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by chii 1y ago
> the quality of the medium degrades. not necessarily. There's room to have the mass market make breakthroughs in laymen software for linux if there's sufficient demand. And having the mass market lowest common denominator does
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by chii 1y ago
These people somehow imagine that they (as taxpayers perhaps) are going to pay the cost one way or another. Not to mention there's a tinge of jealousy over the level of VC money involved - they imagine these people do not "deserve
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by chii 1y ago
> foreign intelligence services gave them a button push so it's not a direct cyber war on Russia meanwhile, russian intelligence services have already directly attacked nato countries, with barely any real deniability.
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by chii 1y ago
> it's covered by my local legislature which might not be a good thing in some jurisdictions - see the porn block in the UK (it's done via dns iirc, and trivially bypassed with a third party dns like cloudflare's).
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by chii 1y ago
it is true that iphones itself isn't a monopoly (yet), but i reckon consumer protection should extend to the ability to install arbitrary software on a device they purchased, regardless of the intent of the company selling the device.
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by chii 1y ago
> uBlock origin on iOS that is the fault of apple. Firefox on iOS is not really firefox.
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by chii 1y ago
> How can either of us ever say whether or not I spent that specific $100 on dinner? there's no such thing as a specific $100. The donation of the $100 was contingent on you not having $100 for dinner. If it turns out you _did_ have
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by chii 1y ago
> and you learned nothing in the process. why do you presume the person wanted to learn something, rather than to get the work done asap? May be they're not interested in learning, or may be they have something more important to do,
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There's a startup making botnets using Chrome extensions? [video](youtube.com)
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by chii 1y ago
> You also have people who outsource themselves. That’s one of the ways that the people who work multiple jobs pull it off. that's not a scam - that's the new work smarter, not harder method of earning money.
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by chii 1y ago
> what would stop them from both taking my money and selling user data? nothing. It's why i think browser (and other platform software, such as OS, or telephony/mobile platforms) should be FOSS funded by taxes, and "regula
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by chii 1y ago
> use Linux except that for a majority of users, windows is where their applications are at - such as gaming, word processing, or some other thing. Sure there are replacements (somewhat) for each of those categories, but they are not dir
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by chii 1y ago
If this is the case, you have to then think about why this pilot would want suicide but also murder all aboard the plane. It's a bit irrational if they wanted to just suicide - you can easily just cut your own throat, hang yourself, or
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by chii 1y ago
Whenever a measure is instroduced in law to austensibly "protect the children", it's just merely an appeal to emotion and in fact, is not meant to do what is being advertised. It certainly is meant to increase the power of la
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by chii 1y ago
> And with fewer competitors, it’s easier and easier for entrenched so the problem isn't with profit after all, it's with low competition? So what is causing the lack of competition in the sector? Why can't that problem be
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by chii 1y ago
not natively, but because haxe compiles into C++, you can setup a wasm pipeline from that (presumably). Probably not something commonly done so there's no premade tooling for it. Edit: it seems someone has setup a hello world example o
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by chii 1y ago
it's good for apps that don't have _that_ much platform specific parts, but have lots of application logic. Such as games. It's an OK language for backend server - esp. if you also have a frontend client in the same language
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by chii 1y ago
using the examples listed as being needed (like swing and flex), it would seem that they meant a visual components library that has "everything" needed for an app. The "DOM" in this case is referring to the basic element
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by chii 1y ago
> are discredited as "state sponsored news" or worse and who's doing that discrediting? That's also a source.
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by chii 1y ago
and that's why you don't listen to only a single source of news. Find multiple, ideally both geographic as well as political alignment. Learn to discern what is a fact, and what is opinion presented as fact, and learn to read crit
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by chii 1y ago
> The big problem is that developers/researchers lose control if these developers/researchers are being paid by someone else, why should that same someone else be giving up the control that they paid for? If these developers&#x
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by chii 1y ago
> I wonder how long until that won't be the case... when there's no more alternative word processors any more.
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by chii 1y ago
and you reinforce it every time you accept the price. So you have to vote with your wallet. If you can't, or won't, then it just proves that their pricing algorithm has found "your" price, and so you don't get to ke
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by chii 1y ago
> require more setup to secure docker is not secure. It has no "real" security boundry, and any malicious actor could have you run a docker image that is just as malware as an executable. Like locks on doors, it just keeps out
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by chii 1y ago
The game would only be legal to sell if they have the plan ahead of time before the game is on the market.
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by chii 1y ago
the joke is a joke, and is meant to illustrate a point. However, i think it's actually illustrating a different point than the intended one. The fact is, those economists valued watching someone eating shit at $100 dollars. How is that
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by chii 1y ago
china wants the EU to stop funding ukraine, and let russia win the war on their own - this is the most advantageous outcome to china: russia loses military strength doing the fighting, but not enough to collapse, and thus becoming more reli
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by chii 1y ago
> I wouldn't walk into when wandering through the internet it's interesting that some people are on the internet but is very well insulated! AO3 is very well known for me...
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by chii 1y ago
> taxing individuals directly begets the familiar resentment but on the other hand, taxing individuals means those individuals should have some say over what taxation gets spent on (in theory), where as an authoritarian regime can simply
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by chii 1y ago
> And laws generally should be enforced. what about the law where people get due process, right to an appeal, and adequate legal representation?

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