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by canadaduane 3y ago
I wonder if it's the difference between "this asteroid" and "all asteroids". As we learn more about it, we can start to treat it like a process that has repeated, but initially we can't be sure if it's lik
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by canadaduane 3y ago
I wrote something a couple of years back about online identity that I think still stands true today: https://medium.com/@canadaduane/the-vastness-of-online-ident... - identity is who you are (relationships, memories, s
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by canadaduane 3y ago
It's kind of vague about how these malware work. Are they keylogging (recording keystrokes as you type the password)?
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by canadaduane 3y ago
This article includes interesting stats at first but the self-promotion midway through just makes it feel like a formulaic Medium article, and I lose trust in the author from that moment on: "At that point, the company called me to hel
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by canadaduane 3y ago
"Using Zod to Build Structured ChatGPT Queries"[1] is a pattern I found useful. This doesn't seem too different. [1] https://medium.com/@canadaduane/using-zod-to-build-structure...
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by canadaduane 3y ago
Was this a case of enshittification, per Cory Doctorow, or something else? [1] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
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by canadaduane 3y ago
This seems unbalanced. You're right, but also overlook the superior quality that good mods bring.
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by canadaduane 3y ago
You might like https://lobste.rs
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by canadaduane 3y ago
"Hacker" as a term has and seems to continue to hold a dual meaning--the penetration testing, blackhat / whitehat, OSINT meaning, OR the creative software engineer, clever maker, resource-constrained artful solver-of-problems
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by canadaduane 3y ago
Educated people can still have faith in the good, and be surprised at failings. I was intrigued that the famous Jewish theologian and civil rights activist Abraham Joshua Heschel included surprise as a kind of virtue: "I have one talen
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by canadaduane 3y ago
I can't stand how laptopmag.com hijacks the back button to show you more articles that you must certainly want to read, aside from the one you came for.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Eating more fruits and vegetables, breathing, and stretching doesn't sound like so much of a downside risk. Hope has many lives.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Forgive me if I'm incorrect, but doesn't a user space implementation mean it does not understand to reset momentum between window focus events? So if I scroll like crazy in app1 then Alt-Tab to app2, scrolling carries to app2?
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Elk is pretty good. My vmst.io provider offers either the Mastodon software or the Elk software as optional "frontend"s to the Fediverse.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
How do you go about creating the future you wish for? By teaching faith, righteousness, agency, and responsibility? Or by force of law and violence? If the former, you need to reach out to "those murderers" in a way they will unde
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I used to think Linux users were ideological, but now I just think they are long-term thinkers, preserving and contributing to both the culture and the code that will enable freedom of choice, and create software whose goals are well-aligne
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Every university older than 100 years that I can think of evolved from a religious school at some point in its history.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
You can be excited about an idea or cause independent of its substantiation. I'd argue that fandom is actually really healthy and needed--sometimes our intuition about a concept, coupled with our excitement (even fanaticism!) is the en
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Richard Brown, who's been working on this problem for 10 years at Suse, says he was wrong in 2017. Flatpak is now the clear way to go, if you care about security, app updates, licensing, and multi-distro support (runtime dependencies).
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Ask HN: Explore NPM Packages by Similarity?
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by canadaduane 4y ago
This is an awesome point, and one I think geeks need to hear often: We act based on our emotions even if they are well-hidden beneath logical explanations. Perhaps the "answer" to the lady who was abused as a child is to tell anot
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by canadaduane 4y ago
It isn't logic, and I think that's the point--it's an appeal to emotion, and if you pit logic vs emotion, emotion will almost always win in the broader culture. (A few oddball cultures like ycombinator and lesswrong etc. asid
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Automatically installing whatever missing thing that you type as a command sounds like a terrible idea. Am I missing something?
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I laughed a bit when you wrote "1v1" because it made me think of a video game where you're matched with a suitably leveled enemy player. (I don't know how others pronounce "1:1" but I pronounce it "1 on 1&
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by canadaduane 4y ago
It sounds like the "sluggish ssh connection" may have played a role here--imagine pressing ":X" like you think you should, but nothing happens, so you press enter a few times to see if the console is responsive.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I'm curious if you run docker containers via systemd units? Or are you suggesting no docker?
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by canadaduane 4y ago
The difficulties arise when trust is single dimensional and the problems are multidimensional. If you trust someone professionally, but not personally, and there are personal conflicts or misunderstandings, you have no where to go.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Gnome (Linux) equivalent: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5072/one-thing/
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by canadaduane 4y ago
> It shouldn't be up to these users anyway, a bank can and should insist on MFA. What kind of MFA?
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by canadaduane 4y ago
It's a great almost-specific prediction! Followers of ancient prophets would be proud. It's the kind of thing that has a 1% chance of being accurate--it sounds very specific because it mentions France, but has ample wiggle room: -

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