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by decasteve 6y ago
The cynical take: They'll do what's profitable over what's accurate.
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by decasteve 6y ago
If you're not the customer, you're the product, doesn't quite fit. But it's a catchy analogy to illustrate a point. Users are more like the soil of the product. Google is the farmer harvesting data that grows from it and
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by decasteve 6y ago
> The media has ruined America. Game over. MSM, including Facebook and Twitter, empowered this monster and profited from it. This joke of a candidate was propped up and put front and centre instead of being ignored. They fed the Troll an
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by decasteve 6y ago
A bunch of different things: 1) Spending more time with people I love. 2) Traveling. 3) Low-impact hobby farming and forestry with horses. 4) Learning to do new things. 5) Connecting with new people in my community. Volunteering.
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by decasteve 6y ago
I wondered if this would move along more quickly if hosting from home were easier. Give everyone their own IP addresses and people tinkering their way to personal servers becomes more likely.
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by decasteve 6y ago
Looks like a glob of solder to me.
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by decasteve 6y ago
> Shaming people who use mass-scale social media could help. Start by shaming government officials and organizations, any official government channels, even schools and school boards, that require tools provided by surveillance capitalis
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by decasteve 6y ago
What drew me to AltaVista was that it gave me results that didn't exist elsewhere. It took some boolean gymnastics to get precise results, or going a few pages deep, but stuff, if it existed, was findable. I almost wish there were less
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by decasteve 6y ago
RE: debug.com As a teenager who didn't know any better, it was empowering to gain that level of access to a computer, to realize a certain level of control over it that was previously abstracted away. It felt like some insider knowledg
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by decasteve 6y ago
pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/ Reason: command line simplicity
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by decasteve 6y ago
Did you buy those cereals recently? What method of payment did you use?
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by decasteve 6y ago
This was indeed bound to happen. The discussions we have are what's needed to decide how the internet/web moves forward. And there's a bit of cake eating and having it too from both sides. There's an expectation from the
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by decasteve 6y ago
> ...intent is factored into the law. What gets lost or missed is the underlying intent of the protocols and tools being used to share content. An http server serves files independent of the client/user-agent–that's how the web
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by decasteve 6y ago
I remember learning about it as a kid and I remember the ice storm in '98. I enjoyed the talk--well done!
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by decasteve 6y ago
A few things on the history that often comes up, but I didn't see mentioned in the article: I thought Quebec had pushed this high voltage technology in the 1960s. (I can't find the source on this at the moment...) Buckminster Full
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by decasteve 6y ago
Thanks for the link! Nice to see someone working on it.
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by decasteve 6y ago
I'm surprised a federated activitypub alternative hasn't popped up yet.
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by decasteve 6y ago
Open source image editing/processing software has gotten better: Digikam, Darktable, Inkscape, and GIMP. (while Photoshop/Lightroom have gotten worse imo) Linux and BSDs have gotten significantly better and with better hardware su
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by decasteve 6y ago
NoScript is inconvenient, but essential. All of the other extensions are airbags whereas NoScript is the seatbelt.
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by decasteve 6y ago
Scrupulous? Nobody is going to disallow / on Google's user-agent. I'd suggest respecting Google's robots.txt as much as Google respects our DNT settings.
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by decasteve 6y ago
Using actual timbers in a place like Canada should be the norm. Many of the biggest trees are left after a clearcut because they're just too big. When everything around them is cut they tend to die quicker (due to exposure). If they do
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by decasteve 6y ago
You are not wrong. However, houses could still be built from wood like the 500 year old houses and churches made with actual timbers. Timber framed houses would use a lot less wood in the long run due to less waste and greater longevity (es
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by decasteve 6y ago
The airplane and the radio brought people closer. It also improved the coordination and delivery of mass destruction. Technology can be a rollercoaster ride of benefit and detriment.
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by decasteve 6y ago
Any chance it's their anniversary? Or a special date for them?
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by decasteve 6y ago
Timber framing here. That's woodworking.
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by decasteve 6y ago
Why keep shipping bottles around? Leave them where they are. Ship the liquid in tanker trucks and fill the bottles at the destination.
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by decasteve 6y ago
I remember getting sources from university ftp mirrors for Linux (still do for OpenBSD). I wouldn't be surprised if some of these repositories are now hosted by the 'giants'.
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by decasteve 6y ago
> use a Linux PC/Laptop When you install Linux, where is the OS downloaded from? Where do the software packages and updates reside? What about the source code? If you blocked Microsoft (Azure + github), Google, Amazon (AWS), and Aka
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by decasteve 6y ago
I still use an iMac for CaptureOne for post and printing but I've moved my DAM process to DigiKam [0]. I'm inclined to try RawTherapee and DarkTable again. Years ago I tried but they never worked as well as the proprietary alterna
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by decasteve 6y ago
> This comes at the price of not optimally supporting students who would do much better in a different kind of system. It depends on the culture of the place the school system is applied in. This kind of blanket utilitarianism by way of

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