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   by barbs 5y ago

   That does sound fascinating! Any particular posts you would recommend?
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   by barbs 5y ago

   I'm not sure what you mean, drug possession is still criminalized? Has been for years, and drug use still happens, it just creates conditions which increase crime and unsafe use. Unless, do you mean that the laws aren't enforced e
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   by barbs 5y ago

   Thanks for saying this, and I agree with you - lots of people making uninformed statements as fact. Drug Addiction is terrible, but stigmatizing drugs, labelling the user as a "druggie" or "junkie", and calling for tough
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   by barbs 5y ago

   If anyone wants to read a really good book that puts the War On Drugs and addiction in perspective, I highly recommend Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari. Very well written, well-referenced and involves interviews with all sorts of people -
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   by barbs 5y ago

   > I can have compassion and ask them to do their part. That actually solves the problem. Have you actually done this, and did it solve the problem?
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   by barbs 5y ago

   The fact that it's criminalized causes those sorts of marginalized camps and cartels to form in the first place. Even if they were cleared out, they would simply move elsewhere.
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   by barbs 5y ago

   I agree with that. I still use Facebook and Youtube, but I disable the News Feed and YouTube recommendations/home page using browser plugins.
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   by barbs 5y ago

   > if your life is so empty you have nothing to do but browse facebook, sure it's hard to quit, but it's not because of the strength of the addiction, it's because of the weakness of the alternative. "Weakness of the a
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   by barbs 5y ago

   This is a good video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww Although it relies on a particular interpretation of the left side of the equation, it's used in some areas of physics.
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    by barbs 5y ago

    I find myself a little bit happy that it's down. I use Facebook quite often, but mostly because everyone else I know uses it. If everyone is forced to find an alternative, that'd be fine by me.
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    by barbs 5y ago

    > it is bad form for a person driving to move too quickly. If you are not explaining your thoughts and are moving so fast that your navigator can’t follow along you are no longer pair programming and have lost all benefit. That would mak
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    by barbs 5y ago

    There was an old flash animation that did a similar thing with a Japanese rap using English words https://youtu.be/VCOEh_Dnkeg
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    by barbs 5y ago

    I agree as well. Those two use-cases for using Facebook don't seem to apply to me. Here's what I use it for: - Local community groups - I have a few groups localised for my suburb and surrounds, specifically "good karma"
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    by barbs 5y ago

    I imagine that's implied by the decentralisation. How could you possibly implement censorship, given its design?
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    by barbs 5y ago

    I once found a Casio F-91W at an opshop but then lost it at a festival. Didn't realise it had such a following online. I then bought a DW-5600E on special, it's great. Hoping to hold onto it for a bit longer!
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    by barbs 5y ago

    I remember in the dial-up days finding a website with a live feed of a train set in some faraway part of the way. You could choose a train to make a circuit of the track by clicking a button. The delay was something like 10 seconds but it w
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    by barbs 5y ago

    Out of curiosity, what have you changed in your fork of Firefox?
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    by barbs 5y ago

    I had a sony xperia pro for a while, but performance was clagging no matter what custom Android build I used. I do miss hardware qwerty keyboards
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    by barbs 5y ago

    How does this compare with Empty Epsilon? https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/
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    Exposing fraud and deception in the retro video game market [video](youtube.com)

    4 points by barbs 5y ago|0 comments
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    by barbs 5y ago

    I'm pretty sure Jitsi allows for screen-sharing a particular application so I'm curious to know how that works. Might check the source later.
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    by barbs 5y ago

    It looks like version 1.0 was released a couple of months ago so it's possible the campaign is complete now?
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    How to Host Your Own Jitsi Meet Server(geekinsta.com)

    2 points by barbs 5y ago|0 comments
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    by barbs 5y ago

    Are you suggesting we somehow make our existing gasoline-powered cars electric? I'm not very up-to-date so I didn't think that was possible. Unless you just mean replacing them with electric ones?
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    by barbs 5y ago

    Related: The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed By Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902728 Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902728
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    by barbs 5y ago

    Awesome idea. I love the idea of giving some love to old hardware. Obviously your experience will vary depending on what you're using it for, but I'm interested to see what experiences people will share. I predict people will find
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    by barbs 5y ago

    Out of curiosity, which meds did you try?
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    by barbs 5y ago

    Cute, fun and simple. Reminds me of simple anonymous chat rooms back in the day.
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    by barbs 5y ago

    LGR did a pretty good review/retrospective on that recently: https://youtu.be/38VEBOseAzM
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    by barbs 5y ago

    Facebook. Aside from all the obvious privacy problems, the product itself is also ridiculously bloated for what it is.