Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 6y ago
No, nothing special, its thing was that it ran on off the shelf PC-hardware which made it cheap to deploy.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
It was a way to run Unix (with a large U) on inexpensive hardware so it could be used for POS terminals and similar applications. This enabled it to capture markets where the workstation and server Unix manufacturers simply were too expensi
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
That's a strange way of looking at things in the age of Tinder. In other words, you do not need to live in the city in order to be in the city every now and then. Those who have found out they can enjoy the positive aspects of citi
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Once upon a previous century I tested a laptop with a built-in printer for an article I wrote for a magazine. Paper was fed through a slit underneath the keyboard, ink was dribbled on it from a microscopically small ink cartridge and in onl
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Now, onto my list: 1. Search - Searx (self-hosted) meta-search engine https://searx.github.io/searx/ 2. Browser - Firefox Let's keep the web open, don't support the rendering engine monocultu
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Yes, it can be solved with community actions: the community can start using something like PeerTube to distribute their content instead of relying on centralised behemoths like Youtube. The value of Youtube lies in the content which its use
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
It works if you use smaller fonts and rotate the thing into landscape mode.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Clearly those elephants took up all the space, leaving nothing over for anything else.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> It's a legitimate life skill. ...this month, maybe this year, until the next fad hits the 'net and all those influency types need to adapt or exit.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I wonder this about a large majority of corporate lawyers who somehow seem like members of a parasitic species which has found a host which they can exploit for resources by inducing changes in their behaviour, comparable to the way the Tox
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Paper ballots solve the most important problem: they can be counted by hand in case of disputes, without having a single computer at hand. That is the essence of the problem, that is what separates systems with voter-certified paper trails
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
You reason why you think the book is not worth reading, which is fine with me. Reasoning why other people should not read the book is fine as well. As far as I'm concerned you're free to picket in front of the book store with a si
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
You can not find a reasonable explanation of why those who deem Shrier's book unworthy of existence because those who voice such opinions do not believe in dialogue or dialectic. They are the victim of a group hysteria which claims w
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
This trend is one of the reasons why I do not shy away from voicing unpopular opinions, on this site and elsewhere. In the Netherlands there is a monument [1] at a location where the Germans executed members of the resistance. The monument
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> I disagree with pretty much every statement you've made here. As long as you do not want to make it impossible for me to say these things I'm fine with that. > Extremist views on one side do not "balance" extremi
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> what are some problematic "unhinged" popular left wing places? which major politicians back them? Start with anything related to BLM (notice the capitals, I'm talking about the organisation, not the fact of skin tone not
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> This is the opposite of your proposed ideal. No, it is the result of the current media not willing to move away from their standpoint and as such in need of something on "the other side" to create the balance. In an ideal sit
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Hold it on the unhinged right-wing media hyperbole here, you're just adding fuel to the fire. First off there is plenty of $adjective left-wing media to go around so it doesn't make sense to specifically target right-wing me
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I'm building a stable and veterinary practice building for my wife (who is a horse vet), 22x10 m, 2 floors. She wants several types of lighting in the stable part which should be switchable from several locations. Switching a light sou
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
You often can, give it a try. You can install the needed Google app and see if it works. You can use Termux Widget [1] to add enable/disable links for apps so you can keep them around in a disabled state, to be enabled and disabled on
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Don't rely on vendors to help you out of this conundrum, instead use what you have at your disposal to escape the duopoly. Get a supported Android device - there are hundreds of those by now - and install an AOSP-derived distribution l
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Well, you're using the wrong distributions then. Use something stodgy but solid like stable Debian or a recent but not bleeding edge version of Mint and you should not have all too many things on your shit list. It won't be empty
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
That is why a smart attacker would not make them go down, instead they'd degrade performance to such an extent that it'd cripple Apple-encumbered products.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
You can read my response like you read the original article. In my post I state why the premise of the original article is false. What else do you read in my post?
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
I have a number of them, strewn around the house, connected to USB DACs which are hooked up to the server. On that server I run mpd which is controlled through either ncmpc in a terminal session, MALP on mobile. The server also runs Airsoni
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
> What do you mean? That paragraph is already close to reality in some places in Europe, where public transport is ticket-less and free and the government provides housing and food at no cost to those who need it. Who needs free housing?
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Get you off my farm and leave me to sit in my rocking chair at 55, you young'un. Pfah, youth these days, when we was young we had to stream our bits over barbed wire fences through thunderstorms and solar flares, both ways. Oh, by the
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
The core of Google is its advertising business, search is but one of the ways they feed that beast.
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
If your father has somewhat fast, always-on internet you just build him a personal streamer box using a single-board computer (RPi etc) and an external drive. Put something like Airsonic on it and he can listen to his music, netcasts, audio
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by Yetanfou 6y ago
Slashdot did this - and possibly still does, no idea since I left that site aeons ago - although the limit was lower than 140 characters. It led to people adding random nonsense to their comments to keep the comment filter satisfied. Since

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