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by Root_Denied 7mo ago
Why do you think you have a 5 day work week? Because collective action fought for it. Same goes for the Civil Rights movement in the US and strong union protections for the Boomers that helped them build out a healthy middle class (that the
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by Root_Denied 7mo ago
Windows 8 was supposed to dig into that mobile device/tablet market, as well as the Windows phone. You can argue about why Win8 was a titanic failure that pushed a backtrack in 8.1 (and Win10), but it seems like Microsoft didn't r
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by Root_Denied 7mo ago
It's basically a "Tragedy of the Commons" situation across the board.
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by Root_Denied 7mo ago
Sign me up. I'm optimistic at the response from the EU on tech investment, but I haven't seen them put their money where their mouth is yet. If they want to poach talent from the US they'll also have to figure out an work vis
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by Root_Denied 7mo ago
As an American working for a cloud provider in a tech role (security), I'm angling for an invite to the party. Increased investment in tech in the EU means more opportunity for me to GTFO.
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by Root_Denied 8mo ago
The problem I have with this approach is that ultimately you're trading one owning company for another, rather than building to a standard that anyone could build around. Because someday Valve may no longer be privately owned, and we&#
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by Root_Denied 8mo ago
The SCP Foundation pages[0] have something similar, a danger classification for "Memetic Hazards" which are basically informational viruses that affect memory, cognition, and perception. [0] - https://scp-wiki.wikidot.c
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by Root_Denied 8mo ago
It seems like that decline will continue until it affects their stock prices. There's effectively a bunch of perverse incentives at the decision making level in all major companies right now that disconnects them from customer/end
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by Root_Denied 9mo ago
As I understand it Cloudflare is being asked to block these sites globally, and what I said was that Italy doesn't have the legal authority to request that CF do so globally. Locally, within Italy I can see the argument that CF can be
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by Root_Denied 9mo ago
Considering the rumblings about a near-term IPO for Discord I would be looking at alternatives yesterday. I'm disappointed in the availability of self-hosted alternatives for personal use right now, but businesses don't really hav
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by Root_Denied 9mo ago
> EDIT: to be clear, CF argues that they need to block the DNS globally, and that's unreasonable. The Italian authority argues that they have the skills to do a local block and are just being uncooperative. Similar to the UK's
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by Root_Denied 9mo ago
Moved to NobaraOS back in April (gaming focused Fedora based distro) on my desktop tower and haven't used Windows since, nor have I felt the need to. Some minor tinkering with launch options for Steam games aside it's been a smoot
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by Root_Denied 9mo ago
I saw someone make a good point about this the other day that that 3% of games represents a much larger percentage of the gamer population - Pareto distribution comes into play with popular games where a small number of games account for a
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by Root_Denied 9mo ago
For a lot of those people the options are "spend a lot of money to upgrade your hardware to either run Win11 or buy a Macbook" or "use your existing hardware and ask your tech friend for a Linux distro recommendation". W
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by Root_Denied 9mo ago
An emergent property of scaling civilization then, not just humanity specifically. It does make me wonder how alien advertising might differ.
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by Root_Denied 10mo ago
There's always appimages or flatpaks that could fill that cross-distro gap, though I suspect a lot of development work would need to be done to get that to a point where either of those are streamlined enough to work in the phone ecosy
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by Root_Denied 10mo ago
> There's a difference between trying to micromanage everything, and micromanaging enough that you're not out of touch. I think there's a good point to be made here that this isn't micromanaging, it's bypassing f
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by Root_Denied 11mo ago
Unironically it might actually be 2025. In the last 18 months we've seen a lot of maturation in various linux distros trying to make them "out of the box" usable by people who are not all that technical. More GUI utilities, b
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by Root_Denied 11mo ago
NobaraOS is Fedora based and has solved a lot of these issues. They have a separate ISO to use if you have an Nvidia card that will handle all the akmods drivers for you for example.
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by Root_Denied 11mo ago
You said it in your first sentence: you know that Dropbox is not designed to function the way you're using it. That's a kind of tech debt that may (will?) bite you in the ass eventually. Linux being incompatible with the way you u
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by Root_Denied 11mo ago
I'd say as a counterpoint that just because someone works at, say, Meta or Oracle, and also contributes to OSS projects, that doesn't equate to the company they work at funding upstream projects (at least not by itself). I don&#x2
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by Root_Denied 11mo ago
There used to be a website called "Translation Party" where you would input a sentence in English and it would auto-translate it to Japanese and back to English over and over until it got to some equilibrium (where the translation
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by Root_Denied 11mo ago
This openness is part of the reason governments (local, state, federal, sovereign) started using it for official comms. Seems rather shortsighted in retrospect, but it was a useful tool for a short period of time.
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by Root_Denied 11mo ago
This is unfortunately the answer - VLC/MPV would allow you to select the dubbed audio and also select the EN-US subtitles that are based on the original audio. GabeN saying that piracy is first and foremost a service problem is still r
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
Considering that the AWS outage took out a lot of lines of communication (email, video, chat systems) for both commercial and government entities, I'd say that US-East-1 is a pretty big single point of failure. Even if it didn't r
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
The primary ticketing system was up and down apparently, so tcorp/SIM must still have critical components there.
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
"Probably" is being used here because the body doesn't have a really good way to rebuild cartilage, especially as you age, due to lack of blood flow into places like the patella. Knee and hip replacements are on the rise ( ht
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
The fun part is realizing that any and all exercise comes with risks, and running probably is bad for your knees in the long term - but maybe the long term health benefits to the rest of your body of running outweigh the risk of damage to
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
A secondary problem is that a lot of the internal tools are still on US East, so likely the response work is also being impacted by the outage. Been a while since there was a true Sev1 LSE (Large Scale Event).
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by Root_Denied 1y ago
Same boat here, but I'm not surprised in the slightest. I'd also argue that the inevitable fallout from large numbers of people making a similar decision is on Microsoft, not the individuals.

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