Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 6y ago
There won't be many picocell stations deployed in the countryside I'd guess? The first tree would eat the signal and we have a lot of trees here. No, it'll be using the same bands as 3G/4G with a different protocol. Thos
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I don't respect what they're going for here since what they're actually doing is trying to put a shine on their decrepit corporate image by virtue signalling.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Take a look at Sweden for an example of a country where poverty is more or less absent due to a wide social safety net while crime is on the rise. It is not poverty which causes gangs to go out and rob teenagers of their expensive branded j
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> Statistically, proprietary software is regular software. Statistically, proprietary software in the world of Linux is a black swan. Free software is the rule, proprietary software the exception to the rule which tends to be used only w
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Debian offers both the stable release which you mentioned as well as more up-to-date 'testing' and relatively cutting-edge 'unstable' releases. The 'unstable' release tends to be stable enough for day to day us
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Of course they need them on their person, having a gun in the trunk of the car does exactly nothing when confronted with a situation where having a gun can be the difference between life and death - that is some victim's life or that o
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
There are two things to this: Compare the rate of gun-related crime in a country like Switzerland (where guns are readily available and many people have been trained to use them) with that in Germany (where guns are as rare as hens teeth am
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. The US is saturated with firearms so it would be foolish for the police not to carry. In the UK the situation used to be different and to a certain extent still is, the police used to be unarmed (are
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Where do you see systemic racism in current society? Do mind that 'systemic racism' has a specific meaning, it is racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions. The only obvious example of systemic racism I
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
You know that not to be true so why bring it up? It is difficult enough to discuss this subject as it is without this type of commentary.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> open source developers are using their platforms to advocate against oppression. This should be encouraged, not discourage - regardless of what your political leanings are. What one person calls 'oppression' is another perso
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
While I agree on the BLM issue I do not see an issue in the use of the term 'SJW' given that the term does describe an actual phenomenon which is found in the Oxford dictionary. You might not agree with the interpretation - while
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I'd rephrase that as 'free software should not do any politics which goes outside of the specific issues which it was created to influence', i.e. issues around copyright law, freedom of expression and related areas. Software
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I'm writing this on a 2005 Thinkpad T42p. In the intervening years it has had its drive replaced by an SSD and an extended battery installed but that is about it. It still feels and looks newish, apart from the keyboard which show wear
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
By now this amounts to stating that Luis Vuitton doubles the price of the shiny lacquer upgrade on its entry range of handbags, i.e. more or less irrelevant since there is no direct relation between the cost and the imagined value of the ob
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
ERROR: -JPLgs3ktyo: YouTube said: This video contains content from National Geographic, who has blocked it on copyright grounds. Sorry about that.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
To a certain level this is true and important when dealing with situations where someone making the wrong decision can have dire consequences. The comparison breaks down though when the added complexity only serves to increase the amount of
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
That is one of the reasons to stop using the front page of sites like HN (and lobste.rs and other similar 'popularity-driven' sites) and access the site through the RSS feed. This way you get to see all posts, popularity be damned
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Iran_Air... Nothing, as long as you have the space to put them somewhere sensible.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
It would be... unfortunate... if the truth leads to downvotes. If it is really the case that people downvoted for that reason I would really like to know the reason why as it would indicate either a failure of their history teachers or an i
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> Somewhat off-topic, but why does the IEEE (a non-profit) have annoying ads on their site? Because you forgot to install or enable an ad blocker. I know this is not a real answer to your question but it is the best answer to the anno
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Just adjust the width of your browser window to whatever width you prefer and the text will follow. That is, after all, what a browser was supposed to do: show text. If you use Firefox you can also open the inspector and select a mobile vie
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Maybe you're missing to foresee the future step in Apple's strategy which will make it harder if not impossible to run something like Homebrew? As far as I know there is no such thing on (non-jailbroken) iOS. Apple seems be be ste
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Debian - or Devuan if you don't want systemd - can be made as spartan as you want. It boots in those mentioned few seconds on my 15yo T42p (Pentium M@1.8GHz, 2GB). Use Sid/Unstable if you want more up-to-date software with the acc
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Get a server or some hosting, load it with whatever you need - mail, web, cloudy things, media, communications etc - and use a portable terminal to access it when on the move. That portable terminal can be a phone with a browser or some fut
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
In that case you'd do both yourself and those who depend on you for your contributions a favour by taking some of that time to get acquainted with alternative platforms seeing as how Apple seems to be on a course which will make it har
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> What if using macOS enables me to be a more effective FOSS contributor? How would that work? When you build a house on rented ground the house may seem to be yours but it can always be taken away from you.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving. Nonsense, 'Linux' can be what you make it. You can have it as sleek as something straight out of the fruit factory or as spartan as a VT100 and
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
While I understand the financial motivation to settle in this way - getting these bogus patents invalidated takes a lot of lawyer time/money - reading this piece of fluff does leave a nasty aftertaste, almost as if those Rothschild Pa
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Why? Subways are found in larger cities, airports are everywhere. Live and work in the countryside, travel to holiday destinations and you're done. Also, just because there happens to be a subway doesn't mean you need to use it. T

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