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by chrissnell 6y ago
Nice work, Dan. I don't see many obvious LaTeX books and wonder why more self-publishers don't do it. The learning curve, I guess? I follow your IG and your trip looked like a lot of fun. I dream of the day when my boys will be
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by chrissnell 6y ago
Gotcha. I didn't realize LL was a big, national org when I wrote that comment. Knowing this now, my guess is that this form was created at the behest of some big law firm they retained to do this kind of stuff and that these attorney
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by chrissnell 6y ago
This is not Little League people, this is the lawyer they retained to spec this thing out.
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by chrissnell 6y ago
Don't always assume bad intent with these sports leagues. I helped my son's tackle football league out with various organizational and website tasks because they didn't have anybody on the board that understood it well. So
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by chrissnell 6y ago
Sure, draw it along established legal lines, but stay away from silencing things that you simply disagree with.
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We should tolerate all speech. That doesn't mean you can't scream and call it hate speech, but do so from your own platform.
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by chrissnell 6y ago
^ this I remember telnet-based installers back in the early 1990s that used the pipe-to-sh truck along with shar archives to install things like IRC clients onto your workstation.
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by chrissnell 6y ago
Social media is about to take the same trajectory that MP3s once did. Just as we saw the evolution of Napster and IRC trading, the RIAA takedowns, the rise of BitTorrent, and the eventual emergence of streaming services, I believe we will
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by chrissnell 6y ago
I didn't do any auto-responders. Frankly, email is kind of dead for p2p comms with friends so there's not many people to inform. Most difficult part I've encountered was getting my dad, who is old, on board. He keeps email
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by chrissnell 6y ago
I must say, I concur with this person’s assessment of the Goog-exit feeling. I ditched GMail for Fastmail and my own domain last week. I had been putting this off for years because it seemed like such a massive pain in the ass and I was a
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by chrissnell 6y ago
That's a short-sighted statement. On a personal level, I completely agree with you. Facebook is a giant waste of time for the typical user and a big +1 for your life if you ditch it. For many business, however, it's critical.
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by chrissnell 6y ago
No doubt that's true on the level of the average user like you and me. What we see for prominent conservatives, however, feels very unfair to me. Perhaps prominent members of other groups are targeted similarly--it wouldn't surp
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by chrissnell 6y ago
You clearly never read much about Parler before any of this happened. The founders are most certainly not rioters. They're libertarians who wanted to found a pro-free-speech Twitter. Just because you disagree with someone doesn'
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by chrissnell 6y ago
These platforms absolutely do ban or demonetize people for these reasons. Dennis Prager's video on the Ten Commandments was demonetized and the reason given? "It contains the word 'kill'. Dangerous for children."
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by chrissnell 6y ago
I remember the hate that closed-source Winmodem got back in the 90s but software-defined modems can be far superior to hardware. Case in point: direwolf. I think it decodes APRS better than any hardware solution. https://github.
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by chrissnell 6y ago
Not sure what media you watch but before I went to bed, I watched Portland livestreams of very violent "protests". These went on every night for weeks and I watched people throw Molotov cocktails and shoot mortars at law enforcem
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by chrissnell 6y ago
What makes you think they can't attract talent? There are plenty of libertarians in tech that would be willing to work with them, including this SRE right here. I think they had other issues. Perhaps they were just out of their leag
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by chrissnell 6y ago
Almost none of my conservative friends used Parler. It really was a ghost town until Twitter banned President Trump and many signed up, hoping they could read posts from him there, but he was never on Parler. As for the surge in encrypted
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The mob has been coming for law enforcement and federal buildings in many major cities in America for nine months now. This mob actively organized on Twitter and other social media. Where was the outrage in June? Most of the organization
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There was a time when the tech community fought ferociously against corporations and government attempts to censor and silence ideas. In its early years, Slashdot was ardently libertarian, as were most of the engineers I worked with. Can
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A police officer friend with 20 years of crowd control experience told me that the preparations looked criminally negligent. I believe that this was done on purpose with full knowledge that these events were likely to occur. If crowd cont
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by chrissnell 6y ago
Does bupstash support archiving to AWS S3? That's what I love about restic. I can backup my files to cheap cloud storage and I don't have to maintain any offsite server or storage for this to work.
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He had signing keys for the Instagram app and the *.instagram.com keypair. Do you think that's not valuable and dangerous?
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Wow. Incredible story and far better than the WIRED clickbait drivel that this HN post links to. Thanks for sharing this.
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by chrissnell 6y ago
I loved the song video in this post and it’s inspired me to try a little of this. Is there a good software solution for this? (Bonus points for Linux support)
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Was she marginalized? She ran a team at Google. How many of us can claim that?
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I looked at Timestream at my previous job and my research left me thinking, "Who uses this thing?". Expensive but most annoying of all, the only Grafana plugin was in private paid beta. It looks like they've finally open-sou
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The road is Lockhart Basin Road, well-known among Utah off-roaders. I've been there, and also camped on one of the fingers of Hatch Point, directly above the monolith. I took this one on the point overlooking the monolith: https:&#x
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I always love and respect dedication to complete a quest that most people would call “pointless”.
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Building an off-grid log cabin from scratch(youtube.com)
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