duncan_bayne

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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
This sort of thing must severely piss off people with legitimate mental health problems.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
... and? I've seen similar, in all walks of life. Politicians and civil servants are by no means immune to pettiness. Especially when setting an example might spare them work and money in the future.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
That's because spying was his job (or at least, directing the spies). The moral criticism here is that he violated the law he swore to uphold by also spying on his own citizens, and then lied about it.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I've used it with much success on the ThinkPad X220 and more recently the ThinkPad W540 (the latter of which I dual-boot into Ubuntu). I'm having a few issues with the docking station on the W540, which I'm currently putting
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
To be honest, it's this sort of thing that makes me happy to be back on FreeBSD for everything but gaming and DRM media (hi Spotify). Sure there's a little more work to get set up (which I've scripted and put in Gitlab, so it
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XII Wealth and power have insu
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gaytime Given the intentional double entendre and commercial success - it's now a cultural icon - I'm going to optimistically interpret its existence in a positive light
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
That's true, but it leaves out the other half of the equation: you'll still likely spend less of your valuable time on your making your Ubuntu installation work, than on anything else (speaking as someone with commercial dev exper
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Sure but that tends to work against States. Backlash against non-State groups like the PLO and IRA seems less effectual.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
The W3C would never ... oh wait ... I remember DRM and EME. Nevermind, yes, of course they'd roll over.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I'm guessing here, as I've never built a sail-propelled interstellar probe :) But I'm assuming that: 1) The characteristics of a good laser-propelled acceleration sail would be different to those of a good solar-powered brak
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
If it was an artifact - especially a discarded solar sail, explaining the acceleration - there might be a follow-up. Imagine you were making a sail-propelled probe, with the intent of slowing the probe so it was captured by the target syste
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
It might also be worth leaving artifacts on them, in case of discovery by future spacefaring species - assuming the objects still possessed system escape velocity. Actually, wouldn't it be a blast if we found signs that someone had don
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
That's true. But, bluntly, and speaking as a member, we don't matter anywhere near as much as the absolute best. The members of the "upper middle class ticket" group might as well be selected by ballot from the intellect
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Absolutely. Because we want our doctors and engineers to be just "good enough", none of this elitism for us! I'm sure they'll still cure cancer and get us to Mars, right? And the truly elite who miss out by random chance
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> Worker coops using the license would be free use How is a worker co-op using the licensed software for commercial purposes different from, say, a corporation?
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
... which is why it's entirely reasonable for labour to unionise, to increase their bargaining power with employers. One of the fundamentals of Marxism with which I disagree, though - at such a fundamental level that it drives an emoti
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I think you are attracting downvotes because you completely mistook my point. I support Free software - financially, by evangelising it, by writing it, and by using it. My point was that I think some large companies are getting a lot more v
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> when the developer decides you are no longer pure enough Which will happen. Purity wars in ideological movements are nothing new (and far from limited to the political Left!). E.g. Orwell was shot during the Spanish Civil War, not b
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I'm about as pro-capitalist, laissez-faire, pro-free-market as it gets. I was a literal card-carrying member of the LibertariaNZ party back in New Zealand. The spirit of this license disgusts me at a fairly deep emotional level. That
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> I'm astonished by the incompetence that's usually going hand in hand with the corruption I think it follows naturally. If you replace objective standards of quality with favoritism, bribery, theft, and fraud, then of course
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Well, I assume that along with her would also be a bunch of genuine cranks, mystics, "skeptics" etc. She'd be collateral damage. Similar case that springs to mind is the chap who had to infect himself to prove that stomach ul
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Muwhahahahahahahaha. True client story: I was once required to fill out opex/capex split timesheets into an Excel spreadsheet once a month, for each of my teams. The spreadsheet came with instructions containing dire warnings that chan
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
In what way? It's not like it's that long to start with.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I gave some thought to switching back when Eich "resigned". In the end I decided that continuing to support Mozilla by using and advocating for Firefox was the lesser of two evils - the alternative being to surrender to a Web mono
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Submitter here (and author of one of the bug reports that got merged into this one). My guess is the downvotes are an expression of the idea that, just because you personally find something relevant, doesn't make it okay for Mozilla to
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
That's pretty much why I abandoned Ubuntu Touch on my PinePhone, and switched to Mobian. Feels like running a regular GNU/Linux distro, just on my phone. Much more suited to my purposes.
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Firefox push[ing] irrelevant notifications(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
36 points by duncan_bayne 6y ago|14 comments
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Eh. If someone wants to fire me for chuckling at a bad-taste lawyer joke, I'd rather not work for them anyway ;)
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Jay Austin's Beautiful, Illegal Tiny House(reason.com)
4 points by duncan_bayne 6y ago|0 comments

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