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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Bill Gates was in the right place at the right time, enabled by the platform of an upper class education from a young age. His reign at Microsoft monopolized the tech industry, stunting development and growth for years to come. Whether its
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Charging more would make this laptop less accessible to the vast majority of people. The Novena, Talos & many other libre hardware projects were always so expensive as to be botique afterthoughts, rather than "I can spend $100 and
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Bricking hardware people paid for without offering a refund is potentially illegal, even US companies like Lowes realize this, hence why Lowes refunded all hardware purchases of Lowes by Iris Home Security Systems for customers they could t
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
I'm far from the only one rinning a business atop AGPLv3 software :P Amazon was the pioneer of SaaSifying AGPLv3 software.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Sounds like a very narrow minded legal team, AGPLv3 code is the core of many modern businesses.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Paving our best farmland is not sustainable, nor is deluding yourself that we can capture carbon at anywhere near the rate needed to prevent severe change in our weather patterns. US suburbs are heavily subsidized with federal dollars[1], t
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Flammable roof types should also be banned, when embers land on a roof the last thing it should start is a fire!
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The German government has contributed the base layer to OpenStreetMaps, and uses it for their official parcel/lot line maps. It is much better than the janky pile of crap Esri dumps on most counties in the USA.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
But gasoline & diesel are okay despite polluting? That doesn't make sense, nor does it follow that petroleum based fuels are permitted despite be extracted and refined using tools and appliances well beyond what most Amish communi
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
These people have no ethics, if it furthers their narrative they will spin any tangentially relevant story. Unlike Engineering, there is no Board of Engineers to hold you (or your company) to account for lying about the capabilities of your
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
That is my point, AGPLv3 is rarely used due to the antics of certain free software advocates. Ethically, there is a huge swath of developers that aligns with writing code under libre licenses, but gets turned off when they see our community
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The journey to software freedom has been bogged down for too long by people that drive away large chunks of potential developers & users[1]. If you want to be caustic, we won't stop you, but you can't come into community event
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Perhaps ultra-pasteurized is common on the East Coast? Its definitely not common for 1 gallon or half gallons in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Idaho or Michigan (in my experience).
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Hence https://joinpeertube.org/en/ existing and growing. YouTube has demonetized & banned LGBTQ+ mentioning videos[1], and continues to tighten the noose around those that make it a viable platform. 1 - https:&#x2
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
UHT Milk is not normal in the USA outside the grab & go bottle sizes (1/2 liter): https://www.fredmeyer.com/search?query=milk What is concerning is the high fructose corn syrup, kelp & skim milk blend that Dari
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Seems to work for me on Linux using older Firefox, must be a legacy WebKit issue (as Apple forces all browsers to use Safari's WebKit engine). Apple really is dragging their heels on supporting HTML5, when even (deprecated) Edge has be
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Electric cars have many negative externalities too, tires, brake dust and such don't magically disappear due to the change from Gas to Electric. Even my bicycle produces a surprising amount of brake dust! None of this is healthy to bre
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
As technology and finances have enabled China's expanding authoritarianism, they have broken new ground with: - Mandatory state written malware for phones and computers, - "AI" for tracking people in public, at schools and bu
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The city and state have permitted environmental protection laws to be used and abused by those with the funds to hire a lawyer, to the point that one angry person has successfully stopped redevelopment of the military base at Fort Lawton:
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
> We’ll keep those discussions completely private unless we both agree to share Reads to me as StackOverflow will not share anything if they feel revealing the conversation would hurt their PR.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The CoC is almost certainly already written, but this quip is a cherry on top: > We’ll be reaching out to her directly to apologize for the lack of process, privacy, and to discuss next steps. We’ll keep those discussions completely priv
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
WHOIS is pretty private at this point, Namecheap, GoDaddy and others set up domain privacy services on every domain for free. Their mail relays are unreliable though, it is much harder to make a site operator aware of an issue now :c
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
First Tech and BECU both do this, pretty sure the smaller credit unions like Verity and People's CU also reimburse ATM fees and offer high yield checking & savings accounts.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Amateur Radio license holders can't use encryption in the USA. This kills a large portion of the use case for an amateur cellular network.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
This chat app has no source available, a few neat features, but no hope of easily integrating existing Signal/Matrix/IRC bots currently :c
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
This is really awful behavior by Google. We need to eject Google from LGBTQ+ organizations so long as Google chooses to actively hurt us. Don't let Google wrap itself in our flags while stabbing us in the back!
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The name is very similar to lemmy with this font. Lemmy being the federated alternative to Reddit/HN: https://dev.lemmy.ml
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
I was pointing to a time when both institutions were producing valuable tools from their research and development that significantly bettered the world around them. MIT & Harvard have not been affecting change in the world around them l
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
What has MIT or Harvard launched recently that has come into as widespread use as the GNU Coreutils?
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Bloomberg is really putting Harvard on a pedestal in the beginning of this article, that along with the unretracted implants[1] story makes me think their newsroom is deeply flawed. I don't think Ivy Leauge schools are deserving of the

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