__jal

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721.
by __jal 10y ago
Except it isn't all the world's music. I have literally thousands of recordings that you can't stream, because they aren't available. Now, it is quite likely that you have no interest in at least the vast bulk of those,
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by __jal 10y ago
It makes me happy that Phrack is still kicking. I stumbled over Phrack around issue 20-something, and have read every issue since then (and at least most of the earlier ones), something I can't actually say about the two magazine subsc
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by __jal 10y ago
...And? You're not answering: > To flip that around, there exist applications where battery storage isn't reasonable. Is it thus also bizarre to bring batteries? The post I was replying to called talking about hydro storage &qu
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by __jal 10y ago
Why is it bizarre? It is a dead-simple, relatively efficient storage mechanism that could potentially coexist with municipal-scale reservoir systems (thus gaining cost efficiencies). Sure, Kansas, US is not the first place one would look to
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by __jal 11y ago
Scientists paid by tax money need to be co-conspirators in formulating political messages by either self-censoring or being censored? What other categories of people working for the government should lose their speech rights (I do realize t
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by __jal 11y ago
In addition to what other folks said, a big part of the user base for OpenWrt and similar use standard hardware from the big consumer electronics firms. I can imagine someone maintaining a port for random experimental platforms (assuming th
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by __jal 11y ago
I'm very glad I don't touch web dev anymore. This piecemeal removal of features from one transport mode is exactly the sort of thing that causes clients (of the human, paying sort) to flip out when they misunderstand what is going
728.
by __jal 11y ago
I wish we lived in a world where those responsible for large crimes went to jail. > That's how the law works I think you meant that's the fairy tale "we" tell the little people.
729.
by __jal 11y ago
And dense texts describing how the act of reading that 10K necessarily involves the reader in the narrative of the document. And some business about talking to a lion, I think.
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by __jal 11y ago
This is by and large how I operate. I don't do Facebook. I use Slack at work, because I have to, but I hate RTC in general. I personally love email. It fits how I do things. I can take the time to compose carefully, it supports more th
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by __jal 11y ago
Doesn't meet all of the requirements, but the Cypherpunks-era "darknet" - PGP + Usenet - is a lot closer than a lot of current tools, particularly in terms of deniability.
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by __jal 11y ago
Traditional newspapers were losing money long before ad blockers became widely used. It is the switch to the net that is strangling them. Sure, ad blockers aren't helping, but are a response to highly annoying crap, malware, etc. being
733.
by __jal 11y ago
Basically what Dan said. Community.
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by __jal 11y ago
...And plenty of atheists who go to church. I know several, and occasionally darken the door of one myself.
735.
by __jal 11y ago
If you're the sort of person for whom cloud hosting works, that will work for you. I personally like things that run (a) when the net is off and (b) if the vendor decides they don't like me, but I accept that I'm a dinosaur.
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by __jal 11y ago
My first thought, too. The contact page and even the privacy policy is devoid of identifying information. And the faq (aside from a zero-content privacy comment) doesn't even mention malware concerns, which is a pretty weird elephant t
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by __jal 11y ago
I don't think ecologists use the word the same way you do. I'm not an ecologist; I just used to date one. But I do know that equilibrium in the ecology sense is not static at all. If I'm understanding your comment about the r
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by __jal 11y ago
Why, you get to decide. And I do. And everyone else. Just like we all chose whom to listen to. Turns out that people who study these things and understand the implications tend to be more listened to than, say, me, because I'm not an e
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by __jal 11y ago
I wonder if there's a publicity effect here. Much in the same way that police abuse has been going on forever but didn't get attention until everyone got a camera in their phone, I think bullshit "news" stories have alwa
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by __jal 11y ago
Short Headlines Omit Details, Experts Say Seven Words Found Insufficient for Expressing Nuance Headlines "Easy Targets" for Quibbling
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by __jal 11y ago
Can't find it with a quick google now, but there was a study on this. Giving people fake controls, even when they knew they were fake, reduced anxiety. Give ambulatory meat some onboard decision-making ability, and it will want to use
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by __jal 11y ago
Trolling people's word choice and similar is a game better played at Slashdot.
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by __jal 11y ago
Yep. It makes it harder to convince the rubes to die for someone else's private gain when you enslave them outright. Works much better if they're desperate due to "austerity" measures, so they choose to sign up.
744.
by __jal 11y ago
No, we're not talking about "the free press" going under. We're talking about news (and "news" and entertainment and…) sites that take money from malware pushers. Think about that. If your news source is willin
745.
by __jal 11y ago
Depends on which state we're talking about. Don't know where you are, but by European standards the policy in any U.S. state looks punitive in comparison. In California, the limit is 26 weeks.
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by __jal 11y ago
Or, you know, lots of kids can't find work that pays for shelter, food, clothes, transport, and interest on six figures. Despite being young and dumb, and told by most everyone that the only way they'd get such a job would be to,
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by __jal 11y ago
Not the case in my reality. Emacs has always been That Way. And then CERN/Mosaic happened, and browsers (being all-singing, all-dancing environments that do everything from page layout to hosting interpreters and databases, are also bi
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by __jal 11y ago
Happened to me, too. I must have lost my poker face at that point, because a couple of questions later the interviewer seemed to have noticed that I had lost interest, and asked why. That was a novel enough experience that I was honest, and
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by __jal 11y ago
Yes. It was a thing people did for a while to attempt to bootstrap PGP/GPG's web of trust, as you say, but also as a PR sort of thing. Crypto was even more black-arts then than now, and with some of the demonization due to the war
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by __jal 11y ago
I'm actually having difficulty seeing if there's a real disagreement here or if we're arguing semantics. And for the record, you are correct that, for instance, I don't ignore what was learned in code reviews; I assumed

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