craftinator

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by craftinator 5y ago
The important part of them having the MAC address is that it IS a unique ID. If it wasn't a unique ID, then it wouldn't matter if they had it, because their purpose in taking it is to identify you. So whether it's hashed or n
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by craftinator 5y ago
> Is the issue that compositors don't implement the `screencopy` protocol themselves or use the implementation provided by wlroots? In general, when your diagnosis to a problem is "the people using my product are all just too l
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by craftinator 5y ago
They really shouldn't be able to afford drones of that class.
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by craftinator 5y ago
I've met several MBA's, and they are more 'partially literate' in that they can write huge quantities of stuff, but each paragraph has nothing to do with the last paragraph. Similarly, they can read whole books very quic
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by craftinator 5y ago
> Spying programs and laws will only worsen unless people really voice their concerns and elect the right people. I very much suspect that who is elected has nearly zero effect on spying programs.
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by craftinator 5y ago
> But management and the people in charge of OK'ing these designs have a 'make-it-happen' attitude and nobody really cares about semantic, native feel I think this is generally a symptom of current leadership practices, wh
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by craftinator 5y ago
> Interestingly I found myself using ultra minimal distro vm, and installing nearly nothing on them (qubes os) and just shard the apps Isn't this basically the idea behind snaps? Or is that more docker-like?
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by craftinator 5y ago
> As an exercise I recommend to write a native universal applicable Wayland application that takes screenshots. As someone who tried to do this... Ouch. Things like this are why X will still be around in 15 years.
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by craftinator 5y ago
If you pass your saving throw, add +1 to CHAR, as few things are as cool as surviving an exploding cigar!
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by craftinator 5y ago
https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145 My favorite part is when someone figures out "telemetry" includes the MAC address, and the dev team just goes completely silent.
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by craftinator 5y ago
Not only unhinged, but whiney too. A true Renaissance man!
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by craftinator 5y ago
> Maybe not as originally envisioned, but I like the aesthetic. I think you'll find that you've identified the target market for almost all modern film adaptations of science fiction novels.
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by craftinator 5y ago
The hard thing about making guns illegal is that criminals will still have them...
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by craftinator 5y ago
> Why do US people always put so much emphasis on never talking to the police? There are two classes of damages police can enact on you in the US, both of which makes interacting with them in any capacity dangerous. The first class is th
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by craftinator 5y ago
> Usually that is. There's always room for disaster :) For me, this is where the problem with got lies. I use so many of it's commands infrequently enough that I don't know where the weird disastrous edge cases are, where
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by craftinator 5y ago
Because they drank the evil corporate Kool aid years ago; it's cheaper and easier just to misappropriate someone else's service.
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by craftinator 5y ago
There have been major bank tech failures too, if you wanted to see major vs minor side by side...
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by craftinator 5y ago
> This is only “a failure” if the loss from this is worse than all of the money they have saved over the years by running so lean. Don't forget all of the future losses by losing the trust of both the customers and the employees. &g
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by craftinator 5y ago
> But "No code" proponents typically remove too much flexibility to the level of the implementor of the product, far removed from the end user. Not only do they remove flexibility, but they often introduce "magic" tha
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by craftinator 5y ago
I work with gcode on a day to day basis. I understand what the parent poster means about it being "assembly like", in that many of the common patterns of handwriting assembly language are employed when hand writing gcode. It has G
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by craftinator 5y ago
It's ironic that the CEO is allowing ads in the search bar then.
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by craftinator 5y ago
You'd think from the messaging that they don't have nearly the funding today that they had 5 years ago, when in reality their funding has grown by ~50% during that time...
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by craftinator 5y ago
I had the same sort of attitude to the parent comment until I remembered that maybe you and I don't live in the same culture that the parent does. I mean culture here as group of networked individuals with overlapping interested. Maybe
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by craftinator 5y ago
Oh no, there is no way a three letter agency found out Apples secret sauce. Obscurity is the only form of security that they'll never be able to crack!
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by craftinator 5y ago
We'll all be using Deno, Crystal, Nim, and Zig, and lament with great nostalgia the days of Node, Ruby, Rust, and C/++.
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by craftinator 5y ago
The "my actions are THEIR fault" excuse only works in The Manchurian Candidate.
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by craftinator 5y ago
> Short term focus is pretty standard for corporations. I would rewrite this as "Short term focus is pretty standard for those not making the product." From everywhere I've worked, the more actual work a person is doing on
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by craftinator 5y ago
Really? I find it halfway interesting, as it is a discussion between someone who clearly understands the science and bureaucracy that surrounds that type of work, and someone who is chaining speculation and "what if's" like t
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by craftinator 5y ago
I'd argue that it's less an issue of branding, and more an issue of credibility. If you were about to get surgery, and the surgeon came in and started talking about how the lastest InfoWars really nailed it, and how the US governm
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by craftinator 5y ago
First thought I had here was hydroelectric storage.

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