donmcronald

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by donmcronald 8mo ago
I don't even know if Gnome and Gnome Shell are the same thing. One thing I do know is the default install of Gnome on Debian 13 leaves you without a dock, without a system tray, and without minimize/maximize buttons. They purpos
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
The thing I don’t get is that IMO Americans have a higher standard of living due to demand for the dollar. Being a net importer means they make less and the countries they’re importing from make more. Money = labor = people working, so peo
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
It’s way worse than that. It’s for verified identity and attestation.
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by donmcronald 8mo ago
It would be amazing if the tech leadership is so far gone they think AI is so great that everyone will beg to pay for it and it gets locked behind subscription fees. The only way it could get better is if the users that are paying get some
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by donmcronald 9mo ago
> may make provision for the provider of a relevant VPN service to apply to any person seeking to access its service in or from the UK age assurance which is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not that person is a child
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by donmcronald 9mo ago
They store passwords and proxy everything at the same time they’re pushing OAuth, authenticators, passkeys, etc. for their own services. Everyone should have revolted when they bought Acompli and started doing this kind of thing.
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
Seize the generational wealth they accumulated. Make their parents, siblings, kids, grandkids, cousins, etc. demonstrate how they earned their money and take every penny they can’t link to honest means. The discussion around billionaires
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
I considered this a month or two ago when Google safe browsing was erroneously putting domains self hosting Immich on the block list. My family domain got put on the block list and it took me a few hours to figure out that I needed to sign
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
Thanks for replying to me. I'm having a tough time understanding how it's zero knowledge, but also tied to a person's identity. At some point I'm going to try to read the manuscript you linked to someone else, but I st
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
> How does the issuer (e.g. the republic of France) know that DOCUMENT is bound to a given fingerprint? This is still under discussion, but as a first bid, a French citizen goes to city hall with his phone and obtains DOCUMENT after prod
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
> Apple, what did you start? They're probably thrilled with themselves because everything will have to be closed, locked down platforms and devices. IMO the solution to child safety is education with strong user controls. Hell, jus
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
> Last week i cancelled my Jetbrains sub after a decade of daily driving it. I’ve been paying for a personal license for about 20 years and I’ve been thinking of dropping it. I don’t use it much, but I wanted access to something that I c
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
Yeah. Hype fatigue is a good description. Every time I see them talking about having AI book flights and hotels I think about the digital assistants on phones. Didn't they promise us the same thing back then? I won't believe an
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
> A lot of this AI backlash feels less about the tech itself and more about people feeling economically exposed. This is what it is for me. I can see the value in AI tech, but big tech has inserted themselves as unneeded middlemen in wa
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
> I don’t want a hard bubble pop such that it nukes the tech ecosystem, but we’re reaching a breaking point. Some days I wonder if we'd be better off or worse off if we had a complete collapse of technology. I think it'd be pa
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
I hate this. Writing skills used to be a way to show you're paying attention to detail and making an effort. Now everyone thinks I'm cheesing it out with AI. I also have a tougher time judging the reliability of others because y
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by donmcronald 10mo ago
Anecdotally, I swear I see an increase in those messages when I have a package on the way. It seems like too much to be a coincidence.
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
I have a Brother printer that doesn’t work when it connects to a U7 Pro. It works ok with other UniFi APs. It’s not too surprising though. The U7 Pro is a lemon.
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
It’s free for now . The log in and activation means they can change that any time. I’d rather pay for v3, v4, etc. than being held hostage with a login requirement. If it’s going to be free for everyone forever, why can’t they give us a
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
Do it before you plug them in. They auto-update out of the box.
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
I bought 2 recently. They’re awful. I’ll never buy another. I was going to put Projectivy on them after I saw how nasty the stock launcher has become, but you can’t do a complete replacement.
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
> Speed running to become an actual developing nation. That's what it looks like from the outside, but I can't understand what the gain is. Who benefits? The result of the middle class was massive advancement and an equally m
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
> We want to prove to be the exception to the rule. You’ll be the first. It’s an empty promise that can’t / won’t be fulfilled unless it’s a legally binding deal with compensation to users if the deal changes. I bought v1 + v2 and
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
What? Lots of us bought v1, then v2, and would have bought v3 too.
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
> For content you choose to upload to Canva, you’re in control. IE: You're in control of what you upload. What happens after it's on their servers? What happens when they send it to a partner for processing? The AI industry i
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
I've been thinking about this lately. It's really difficult to understand where your dependencies are with modern software. I might built myself a full blown piracy machine that never gets to access the internet so I have access
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
> I mean 20+ years ago we called this shareware. It's not even close. This is more akin to shareware where Bill Gates shows up at your house to collect a payment every month and formats your hard drive if you don't cough up th
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
> That you can stop paying if the product stops getting updates. You also lose the ability to access your data in a lot of cases. That's the problem. I also own a v1 and v2 license for the Affinity stuff. I've used it to des
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by donmcronald 11mo ago
I wonder if those expensive fridges are any more serviceable. I'm guessing someone with $10k to spend on a fridge doesn't care how easy it is to fix because they'll never do it.
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by donmcronald 1y ago
The three word rebuttal? Banking on GrapheneOS

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