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by barnabee 4y ago
And if that happens and a the end of it here's a parallel system or systems on the internet that look a lot like what we have today[1] but exist globally and outside the surveillance and control of governments, then crypto has to some
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by barnabee 4y ago
You can use something like https://bisq.network/
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by barnabee 4y ago
Right to privacy. Companies have never had carte blanche to create any terms they like. Many types of contractual agreement are illegal or unenforceable. Your landlord can’t just turn up and start rifling through your stuff, and the owner o
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by barnabee 4y ago
Not really. It’s unacceptable for Dropbox to know/inspect what content you’re storing, scan it for anything without you actively requesting they do so, and certainly to delete it. This behaviour and any terms of service that allow it s
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by barnabee 4y ago
The important thing is that job duties often don’t have to stay static. Especially if you are already doing a good job at what you want to be doing and keeping someone senior happy, it’s often possible and sometimes even surprisingly easy t
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by barnabee 4y ago
I found that the more I delivered and the happier I made senior people, the more I could ignore the rules and process and friction and get stuff done. Probably a year or so in I barely paid any notice to most of it. I had a huge amount of f
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by barnabee 4y ago
Let’s not do this. It is a gross vision for the future. I hate the cloud. IMO we should be working towards self hosting appliances, federated and otherwise decentralised services, and local-first applications.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Over time the number of single humans that have the power to wipe out a sizeable portion of life on Earth (which is almost certainly non-zero already) will almost certainly increase due to advances in technology and dissemination of informa
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by barnabee 4y ago
Good question. I would apply that reasoning to the information about how a gun works for sure, but IMO there is some (admittedly hard to define) amount of danger or perhaps destructive power beyond which we might or perhaps should choose as
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by barnabee 4y ago
I’d argue there is a moral imperative to create and release tools like this as free and open source software so that anyone has access to them and can choose whether to use them, rather than only sophisticated and well resourced adversari
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by barnabee 4y ago
To quote Matt Levine[1], who I think was making the same point more eloquently: > Elon Musk does not like remote work, which, you know, fine, but this strikes me as being less about remote work and more about a general culture of being o
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by barnabee 4y ago
My favourite tip for low bandwidth connections (on Zoom at least) is the “stop incoming video” option which can be enabled in settings, and then turned on individually during a call from the view menu. It stops the streaming of everyone els
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by barnabee 4y ago
By all means make them better but I wouldn’t trade off screen real estate, price, or basically anything else for a better built in webcam. I simply don’t care enough about my image quality on Zoom, and for anything more important than that
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by barnabee 4y ago
Couldn’t agree more. Infrastructure/service providers cannot be allowed to continue to control the interfaces that are used to access their services.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Agree 100%. The decision is far more about the culture leaders want to create in their organisations than about the “right” or “best” way to do things.
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by barnabee 4y ago
It’s perfectly reasonable to think both “neat design” and “fuck them” at the same time. No-one’s nice design has a right to exist nor does their business have a right to work out. Personally I’ll do what I can do make DRM fail and companies
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by barnabee 4y ago
The alternative is to treat higher learning like any other experience in life or on your CV/resume: you do it, you tell people you did it, then you either convince them that doing it imparted something useful on you or you don’t. As so
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by barnabee 4y ago
They are, kind of, not really uncollateralised, but the collateralisation is ugly and not very good and I guess “algorithmic” sounds better. I’ll try to explain. Algorithmic “stable”coins like this generally work by issuing two coins: one p
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by barnabee 4y ago
For the rare occasions I need something like this, I’m glad Fabric exists. I find Ansible to be almost unusably obtuse, it does not gel with how I think about networked systems at all.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Would be nice to support ISO8601 dates and times rather than (or in addition to) defining a similar custom format IMO
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by barnabee 4y ago
Being outside, in nature. Especially mountains or the sea. Music comes second, especially live. Both are usually improved if I’m with people I’m close to.
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by barnabee 4y ago
HTML requires a huge browser binary though, and the JS library should be cached on first visit to a page that uses it. Seems the right trade off to me to have a one off download for this use case (i.e. potentially viewing many pages on the
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by barnabee 4y ago
Everything else on a web page is rendered client side (HTML is just text…) so client side rendering makes sense to me here too.
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by barnabee 4y ago
So far. If you spend any time in the research community you’ll realise that those problems are very likely to get solved. Lightning alone probably gets us there. Its volatility and UX, as well as how negatively it is perceived currently (by
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by barnabee 4y ago
Very well said.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Totally agree It’s sad that so many people would rather avoid any form of individuality or fun than risk having to tolerate someone else’s idea of fun that they don’t like.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I bought an i7 Lenovo Thinkcentre off eBay and swapped the spinning disk out for an SSD. It’s been great and is pretty much silent. The integrated graphics is even good enough for Plex transcoding.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Yep. Even the dummy display apps etc. don’t help :(
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by barnabee 4y ago
I have a small portable 13 inch 2k monitor that due to its size needs to rub in HiDPI mode but my M1 MacBook Pro is having none of it. Incredibly frustrating because there is absolutely no good reason for this! I don’t mind if it requires “
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by barnabee 4y ago
> The vast majority of users would prefer not to have to write an entire layout and stylesheet for each site they visit I don’t think this would be a reasonable way to put user preferences ahead of website owners/designers, this see

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