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by colinsane 2y ago
it's believed he committed suicide after losing his employment -- and lots of other things -- on account of being gay. strictly speaking it wasn't the military , but a different part of the security apparatus.
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by colinsane 2y ago
how far along are they into correlating different datasets and de-anonymizing? say i buy everything in cash: prepaid SIM, a cellphone without my name in the purchase history, not running anything i didn't compile from source (NixOS on
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by colinsane 2y ago
i'm fascinated by this because a lot of my involvement in open source is a pretty direct reaction against state actors like NSA who undermine my privacy. and if i wanted to i could point out that the military took other things away
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by colinsane 2y ago
hey you know i think cops aren't all bad, but when they knock on my door i still don't invite them in. Anduril exists to protect the order. same as cops, only focused externally instead of domestically. but in a global project w
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by colinsane 2y ago
> Nix is a software project, not a social movement. everyone loves to assert that Nix is this or that. whatever label you fight to place it under, it's a product of some thousands of people. whatever it actually is, it's underp
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by colinsane 2y ago
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
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by colinsane 2y ago
please, don't. whatever this announcement changes, we don't need the paparazzi.
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by colinsane 2y ago
i'm typing my reply on a Linux mobile phone (NixOS + SXMO). it's true i don't run p2p stuff on the phone, but most utilities like 'transmission-remote' and NFS mounts, cryptocurrency wallets etc work OOTB such that
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by colinsane 2y ago
a patent is a legal restriction affecting what others are allowed to produce. a person/group hit by such a restriction may elect to not produce the (innovative) thing they otherwise would have. so that's the viewpoint in which pat
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by colinsane 3y ago
i'm drawn to FOSS by my values, and David really is out there living his values . we have a number of people in this space who strive for that same ideal -- and i appreciate them all -- but it really is too easy to get bogged down in
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by colinsane 3y ago
my comment allows for the NSA to be involved in this and for the FBI to not be investigating them.
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by colinsane 3y ago
not only that, but logins show up in logs.
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by colinsane 3y ago
sure. what makes you think they aren't?
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by colinsane 3y ago
how many people in PRISM had such clearance? and how many of them would i trust? precisely zero.
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by colinsane 3y ago
the breadth of human experience is such that i could live a million lives and still be wanting. but a single, infinitely long life? that boils down to whether you're leaving open some chance for my infinite suffering (e.g. some debilit
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by colinsane 3y ago
i've been writing C++ half my life, C a couple years less, stopped using them daily 4 years ago, but i've shipped enough projects with them to be "experienced". exactly one of those projects use CMake (an open source
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by colinsane 3y ago
i don't think the build system is overkill. but it's the same phenomenon as docker: if you grew up with it then it's easy to use and solves all your problems easily and you've probably forgotten that it was ever difficul
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by colinsane 3y ago
if the situation is really "nobody will run this software unless i pay them to", then you're doomed regardless. there's nothing wrong with the classic route: package your software for the stores/distros you're
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by colinsane 3y ago
- Granular privilege controls - Tight cgroups integration both static and dynamic highlighting these in particular because of notable regressions in the systemd 254 -> 255 release. i think there's the perception that &quot
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by colinsane 3y ago
would love to see tighter collaboration between pmOS and sxmo maintainers on this one. sxmo is sort of a pmOS-exclusive right now because it does all its own service management. seems like a great opportunity while pmOS is rethinking its se
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by colinsane 3y ago
do you know of any projects using [anything like] git-bug? i know i've encountered something like this once in a notable repo. thought it was graphics related, like mesa or something, but looks like they're using GitLab.
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by colinsane 3y ago
this is what i thought too, since it's just a settlement between Tropic Haze and Nintendo rather than a more broad ruling. but somebody linked this settlement elsewhere here and it adds up to distribution of the Yuzu code likely bein
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by colinsane 3y ago
more people need to just read the "history" section of Nintendo's Wikipedia page. because that "ages ago" is 140 years ago, when the company was founded, by being the only {morally,legally} bankrupt enough people wi
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by colinsane 3y ago
assuming you aren't a defendant in the above case, then the only ruling which would affect someone who wants to do this is (4): > Developing or distributing software, including Yuzu, that in its ordinary course functions only when c
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by colinsane 3y ago
OpenStreetMaps x SuperTuxKart has got to be one of my favorite hidden niches: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SuperTuxKart
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by colinsane 3y ago
huh, it does look like the content in my feed is delayed by about a week. that feed has tags like `<media:content url=" https://www.youtube.com/v/2dQ4-VNaG3s?version=3 " ...>`. that URL, like you said, is
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by colinsane 3y ago
i'll corroborate GP. it's happened when i tried enrolling in WA's Apple Health and then 3 days in a row got a call from the same number who left no message; finally i made sure to be near my phone the fourth day and got to it
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by colinsane 3y ago
same, but now a lot of callers whom i would like to speak with -- e.g. my insurance company -- just hang up before greeting me (because they think my phone's broken?). but then if i screen everyone via voicemail instead, a different (b
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by colinsane 3y ago
maybe. i'm fairly certain they artificially restrict the bandwidth for consumers of the feed already, maybe as an incentive to get you to use the app instead. at which point, who's actually using those RSS feeds except for the sup
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by colinsane 3y ago
not to mention that unless the podcast has an official site, a Google search for the feed will turn up 10 different mirrors of the feed, without any clarity about which one's the canonical source. in the past i've subscribed to a

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