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by boogies 6y ago
How can you tell if the battery is dead in a phone that you don’t control? Take a heat gun to it to melt the glue, disassemble, and test the battery with a multimeter?
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by boogies 6y ago
The bottom of the page you linked shows ten articles, six of which praise DeepL as better than the competition and four which praise it without comparison. The least positive is probably Wired ’s: “WIRED's quick test shows that DeepL&
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by boogies 6y ago
Which search engine? DuckDuckGo had a useful result right at the top https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ken+Thompson+attacks > https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1848... (although the an
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by boogies 6y ago
> and all they'd see is encrypted garbage, unless they have encryption keys, if the messages are end-to-end encrypted. Yep, and they would have the encryption keys, for most channels, if the channels are to remain public, no?
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by boogies 6y ago
Translate at least seems to have some people ignorant of the alternatives convinced that they have a clearly better product — “no competitors that even come close in terms of quality” when they objectively don’t. https://news.yco
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by boogies 6y ago
Have you seen https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/ ? It has eg. “Calls & Texting: (via dmenu scripts/mmcli) Compose texts in $EDITOR / vim-like editor, read texts in $PAGER, make calls (and audio-route) via dmenu
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by boogies 6y ago
Doesn’t GNOME at least have a setting to change alt-tab to window- instead of app-based?
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by boogies 6y ago
Those are weird (presumably auto-generated) apples to oranges comparison. BigBlueButton is just a powerful education-focused web-conferencing system that Learning Management Sytems like Canvas offer native integration with. It’s just like G
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by boogies 6y ago
> you have to deploy yourself, monitor, scale That’s flatly false. Please don’t spread FUD. Your ignorance of better solutions is not proof they don’t exist. You can go to https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/gl/signup , c
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by boogies 6y ago
Where I live in the US I certainly see teachers using cobbled-together limited proprietary solutions were there is simple superior Free software . Eg. pasting their Zoom links at the top of the Google Classroom stream every day or letting t
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by boogies 6y ago
This seems to be the idea behind Vim registration: “You can become a registered Vim user by sending at least 10 euro. This works similar [read: basically identically] to sponsoring Vim (see above). Registration was made possible for the sit
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by boogies 6y ago
> cobbling free software together to create something someone at a school will buy IDK what you’re talking about, 30% of higher education already runs Canvas (and it claims to be the fastest growing LMS) as one example (and it’s compet
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by boogies 6y ago
> on a tiny Linux netbook using OpenOffice / LibreOffice that cost me a fraction of what everyone else was using (emphasis added) I read it as referring to the hardware. Linux runs inside many SD cards and can run on a ~$3 busines
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by boogies 6y ago
They do something somewhat along those lines https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-cases.html#content https://www.gnu.org/education/successful-resistance-against-... . But I think the FSF would rather
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by boogies 6y ago
I have the privilege of participating in a religious education program using Canvas, and simultaneously the misfortune of using Google Classroom for secular school. For two years my church class was taught by a single elderly volunteer, who
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by boogies 6y ago
The FSF recently created a petition to promote free software in schools: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/sign-this-petition-for-f...
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by boogies 6y ago
Particularly the Ritchie and Kernighan books where they dog-fooded roff etc.
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by boogies 6y ago
Please do provide a more recent survey of comparable experts if it’s possible.
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by boogies 6y ago
Could you indent your Lisp by four spaces for formatting? (Like this)
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by boogies 6y ago
> Tsunamis, by themselves, don't contaminate ocean-water with radioactive material to a density high enough to create a 10-km no-fish-zone OK, fair enough, I think it may be a good idea not to build nuclear reactors in potential dir
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by boogies 6y ago
Like nuclear. Why the heck would you care about soda fizz and not about the 2.9 billion wind and solar deaths contributing to the 29% loss of the entire country’s birds? (Or the endangered species being killed, or the human deaths?) https:
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by boogies 6y ago
A future Macbook will likely be too locked down for anyone but the most dedicated hacker to run anything but Darwin on.
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by boogies 6y ago
Calling everything that uses the Linux kernel Linux is like calling macOS, iPadOS, and iOS Darwin, Darwin, and Darwin. Sadly the Linux Foundation is a massive collective of cloud corporations (headed by a macOS using executive director) tha
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by boogies 6y ago
Again, as of the last millenium at the latest. Chernobyl was last millenium. Fukushima was a tsunami. There were 0 (zero) deaths from radiation there (and ironically, perhaps there were deaths from irrational fear of it — from the rushed ev
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by boogies 6y ago
Menlo Park, and apparently Google’s up to something similar in San Jose: https://levels.io/facebook-city/
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by boogies 6y ago
> But a ton of the "clean" power isn't clean. Emphasis on a ton — not all. Nuclear basically is. And as of this millennium at the latest it’s been safe. The nuclear deaths in the US add up to a grand total of 0 (zero). T
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by boogies 6y ago
No, they choose their location, and some tech companies provide transportation. Facebook is even building their own employee housing.
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by boogies 6y ago
You’re saying the alternative is doubling the entire world’s coal consumption? First, we’re talking about one company ’s energy (and cooling). Second, what about nuclear, etc? Your argument is a straw man.
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by boogies 6y ago
But at what cost? Alphabet pressures local governments to let them drain aquifers to cool their machines¹, and powers them using vast swaths of bulldozed former habitats of endangered desert tortoises and focused beams of light that literal
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by boogies 6y ago
My pleasure! Minetest is a free (libre) similar game, but very mod-centric, with mods loadable from servers without installing them (as easy as Roblox) and (also like Roblox) written in Lua, may be a fun intro to programming if they’re keen

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