dingaling

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by dingaling 5d ago
> You'd be ok with that trade? Umm, yes...? Just put a 'warranty void when removed' frangible sticker on it. Seems to work fine for PCs. But so many people these days seem to be brainwashed into accepting that computing d
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by dingaling 7d ago
They have tried 'asking nicely' but Denmark had been playing the independence card, claiming any deal would have to involve Greenlandic consent. Last year's US-Denmark military basing agreement excluded Greenland for this &#x
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by dingaling 7d ago
There are about 3.9 billion Android phones currently in use globally. I don't think a niche fork with 0.00025 billion users will worry them.
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by dingaling 7d ago
> Can't wait to buy their phone. Good phrasing. It's certainly not _your_ phone, you're just an untrusted user who is extended the privilege of using it.
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by dingaling 7d ago
Russia wants a non-NATO buffer zone around its western periphery. None of those countries want to be 'unaligned' no-man's-lands. There is nothing to negotiate.
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by dingaling 8d ago
That's more because attestation breaks their passkey cross-device sync process, rather than out of benevolence.
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by dingaling 9d ago
"companies don't care about end users in the current market conditions." Because the end users keep rushing to use the megacorps' latest AI models, weaving them into their work and life. So the megacorps keep locking in
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by dingaling 10d ago
"They work perfectly fine." The fact that you mention light-controlled roundabouts highlights that they do not, actually, "work perfectly fine". Roundabouts are a practical example of the tyranny of the majority; minor t
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by dingaling 11d ago
MAD is not military doctrine and never has been. It's a philosophical concept that arose in the mid 1960s and gained column-inches in the press because it had a cool and ironic name. Even McNamara rejected it. USA, China and Russia a
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by dingaling 13d ago
"as it highlights how humans have essentially two reactions to change" I'd wager that the most common reaction to change is actually "wearily accept it as there is no realistic option". Most change is deleterious to
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by dingaling 16d ago
" If someone is hosting their own blog and use ads to help offset that..." It used to be that hosting your own blog was a hobby, not a cost-neutral or revenue-positive venture. Like any hobby, you did it for your own enjoyment an
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by dingaling 16d ago
CPI is based on prices such as these, so it provides no useful signal.
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by dingaling 16d ago
Apple sold around six million Mini models per year that they were on sale. It's hard to envisage a boardroom scenario where that's not considered successful, but apparently it exists.
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by dingaling 18d ago
" to spend half of your earnings on the collective" Why not 99% then? Or 90%? Or a bargain 85%, leaving you some money for bread and circuses ? It's for the collective good, so how could you complain?
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by dingaling 18d ago
Even if the features are ignorable, they have consumed development time and attention to get there.
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by dingaling 20d ago
No, that's almost as bad. Locking knowledge into a benignly-ruled centralised blackbox instead of a despicably-ruled centralised blackbox isn't solving the core problem.
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by dingaling 20d ago
> and aren't purchased for the same reasons Yes, that's his point. Quartz watches have eaten the market for "I need a cheap portable time piece", like artificial diamonds did for "I need diamonds for tooling&quo
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by dingaling 20d ago
> That's insane progress and worth celebrating. A non-reusable launcher that can put small payloads into a Polar orbits only, due to launch site latitude and lack of an orbital bus. It's fairly 1960s stuff.
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by dingaling 21d ago
"Traditional accounting depreciation would imply that purchasing local hardware is a terrible financial decision." Depreciation is designed to _encourage_ purchasing of useful local tools, by incrementally matching fractions of th
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by dingaling 22d ago
The Shorts 360, very similar to this aircraft in size, weight and structural design with a strut-braced wing, cruised at 216kt ( 249mph ) for 400nm with 36 pax, three crew and fuel for 50nm diversion and 45 min hold.
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by dingaling 24d ago
> You still have to choose your opportunities wisely It's odd that you've gone off on this as opposed to people who spend their 'opportunity time' on Netflix, Call of Duty or D&D. Sysadmin is a hobby I enjoy and I
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by dingaling 24d ago
> They're developing 40 million lines of code Isn't half a billion dollars per year enough to maintain that? Over $10 per LoC annually?
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by dingaling 24d ago
That's their choice, nobody forced them to implement that corporate structure and they can decide to deconstruct it any time. Google pays Mozilla for default search engine selection in Firefox, no other product. If Mozilla then redire
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by dingaling 25d ago
The problem is that to achieve privacy through security, Graphene has to treat the user as a potentially hostile actor. Therefore, the system needs to protect itself and other apps from the user. Which is very much contrary to software fre
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by dingaling 25d ago
The Russian response to directional antennas is to mount GPS jammers on satellites https://www.gpsworld.com/todd-humphreys-russian-satellites-a...
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by dingaling 25d ago
"What makes it any different if the website executed the same logic cloudflare is on their own box?" Without Cloudflare it's highly unlikely that 20% of websites _would_ implement the same logic.
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by dingaling 27d ago
Try editing key-values in Regedit using only the keyboard.
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by dingaling 29d ago
Aer Lingus have introduced app-only self-service bag drops, which are invariably swamped with passengers trying to get them to work while a single staff runs around clearing on-screen errors and directing people to rescan, or reweigh their
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by dingaling 29d ago
Sounds like gratuitous over-use of technology. Please just put placards on your exhibits, then I can take as long ( or as quickly ) as I need to digest the info. People can then use their phone to translate into other languages, if needed.
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by dingaling 1mo ago
"It is a common userspace decision to lock things to userspace" Yes, running in userspace for the majority of tasks is good hygiene. Preventing the user from ever escalating beyond that layer on their own devices, however, is rest

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