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by bogwog 3y ago
Idk, it probably has some value. But my point was that it's going to be difficult to prevent your real identity from becoming attached to your DNA forever. The moment your real (DNA, identity) pair leaks from a credible source, your pr
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by bogwog 3y ago
You can at least change your name. You can't change your DNA, so when companies start selling that data it will be easy to detect when you give out fake information. The only missing piece is a way to scan your DNA as part of a login f
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by bogwog 3y ago
Pretty much. Google Play services runs as like a root process that can (among other things) bypass all the security checks that the OS usually has. That includes those annoying update confirmation dialogs which make it impossible to install
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by bogwog 3y ago
It's the only thing that keeps intellectual property in check. Without the option, publishers just have a legal monopoly. When piracy increases, it means consumers are unhappy.
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by bogwog 3y ago
Are you all on drugs? This is the company that published a poll speculating on the death of a missing woman. The one that asks you to explain yourself when you try to close OneDrive, and ignores/resets your browser preferences while al
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by bogwog 3y ago
> Sundar's comments in the main video seem like he's trying to communicate "we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies) were little babies" - to me this comes off kind of badly Reminds me of the
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by bogwog 3y ago
Steam DRM is actually optional for devs, and even if it isn't, it's (allegedly) very easy to get around. If you download your games onto a new PC, you may be able to just copy the files over to the old one and launch them directly
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by bogwog 3y ago
It's pretty much inevitable. I am a big fan of Valve, but fully support anything that reduces their stranglehold on PC gaming. If Epic supported Linux with their store, I'd go to it first when buying games. But even if I buy a gam
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by bogwog 3y ago
This seems like it won't last, but it's AWESOME and I really hope you survive Apple's inevitable attempts to kill this. A universal chat application would be amazing, and will maybe help bring attention to the value of standa
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by bogwog 3y ago
Because Microsoft has a document monopoly via their shitty proprietary format that they make sure no competitor can effectively import/edit. And Google is just shitty as usual, but they're a giant free default. I wonder if with al
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by bogwog 3y ago
Wasn't Musical.ly a Chinese company too? Wikipedia says they were headquartered in Shanghai with an office in California.
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by bogwog 3y ago
Is this question meant to be rhetorical, or are you genuinely asking? Because the answer is simple: that's how monopolies work. Monopolies don't need to compete to succeed, they just need some way to exclude competitors. All of th
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by bogwog 3y ago
I wasn't trying to say that those fees are only for payment processing. Anyways, to your point about audience: That's BS. The reason Google Play is the dominant store definitely has a lot to do with that, because nobody is going t
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by bogwog 3y ago
TikTok is an example of a successful Chinese company that is out-competing US social media giants. If they were a US company, Facebook or Google would've bought and killed them when they were an early startup. American big tech compani
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by bogwog 3y ago
Sideloading isn't a solution to this. The average user isn't going to figure out how to do that on their own (and if you disagree, then you're living in a bubble surrounded by tech nerds). There's a reason Google Play is
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by bogwog 3y ago
> Arguably Google needs to do the same work as a traditional payment processor Unarguably, they don't need to do that. They want to, because a monopoly on payment processing makes a lot of money. If 4%/15%/30%/whateve
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by bogwog 3y ago
Who needs Vue when we have React? Who needs Javascript when we have Typescript? Who needs MariaDB when we have MySQL? Who needs Docker when we have Podman? Who needs Burger King when we have McDonalds? Who needs Wish.com when we have Amazon
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by bogwog 3y ago
I don't follow OpenAI or SV news all that much. Is this guy really that critical to the company? I thought Ilya Sutskever was the genius? Is this a non-compete thing, where they're scared Altman will take company secrets to a comp
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by bogwog 3y ago
Semi-related question: Are there any real benefits to having the compositor deal with compositing your buffers as opposed to doing it yourself? Especially if you're already using hardware acceleration, passing your buffers to the syste
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by bogwog 3y ago
You're right!
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by bogwog 3y ago
~~Wasn't this created from stolen/leaked code?~~ Edit: nvm, I was thinking of the HL2 leak
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by bogwog 3y ago
This is what I dislike about OSI. It feels like their mission is specifically to provide free labor to megacorps. The FSF has (IMO) goals that have a more tangible benefit to society, and while megacorps can and do use free software without
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by bogwog 3y ago
A CLA could fix that, but that should be done early, and you need to be prepared to ignore people that try to pressure you into not doing it.
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by bogwog 3y ago
> I would have pivoted to personal pet companions. If people want virtual girlfriends then they certainly want personal dogs, cats and birds that talk to you. Then you have the same problem, only with a different (arguably worse...) feti
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by bogwog 3y ago
I'm curious, why not Sublime Text? It is better, faster, and more mature than Lapce, LiteXL, Kate, CudaText, and VSCode (although VSCode might have more extensions). Is it just because it's not free? I bought it, and it has been m
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by bogwog 3y ago
For a desktop, Fedora is likely a better choice for most people because it offers more up-to-date software. How many times have you found yourself struggling to install something on Ubuntu because the version of some dependency in your pack
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by bogwog 3y ago
* Gitlab EE (enterprise edition) is closed, but Gitlab CE (community edition) is open source ( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/ ) * I didn't follow the Gitea drama too closely, but my understanding is
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by bogwog 3y ago
It isn't the consumer's responsibility to regulate the market.
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by bogwog 3y ago
Github is pretty much the only major one that's closed afaik. Gitlab, Gitea/Forgejo, and SourceHut are all great existing alternatives that are open source. It would probably be better to volunteer your time to one of those than t
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by bogwog 3y ago
Does anyone remember SongTapper? It was the same idea, except you'd tap your spacebar instead of humming the song.

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