RalfWausE

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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Its not just about passing away, even a sudden incapacitation from which you do recover may pose a bit of a challenge for the relatives: Some time ago my dad had some severe heart problems which lead to him being hospitalised for multiple m
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
To be honest: I have no idea. It may be that i have read it in some cyberpunk story or in some gopherhole... but i have it in use for the last couple of years, so who knows? ;-)
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
> his "solutions" do nothing to address the power of these monopoly platforms Oh, his solutions DO address the problem in a way that works best: Walk away.
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
When i started to get into computers and later the internet my normie friends thought of that stuff as utterly pointless. Sure, they were sure that there was some use to computers in big businesses, replace the typewriters and make the life
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Ok, respect for his friendly and professional answer. But... "Fuck off" would also have been very reasonable.
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Whoa, this is great! I really never thought about putting a whole new set of guts into it... Somehow i have now intrusive thoughts about a fast, energy efficient SBC and the Thinkpad...
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Personally, i have found my perfect laptop: The Thinkpad R60, though ancient is - for the things I do - simply perfect. It runs really good with various BSD systems (and of course Linux), has an easily changeable battery, a - in my opinion
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Quiet plausible... a long time ago i took my motorcycle out for the first ride after a long pause, as soon as i left the town where i live in and a moment before i would yank the throttle open an ABSOLUTELY GIANT (so perhaps a few milimeter
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Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)(cyber.dabamos.de)
311 points by RalfWausE 3y ago|257 comments
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
>A solution I've had in mind is libraries running decades-long hosting services attached to member cards. Well, its not quiet a library but definitively running since decades: sdf.org
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
>But most people don't care about that. It's a social network, and they want to use it as one I would honestly say: "Fuck them" The Web was a better place before it was too easy to use and the unwashed masses entered.
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Hah, first twitter, then reddit and now youtube... let big tech kill itself!
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ReactOS Newsletter 102(reactos.org)
17 points by RalfWausE 3y ago|4 comments
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Oh yeah i definitively am a POTENTIAL terrorist... and if the nations of the allegedly free world are keeping their trajectory regarding encryption and civil rights there might even come a day to turn form POTENTIAL to ACTUAL...
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Its rare that i lust for having someone burned at the stake... but in THIS particular case...
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Nah, i have recently seen some dude mirroring Usenet posts in his gopherhole... granted, its not posting, but still..
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
I would say the cyberdeck has finally arried...
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The Internetcomputer(internetcomputer.org)
2 points by RalfWausE 3y ago|0 comments
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
This is an argument against any form of direct payment... i mean, you can get your cash stolen very easily...
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
The company i work for is using a C64 mainboard for controling some production equipment... and there are ABSOLUTELY no plans to move to anything different. Is this system deprecated from a technological standpoint? Yes, absolutely. But on
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Tits on a bull would be incredible useful from an economic perspective i would guess...
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Yeah, you (as in the US) should do that, and please take every US soldier in europe with you. We (as in central europe) either have nuclear weapons (France, Britain) or could easily build them (Germany)
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
And guess what: Those people had and have valid points...
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Is it? Todays chains may be less visible and the crack of the whip is mostly silent... but its slavery nonetheless
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
I am more in the "do everything you can to let the big corporations die" camp... but to each their own
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Reminds me a bit of the book "We are legion (we are bob)"
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by RalfWausE 3y ago
Not EVRERYBODY... luckily my bank (a tiny bank in the Volksbank group) gives me the option to use an external TAN generator
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Nyxt Browser – The Hackers Power Browser(nyxt.atlas.engineer)
3 points by RalfWausE 4y ago|0 comments
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by RalfWausE 4y ago
The comments under the article are... something.
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by RalfWausE 4y ago
You would be surprised how mobile you can be on a simple, fixed gear bicycle: My granddad made multiple trips a year using such a bicycle from Essen to some villages in Austria after the war where relatives lived...

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