RuggedPineapple

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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
Somewhat related, but as 800k floppies got harder and harder to find, it became common to just cover one hole on a 1.44 mb floppy so the computers that used them (mostly old compact macs) would treat them as 800k disks. This is fine in the
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
Back when i was in high school in the late 90s/early 2000s there was a website, i think called cellphonescanner (.) com that had a realmedia stream to listen to analog cell conversations around NYC and Toronto or something like that. I
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
The voice mobile app has gotten much better (to the point that I switched from Hangouts last year) so this sounds about right. Still impressed I have the same phone number from Google for a decade and a half. Been around long enough that I
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
With recent news[1] that space is hotter then expected, We now get to answer the age old question if existence in general is generating more heat then light. [1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/2
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
You're diving of some deep ends and speaking concretely as if you have the answer about what the future humans will be thinking. Pretty sure I'm being Poe'd here.
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
The motivation was that the government of the day did arrest critics and made certain speech illegal, depending on its mood. And no, it's not deeper then that. The constitution is a dry document pertaining solely to organizing a govern
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
> As for your support for Google and Facebook moderation: don't you think support for the purpose of free speech requires that people be capable of exercising that freedom at a practical level? The purpose of the first amendment is
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
This isn't true in the slightest. Your 'neutrality' or whatever isn't important at all. Every single paper and pamphlet the people writing the first amendment were familiar with was deeply, intrinsically partisan. Those
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
If someone wants to give a sermon on top of your kitchen table over dinner time, would you object to being able to throw them out? Does an author have the right to come print their work out on your printer, using your ink and paper?
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
I was going to say, refusing to host on your own platform something you find objectionable is not in any way an infringement on speech, but forcing someone to host it tramples all over free speech.
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
I drool over the Odroid N2+, but mostly I just use a Raspberry Pi. 32 bit Raspbian is fine for me and most of it works fine (although the fake kernel mode switching video driver is less then ideal) and i don't really care to lose the h
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
A bunch of hardware acceleration (primarily involving the GPU because of the weird it-runs-its-own-mini-OS situation) are either not currently implemented or can only be used via a rather hacky kludge. Once the GPU boots and passes off exec
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
The raspberry pi does have an OS preinstalled that users cant remove, which is why its so hard to get full support for the basic linux stack on there. The GPU has a proprietary low level OS/firmware blob that handles basic system funct