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Why Basic Is Still Relevant(basic256.org)
1 points by cowtools 4y ago|1 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's irrelevant because the purpose of BASIC is to teach principles of computer programming, not to be a useful language in itself: https://basic256.org/2019/06/27/why-another-basic/
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Windows meets them all the way. Not having to deal with LSB, Glibc, different distros, etc. Windows doesn't do shit besides stand there. >Why does every pro-Linux statement devolve into an anti-Windows statement the moment it me
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Today Wine/Proton have come leaps and bounds and Linux still ends up excluded from some of the largest gaming titles out there. It is due to anti-cheat. Whose fault is that? The developers refuse to support linux even if we meet th
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by cowtools 4y ago
I used to disagree with this browser-as-OS mentality, but seeing as it's sandboxed and supports webGL, wasm, WebRTC, etc. I find it pretty convienient (if I'm forced to run zoom for example, I can just keep it in the browser). Jus
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by cowtools 4y ago
It can be automated. And if it can't, there are armies of people in the third world who can "automate" it for you, like solving capchas. Also It's not a $100 loan. The insinuation is that it'a $100 dollars that you
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by cowtools 4y ago
That can be easily faked. Seems susceptible to sybil attacks.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I'm pretty sure interacting with storage directly (not through the filesystem) should require admin rights.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I would think that the browser plugin + daemon is the most common implementation.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think it comes down to the marketplace. The Apple/Google "app store" allows that model to work, and the consumers don't seem to mind. It is basically the flash games that were popular years ago, but now with immediate
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by cowtools 4y ago
I suppose it makes sense if the NFT is used as a fundraising method for a Free/Open source game, but the mentality that games should respect each other's NFTs is a bit in-congruent with that. There's this idea of the "me
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by cowtools 4y ago
money-laundering is obviously a consequence of any technology that enhances the privacy of financial transctions. You might as well say that any technology should be thrown out if somewhere, somehow, hypothetical bad guys could use it. Bu
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by cowtools 4y ago
There are other cryptocurrencies that use ring signatures or zero-knowlege-proofs to obscure sender history without the need for centralized mixing services.
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by cowtools 4y ago
private to whom? ridiculous statement.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Monero and Zcash are legal.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Truly. It is infuriating dealing with the phone number rigamarole. Why does X company require me to use a certain phone number/IPv4 address/2FA? It doesn't improve security, it does not protect against sybil attacks. The reas
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by cowtools 4y ago
They have the "intel atom" brand for low-power CPUs
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think the idea is that it (or some future incarnation of it) eventually replaces most static web hosting, FTP, Bittorrent, and quite a bit of dynamic web hosting. Oh, and maybe messaging stuff like IRC. Sounds like a big piece to chew, bu
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by cowtools 4y ago
I would classify BitTorrent, GNUtella and other filesharing networks as p2p
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't buy this idea that average people can't manage a keypair. Humans already manage secrets in the form of passwords, it's not that much different. In the worst-case scenario in which users defer to some weak/central
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by cowtools 4y ago
I've read somewhere that humans are of the few (only?) mammals with permanant breasts. So that might suggest that breasts are something of a sex symbol and that there is some precedent to having women cover up their breasts. At least i
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by cowtools 4y ago
What prevents you from just using your own browser with your own parental safety controls, and then sand-boxing the user from installing other apps?
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't think that's a responsible attitude to have. "You dont want your kid to be a social outcast", sure, but sometimes you have to lay down the law. That starts with setting an example yourself. If you're always
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by cowtools 4y ago
It could be a difference in kind, not merely a difference in degree. Besides, who is to say that TV did not have negative effects?
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think Linux is still much better than MacOS in terms of design and usability, but that doesn't really mean much when operating systems compete on compatibility with programs (which themselves compete on compatibility with operating s
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by cowtools 4y ago
Isn't it ironic that the most expensive android phones (samsungs) are the ones that come with the most crapware installed?
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by cowtools 4y ago
This drama and unprofessionalism really undermines my trust in grapheneOS leadership. I think I will eventually move to calyxOS.
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by cowtools 4y ago
What you are suggesting is that all societal problems are "people problems". So we should just give up trying long-term solutions and just engage in partisan politics all the time. You are making the perfect the enemy of the good.
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's not a complete illusion. Cash transactions can't just be shut down with a push of a button- although it might not seem like much, it's a significant hurdle for authoritarianism. Yeah, all systems are fallible. But system
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by cowtools 4y ago
GrapheneOS only supports the google "pixel" line of phones (probably because they support the bootloader-locking by user, and ship with most stock android/AOSP support): https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-de

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