccurate, spammy, an
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Procomm Plus remains the best terminal emulator I've ever used to this day.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
There is only a loose connection between technological advances and progress. Depending on how you define "progress". Technological advances have held back or reversed progress in many areas, just as it has advanced progress in ot
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
> Who wants to get no good results because they typed "picture hanging bolt" instead of "eye wood screw"? Honestly, I prefer that over having to look through pages of barely-related search results to find the pearl hi
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I use cash for my routine purchases. I wonder how annoyed the bank will be with me when I go in to swap these bills for ones that he hasn't defiled?
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
> In fact, I can think of two reasons to do it: > 1. You think if you don’t do it, someone else will How is that in any way a reason to do it?
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I, like most people, have never figured this out.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I hope that you didn't give that consent to your therapist.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Or, if you want to have one with you, leave your regular cell phone at home (or ship it ahead to your destination via parcel carrier) and carry a burner/travel-only phone instead. Don't put any personal data on that phone. Not eve

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