Kadin

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by Kadin 3y ago
Forcing ByteDance to host the data in the US, on Oracle's servers or anyone else's, doesn't mean a lot if there are a bunch of people in China with the login to those servers. Who has access to the data and the various admin
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by Kadin 3y ago
Yes, there is a private/direct messaging feature in TikTok that should of course be considered accessible to ByteDance, and by extension the Chinese government. However, that is not the only valuable information. The user behavioral pr
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by Kadin 3y ago
The Chinese government, like the US government or any other large national government, is not monolithic. Having information available for easy perusal via a commercial channel (which is potentially not even illegal) is very different from
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by Kadin 4y ago
I paid a guy a bit under $200 to pull Ethernet cables from my basement up to the attic of my house. Now I can keep heat-generating stuff like my storage server and the cable modem (surprisingly heat-intensive) in the basement, have a WiFi A
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by Kadin 4y ago
Interesting. I think this shows what a change there's been in synthetic materials in the last 20 years. The standard advice I used to hear was to never wear synthetics in hot climates, because they'd be terribly uncomfortable! In
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by Kadin 4y ago
I just got issued a System76 at work and I thought I must have configured something wrong. On one hand, I guess I'm glad it's not me; on the other hand, I wish it was just some dumb config toggle ("terrible_battery_life enabl
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by Kadin 4y ago
Well, the alternative is probably paying some contractor a great deal of money for the same information. Just think of all the taxpayer money you're saving!
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by Kadin 4y ago
Lots of the slides are just displayed as black for me. Is that a browser issue, or are there embedded links to now-dead resources in the deck...? (For instance, slides 51 and 52 are supposed to have content per the speaker's notes, but
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by Kadin 4y ago
The utility of home servers and server-like devices is limited by upstream bandwidth on asymmetric connections (virtually all home broadband except some fiber-based services). Not IP addressing. Dynamic DNS has been around for decades and
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by Kadin 4y ago
> Facebook added 24MILLION new users in the same period Of those 24M users, how many of them are people I care about or want to follow? I.e. not bots, not people on the other side of the planet, not people who don't have a language
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by Kadin 4y ago
Mastodon has a nice feature where you can prove ownership of a link in your profile by setting a backlink on it (implying you at least control the content of that page). So, if you don't want to set up your own Mastodon instance under
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by Kadin 4y ago
No, the idea is that you block entire instances where the admins are lax about allowing spam or bot accounts. If you run an instance and don't do active moderation and just let any putz sign up and post crap, you'll end up getting
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by Kadin 4y ago
Google bungled the G+ rollout quite badly. They seemed to forget that the thing that made Facebook gain traction initially was a very gradual rollout targeting affinity groups (colleges and college students) at first, with quasi-private net
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by Kadin 4y ago
Yeah there are some UX optimizations that could probably be made... OTOH, I can't think of many big-name mobile apps that don't have some issues with less-than-obvious long-press functionality. (Snapchat seems to literally do thi
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by Kadin 4y ago
Personally I hate the "toot" nomenclature. That's something you teach a toddler to say instead of "fart". "Posts" forever and always.
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by Kadin 4y ago
Twitter didn't really have much of a discovery mechanism in its early years, and that's when it really built the userbase that is its main competitive advantage right now. I'm not sure that's a huge impediment, particul
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by Kadin 4y ago
Most people are going to do that regardless. It becomes not a question of whether to trust some for-profit company, but which one. Many people feel, and I tend to agree, that Apple is a safer bet than Google, because Apple (at least, at
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by Kadin 4y ago
> All I am calling for is that punishment meets the crime. Not meets the crime and exceeds it in order to prevent unrelated parties from committing the same crime. That doesn't make a lot of sense. The whole point of the criminal
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by Kadin 4y ago
> I'm surprised the insurance will pay for this. Yeah I'm a bit surprised by that, too. The negotiations with their insurer must have been really something. Only thing I can imagine is that they cut some sort of deal that mak
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by Kadin 4y ago
Denying the Chinese access to American-designed parts broadens the competitive landscape, by forcing them to compete not just on supply chain, integration, and software, but also on chip design, in order to maintain parity in a key technolo
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by Kadin 4y ago
Apple made a fairly big deal of the fact that the G5 processor, when they started putting it into their machines (or maybe it was when they went to dual G5s?), had just recently stopped being export-controlled by virtue of being classified
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by Kadin 4y ago
Well, sure: but if the company doesn't want to release the source code at a future date, they just... don't do it. That's sort of a separate problem. If you assume the company (or the developers, whatever) actually want t
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by Kadin 4y ago
This is something that I think has basically flown under the radar of mainstream understanding: you can now live "off the grid" and have many of the perks that used to be the domain of grid-connected living. Not all of them... but
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by Kadin 4y ago
Printing the source out on paper would probably be the most long-lasting storage method (aside from engraving it into large pieces of stone, maybe). But typing the source code back in for most non-trivial pieces of software would be really
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by Kadin 4y ago
It's likely limitations of the drivers for the underlying hardware they were able to source in quantity and at the right price. Some of the highest-volume manufacturers have traditionally also been bad about Linux drivers (looking at
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by Kadin 4y ago
It's unfortunate the modern Macbooks are such sealed boxes. The M1 compares surprisingly favorably against even the i7-1165G7 that you get in the Framework "Performance" series. About the only advantage you get with Intel r
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by Kadin 4y ago
Wow. A person could perhaps not cover, but at least nicely subsidize, the cost of a trip to Australia by hand-carrying a couple of laptops with them... wonder how many you can bring through Customs before they start to get suspicious? It re
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by Kadin 4y ago
They were also very right about one critical point: > without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this? Dropbox was initially pitched as a free service, which was absolutely not sustainable ,
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by Kadin 4y ago
Not really; they just lobbied the Bush II Administration into crippling the Clinton-era rules that required them to allow competitive DSL providers. The requirement was called "Local Loop Unbundling" and it required the RBOCs (leg
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by Kadin 4y ago
I'd pay $200/mo for that if it didn't come with a transfer cap. That's the problem with making bandwidth the only metric that we grade broadband connections on. You end up with "Gigabit" connections that you c

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