Pfhortune

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by Pfhortune 1y ago
> Imagine MS doing the same for Windows. It will happen. We've been the frogs boiled in the pot for years, accepting forced attestation. Eventually they'll close off running unsigned code, and the PCs will probably have bootloa
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
Disgusting, horrifying, but utterly predictable. A dark day indeed, once no major mobile platform allows running whatever code you wish. Sideloading isn't really sideloading if the app has to be signed by the gatekeeper. Isn't thi
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
This inspired me to finally grab a Sony Clie SL-10 on eBay to play around with. Been watching that model on and off for a while because it was the last AAA-powered model. No ancient rechargeable cell to deal with. (Sigh) I really miss tech
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
> Garmin's UX is also very disjointed between devices for how expensive they are. Yeah... I bought an Instinct 2S hoping it would scratch the same itch as Pebble, but the UX is really awful. The Pebble OS UX is really something spec
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
Does anyone else find it amusing that the AI generated image for this post is physically impossible? And blatantly rips off the Studio Ghibli look?
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
Could you be more specific? What are some examples of the leftward shift? I hear this bandied about often but with little specificity.
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
I read this post, the letter, and the accusations. I have an easy guide for avoiding an avenue for cancellation: if you find yourself influential in a community, and find yourself rooming with someone junior in the community (probably do no
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
The byline is below the title, and this is at the end: > David Bridie is an independent musician, producer and installation artist. Across four decades as a band member, solo artist and composer of film and TV soundtracks, he has release
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
Just because things have been horrific up to this point, does not mean that we should want them to continue to be horrific. Advocating for change against the violent factions of the world, is indeed, a good thing to do.
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
Login walled. Onavo was the name of the service, for those who wanted to know just that. https://twittethread.com/thread/1950927585845948600
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
Perhaps not every form of media needs to be engagement-driven? The beautiful thing about public media is that it can broadcast things that don't have a profit-motive for being broadcast.
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
> I think public broadcasting will be stronger when it stands on its own without interference from politicians. What does the "public" in "public broadcasting" mean to you?
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
What's really horrifying here is that, even if the appetite for funding CPB were to come back in 2026, 2028, or whenever, you can't just spin it up again; those people have moved on, those assets are liquidated. You would have to
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Doom and Wolf RPG port available on F-Droid(f-droid.org)
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
The length of time it takes for media to enter the public domain is absolutely absurd. It if didn't take over a century for works to enter the PD, we could say, "Eh, just wait a few years." But instead we hold these works of
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
> countries with more surveillance and more poverty have less crime like home invasions (CCCP). I am eager to learn more if you have some data/links on this WRT home invasions, I'm sure the ubiquity of guns in the US is another
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
As the person you replied to said: > We increasingly put people in bad situations and then blame them when they lash out. They are not _justifying_ it, they are calling out a cause/effect relationship. When people are desperate, the
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
Once the SE third gen is available, I could finally have a TouchID iPhone with USB-C! Really wish Apple had done a final fourth gen of the SE with these features...
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
The government is not a company. It is ludicrous to expect it to operate like one.
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
…sell food to Gaza? The people of Gaza have little way to buy food right now. Gaza does not possess a hoard of wealth to trade to private companies for food et al, just lying in wait for Israel’s violence to cease. I agree that the American
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
What do you propose to replace those institutions? The needs thereof do not go away. For-profits in the private sector? Are they going to be feeding Gazans? You don’t fix a house’s plumbing by detonating a bomb under the foundation.
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
These statements about DAUs are the most Silicon-Valley-brained statements I've heard this month... As if features only have value when a plurality of people use them. "We need engagement!"
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by Pfhortune 1y ago
Killing off their one active product in order to copy everyone else in chasing AI... In "doing something new and different!" they are doing the same thing as the herd, and losing all loyalty and good will they built over the years
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
> But if the people had the will, they could just see it through already. How does this work in the context of this discussion?
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
I know this is intended to be a one-off thing, but also holding onto a sliver of hope that this is successful, and RePebble goes on to make more devices in the future. But even if that doesn't happen, having a new Pebble that will hope
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
The idea of crypto as a force for plurality is baffling. Crypto is just as controlled by the “sourcerers” of round world as state controlled fiat currency. Distributed ledgers make no difference here. It’s still just “chosen ones” projectin
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
So excited for this! No other smartwatch comes close to the UX of pebble OS. Tiny touchscreens are demonstrably a bad idea. Garmin and Casio have plenty of button-only devices, but they seem to not really understand how to make a UI flow we
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Look, I don't usually make a habit of engaging with throwaways so this will be my last reply. Feel free to take whatever internet victory points you like. I would ask, when denying people their self-determination, does it start and end
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Let me put it another way. If you start a new job and introduce yourself as "Bob" and someone says, "haha no you're Herman. Hi Herman" and they continue to call you "Herman" at work from then on, then they
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Being trans is identity, but being transphobic is ideology. Being a transphobe does not alter your identity in any way, nor change how you are referred to in society. Denying someone their identity and disrespecting someone in a professiona

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