callalex

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by callalex 3y ago
If only the laborers could organize in order to perform such an election to determine their collective actions.
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by callalex 3y ago
I wouldn’t call that luck. It is backed by a ton of hard work and huge quantities of systemic violence.
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by callalex 3y ago
People told me the same thing about self driving cars 10 years ago.
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by callalex 3y ago
Then why is Apple keeping the money instead of refunding it?
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by callalex 3y ago
Isn’t moving to Chile choosing a better government? It seems like this developer did exactly what you are asking for, but racism is clouding your judgment.
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by callalex 3y ago
Those are the two primary things I use my phone for.
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by callalex 3y ago
That’s not paranoia, it’s bog standard traffic shaping that ISPs have been doing since the 90’s or even earlier.
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by callalex 3y ago
Yes, feature creep has happened in a really big way because there is an obvious profit incentive to Google if every last bit of computing happens in-browser. Glossing over the thorny topics like “my browser shouldn’t care what hardware I ru
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by callalex 3y ago
For the same reason you buy nicer toilet paper for your home than the stuff you find at a truck stop: it’s not a significant portion of their expenses.
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by callalex 3y ago
We could have that same level of data protection for everything, not just medical devices. There’s no fundamental reason not to.
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by callalex 3y ago
That’s still entirely independent of what the school’s mainframes run on.
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by callalex 3y ago
Cars aren’t fully autonomous, and LLMs still lie all the time, so I don’t understand your math.
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by callalex 3y ago
The latest Apple Watch models do this and it’s so much nicer.
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by callalex 3y ago
In the United States, internet connectivity is insufficient for uncompressed video footage.
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by callalex 3y ago
You’re really not helping the “sports fans are combative thugs” stereotype by going off on an insult tirade over an innocent word.
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by callalex 3y ago
Until relatively recently, the population of the USA considered running a country as a religious ethno-state to be a bad thing.
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by callalex 3y ago
That stretches the definition of silent. On MacOS you need command line utilities or third party software to observe throttling, but on Windows this information is easily viewable in the performance tab of the task manager, and Linux expose
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by callalex 3y ago
By that logic, illicit food and drugs wouldn’t have a problem of being cut with fillers. A tragedy of the commons doesn’t really reign in the behavior of criminal organizations.
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by callalex 3y ago
Contrary to popular expectation, almost none of Mozilla’s cash is spent on Firefox or anything Firefox related. Do not donate to Mozilla Foundation. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
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by callalex 3y ago
How would you interpret what he said, then?
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by callalex 3y ago
How far into this timeline of promises do you get before coming to the realization that nobody is this stupid, so the only other option left is lying for profit? https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
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by callalex 3y ago
It wasn’t just the death of Google Reader. It was also the death of the creator and top promoter of RSS who was unjustly killed by the copyright mafia. RIP Aaron Schwartz.
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by callalex 3y ago
It’s probably because most laptops are designed by North Americans, and cellular data is extremely expensive in North America.
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by callalex 3y ago
That work was all done around 2015 or so. MacOS has had the concept of a Metered Connection for many years now. The first party software all behaves as you would expect, and there are APIs that expose the information to third party software
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by callalex 3y ago
I will unveil your insinuation. They currently get a pass on the “trust us, everything is end-to-end encrypted” without providing open access/verifiable toolchains. They are large and high profile enough that the public can trust that
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by callalex 3y ago
It’s worth noting that the machines we call computers weren’t built to replace secretaries, they were built to replace…computers. That word used to refer to actual human beans with pencils and slide rules.
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by callalex 3y ago
I’m baffled by this. What is offensive about pointing out that an international for-profit seeks more profit?
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by callalex 3y ago
This kind of technical debt in lawmaking is a huge scourge on the USA. Even if you agree with the policy stances of the Republican Party having a completely dysfunctional and incapable legislature has a huge impact on our everyday lives. At
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by callalex 3y ago
Blame the War on Drugs and our asinine DEA with drug scheduling that is completely decoupled from science and reality. Never vote Republican, they just enjoy torturing the sick.
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by callalex 3y ago
This has caused so many extremes in my life that I know actively avoid stimulant medications even though they objectively improve my quality of life. I wish excruciating agony upon the DEA and anyone who supports the current schedule system

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