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   by dskrepps 3y ago

   I've wondered for a while. Lots of people seem to think a Carrington Event will simply fry all small electronics and make everything stop working, but from my understanding all it'll actually do is cause power surges in long trans
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   by dskrepps 3y ago

   I want to recommend things everyone benefits from, not myself. Consequently, I don't want to support anything that doesn't trend the community toward my ideals. For instance, the Mastodon project and mastodon.social are run by a n
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   by dskrepps 3y ago

   I'm very discouraged when I click their Blog page and see headlines like "Our best apps are now paid" and "Trial period." These apps have popups asking for support, which 100% are advertisements contrary to the thre
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   by dskrepps 3y ago

   I personally don't consider what my direct experience will be, but instead the total sum of the collective experience all users will have. I want to support something everyone benefits from, not myself. Consequently, I don't want
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   by dskrepps 3y ago

   I think our best bet to make a difference is to cause network effects to drive other users to take the same steps we do. In the long run that will help shrink their monopoly, and/or bring a tipping point closer to reality. Similar to v
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   by dskrepps 3y ago

   If you're mass-producing low-quality sites you would do that on day 1 with each of them. So it likely doesn't weigh positively as much as we would hope.
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   by dskrepps 4y ago

   I use a Google Home Mini. Half the reason I originally bought it was to simply be able to turn the light and fan on and off without getting out of bed. The other half was music. Google Play Music was a godsend for a long time before they ki
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   by dskrepps 4y ago

   Now they don't have a $5 droplet, which was by name alone basically an important branding asset in of itself.
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   by dskrepps 4y ago

   Is it important that they're losing the branding of the $5 droplet? It seems that's significantly more of an impressionable number than 4 or 6, in my understanding of the factors that made them popular. To me they've simply
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    by dskrepps 5y ago

    What about the right congressman? Find whichever one's constituents are most likely to vote based on health related legislation, and try to suggest they get it adopted by a government agency. Through political ads people can see they i
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    by dskrepps 5y ago

    There's an open source version that works as a simple bookmarklet here: https://github.com/ds300/jetzt
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    by dskrepps 6y ago

    I had been running the self-hosted version of Cloud9 back before Amazon acquired it. Once they did, development for that version was dropped and you can no longer use the current version outside of AWS. No bueno. Eventually I found code-ser