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Linux Sucks 2021 [video](odysee.com)
45 points by blfr 6y ago|74 comments
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by blfr 6y ago
Companies will end up with some creative solutions - if it can not be removed it can be made hard to access. Courts usually don't like to be jerked around like that. Sure, there are always loopholes, and it's difficult to tell w
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by blfr 6y ago
The new way of interacting with videos and other media online does warrant a different term. Many people really don't watch videos, they consume content, ie. scroll or swipe through an endless stream of tweets/videos/reddit p
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by blfr 6y ago
1. Google profits (massively) from AI. Do they? Genuine question. They have some impressive achivements, like AlphaGo, but they seem to be making money mostly from the regular old keywords and search.
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by blfr 6y ago
2017 and a complete cliché by now.
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by blfr 6y ago
The US seems to be in the middle of another realignment, like in the 60s. The Democratic party is consolidating its support from the big corporations, while the Republican party is making inroads with the working class.
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by blfr 6y ago
Because a house is significantly more important than an email address. I get being extremely online but let's not be silly here. Plus that email/account is hardly even "yours" in a serious way. Anyone on the HN has a ver
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by blfr 6y ago
The real problem in your example are absolutely abusive and exploitative roaming charges, not Android or search/advertising business model. Should the phone sit quiet when you're not using it? Sure. Is £6/Mb even close to a r
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by blfr 6y ago
Wait until you hear about how some people get given free products to review them. This has been the norm in many industries back when Amazon was still selling books (and reviewers would also get them from the publisher).
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by blfr 6y ago
Paper/2D printers are largely on their way out, it's a stale industry. I doubt free/libre design can take off there. It's much like Linux. It took the cloud by storm, smartphones by default, but it came too late to make
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by blfr 6y ago
No, it isn't because it limits the damage to devices purchased from a source you can avoid. That you would want to avoid anyway. This device has complete access to your Google account, probably your photos, emails, maybe even credit ca
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by blfr 6y ago
Not on South Georgia. No one lives there.
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Extinction Rebellion enjoys either outright support or warm neutrality from most governments and corporations. Their resilience to censorship won't be really tested. This is not the situation youtube-dl will find itself in now.
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by blfr 6y ago
If platforms tighten the noose, you'll see people gravitate back towards p2p. Assuming there's something to go back to. General purpose computing has been limited by the rise of mobile. These devices are both limited by battery
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by blfr 6y ago
Will they keep providing the media like that once the threat from piracy is gone? Even right now most video platforms only offer the lowest quality to people on platforms free from DRM. I can easily get a 4k h265 video packed in mkv to play
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by blfr 6y ago
Yes, this is one of the surprising things about human intelligence, most intellectual/cognitive abilities are positively correlated. Hence the g factor.
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by blfr 6y ago
It's pretty funny that among the discoveries made in the field of psychology IQ is one of the strongest and most maligned at the same time. Meanwhile unreproducible junk is receiving accolades.
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On the downside, they will also happily include bizarre requirements and censor content.
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why does Facebook want me to have a single friends list, under my real name? To make their graph more legible. Basically, seeing like a state but for corporations.
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by blfr 6y ago
there's nothing quite like owning your own data Sure, but I already have servers and terabytes of storage. Also, I don't want to keep a server/NAS at home. I want it sitting on a big, fat pipe in some DC with professionals
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by blfr 6y ago
Is there something like this but self-hosted? Data encrypted on the client with a good client for Android (and maybe Linux), simple sharing feature for selected items. Free/Libre Google Photos, basically.
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by blfr 6y ago
I was looking at my resume feeling real fresh today They rewrite history, I don't believe in yesterday https://genius.com/Kanye-west-gorgeous-lyrics
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by blfr 6y ago
YouTuber was arrested and convicted in Britain for teaching his dog to do a nazi salute. It's not a ten year sentence for 13-year old but still a very real legal sanction. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime&#x2F
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by blfr 6y ago
You know that psychiatric studies often belong next to fairy tales but want to use a "rational, scientific approach" over thousands of years of evolved tradition. How much better is sociology or management science than psychiatry?
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That's only true if the person making your food charges similar rates as you do. Usually not the case on HN.
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by blfr 6y ago
Knowing how to cook has done nothing to dampen my enthusiasm for going out or ordering in. In fact, sometimes I order the very things I cook to see how a pro makes them. The trend propelling eating out is atomization. It simply isn't t
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The real innovation largely stopped soon after your dad came to the US (although it probably wasn't his fault!) and in the time of massive, society-changing levels of immigration, not seen since the 1920s. The model of immigrants causi
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While we don't do it individually, we have regulators who (are supposed to) control the money creation by banks. Just like we have semi-independent election boards that (again, are supposed to) verify the balances.
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People got what they voted for. The alternative here is some political cabal subverting the results. Your disagreement is with democracy itself, not a particular style of voting.
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Public transport and an umbrella should comfortably get you to a friend's house on a weekend in rain. What's the point of living in a city otherwise.

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