aiilns

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by aiilns 4y ago
> So those who say they agree with Putin or agree that NATO forced his hand, are signing up to the same view of the status of Ukraine and therefore the Ukrainian people. I don't have to agree with Putin to say that I can understand
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by aiilns 4y ago
1) Isn't NATO a product of the cold war, meant to stand as an alliance against the USSR? A defense alliance must be, by definition, against someone, be it Russia or China. And isn't it a tool for the US (mainly) to serve their int
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by aiilns 4y ago
> Talk about missiles within range of Moscow and so on. Obviously these comments make no sense. Why doesn't it make sense? I'm not for Russia nor for NATO, but what is the purpose of the alliance if not against Russia as a remn
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by aiilns 4y ago
> most of the complaints with the newer rendering stacks are people still using FHD screen resolutions. I'd bet most people using Linux are using FHD screen resolutions. I'm one of them.
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by aiilns 4y ago
This is a bit like avoiding plastic straws for environmental reasons. It's not going to change anything. At some point, everyone who is willing to give money to avoid ads will have done so and then prices will rise and thoughts of an a
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by aiilns 4y ago
Isn't Spotify serving 320kbps .ogg files? How is YouTube better?
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by aiilns 5y ago
Yeah sorry. Most LCDs, at least up to a couple of years ago, use PWM for dimming & all OLED do AFAIK. I don't know much, to know if mini LEDs dimming in different sections mean PWM, but I suppose they might since it would be probab
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by aiilns 5y ago
Look at thinkpad x1 yoga gen 6 for matte with touch & pen input. And other non yoga thinkpads have had matte with a touchscreen.
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by aiilns 5y ago
Will this be using PWM like almost all OLED screens for dimming? I feel that the answer is probably yes and it's quite frustrating. But my wants are probably a bit different than everyone else's: ideally a touch (w/ pen input
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by aiilns 5y ago
Exactly this, I wonder why everyone is missing it. Even if politicians had a spine the far more likely thing would be Facebook withholding their propaganda services until any undesirable legislation is rolled back, not saying goodbye to hal
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by aiilns 5y ago
I like most of GNOME as well. I love how they spread out the UI and using whitespace, makes things a lot clearer and it's easier to focus your attention on the right thing. I love not having minimize, there really is no need for it. Ho
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by aiilns 5y ago
> The US thought it could play nation-builder like with Japan. The continued involvement in afghanistan was part of the ongoing "war against terror" to reduce the chance of afghanistan becoming a heaven for terrorists again. I
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by aiilns 5y ago
It'd be great if the bridge was an option for the free accounts. But maybe I'm asking too much.
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by aiilns 5y ago
Element on android (the most well known app implementing the matrix.org protocol) has problems with notifications as well. Both on android phones with google services & on google-free android with battery optimizations and such disabled
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by aiilns 5y ago
I've taken a course by Dr. Keith Devlin (professor at Standford) through coursera: _Introduction to Mathematical Thinking_, which I found quite interesting. However, I studied medicine, so perhaps it may be too basic for someone who ha
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by aiilns 5y ago
I don't much like that differences in sizing are not taken into consideration (not all fonts are equally large at a given pixel size). I have been using Fira Code extensively and also writing texts. Both in English & in Greek, both
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by aiilns 5y ago
How is _BMJ_ an "edge case"? And why should Facebook and its partners decide on what the conclusions to be drawn from this story should be? I'm sorry, but to me your attitude seems arrogant and condescending: the masses canno
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by aiilns 5y ago
What's an "anthropic" climate change denier and how is the gp being it by saying this is a subsidy to corporations? And for that matter where does the power for all the electric cars come from? It's clear that the best w
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by aiilns 5y ago
The varkappa and the varpi are just calligraphy versions of the regular letters κ & π, so I would avoid them. Also, the ς is just the form σ takes when at the end of a word, so I'd avoid that too. And I don't know why anyone w
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by aiilns 5y ago
Strange then that he made sure that developing countries would have to rely on the developed world for the vaccines by fighting against open science and sharing of know-how. https://newrepublic.com/article/162000&#x2F
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by aiilns 5y ago
Silently gathering data about a person's activities without their knowledge is antithetical to human dignity and people's freedom. It's no accident that no tracking is done in the open or asks for permission. Money is not the
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by aiilns 5y ago
From all the questionable design choices you argue about a good one. Starting in an empty space means you go to the overview to launch an app (unless you have hot-keys to launch apps which I think GNOME doesn't have configured by defau
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by aiilns 5y ago
Haha that's what I was thinking when I wrote about the knife, but it didn't fit with what I had in mind very well. I really like your comment and agree with what you've written, what I was going for (and failed to really spel
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by aiilns 5y ago
> So no, it's not a good idea to try to make everything political. This is true regardless of anyone's moral intuitions. It's an objective fact that society is better off when certain things are not politicized, especially
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by aiilns 5y ago
To me this sounds completely bizarre. Why should a software project be apolitical and without values? Tools like Tor or a web browser are not equivalent to a screwdriver or a knife. Google chrome is the way it is because Google does value m
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by aiilns 5y ago
A bit irrelevant, but I don't think you can post to Instagram from your computer, got to use the app.
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by aiilns 5y ago
I hadn't paid attention to Lunduke, was he always this off with his thinking? He completely disregards societal benefits to libre software (apart from educational advantages). Libre software's bigger impact on my life has been my
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by aiilns 5y ago
I only skimmed this now, don't have the time to read it, but a few things to keep in mind: 1. Do they take into account the underreporting in VAERS? That could mean far higher adverse effects than those reported. 2. Are there any calcu
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by aiilns 5y ago
In this case no. Even if we accept your argument - which really can only be partly true - I don't understand how the interpretation of epiousios could change. How would they derive power, establish a narrative and influence people&#x27
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by aiilns 5y ago
Individually there are of course benefits to being able to go to richer countries. On the whole though it is obvious that a free market within the EU is vastly better for the large established industries of the west. An underdeveloped count

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