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by drweevil 1y ago
tl;dr: A radical shift to OSS, prompted by big tech's adoption of anti-consumer practices such as short EOL dates, data theft, and subscription models for everything. I have no problems with paying-to-own. But the business models have
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by drweevil 1y ago
I have a Framework 13 ( https://frame.work ) running Arch. There are plenty of other distros if you value ease of installation. Pretty much all major desktops work fine; I use Gnome. There are a lot of options for devs, from the t
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by drweevil 1y ago
No, companies indeed have no soul. This is all about perverse incentives. While companies are setup/run by people, the (publicly owned) company as a whole only has one incentive: profit. If any person on the inside stands against that,
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by drweevil 1y ago
Indeed. Watch as Trump ignores the very plain language of the 14th Amendment, for example.
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“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.” -- Jonathan Swift
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by drweevil 1y ago
What is a lie, and what is the truth? These are age-old questions, not some recent phenomenon. The Spanish-American War was at least in part precipitated by the infamous "yellow journalism" of the time. Propaganda and disinformati
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by drweevil 1y ago
I second the rtl-sdr.com site. There's a lot of cheap (as in not very good) stuff out there. I have 3 goto SDRs in my collection. The RTL-SDR.com Blog V4 dongle is a great--and affordable--starting point. You're only out ~$40 if y
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by drweevil 1y ago
Sometimes someone can be right for mostly wrong reasons. (Most of us will be familiar with the ideas of RFK jr.) Nonetheless, I do like the idea of federally funded journals. After all, the results being published are paid for by taxpayers,
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by drweevil 1y ago
"digital Ethernet cable" is straight out of the Department of Redundancy Department. And even 100% silver wouldn't change the sound one lick. It is transmitting digital data. 4.6 out of 5 on the reviews tho. The positive revi
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by drweevil 1y ago
This is the root of the problem, isn't it. Yes, we can decide we won't be complicit, but our banks, our supermarkets, our employers, our hospitals, all remain complicit, as part of the monopolistic environment that is in place to
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by drweevil 1y ago
I find aesthetically pleasing, tbh.
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Likewise on the nerding! My first question on reading this was how it varied by format. I naively thought that the shorter the format, the more important the toss; i.e. T20 would show the biggest difference. But this data shows it is in the
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by drweevil 1y ago
Word. I haven seen so many misconceptions about our state here in these comments, planted in our consciousness by our capitalist system to justify its existence. This, that we don't naturally rely on mutually supporting each other, is
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by drweevil 1y ago
I'm frankly a bit shocked by the equivalence here: genocide not worth spamming. Please tell me this was sarcasm.
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Doesn't even come close to meeting the Sagan Standard. Yikes.
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If so, it should be optional. I have difficulty reading most dark mode sites in bright light or daylight.
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by drweevil 1y ago
No doubt they've offered to pay for it?
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Calling basic services provided to the people by the people's government "unfunded liabilities" betrays so much. First, questioning the people's government's obligation to serve its own people's needs. Second,
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by drweevil 1y ago
>"Though the program was off this time, experts say its approach could eventually be useful in predicting other types of electoral contests." This was interesting in a "'cause we can" sort of way, but the word &#
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by drweevil 1y ago
>"Such speculation is needed because AI is not currently sustainable. As the UN Environment Program observed last year, "The proliferating datacenters that house AI servers produce electronic waste. They are large consumers of
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by drweevil 1y ago
"A 40-year old Maryland man is facing decades in prison..." I'm not trying to be a smart-ass here; but ever since the pandemic the financial press has been pearl-clutching about remote workers "double-dipping". Mean
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by drweevil 1y ago
Ditto. I use 5 to 6. Also, the problem with recommending passphrases is that I don’t see a decent explanation from those recommending them as to how they work. Yes, I get that they are public key cryptography, but the details of the actual
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by drweevil 1y ago
Note how transparency is deemed 'hostile' by this administration. The implication is that they are counting on ignorance to disguise who really pays for these tariffs, and therefore who really will be financing Trump's tax cu
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by drweevil 1y ago
Word. I've always limited line width to < ~80 chars not because that's the way it's always been done, but because long lines don't aid code comprehension. Quite the contrary. The flip side to the thesis presented in t
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by drweevil 1y ago
They may even be fooling themselves with their own snake oil. I've gotten the distinct impression that they believe "emergent abilities" will pop out and save the day.
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Wait, isn't AI supposed to make something like providing software support easy and inexpensive? Does Google not fancy itself an AI company? So what possibly can be the excuse for this anti-social behaviour? The backlash will come.
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Agree. If you are paying attention to the podcast while mopping the floor, there is no problem. But if you are doing reasoning work you are shortchanging either the podcast of your work, and in my experience often both. When I was still wor
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Just assuming for a minute here that this is true. What does this say about the state of American journalism?
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I have a pair of 10x50 Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) binoculars. Good optics, physically still in good shape. Bought them in an optical shop in East Berlin in the early '80s. My partner came with a snow shovel that belonged to her gra
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by drweevil 1y ago
I'm assuming that by 'pipe operator' you mean the semantics, not specifically '|'. Of the programming languages I've used F# ('|>', https://camilotk.github.io/fsharp-by-example&#x2F

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