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by cheph 6y ago
If you are only for free speech if you find the speech tolerable, then you don't understand the concept or you are not for free speech. Similarly, If you only support democracy if people vote the way you want, then you do not understan
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by cheph 6y ago
TL;DR: Centralization is a danger to democracy because we can more effectively silence people if we have decentralization. Too bad the deplatforming did not stop the insurrection at the US Capitol. But I'm sure if you just do it harder
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by cheph 6y ago
> How “old” is a single-celled organism? Good question, I looked around a bit for this, it seems the life of a single celled organism is taken to be from division to the next division, but really this is a bit odd, because nothing died t
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by cheph 6y ago
What western nation is actively engaged in genocide? To be sure though, the CCP appreciates every bit of whataboutism they can get. They are also of the position that the west is worse than them, and that their genocide is entirely justifie
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by cheph 6y ago
My complaint is exclusively with the title, not the article, which I don't think supports the claim in the title.
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by cheph 6y ago
> (A jab at searches for extraterrestrial life that maintain oxygen as a key criteria) I am not aware of any searches that have oxygen as a necessary condition for life and I doubt they exist. It is not even considered a very good biosig
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by cheph 6y ago
I am not sure by what criteria you can say these are billion year old living organisms. If you meant they have been around that long, sure, they have, but a stromatolite is not a living organism by most (if not all?) definitions. It is a la
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by cheph 6y ago
Gatsby is probbably the worst static site generator that exists and I am not really sure what it brings to the table other than incredibly slow build times, pointless use of graphql (which falls apart quite quickly) and an over complicated
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by cheph 6y ago
The downpour app does all of this. Of course it only works for downpour books, but if you get another good app you can download the MP3s and use them in there also.
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by cheph 6y ago
Thanks for this, https://www.audiobooksnow.com/ also looks like a good option for DRM free audiobooks. I think people should definitely vote with their wallets here as there are alternatives. I can find almost everything I
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by cheph 6y ago
This comes with an app that you can use which is quite nice and can do bookmarks and has a sleep timer. I use bookmobile on iPhone also, but it is not very good.
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Downpour: DRM Free Audiobooks(downpour.com)
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by cheph 6y ago
I don't use it that often, but last I tried switching to it this was also one of my biggest problems, it was simply using too much resources when it was literally doing nothing, where chrome, doing much more, used much less CPU power.
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by cheph 6y ago
> I've been using Brave. I like it because it's not Google, but cannot comment on what's under the hood. It is just as much Google as Vivaldi is google because both uses Chromium.
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by cheph 6y ago
> FF just seems to be getting slower It is a real pity, containers are awesome, one of the best new features in a browser for some time, but damn firefox is frustratingly slow.
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by cheph 6y ago
The problem is, SSPL is heavily based of GPL, using the same concepts, and inheriting similar problems. GPL does not clearly define where the boundaries of a program is, but there is a fair bit of basis in the GPL FAQ and other writings fro
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by cheph 6y ago
So if someone can write good code they cannot be malicious? Not sure we are using the same definition of trustworthy.
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by cheph 6y ago
> I'd appreciate "even more so" over of "not exactly", as this confirms the point: Unix programming means to use the C library, even plus a bit (superset). Your claim is wrong, on a factual level. "The posix
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by cheph 6y ago
Who in the article that received donations was convinced of insurrection? The article is not even alleging that any of them committed insurrection, or even entered the Capitol. > While there’s no evidence yet that Fuentes entered the Cap
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by cheph 6y ago
> The context is not government censorship. It's people censoring each other. Actually if you read the source, it clearly is about government control (i.e. control by the active interference of mankind): https://en.wikis
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by cheph 6y ago
> What should I be using instead of libc? Musl? musl is an implementation of libc. So if you are using libc, then yeah sure why not.
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by cheph 6y ago
> The posix programming interface happens to be the C library Not exactly, the POSIX API is a superset of the C standard library. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/libc.7.html > The term "libc
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by cheph 6y ago
I find it particularly annoying that it inherits almost all of the worst features of WhatsApp which people are supposedly fleeing, such as being completely centralized and tied to your phone number.
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by cheph 6y ago
For the life of me I can't see why people use this over Matrix. But if it was because you want an AppImage for the client, then here: https://appimage.github.io/element/
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by cheph 6y ago
> For instance, the fire in a crowded theatre-argument has no meaning in that reference, for it is not an opinion; whether there be fire is a fact. Okay, but how do we determine fact (i.e. positive descriptive statements about the natura
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by cheph 6y ago
There is more to life than facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact%E2%80%93value_distinction >“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance” (1978, 53). This sentence
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by cheph 6y ago
Furthermore, on some of the most important aspects of our lives, which is how we ought to live (i.e. matters pertaining to values and not facts), we do not have any way to determine the "truth", objectively. In my view "truth
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by cheph 6y ago
> So you "might not need JQuery" because you can program it yourself following the examples given, and can choose which parts of it you need and want to package with your app. You could do that for any software, not sure what y
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by cheph 6y ago
> grabbing a bullhorn in front of a crowd and encouraging them to attack people. This is not why Twitter banned Trump: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio... So not sure what
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by cheph 6y ago
> “The bakers could not refuse to supply their goods to Mr Lee because he was a gay man or supported gay marriage, but that is quite different from obliging them to supply a cake iced with a message with which they profoundly disagreed.”

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