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by Lammy 1y ago
This is one of the funniest headlines I've seen in a while RE: “ahead of regulatory deadline”, because deadline is the new year. Citation: https://www.jftc.go.jp/file/240612EN3.pdf (June 2024) “Effective date — Th
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by Lammy 1y ago
Why did they say it? https://xcancel.com/wef/status/983378870819794945
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by Lammy 1y ago
Don't care, I'll go where the funny is. Simply amassing that much money makes one complicit in The System, effectively ceasing to be human and embodying the will of the money itself, so let's not pretend like Jack Dorsey is a
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by Lammy 1y ago
Strawberry can do this and was already my favorite music player on Linux/BSD systems even without that: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/#features It's a maintained Qt6 fork of Clementine, which was a port of
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by Lammy 1y ago
> modern equivalent of the classic WinAmp that runs on Windows WACUP — originally Win Amp Community Update Project, although they have distanced themselves from any mention of the original for legal reasons. It's literally Winamp, a
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LED types by color, brightness, and chemistry (2021)(donklipstein.com)
29 points by Lammy 1y ago|13 comments
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by Lammy 1y ago
> - firewall? […] Wherever I looked, people said "it's complicated." After a lot of tinkering and learning I finally got a setup that was pretty safe. (I think.) I felt this way about pf when I first got PF going around 20
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by Lammy 1y ago
The System rewards the business model that also covertly enables the most surveillance.
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by Lammy 1y ago
> "Northern Virginia was really at the centre for the growth of the internet, [it was] where AOL was headquartered, and so naturally they have the talent, they have the people already there, it was just easier to make [the data cent
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by Lammy 1y ago
We could have had atomic energy generated right here in the Bay Area (Sonoma). You can actually go visit the “hole in Bodega Head” where PG&E started digging the reactor pit before being made to stop: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by Lammy 1y ago
I don't really care if the power stays on for five-nines as long as I'm still paying 61¢/kW-h for it :/ https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...
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by Lammy 1y ago
I don't think I did, but please explain :) The last example in my list of four file sizes is them in a folder. Filesystem compression works at the file level, so you have to turn many-almost-identical-files into one file in order to
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by Lammy 1y ago
Getting my daily dose of Kensington Ave, Philadelphia or Skid Row, Los Angeles every time I come back from the restroom: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8mIPhfrMug - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnpcdn
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by Lammy 1y ago
Needs moar BBEdit. It's my daily driver on my M3 MBP at work and it and its `bbedit` shell helper (which I alias to `bb` for brevity) are never something I have to wait on: https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit&
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by Lammy 1y ago
> I am always surprised that rich text is the default. It's because RTF support was an early headline feature for NeXTSTEP, and TextEdit was meant to be as much of an API demo for the NS/OPENSTEP/Cocoa† APIs as it was mean
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Apple explicitly designed in support for booting other operating systems into the M-series chips Is it possible to buy a compatible M-whatever Mac and install Linux on it without network access, without it phoning home to Apple for per
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by Lammy 1y ago
I bought my Framework 12 just because I like the hardware. It's so cute! And purple! The repairability is bonus.
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by Lammy 1y ago
You don't seem to understand what fascism actually is. None of these things are that. Even though I disagree with DHH on all of these topics I don't see how it's relevant to Free Software at all unless the distro were using t
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by Lammy 1y ago
Fascism is when Arch BTW
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by Lammy 1y ago
> the primary cause of gun violence in the first place: the ubiquity of guns in our society I would have gone with “a normalized sense of hopelessness and indignity which causes people to feel like violence is the only way they can have
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by Lammy 1y ago
The landing page and FAQ heavily imply that HP's cloud service is the only way to control the thing. Spec sheet shows the robot as having “Connectivity: Bluetooth, 4G, WiFi”, so it can connect to the cell network directly: https:&#x2F
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Warpstock 2025 — OS／2 & ArcaOS Mecca, Little Rock, AR, November 7–9(warpstock.org)
1 points by Lammy 1y ago|0 comments
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by Lammy 1y ago
One should be able to exist without being in The System's database. In previous eras this need for The System to minimize existential threats to itself by knowing about every single human that might be able to challenge it (especially
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by Lammy 1y ago
> you could say they were unhinged > GPU makers have all abandoned this practice, which is a shame as it provided something different through box art alone. Now, we're drowning in bland boxes and similar-looking graphics cards I
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by Lammy 1y ago
> A Japanese audience was probably even less inclined to learn yet another loanword to preserve that technical distinction. That's what I mean, though, is that my internalized idea of cassette == tape was the one that was wrong. It
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by Lammy 1y ago
I 'member scouring flea markets for one of these back in the 2000s by bringing a non-adapter copy of Gyromite with me and weighing them by hand until I found one that was ~25% heavier: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/i
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by Lammy 1y ago
It would make a lot more sense if it were keys or an electrical plug's blades or other objects likely to be found in a pocket/bag alongside my phone.
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by Lammy 1y ago
It's for when you have a very large number of mostly-identical files, like web pages with consistent header and footer. If 408MiB versus 3.8GiB is a meaningless difference to you then sure don't bother with compression, but why I
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by Lammy 1y ago
> there's no straightforward way to support "solid" compression. I do it by ignoring ZIP's native compression entirely, using store-only ZIP files and then compressing the whole thing at the filesystem level instead.
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by Lammy 1y ago
That makes no sense because the original issue is everyone living so far from work that they never make time to gather near work with coworkers because that time is spent commuting. How they get to and from has absolutely nothing to do wi

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