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by bowsamic 1y ago
I don’t think that free software is an unserious hyperbole, actually. (It really does exist, even though big tech wants you to think it does not). But yes of course the hardware must be free too, at least insofar as it does not impede on ou
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by bowsamic 1y ago
If you use a free operating system https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html then you have less chance of being spied on. At least you can check
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I hate to use this word but this is a huge amount of projection in response to the comment you replied to, which did not seem to make any of the points you ascribed to it.
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I’ve taken a lot of psychedelic drugs. I wouldn’t recommend them. I don’t think they are at all helpful nor necessary for a fulfilling and open life. They may have some uses for addiction treatment in clinical settings. I definitely don’t t
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Thousands of years of Buddhist practice and the enlightened teachers are still getting in sex scandals. As someone who spent years in that world, I never met anyone who seemed genuinely helped by the practice
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Wow that’s like a poster child for how non free software hurts developers
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by bowsamic 1y ago
What makes something “scientifically” a thing?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Yes, it is anthropocentric, that’s the point
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Lots of explicitly anti freedom takes here, not surprising for HN I guess
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Of course
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by bowsamic 1y ago
There are better alternatives to both of those that we should guide our children towards rather than just throwing up our hands and giving them their screens
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> Not sure what significant differences Rust brings that warrant throwing all that knowledge away and starting again This is not how learning programming languages works
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I constantly complain about this, but they’ll never let you do it, because our hobby apps have no ads
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Novelty is not the only value. Slop comes from your attitude: people like you who think that things must be new to be worth something
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by bowsamic 1y ago
If you're allowed! Apple says no
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I hate configuring things. I tried to use PyCharm and it works great until it doesn't, then it's a nightmare. For example, the ruff support is non-existent and the only plugin is broken as hell. I think at some point you just have
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by bowsamic 1y ago
It looks really horrible
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I think XFCE works for it, but yeah it seems like everyone is begging for the old Windows, SerenityOS style (or insert whatever else here) experience
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Would if I could.
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Is this a US thing? I was kinda shocked at how people use the beach there. Very loud music, driving on the beach, lots of rubbish. Never seen that in England and Germany
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by bowsamic 1y ago
How can you conclude that reality is not reasonable? That’s a straight up contradiction. If it were unreasonable you’d be unable to conclude that
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Well you don’t get to not care, that’s not allowed
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Well there are indeed tastes that might be harmful for society and should be questioned. Sometimes it is wrong to enjoy certain things
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by bowsamic 1y ago
HN is not any better. This site is full of attention grabbing mechanisms and clickbait
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Stop playing dumb
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> mostly quality educational/scientific content Probably because it wasn’t. In my experience even the stuff people consider quality on YouTube is still kinda gross engagement bait, especially things like video essays (which are an a
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Yeah a YouTube video on HyperCard made me realise that Apple just doesn’t care anymore and honestly neither do people, but I honestly think it is brainwashing. If you let people make their own apps then how do you serve them ads and take th
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Religious faith is when you forget everything and do philosophy without assumptions? News to me Yes it must be waved away, since the categories of metaphysics themselves must be discovered
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I mean that’s fine but then you can’t use a huge number of system APIs so it is actually a problem if you want to write software that uses your phones features. It is not okay just because iPhones or androids have a web browser. It’s insane
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by bowsamic 1y ago
So forget about them and start from zero, from totally empty thinking

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