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by boffinAudio 2y ago
There are literally no nations or cultures on earth that do not have this same affliction. We are all savages. To consider otherwise is to take a step into racist, prejudiced territory.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
What plans do you have for a third-party audit/review of your backend to verify the claims being made? Its one thing to use this service on the basis of encryption claims - its another thing to have to clean up the mess from a forgotte
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Sanctions cost poor people their lives. They have no effect on the wealthy other than to motivate the wealthy to route around them - which they always do . Sanctions just don't work, never have and never will, and should be treated a
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Sanctions never work, they are a crime against humanity because they only ever effect the lower classes of the target nation, and never its ruling class who are responsible for the acts being sanctioned in the first place. It is a broken ap
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I like to have some variation of ":(){ :|:& };:" in most of my metadata somewhere ..
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I remembered it the same way, except that debug pads the 0, and I didn't need the FAR bit .. But yeah, its almost muscle memory, still, even 40 years later ..
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
No it isn't. This "objective, verifiable information" is an open door to using misinformation to frame innocent people of crimes they have not committed.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I was a junior programmer on a team that built software, and managed the operations for a company with 27 offices across the continental US, with something like 2,000 different PC's deployed on the network in various locations around t
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Just wrap it up with Nuitka, shouldn't be too hard to produce a distributable .exe ..
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
You can't hide from the fact that you have to get your chips from somewhere, and those chips have to run some software, and if you are going to just copy others' software, you inherit their technical debt too - unless you invest i
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I think where you're getting confused is that you're replicating local functionality that iTerm2 offers (cmd-D for a new terminal session) versus tmux features that are important and useful when used on a remote host . Using tmux
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Consistency and permanence. There is much utility to be gained in having a terminal that you can always re-connect to, from different networks and indeed different client computer terminals, and yet still maintain your remote state on the
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Yes indeed, there were many social networks created during the age of telephony.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
The default behaviour is designed intentionally to 'degrade to the least-costly codec license' .. since the codecs available to the end user are one of the only ways that different headset/headphone manufacturers can differen
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
>Bluetooth issue Its a licensing issue. The borderlands between the headset and headphone profiles are rife with licensing land-mines - developers have flipped the table and rage-quit the issue, and this technical debt has been shippe
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
>detoxifying the social media Technology cannot detoxify social media. Only ethics can, and we humans have very little in the way of tools to maintain a solid basis of ethics, besides ourselves .
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
>The social web was blogs. The social web was mailing lists: a common meeting place for anyone to communicate near-instantly to anyone else that was also interested in the same thing. The web came along later and made it prettier. But t
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Yes, this is the exact reason I selected AzeretMono instead of B612 in the final round - the difference between (, ) and [, ] .. It is indeed an odd failing of B612 and I wonder if it is because of some context in the Airbus cockpit (for wh
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I was pretty fixed on B612, and am still a bit reluctant to change my editors, but this introduced me to Azeret Mono, which I have to admit is slightly more appealing .. will have to A/B B612/AzeretMono this week and see what my e
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
There are megalithic sites in the North American region which may have served the purpose of gravestones, but it doesn't fit the European colonial/settler narrative to identify and recognize this fact. Yet.
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
>The research is very easily findable. So, rather than resorting to ad hominem on the basis of fallacies, post the details. Lets see your sources. I speak with Ukrainian refugees every single day, as I live within hours of Ukraines bord
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I've been on the "Internet" since the mid-80's, when I was lucky to gain my very first shell account on an Internet-connected system at the electronics assembly line where I apprenticed as a junior programmer, building t
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
There is an unheard population of Ukrainians who want the war to stop and for there to be peace with their Russian cousins. It is the Western powers who are sacrificing Ukraine in order to put Western weapons systems on Russias borders. No
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Perhaps you are ignorant of what is happening in Gaza? In Somalia? In Syria? The fact that the USA murdered 5% of Iraqs population on the basis of outright lies? More than a million people murdered. You might also want to try to look a
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
What makes American closed source software safer?
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Think you might have an authoritarianism problem in your organization/group/mental-health environment? Follow the money . Where the money flows, you will find the source of your authoritarianism. And if it flows over many point
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Its quite popular in the retro-computing scene, for example, to bring these old machines into the 21st century with modern microcontrollers being used to add peripheral support. For example, the Oric-1/Atmos computers recently got a pr
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
See also, "In the Beginning Was the Command Line", which I seem to recall was also monospace presented in the good ol' days ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co... Or maybe it
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
I mean, I wasn't really joking - because yes, pictograms are images too. Isn't it the case that pretty much every device we see, is an image? I'm being 'smart-ass' about it, but I do think there is some use case w
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by boffinAudio 2y ago
Alas, the .zip file containing those fonts is no longer accessible. Along similar lines, the absolutely delightful FF Chartwell has sparkline capabilities, plus a lot, lot more to boot (and it actually predates After-the-Floods attempt by h

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