crankyoldcrank

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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
>Just 100 years ago, people were being forced to work on ships, in factories, on farms, You know those jobs are still necessary, right? Still exist? People are just as forced into them now as they were in 1920 especially outside the deve
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
> often there is no net neutrality Hold up, what does this mean, even? I thought "net neutrality" meant classifying ISPs in such a way that they are regulated by the FCC instead of the FTC. Obviously this is an American framing
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
Careful, you're starting to sound like a COVID denier. Next thing you'll know you'll be saying restaurants shouldn't be closed for a year and families should be allowed to gather for Thanksgiving! Say bye to your karma t
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
#emacs on Freenode is full of those people, including the author of the talk in the article. Friendly fellow. It's really one of the best IRC channels left.
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
The article is from 2012. Neither of those laws existed.
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
Lol, I joined Twitter around 2013 because it seemed like everyone in tech was there and it'd be a good way to keep up. Then I saw cross talk between radical Left Twitter and people I followed in tech. Uh oh. I got into exactly one poli
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
In Emacs, add (start-server) to your config. Then in your shell rc file: alias vim='emacsclient -a/usr/bin/vim -nw' Now if emacs is running you'll get emacs in the terminal when you use the command vim to open
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
> that sounds like something with whatever identity server you're using. The relationships between the home server, identity server, and client on Matrix are not made clear in any user friendly way in the Matrix documentation for ho
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
That question can't be answered because there's a binary blob on every modern smartphone that runs on the LTE modem hardware and has access to the device's memory and CPU. Sooooo... Maybe?
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
If it's financed it.. isn't really your device until it's paid off. By your logic repo men should be illegal.
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
Ugh, they're also great for anyone that wants to feed themselves with their software, whether self employed or not. God forbid people use a license that makes it easier to turn a profit so they don't have to beg to stay afloat.
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by crankyoldcrank 6y ago
Can you imagine being married, having a vasectomy, and still using condoms? Awful. Might as well be celibate, fuck. That's no way to live. Condoms feel terrible. Double up with some other birth control and be monogamous so you don&#x27