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by __jal 9y ago
You need to either ensure you control the resources you depend on, or plan for outages. At my gig, we use GH Enterprise (on-prem) as well as some smaller plain-vanilla git repos (mainly for CM and other critical services). Any third-party c
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by __jal 9y ago
Who's copyright?
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by __jal 9y ago
Call me Dr. Strangelove, then. I usually browse with JS off, enabling it on occasion. And there are some whitelisted sites. I used to play around with filtering sites to make them less antisocial, but find that slog less entertaining these
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by __jal 9y ago
Not just the media. A lot of current U.S. politicians apparently believe their best path to power is endless fear mongering. And it works pretty well.
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by __jal 9y ago
Or just turn off Javascript. Makes lots of sites better.
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Well, no. Or at least, when I say "a Ruby implementation", I mean it is implemented in Ruby, not callable from Ruby. When I refer to a Python C extension, I refer to it as a C implementation, even though the express purpose is to
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by __jal 9y ago
> SNAP is a subsidy for every industry that sells products that people on SNAP might purchase You're missing my point. SNAP is a direct subsidy to Walmart not because they sell food, but because many of their workers cannot live whe
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by __jal 9y ago
You are attempting to recast the question to looking at median subsistence-rates worldwide. The Walmart workers we are discussing work in communities in the U.S. Certainly, some folks in the world survive on $1/day. That doesn't w
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by __jal 9y ago
> I don't know Go well, but it seems really limited. That was my experience, too. Vaguely interesting in a couple of ways, but definitely a bondage and discipline language and nowhere near compelling enough to make me want to put up
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by __jal 9y ago
Well, no. If they could, they wouldn't be receiving assistance. Walmart has turned, e.g., food assistance programs into a subsidy for themselves.
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by __jal 9y ago
My solution is much easier. I block all known FB IPs via provisioning rules on my phone, and never have to see (or pay for) any of that crap.
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by __jal 9y ago
I did exactly the same thing, only I never visit. (I block FB at the router, along with other surveillance shops.) The net is so much nicer when you block out the evil.
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...Which is reason #387 I don't use FB.
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And I'd agree with you - I also consider corporate surveillance as routinely practiced to be malevolent.
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> has derailed discussion of the actual article Unlike complaining about what people choose to talk about, which has a long track record of success.
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by __jal 9y ago
If you're using my cycles, bandwidth, memory, power, etc. without my permission, it is malware. This is not really that different than the spam "debate" - I've heard people argue that spam is no big deal because the bulk
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by __jal 9y ago
That one has always annoyed me a bit, too. I think it is partly to sugar-coat the mechanisms for humans. "Adaption" sounds much nicer when one thinks of adapting to a hotter climate or a smaller paycheck than what actually happens
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by __jal 9y ago
What are your reservations about a B-corp? Nonprofit legal status is hardly a guarantee of anything about corporate behaviour, aside from what paperwork they fill out. To be clear, I'm actually curious about it, especially because Bs a
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by __jal 9y ago
> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting? For me, there isn't one, and enough negatives to FB that I don't use it. I have no trouble connecting to people I care about via the many, many other m
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by __jal 9y ago
> That assumes that all facebook ad traffic starts with a DNS request for *.facebook.com This is true, which is why you need a better list. Like one of these: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (There are lots of
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by __jal 9y ago
> Do you foresee medicare failing? I see a non-zero chance that it won't be there when I reach retirement age in ~20 years. These days, the US political climate is looking far friendlier to those who want to destroy wealth transfers
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by __jal 9y ago
I'd assumed win10 was already doing some of this. My one VM that runs it is still not getting network access. Doesn't need it, and I don't trust it. But good to know, thanks.
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by __jal 9y ago
If MS, for whatever reason, bricked an entire country during wartime, the war would likely be over before most folks could figure out Bittorrent.
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by __jal 9y ago
On the other hand, I find myself suffering from "icon blindness" sometimes - it is usually after working for some time, but at some point, I just don't process them very well. Command-tab window switching (MacOS), for instanc
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by __jal 9y ago
Yep. They wanted to keep the lie of democracy alive because it makes the proles feel empowered.
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I still have the T-Shirt.
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An interest in human well-being makes no sense without an interest the environment in which humans live.
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> Doesn't Uber have a responsibility to protect itself and its drivers from fake riders looking to do harm even if they're government employees?? When the "harm" is enforcing the law (issuing tickets for illegal behav
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by __jal 9y ago
It is worth noting how we got here: - Someone said having multiple options for a phone dialer is a wonderful thing. - Someone else pointed out that the article isn't about a choice, the dialer was forced on the user. - The parent asks
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by __jal 9y ago
Looking over my call log, I have five incoming from humans I wanted to hear from over the last seven days. I have 27 from random numbers/places that I know from experience are scams. This is a US number. If you find your life lacking o

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