Propelloni

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by Propelloni 11mo ago
I like the article. And I applaud any physicist trying to come to grips with our conceptions of reality AND reading up on philosophy. That being said, he's neither the first nor will he be the last, nor is "perpectivism" in e
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by Propelloni 11mo ago
What works best for me is to take a book, on paper, preferably on a boring topic (depends on you, obviously) and just start reading. Usually my eyes drop in a matter of minutes. Once I wake up, startled by the book falling over, I kill the
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by Propelloni 1y ago
It used to be the case that the USA was very successfull in making the talent (from everywhere, not just China) "steal" itself to the USA. I have heard that the USA has abandoned that strategy recently, but I think it is too early
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Can confirm.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Funny that pattern recognition does not extend to the universal pattern of "things end". A stoic would be appalled--if they'd care.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Only being discontent is too easy. What do they agree upon?
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Yeah, I liked it. Pretty aphorims in Goethe's style with wide applicability. If the article had another title and no "Additional" I would not have guessed he was talking about Germany specifically. Fun fact: I used to work wi
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by Propelloni 1y ago
A quick background check on digitalsociety.coop reveals that 5000 US$/year was a significant sum for them in 2024 and that opportunity costs were probably negligible. Not everybody has money to burn.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
I find the article's topic interesting, but the writing style is just... no. It reads like a True Crime transcript or really bad marketing copy. Which makes a certain kind of sense, I guess.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
We saw this in the early days of chat tools like Slack, too. /remind anybody? Today you, at least, get a floating help text if not a mini-GUI within the channel once you begin to invoke. So I'd wager we will see the same with chat
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by Propelloni 1y ago
I have no special insights, but Sony's phones seem like a good fit. They are really easy to unlock [1], but there are virtually no mods but Lineage. Maybe because they are very stock Android and bloat-free? They range from 300 to 1000
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Why?
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by Propelloni 1y ago
> Anywhere in Germany? Our pre-tax income is pre-pre-taxed. Before your employer pays out your wage, they are taxed for it as well. What? No. I'm an employer in Germany and I can tell you that's wrong.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
And now look how the "virtual numbers" allow the USA to drag the rest of the world through the mud on a nosering. The USA was the winner in all this, but apparently the people don't feel it. What might have gone wrong? (hint:
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Agreed. We, the Linux crowd, are pretty big on understanding what our machines are doing, which is hard with LLMs. But I'd wager that a distribution that brings a local open source LLM for system administration tasks would find interes
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by Propelloni 1y ago
If your target platform is MS Windows only or only supported by MS Windows like with your examples, by all means, use Visual Studio. If Visual Studio is dictating your choice of platform, I'd consider the tradeoffs.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
This principle (sorry ;)) is applicable to all domains. I'd wish I would remember this more often. Thank you for the gentle reminder!
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Look, you could have said "I don't know what you mean. Explain it to me." And I would have tried and we would have had a civilised discussion why we think what we think. But you, by resorting to sarcasm, inappropriate quotati
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Yes, it does. Otherwise we wouldn't care that really great shoes are stitched together by indentured children somewhere far away.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
My sympathies, I've been there, too. You are not alone. What helped me was to talk about my predicament with peers outside my company at face-to-face meetups. It changed my trajectory and allowed me to find purpose again.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
That's surprising. The last time I ran a Fritzbox was in 2012 and I think it was capable of doing that. I think virtually all routers showed these kinds of statistics back then. I'm on OpenWRT the last five or so years, so I haven
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by Propelloni 1y ago
I wonder what this does to all the people that type even known URLs into Google instead of the location bar to go to that URL. You know, people like my parents.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you in regards to the state of the world, I'm addressing your suicide fantasies. Please believe me, I mean this is the most respectful way: please seek help.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Agreed, and to add: take a look at the incentive structures. Virtually everybody anywhere is acting rationally within the dominant incentive structure they are confronted with. I know this seems so abstract it sounds like a truism and not a
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by Propelloni 1y ago
Depends on from where you enter the street, does it not? (I kid, I know what you mean ;))
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by Propelloni 1y ago
There ist a whole industry clustered around this FUBAR that makes its living by helping companies navigate this shit. It has small and big players and they have no incentive to tell you that there is anything else you could use. The monthly
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by Propelloni 1y ago
I'm old,too. I remember when the default fonts of the web browser were good enough. Matter of fact, they still are, but today I, as a user, have to jump through some easy hoops to get the font of my choice ;)
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by Propelloni 1y ago
No, there is not a lot of squatting going on in Germany. AFAIK, the only EU countries with rather active squatting scenes are Italy and Spain, but my information is probably 20 years out of date.
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by Propelloni 1y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but it would really be a great step to stop calling these things "cookie banners" and use "consent banners" or "tracking banners". Call them what they are. Because it is not the mea
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by Propelloni 1y ago
KDE seems to reinvent the wheel here and I wonder where they are going with that. There are pretty mature "immutable" distributions out there that could serve as a foundation and offer a lot of the same features that KDE Linux is

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