MomsAVoxell

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by MomsAVoxell 5d ago
It’s not emulating, its simulating.
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by MomsAVoxell 5d ago
Note that this is a fork and isn’t quite as great as the original .. https://theusualsuspects.io/
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by MomsAVoxell 5d ago
Enjoy: https://theusualsuspects.io/ Truly one of the most interesting developments in software synthesis in the past few years.
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by MomsAVoxell 5d ago
Having a real Machinedrum right next to me, I jumped right into this for a bit of a play. It’s kind of accurate, but on iPad it’s a bugger to play like the real one. One of the great things about the real Machinedrum is you can just kind o
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by MomsAVoxell 6d ago
Interesting - for which OS?
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by MomsAVoxell 6d ago
That’s all in the right direction. I think there are other things OS vendors can do too - screen sharing and a logged timeline history of events would also be useful for parents. We have tools to do this already - authentication apps, and
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by MomsAVoxell 6d ago
It is the operating systems vendors who created this scenario by creating single-user walled-garden platforms which abrogate a parents rights and agency over their children’s lives. I should be able to give my 8 year old a mobile phone
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by MomsAVoxell 6d ago
Folks need to look outside their box when evaluating these kinds of issues. Software quality has been a solved issue in many realms of the digital industry - for decades. There are countless examples of high quality software producing the c
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by MomsAVoxell 6d ago
Ah, the memories. The joyous days spent imagining the future... As a 70's child, I grew up with the UFO Interceptor[1] toy, a treasured possession, and fondly remember blasting it around the house, scraping it on the floor, shooting o
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by MomsAVoxell 7d ago
Well in so doing you’re impinging on others freedoms, and your horse is just as uppity. It’s in the name: public. You cannot prevent me from looking at you, nor memorizing every single detail about you, no matter how you whine. If you want
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by MomsAVoxell 7d ago
Well, I consciously save anything I’ve been interested in for at least 2 minutes, it’s a perfectly good way to filter interests - and the PDF solution safeguards those interests from being exploited by third parties.
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by MomsAVoxell 8d ago
Oxymoron? More like, irony, I guess. It is indeed obnoxious that X behaves this way - but it also has to be said that a lot of modern discourse still happens on X. I have no doubt his works will escape that garden, though. They always do.
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
Yeah, about search: $ pdfgrep -r -i -n -H "your mom" ~/PDFArchives/ Very effective, very fast, very private. Bonus points if the PDF filename itself is derived from a well formulated <title> tag, such tha
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
I comment my shell commands, thus: $ ,:(){ :|:& };: #forkbomb This way, when I want to find it again, I CTRL-R and type ‘forkbomb’ .. voila, instant recall! All I have to remember is the small ontology I keep in my head for the
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
I agree with you but I think it happens every 4 years, not every 10. I first started noticing this in the 90’s .. comp-sci grads were entering the industry with no clue whatsoever how to do software . (Of course its gotten worse since the
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Julian Assange Returns to X(twitter.com)
9 points by MomsAVoxell 9d ago|5 comments
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
Julian is back on X. Let’s see what great things he gets up to, eh folks?
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
I agree, it’s a tough balance, which is why both sides of the position need to be evaluated carefully. I’m not advocating a return to stasi levels of surveillance (although the German state is already well and truly in those woods) .. but I
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
>However what is not okay, and I find that pretty reasonable, is taking a picture of someone else unaware of having their picture taken. That is covered by the law. Background subject? Okay. Foreground subject, picture taken covertly?
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
Couldn’t disagree with you more. Do you want to live in a free and open society or not? Where does your march to the bottom end? We are no longer allowed to take photo’s of our government without permission, perhaps?
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
If the person is in public, and they are incidental to the subject of the photo, permission is not required. If you are taking a picture of a stranger, of course you have to ask their permission. These two things are not the same.
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
We are literally in Hacker News where the entire spectrum is on display, all for a little up-doot. Sure, hackers have always been an arrogant lot. But it is only this century, since the finance bro’s joined the party, that its been so, so
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
You are projecting and don’t seem to know the law. I do, having taken thousands of great photo’s all over Germany. Do you want to live in a free and open society or not? The fact is, the general public having the ability to take photo’s of
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
> a large percentage of sites will not print out correctly as a PDF these days. Reader mode.
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
I attain this without involving an untrustworthy third party, with one simple trick: Print to PDF. Every single web page I’ve found interesting, since the advent of the Web, I have printed to PDF and stored locally for my own personal refer
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
Maybe, before you engage in thought-blocking totalitarian-authoritarian’ism, read what I have actually said . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743649 I have a great deal of respect for German culture - this is why I
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
I think you will find that our opinions are in alignment actually. I never take pictures of strangers - in all cases where I have been asked to review such public pictures, the individuals have been incidental to the subject in focus. CCC
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
Do you believe in the preservation of history and culture for the benefit of the future? I don’t take pictures of random strangers for entertainment - I take pictures of the beautiful, open, public spaces I visit, which happen to have peopl
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
It’s a double-edged sword, and I concur that public photography should not be weaponized against the individual. However, if I see a crime being committed, you can be sure I will be taking photo’s and dealing with the personal consequences
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by MomsAVoxell 9d ago
> Why not ask for permission instead of objection? Because in most cases it was never my intention to photograph a stranger - they imposed this into the conversation by contacting me - most of the time I’m taking pictures of a lovely par

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