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by dijit 2mo ago
I’m aware of this (consciously) but I would really do my job if it was unpaid, in fact: many do (and did) in the form of side projects and volunteering and FOSS. I was always weirded out by the “only in IT for the money” crowd, which is a l
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by dijit 2mo ago
but there are many people who passionately believe gay rights is bad. Or, abortion is bad. Or, apostasy is bad. Or, drawing a depiction of Muhammed is bad. They don't consider them opinions , they consider them facts . I'm sur
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I'm impressed that you know everything that's good and bad to be so resolute that you are the person who knows it all, it must be pretty incredible to be the one person on earth who has no doubts at all about what objective good a
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by dijit 2mo ago
you mean the things you think are good, are good. And things that you think are bad, are bad. Everyone feels this way about their things.
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by dijit 2mo ago
Literally opinions.
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by dijit 2mo ago
idk what kind of fascist you are, but a free society doesn’t stop talking about something because certain leaders don’t like it. In order to get legislation you want (say: gay rights) you have to risk legislation you don’t like, for some, t
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by dijit 2mo ago
I think rejecting proposals from MEPs on the grounds that "it's against EU interests" would be very undemocratic and fuel the very anti-EU sentiment that it would supposedly combat.
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by dijit 2mo ago
No head of government is going to come out against what the government itself is doing, they have to defend every initiative, which is why they seem pretty ungenuine all the goddamn always. I used to track the voting history of UKIP members
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by dijit 2mo ago
It's very commonly the anti-EU politicians who inevitably get into EU parliament (due to representative voting, ironically more democratic than the FPTP system we use in the UK, despite all the wailing about democracy) who endorse such
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by dijit 2mo ago
Realistically, maintainers are strangers on the internet to me, and crucially, it is common to add unofficial repos, as well as use non-platform package managers like npm, cargo and pip. It’s all strangers stuff
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by dijit 2mo ago
Cool theory, but the same reason I pull my shoes off by standing on my heel and pulling, despite it saving me no time (I will have to untie them anyway when I put them on again). Humans are short sighted, want to solve the situation immedia
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by dijit 2mo ago
> No, I'm sorry but who on earth installs random software from random strangers, without a single step of validating before giving it access to (presumably) the same computer you do banking on? That would be every day that I run apt
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by dijit 2mo ago
"40 hours" in his context here is actually a work day, so 7-8hrs. He says "40 hours" because he feels like he's managed to do 40 hours worth of work in this time, but then has to spend another "40 hours" (
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by dijit 2mo ago
> did you not even review the PKGBUILD or anything else before installing stuff from the AUR? I'd venture most people actually don't review pkgbuild; especially on upgrades . The other issue of course is that, the devils in th
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by dijit 2mo ago
Yes, its really similar and unsurprisingly its still inflammatory. My girlfriend mentioned that this year is an election year in sweden, which made me realise how bad the propaganda was in 2016- but its all the same stuff.
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by dijit 2mo ago
I'm conflating multiple things over 5 years, my memory seems imperfect. Apologies. What I've mixed together: 1) The "Alex" bot, which was opt-in and seemed to be everywhere. [0] 2) The "inclusive-coding-bot" wh
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by dijit 2mo ago
I’m still mad that Mozillas persona got no adoption. I’m sure it was imperfect, but in theory it was easy to host and easy to implement. :(
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by dijit 2mo ago
this is the first emoji I see on HN at all, they’re filtered out in comments.
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by dijit 2mo ago
Github is opinionated. I recall some time in 2016 when they were regex replacing variable names in peoples repositories and pestering them if they didn’t accept the request. They also worked very hard to change the default branch name for e
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by dijit 2mo ago
> I’ve never stumbled upon a project by browsing GitHub casually. Same. The “discoverability” of github is two things: 1) Recognition of the name; so if I cannot find the source code and I believe something to be open source I will googl
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by dijit 2mo ago
storage has also increased (thus, its management overheads). And, to be honest with you, I’d prefer phones that are battery powered get the 3nm process node and these kind of devices lagging on 7nm or whatever, since they have the capabilit
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by dijit 2mo ago
Sure, but then shouldn’t they have a lower power CPU? I’d be worried about starving my storage need for CPU (ZFS can use a good amount of CPU power) inadvertently. Running some small services is nice, to avoid having more devices, but I thi
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by dijit 2mo ago
I'm british. The way that gambling companies target the poorest of society feels disgustingly predatory. You can often tell the average income of an area based on how many betfreds and paddy powers there are on the high street.
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by dijit 2mo ago
> ... a solved problem if people are willing to give up sex with untested strangers It's wired into our DNA to do this, and while we can be socialised out of it, you'll never get anywhere close to the near 100% you'd need.
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by dijit 2mo ago
at some point you just take your lumps. Most people don’t have boundless time or energy and just want things to go away. … ironically this fact is used a lot in gaining confessions by police.
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by dijit 2mo ago
Yeah, obviously. Greatest minds of our generation couldn’t possibly invent fast profile switching. Lost technology.
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by dijit 2mo ago
“I don’t want to be seen agreeing with someone who combats obvious bad faith arguments with sarcasm - please think of me as being better than that, even though we would end up in a pissing contest about nuance or a digression away from the
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by dijit 2mo ago
Ah, I guess it's impossible to have a quick enable kids mode then. We should just give up and give random individuals access to everyone's camera roll.. no other way.
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by dijit 2mo ago
I agree, and I agree with the enthusiasm on which you bring in. I've long since considered that the efforts for online child safety should be pointed at educating parents and spearheading some kind of certification of compliance for ch
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by dijit 2mo ago
"is this device for you, or a child" is one of the first options when setting up an iphone. I haven't set up an Android in a while, but, I doubt it's massively different.

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