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by earthnail 10mo ago
It's interesting to read the praise for Apple TV here. I didn't like mine. My three years old Sony Bravia is really excellent, supports Chrome Cast, Airplay etc, has a great remote control, and a fast enough CPU that the apps don&
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by earthnail 10mo ago
On consoles, a review costs several grands. That’s the alternative.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
Oh please make it generate comments, too :D.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
Can you elaborate on what the bureaucracy is you experienced? I'm a Hetzner customer since last month and so far I thoroughly enjoy it. Have not encountered any bureaucracy yet.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
I don’t see how Suno is less evil if you consider the labels evil.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
I don’t fully understand that bit about the EU turning evil. Care to elaborate?
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by earthnail 11mo ago
But it’s on device, opt in. This is the way to go. No central government control. I really don’t want the British version with a central internet authority instead.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
With that way of arguing you can’t have any laws or regulation at all.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
I read the article. I just don’t share the criticism. “Only apps from safe places can be installed.” Yeah, d’oh. Otherwise, massive loophole. Yes, it’s a Nintendo-ify button for a PC. It’s opt in. And very convenient for parents. And if my
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by earthnail 11mo ago
We have mandates for all kinds of things, like movie ratings etc. I think it’s appropriate here. It just makes it easy. I don’t understand the pushback from tech companies either; all OSes already have a kiosk mode (incl the major Linux DEs
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by earthnail 11mo ago
But where’s the problem? This is opt in. KDE already has a kiosk mode for kids. Add a content filter aka adblocker for porn, done. I don’t understand the outrage here. Many parents who are technically illiterate would like to be able to lea
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by earthnail 11mo ago
DEs like KDE already have a kiosk mode. Just add an adblocker to it, for content that’s not child friendly. Done. Zero risk to Linux here.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
It’s just saying “include the equivalent of an adblocker” and allow parents to enable it. Frankly seems easier to solve to me than adblocking, and that’s already a solved problem.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
I’m gonna go on a limb here and say that I like this draft. It’s an opt-in measure for parents with a one-click solution. Think ad blocker but for adult content. Parents have to actively enable it. It’s on the device itself, not in the inte
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by earthnail 11mo ago
Totally agree. But parent‘s point was formulated as such that rules are generally bad, and I wanted to point out that some rules are necessary, and sometimes you may even need to add some (and obv sometimes also remove some).
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by earthnail 11mo ago
Generally agree, except for point three. - adding more rules creates more freedom. Imagine the US without a constitution. It’d be madness. In a lawless country, people would be less free to do things they actually want to do because they’re
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by earthnail 11mo ago
Also, to add to the “ideology”: it is bad to rely on other countries for fossil or uranium fuels.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
I don’t disagree. But good luck explaining that to the general public.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
No. Good nondeterministic models reproducibly generate equally desirable output - not identical output, but interchangeable.
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by earthnail 11mo ago
The Germans invented that too. That’s why the label Made In Germany exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany
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by earthnail 11mo ago
The countries that comprise the EU had been among the biggest warmongers for centuries. The EU is the most successful peace project the continent has ever seen. And the reason for that is that every country refrained from trying to be a sup
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by earthnail 11mo ago
The results are not reproducable, as evidenced by parent poster.
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by earthnail 1y ago
Both points sound really weak I‘m afraid. From the perspective of a ruler of a country, both are much larger attack vectors for adversaries than opportunities for myself.
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by earthnail 1y ago
I see your point, but I think the anger comes from the fact that 1. the title was unneccessarily editorialized, 2. the word gamified is used wrong here, and 3. There was never any good reason to add the word gamified to the title, other tha
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by earthnail 1y ago
Well, on mobile the underlying operating system is moving so fast that companies must continue to update their apps or else they stop working. It's the absolute inverse situation to the backwards compatibility story of Windows. That ki
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by earthnail 1y ago
The maintenance effort required on iOS is substantial. About a quarter of your full-time year needs to be dedicated to it. On desktop, you can just publish your software and slowly see it age as you work on your next big release. On iOS, it
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by earthnail 1y ago
And for those not so tightly in the loop: how does it compare?
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by earthnail 1y ago
And where exactly does Austria plan to dump its nuclear waste? Which beautiful mountain should become unclimbable? Nuclear waste storage has way higher public acceptance problems than power cables.
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by earthnail 1y ago
Absolutely, go for it. Feel free to use my real name if you want to: https://linkedin.com/in/tcwalther I previously founded and sold an AI startup to Spotify; that doesn't actually make me smarter than the average
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by earthnail 1y ago
Why for now? I see zero reason why that should change. It's not like Heroku was zero maintenance. I often ran into resource limits. I did a fair amount of optimisation on jemalloc to make sure Rails didn't run into Heroku's r

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