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by cowtools 4y ago
Even as a moderate-libertarian myself, it is not really surprising that a lot of free-software users and contributors are communists. RMS himself seems to be pretty left-leaning. It is encouraging that most free-software users/contribu
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by cowtools 4y ago
I am somewhat hopeful for what Guix might mean for their "Shepard" init system and (specifically GPL) microkernels like HURD. The guile package management system isn't to interesting in my opinion: we already have distros lik
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by cowtools 4y ago
I agree. Gentoo ought to have better binpkgs support. Alpine is a nice alternative, albeit it doesn't have USE flags.
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by cowtools 4y ago
There are non-systemd linux distros like alpine and gentoo. With elogind and such, you can run gnome and such without systemd.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think it will be implemented by proton/wine first
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by cowtools 4y ago
I mean it's not like most consumer hardware has to be on the latest nodes. The current hardware is more than enough for any consumer applications I can think of. Maybe just need to reuse more hardware. Standardize and commodify replace
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by cowtools 4y ago
Interesting, but why use this over peertube?
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by cowtools 4y ago
It doesn't matter to me whether or not they only use the advertising data internally. Google is such a large monopoly at this point that I am basically forced to deal with them on a daily basis through the businesses and institutions I
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by cowtools 4y ago
I mean, they are legally obligated to. At least they are not selling my data to advertisers or arbitrarily locking me out of my account like google. Hell, i'd pay for their premium service if wasn't so expensive and they accepted
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't know, you could just use a simpler (non-js) browser over torsocks
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I don't know if it will necessarily cause crypto prices to crash
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That's odd. I got the calendar app off of f-droid and it works just fine for me.
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by cowtools 4y ago
It doesn't seem reasonable to me. In this usage it is normalizing drug use. When you use this terminology, you're implicitly saying "They're a person and they just so happen to be addicted to drugs" as if that dru
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by cowtools 4y ago
As a thought experiment, how do you know that bits within a byte are ordered big endian? does it have to do with the result of casting a unsigned char[4] to an unsigned int or something? I forget. Because if it's just that the name &qu
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by cowtools 4y ago
You can make a program to convert it to some human-readable number then. You have to do this because it's binary anyways, so you're either representing it as octal, hexadecimal or binary. I don't know about you, but if I am t
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by cowtools 4y ago
I can't seem to find this option in firefox, perhaps it refers to the feature in Tor browser that restricts the window size to a few most common resolutions.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I've also encountered problems with getImageData(). I just want to be able to blit a sprite sheet for god's sake. It would be tolerable if there were a couple pre-defined functions that could handle blitting, compositing and other
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by cowtools 4y ago
To be fair, HN discussions are prone to sybil attacks, of which cryptocurrencies are not.
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by cowtools 4y ago
That's true, but I think the wisdom of tech-inclined people will eventually reach the general public. See the rise (and fall) of OnePlus, which was once praised for making a good stock android phone.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Within this context, "root access" is "root" in the sense that it refers to whatever the highest level of privilege is (the root of the trust chain). It's like a tree where each program/agent can spawn subprogr
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Jail time, denying entry, a gun to your head are all potential ways I can think of. A gun may motivate someone to unlock their hard drive, but if they are are not sufficiently motivated then a gun cannot do anything. You could imagine a
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Someone who lives across the backyard from me was social-engineered out of several months' salary. Almost their complete savings. It was a nasty story, and no, the money hasn't been returned. Let me guess, bank transfers? Mayb
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by cowtools 4y ago
If you have a good enough password, you cannot be made to do unlock anything so long as your keys remain in your head, in contrast to what randall munroe believes https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png The alternati
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by cowtools 4y ago
You're using an overly specific definition of the word "root access". "root access" in the context of this conversation just means the paramount ability to decide what runs on the computer (ownership secure boot key
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If the OS developer has authority over the end user, then the OS itself is malware. Simple as that.
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by cowtools 4y ago
What matters is that the consumers have choice to use free software if they want. If someone makes an app for a (locked-down) samsung phone, it's going to work on a pixel phone running some AOSP distro. If google took some hardline pol
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by cowtools 4y ago
What studies? Also, the purpose of helmets is not to reduce the number of injuries, but the severity.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think that a human's portrayal would sometimes still be noticeably different. For example, if you prompted a human and DALL-E to draw "a fork in an electrical outlet", the human would probably portray the fork as shocking a
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yeah, but I guessed that one correctly because that sort of art (taking symbolism like a game-boy and putting it in a "cool" medium) is pretty common on the internet already. It makes sense that someone would think to make that be
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by cowtools 4y ago
The stone faces themselves are not art, but the collection of stone faces is art. It's not just a random sample of stones. In the same way that particles of pigment are not art, but clusters of pigment spread on a canvas is a painting.

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