RNCTX

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by RNCTX 5y ago
> If a great new opportunity comes up, take it, but drop something else. If the dropped thing was important, it'll get staffed. If not... why work on it? The above seems to explain how a thing that fills a gaping functionality hole
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by RNCTX 5y ago
She wrote about things everyone writes about, but she put them in contexts that other people ignored. That's why she's still relevant. It's not just that a thing happened and what the author thinks about the prevailing opini
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> I invented that network source code disclosure provision of the AGPL — the copyleft license later applied to the Mastodon software &mdash: This is just perfect. The blog post much like the FSF, is far less interested in an end resu
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Reading my own comments to the blog post years later is fun: > rsyslog decided at some point between 2018 and 2020 to break the config file format that had been in use for years before that mystery point in time. I don't know exact
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by RNCTX 5y ago
https://vimeo.com/43536445
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by RNCTX 5y ago
It's less what they get done and more what they willfully ignore (such as the Cambridge Analytica story when Facebook became a donor of theirs). There's also the case of Shahid Buttar pretending to challenge Nancy Pelosi in an ele
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by RNCTX 5y ago
All of it, because Windows is closed source. A user cannot be responsible for a black box's contents.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Agreed, that's the catch. It is difficult reading. I would argue that without a grasp of Hegel's basic theories you can't even start, and without a grasp of Marx's basic theories you can't get from Hegel to the mo
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by RNCTX 5y ago
It's not quite that simple, in that it's not a nonsensical statement that there's no difference between the biological sexes as the zealots on the opposing side perceive it to be. It's more that the cultural perceptions
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by RNCTX 5y ago
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine https://www.wired.com/2011/11/eff-palantir/ If you know something or someone's name, which / who claims to be some sort of advo
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Bingo. It's high comedy to me that 90+% of ransomware is targeted at Windows, and yet beyond the year 2020 you can still find corporate-speak in the wild that all basically boils down to a hare-brained assumption that the corporate ven
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> What we have now are midrange and low end, and what passes for high end are really mid range phones dressed up with a few premium features or gimmicks. Ultimately no one can shake their culture, it follows you like your shadow. Google&
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Do you think that hits to the Stripe checkout page are free? Or that their databases for storing all of the payment info are free? Stripe needs servers and bandwidth like everything else.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> It's exactly like that. It's not exactly like that. Kroger and Safeway cannot prevent potato chips from being sold outside of Kroger and Safeway. That's the whole point of the conversation here, don't know how you&
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Reminiscent of the talk in which “SELECT 1 / 0” was offered as reason enough in one line of code to not use MySQL.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
You and no one else. No one wants Bitcoin spam in their browser except people with a monetary interest in Bitcoin spam, which is less of the financial markets than Firefox represents in the web browser market.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Their mobile offerings have been laughably bad over the years. Other open source projects have done the things they should have done, meanwhile.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> United Airlines has ordered 200 eVTOLs. American Airlines has ordered 250, with an option for 100 more. These contracts are not binding, they're marketing. In fact, if we had a regulator other than the ones we have, it wold be a
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by RNCTX 5y ago
But Jobs didn't turn down the money, did he? Nor did his wife turn down her friendship with the Epsteins. There's no need to volunteer to write hagiographies for billionaires, they pay PR firms to do it for them.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
15% is highway robbery. The cost via your own account on Stripe is 5% on the high end.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> Why would you assume that companies following suit would make symbolic gestures rather than a culture/values shift? Because companies are generally managed by far worse people. Just this afternoon I stumbled across an email templ
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> I see it's available on Amazon but... well, I don't want Kindle format... It's trivial to de-drm and convert a lot of ebooks. You need Calibre (free/open source, gui [1]), its DeDrm plugin (free/open source, gu
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Because he's not, he's just trading energy credits.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
To create monopoly, the answer is always to create a monopoly. All of this was set in our future when corporations were not prohibited from having patents.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> You'd be right to say that patents limited LFP in the West, but generally Japanese/Korean firms seemed relatively uninterested in the tech. Because of the patents. Japan and South Korea are US colonies basically.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
early 2007 until today.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Must've been very recent. A bunch of former Obama staffers tried to run a fake Facebook coup in Bolivia just a couple of years ago. Prior to that former Senator Jim DeMint did the same thing in Honduras with Obama admin (Hillary Clint
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by RNCTX 5y ago
that hurricane in Florida in 2018 exported them to the neighbors across the street, didn't even ask permission.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
The number of users on Steam with a VR headset was hovering around 1% last time I looked, and gaming is their only market outside of porn.

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