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by alex7734 3y ago
> risk of [...] or societal collapse If you want society to collapse all you need to do is succeed in having AI automate all jobs. Every single country where money comes from somewhere other than people (oil, diamonds...) is an authorita
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by alex7734 3y ago
I don't think it's deliberate if that's what you implying, but there is a definite lack of care about not breaking the ecosystem (for lack of a better word) that harms the whole "Linux in the desktop" ideal. Which i
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by alex7734 3y ago
https://killedbygoogle.com
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by alex7734 3y ago
Linux came pretty close to being usable for the general public (not gamers) 13-14 years ago. Then Gnome 3 happened and broke everything, then Wayland happened and broke everything again. As much as Linus tries to keep a stable platform, the
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by alex7734 3y ago
Why don't companies instead of doing this simply say "if you have more than X employees you can only pick the enterprise tier"? Is it illegal or something? I mean you could of course lie when signing up but if a company is ri
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by alex7734 4y ago
> My view is that "high quality" is largely an illusion. And you start changing your view of it as you get older. I disagree. I'd argue your view of it is changing because you can't find high quality stuff anymore, bu
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by alex7734 4y ago
> I’ve got a take: I think the current gap in the market for a lot of product areas is “more expensive but high quality.” Misleading, dishonest marketing and bribed reviewers make it impossible for a consumer to know that a high quality
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by alex7734 4y ago
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#flex-baselines first/last main-axis baseline set When the inline axis of the flex container matches its main axis, its baselines are determined as follows:
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by alex7734 4y ago
> ("But you can always download from the official App Store!" you may say. But what if, say, Tik Tok announces they will from now on leave the App Store and available only via direct download?) Personal freedom always has perso
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by alex7734 4y ago
The problem is that loyalty is one of those words that is so emotionally charged that doesn't really mean anything concrete anymore. If you define loyalty as ignoring short term potential self-interest by leaving/betraying/no
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by alex7734 4y ago
Not hetzner but a similar provider: - Deploy by stopping the server, rsyncing in the changes, and starting the server. The whole thing is automated by script and takes 5 seconds which is acceptable for us. - Run apt upgrade manual
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by alex7734 4y ago
You need to take a screenshot, save it, crop it and then resave over the same file. I mean it's bad, but... who does that? EDIT: It also happens if you take a completely different screenshot and just save over (overwrite) another (bigg
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by alex7734 4y ago
This is what I use to avoid the pain of submodules: [alias] box = !cd ${GIT_PREFIX:-.} && git config --get remote.origin.url > .gitboxinfo && git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD >> .gitboxinfo && git r
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by alex7734 4y ago
Some of the MariaDB 10.1 versions trivially corrupted themselves by just loading them up with writes a bit, no crashes or power issues involved. One of the 10.6 versions had (has?) a bug where a connection sometimes simply does not die ever
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by alex7734 4y ago
Sadly TeamViewer is the only thing that works on old Android Point-of-Sale devices which are still numerous. And since Android requires the manufacturer signature to do screen sharing on older versions and those manufacturers are either dea
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by alex7734 4y ago
Could I ask what model is it? I've read the newer models aren't as good but don't really know for sure
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by alex7734 4y ago
That sounds like a complete nightmare. At least in a web page I can at least look away from the ad.
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by alex7734 4y ago
While I don't know about his particular device, newer Samsung devices tend to permanently disable features (like the camera in the Fold devices) when you root them.
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by alex7734 4y ago
In addition to what has already been said in the other comments, devs have an incentive to push cloud tech against the interest of their employers so they can put the experience in their resume, since cloud tech is seen as more specialized
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by alex7734 4y ago
> The price of protecting these people from those that would take advantage of them is developers having to download a different version of the browser in order to develop their extensions. So what stops these people from downloading a d
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by alex7734 4y ago
Personally I disagree that the reason is economics. I think the reason is cultural, and it is not just software, the disease infects almost everything. In the old days you had cheap junk products just like now, but if you spent more you cou
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by alex7734 4y ago
Bypassing "security" when you as the owner of the device want to is the whole point of root.
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by alex7734 4y ago
Not just standard practice, it's mandatory, for consumer facing prices you will get shut down if you don't include tax in it (and detail how much of it is tax in the receipt)
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by alex7734 4y ago
Sorry but stopping thieves/malware is not worth the economic damage that manufacturer repair monopoly brings to the consumer. You can make your phone 100% safe by turning it off and encasing it in concrete but having to pull out the pn
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by alex7734 4y ago
Every non-PC device nowadays has artificial limitations.
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by alex7734 4y ago
> you can’t load whatever you please, either. Well you should be able to. If the customer is powerless to stop it we're going to see cars and fridges playing ads at full volume very soon.
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by alex7734 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/BcIkvRq.png They may not need to.
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by alex7734 4y ago
> A dumb machine that emits one word at a time with no concept of meaning Yup, after trying it, it may not have "true" intelligence whatever that means but it's not mindlessly dumb either. For example, you can tell it to w
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by alex7734 4y ago
If I copy paste your prompt and then ask it to explain itself it goes on a long spiel over how it's incapable of moral judgements and his answer of yes was only based on the information available. If, however, you change the original p
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by alex7734 4y ago
The potential for this thing to be used for social media manipulation is terrifying: https://i.imgur.com/dGzZRTb.png

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