armagon

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by armagon 5y ago
No, I hadn't seen things that way. It is worrisome that we've lost most of our manufacturing capabilities in the West. Would make any sort of rebuilding difficult. I've just had it underscored to me recently that the world ca
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by armagon 5y ago
That actually makes a whole lot of sense -- might be the killer app; a bulletin board that works on your phone. Assuming people had enough power to charge their phones, and assuming the internet at large was unavailable, this would be brill
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by armagon 5y ago
In many post-apocalyptic stories, people are using whatever vehicles they can find for as long as they can last. The point of the question is similar -- how can you use whatever computers you can power for as long as they last? I'm not
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by armagon 5y ago
That's impressive that you actually did something. Generating power with a lawn mower? Would never have thought of that.
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by armagon 5y ago
I stumbled upon Collapse OS while googling, and it lists some related projects. http://collapseos.org
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by armagon 5y ago
Maybe power is available, internet is not, and you are running a factory -- perhaps a cannery or perhaps making textiles. Maybe the factory existed before the disaster, and there's enough demand to run it if you can, but you no longer
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Ask HN: How to keep tech running in the apocalypse?
74 points by armagon 5y ago|52 comments
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by armagon 5y ago
> any and all peaceful protesters whose rights are infringed will be receiving compensation as per the emergency act. Interesting. This is the first I've heard of that. Discussion starts in Part V / Section 46 at https:/&
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by armagon 5y ago
The truckers started protesting due to federal mandates preventing them from crossing the borders, so protesting in Ottawa makes lots of sense. They are asking the prime minister to drop the mandates or step down. I agree that it isn't
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by armagon 5y ago
To control information, and influence public opinion. For example, with the trucker protest right now, all the mainstream media outlets have been very critical of the protests, describing them as violent, racist, homophobic, and so on. Conv
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by armagon 5y ago
Canada is working on passing laws to shut down conversation online. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/02/lobby-harder-canadian-he... The government won't even tell us what the heard when the asked Canadians ab
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by armagon 5y ago
I tried once. I'd taken a couple of business courses and was trying to be a micropreneur building apps. It became clear that I didn't know how to reach people, and that going back to a day job was going to be a much better support
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by armagon 5y ago
That's intriguing. On the other hand, I'm amazed that 5% of the population voted for the People's Party of Canada -- a party which had no hope of winning. This absolutely split the vote on the right enough to make the CPC los
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by armagon 5y ago
> 5:05 p.m. > Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he has invoked the Emergencies Act as a “last resort” to bolster the police response to convoy demonstrators and to “bring the situation fully under control.” I really feel like there w
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by armagon 5y ago
So many rules have been dubious and nonsensical. I don't recall the specifics, but it seems like at one time in Alberta you could get together with 20 people, but you could only have ten people get together for a funeral. The point of
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by armagon 5y ago
The conservative party forced a vote today to drop the mandates by the end of the month. It failed 151 to 185, with MPs voting along party lines (Conservatives and Bloc Québécois in favour; Liberals, NDP, and Green opposed) with a couple of
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by armagon 5y ago
Presumably she goes to school in-person but everyone is wearing a mask.
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by armagon 5y ago
It seems pretty clear to me that the protests have everything to do with the vaccine mandates. Why should only people who are fired be allowed to protest? Most of the truckers are vaccinated, but they are protesting for the right of those w
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by armagon 5y ago
https://angusreid.org/omicron-incidence-restrictions/ - scroll down to "Part Four: What now? Majority want restrictions to end"; 54% of Canadians want the mandates to end. OTOH, this poll https://a
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by armagon 5y ago
> > Canada has some of the harshest (and most ridiculous) covid measures in the world > And we have some of the lowest death rates in the world. Should we just condemn the vulnerable people to death because freedom is more importan
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by armagon 5y ago
Having been following the movement from supporters Facebook groups, you are seeing it much as they are seeing it. The government sees it differently, but it seems hard to me to call this a "fringe minority ... who are holding unaccepta
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by armagon 5y ago
I've heard reports of tens of thousands of trucks. It's a shame the highway cameras were turned off. I see claimed that the Ontario Provincial Police say there are 100k to 130k trucks, but I can't see anything official to bac
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by armagon 5y ago
There's a message going around that one strategy to turn the public against the convoy is as follows, as leaked by a whistleblower: - a police riot control horse (named after Terry Fox, no less), being led across a street, will be
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by armagon 5y ago
Word is that the traffic cameras have recently been turned off.
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Ask HN: Detailed, realtime satellite imagery, to verify convoy length?
14 points by armagon 5y ago|8 comments
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by armagon 5y ago
Not just numbers, but numbers we can trust. I've been really impressed with how much data my province (Alberta) has made available, but now, I'm wondering. They recently had "technical difficulties", and the numbers chan
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by armagon 5y ago
I think the defence is the market speaking. I'm not going to regularly use a browser that I can't do ad-blocking in (or, indeed, other extensions), and I'm not going to recommend it to other people. The browsers technically-m
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The Great Disruption on Social Media Platforms(newsweek.com)
2 points by armagon 5y ago|0 comments
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by armagon 5y ago
Hi Marcus. It would be nice to have some idea going in for what the requirements are. - I have to admit, I don't understand why I can't preview the 3D experiences right on my computer. - Likewise, when I try the QR code on my iPho
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by armagon 5y ago
Give it a go -- the nice thing about fixing something broken is that if your fix doesn't work, you are no worse off than you were before, and if it does work, tada! the thing is fixed.

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