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by digiown 9mo ago
> HN itself is a massive ad I don't think it is the same. There is no manipulation involved here and many people seem to be looking for jobs actively. > no one actually wants to pay Two things 1. Most content is actually pretty w
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by digiown 9mo ago
That's why you block ALL ads. Starve the beast. If an app has ads, I do not use it, end of story.
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by digiown 9mo ago
The most direct comparison would be the package manager, that's why I said distros. These driver management tools do a (poor) job at being a package manager, along with many other commercial software installation tools. With Linux itse
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by digiown 9mo ago
One good thing we can say about Linux bundling all the drivers is that it obviates the need to run almost all of this type of low quality (if not outright spyware) driver management software. They are especially problematic because they can
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by digiown 9mo ago
And this is why you always encrypt the drive with software. All of these methods seem to put a lot of faith into the drive controller doing what it claim it does, which you can never be all that sure about. Even Microsoft-backed Bitlocker w
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by digiown 9mo ago
The key in the desktop version is not always stored in the secure enclave, is my assumption (it definitely supports plaintext storage). Theoretically this makes it possible to extract the key for the message database. Also a different malic
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by digiown 9mo ago
If banks have to insert themselves into every transaction (cash is banned for larger transactions), then it follows that debanking should be viewed as a legal instrument of punishment, and should only be allowed following a violation of the
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by digiown 9mo ago
Funnily this also implies that laundering your writing through an AI is a good way to defeat stylometry. You add in a strong enough signal, and hopefully smooth out the rest.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Secure boot and verified system partition is supposed to help with that. It's for the same reason jailbreaks don't persist across reboots these days.
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by digiown 9mo ago
> full-drive encryption Note that these are not crackable only if you have a strong password (random one will work). Unlike on phones, there is nothing slowing down brute force attempts, only the comparatively much weaker PBKDFs if you u
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by digiown 9mo ago
> above any earthly government Anti satellite weapons are a thing. Besides, the more vulnerable part becomes you as a person rather than the equipment. There's no space colony yet, and even if there is, the supplies can be easily he
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by digiown 9mo ago
As far as I know, the tracking dots aren't even a legal requirement. Nothing stops you from making a printer without it, unlike is the case here.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Or they just connect to a mothership with keys on the machine. The authorities can have the keys, but alas, they're useless now, because there is some employee watching the surveillance cameras in the US, and he pressed a red button re
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by digiown 9mo ago
There's no CLA on Anki. Even dae does not have the right to relicense it.
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by digiown 9mo ago
What is the advantage of this tool over, you know, just using Thunderbird or another MUA to copy your emails to the new mailbox?
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by digiown 9mo ago
Is it? Outside of Windows, I rarely ever see KB used to mean 1024 anymore. Linux and Mac usually uses KB for 1000, and "K" or "Ki" or "KiB" for 1024.
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by digiown 9mo ago
> AnkiWeb Worth noting you don't need to use it. Anki comes with a syncserver implementation for a while now, and there are docker images too. It's worth it for the transfer speeds alone IMO. Anki is under AGPL too, which has a
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by digiown 9mo ago
Tuning on Linux requires root and is systemwide. I don't think BBR is even available on other systems. And you need to tune the buffer sizes of both ends too. Using multiple streams is just less of a hassle for client users. It can als
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by digiown 9mo ago
If the application handles them serially, then yeah. But one can imagine the application opening files in threads, buffering them, and then finally sending it at full speed, so in that sense it is an application issue. If you truly have mil
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by digiown 9mo ago
Ha, it sounds like the best way to learn something is to make a confident and incorrect claim :) > MPLS ECMP hashing you over a single path This is kinda like the traffic shaping I was talking about though, but fair enough. It's not
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by digiown 9mo ago
There's an open source implementation that does something similar but for a more specific use case: https://github.com/apernet/tcp-brutal There's gotta be a less antisocial way though. I'd say using BBR
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by digiown 9mo ago
rclone is super cool, but unfortunately many of the providers it supports has such low ratelimits, that it's fairly difficult to use it to transfer much data at all.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Note there is no intrinsic reason running multiple streams should be faster than one [EDIT: "at this scale"]. It almost always indicates some bottleneck in the application or TCP tuning. (Though, very fast links can overwhelm slow
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by digiown 9mo ago
Assuming it actually works (which I'm not sure about), it increases the cost on the business putting up the ad (presumably targeting you). It acts as a small punishment to the business buying the ads I guess.
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by digiown 9mo ago
GNU projects and LLM contribs mix like water and oil.
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by digiown 9mo ago
> It's your choice Ah, classic false choice. Do you know it is illegal to do cash transactions over a certain amount in most Western countries now? In my mind, if I have a right to do something (buy a home), and there is only one ap
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by digiown 9mo ago
set -o noclobber
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by digiown 9mo ago
For most of these local data manipulation type of commands, I'd rather just have them behave dangerously, and rely on filesystems snapshots to rollback when needed. With modern filesystems like zfs or btrfs, you can take a full snapsho
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by digiown 9mo ago
That's good...? I don't have to browse 4chan to interact with local groups, and I hope I won't have to browse Facebook either.
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by digiown 9mo ago
I was intending that the alternate client should exist to function as an escape hatch. I fully expect most people will still use the default one, just like how people used the official reddit/telegram client when third party ones were

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