bigbubba

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by bigbubba 6y ago
A while ago, maybe about a year ago, after upgrading Debian I discovered that I was no longer able to connect to my 5GHz wifi network, but could connect to 2.4GHz networks. Switching from NM to wicd fixed the problem. Same kernel, same wi
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Have GNOME devs yet acknowledged that XFCE exists? In one now infamous exchange with Transmission developers a GNOME dev claimed that he didn't even know what XFCE was and, furthermore, that cross platform applications like Transmiss
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> The [compositor] I use is fast. [...] I've been happy with a wlroots based one (Wayfire) for a few months wlroots performed very poorly on my i5-3427U with 4000 series iGPU. Very poorly. I ended up using neither X nor Waylan
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'm under the impression that nobody but Russian state media claims that election was legitimate.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The GPT approach must be very poor; with only a fraction of that information you can train a human to perform better than any GPT model shown thus far. When you look at power burned doing it, the gap is even wider. Obviously our wetware is
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The sensation of self determination is the entire point of democracy though. We don't use democracy because we think masses of people are particularly wise; we use these systems because they feel more fair than the alternatives and th
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I suppose you meant that election forecasters don't claim election forecasting is a science, not 'no one.' I don't mean to quibble, this meaning was not at all clear in your original comment, nor did I expect that meani
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by bigbubba 6y ago
What do you think the citizenry of Crimea did wrong?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
To the point though, if somebody told you that Bills Burger Bin had great burgers and you responded with "How would you know? Where are all the burgers you've made?" , that would make you a jackass.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Some of your sibling comments seem to suggest otherwise.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Sounds more like gambling than science; you're making a one in six bet that you can dupe me. More seriously, I would not accept your claim with evidence as weak as that. Roll the dice a few more times and then I'll credit your c
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Better to be optimistic and try than to surrender to the hornets immediately.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I don't know much about tuna, but I once cleaned a bass with my swiss army knife. Anyway, I don't really expect Pandoc to do everything, but when you have both Calibre and Pandoc in your toolbox, it sure feels like you could manag
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Calibre (`ebook-convert`) makes a decent attempt at converting PDFs to other formats. This of course is very far from perfect, but it takes a good stab at it and I've sometimes found the results to be usable (often with some manual
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's what I know and it's never let me down. It powers other software I like, particularly mpv. I have very little experience with gstreamer and don't presently see a need to learn it when ffmpeg already has my needs filled
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You don't need to be a chef to give your opinion on food.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It looks like they did it in the middle of some farmer's field. I don't think any trees were uprooted for this.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.) They probably won't... but maybe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Pandoc is great but I think it falls a bit short of being a Swiss army knife; there are a lot of conversions it cannot do, like PDF-to-anything. Thankfully Calibre's 'ebook-convert' tool covers many of pandoc's blindspo
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by bigbubba 6y ago
They're selling a toy for the wealthy but know that market is limited so they arrange for stunts like this to convince people that it's good for something other than impressing Jeff Bezos' friends at parties.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Google refusing to use AGPL software actually makes the license more appealing. The way AGPL wards off corporations like google is almost as though it has a 'do no evil' clause.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yet. Facebook not having a track record of suing jailbreakers might have something to do with facebook hardly having much history of making anything that would warrant jailbreaking.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Secure boot and clean room? I figured they were thrown by 'plebiscite'.. I don't somebody will have much luck understanding a conversation on a technical discussion site about the war on general computing without knowing con
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Sounds like there's nothing unconscious about it, at least in the case you described.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Biased in favor of empowering individuals, rather than making them serfs under corporate landlords? What's wrong with such a bias?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
How would the UN giving people asylum work? AFAIK the only territories administered by the UN are in Syria, Kosovo and Cyprus. I don't think they'd send asylum seekers there..
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I assume 'your part of the world' is America. I can flip somebody the bird for obeying the speed limit and nobody calls cops with guns to stop me from being a shithead. I think it's generally true that people are more wil
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The very premise of copyright itself then.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> The only way to attack it effectively now is to get transparent [...] I think you're right. Looney theories flourish when authorities are perceived to lack credibility. It's little wonder that politicians of any persuasio
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think there is a snowball effect; the more bad cops there are, the more good cops quit. A terrible feedback cycle. Unfortunately I think some police reform/abolition activists have decided to accelerate this feedback loop under th

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