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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
It's written "Nim"
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you are confusing encryption and signing
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Pretty much any "social media marketing" firm would take money to shill some ideas online. There are many ways to do so, including sock puppet accounts and paid commenters. Every time the topic comes up here different accounts rep
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> But one pushes the person out of the locus of control. Mental illness does that. Also many other things, like going hungry. > Compared to when they couldn't broadcast it. In some mythical past or a real point in time? When peop
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> nobody takes responsibility for their actions or emotions anymore Compared to when? > nobody ever says "I am depressed", they say "I have depression", which is another thing entirely and delegates all responsibil
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> Yes, you can learn to regulate yourself. But everyone doesn't currently live in that world Humans are not going to turn into stoics anytime soon. Also, decades of advertisement are teaching billions of people to "follow your
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I never inflated my resume but I can understand that some *GOOD* candidates might inflate their years of experience out of a bad suggestion from recruiters, or because they see other candidates do the same, or because many companies greatly
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You can rely on the maintainers of the Linux distribution to do the work for reproducibility. While also providing security updates. And vetting packages for licensing issues. That's what distributions are for.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I'm not sure which issue is more polarizing on HN: nuclear power or Bitcoin. ...and every time there's the same litany of poorly researched talking points repeated ad infinitum. Almost nobody ever points out the systemic risk
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> If so, Moxie Marlinspike's method for becoming a billionaire by creating non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and providing Signal's source code is a very strange way to cash out of a unicorn. On the contrary: Step 1: The servic
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> it could be preferable not to rewrite parts of it under weaker licences that go directly against their mission +1. It's very sad to see user freedom being thrown away as a goal and replaced by software that becomes unpaid labor fo
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Debian has been building GNU coreutils and tons of more C reproducibly for years.
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> lower-end Android phone from half a decade ago and with only 2–3GB of RAM For $150 it's quite a good deal. Plus, the software stacks are quickly improving, especially Mobian.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Carrying a cheap/old/second-hand small android phone can be cost effective. Plus, it works as a backup for phone if the PinePhone runs out of battery. Also, PinePhone can run anbox - slowly.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The amount of binary blobs (in bytes) on an early 90's system is absolutely tiny compared to what's on modern hardware. Good security is about minimising the attack surface and risk, not reaching some ideal pie-in-the-sky complete
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> He wants a computer with specific features, but doesn't want pay for the models that offer those features because they are too expensive? Correct. He wants a computer with less complexity and less spying "features", and
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Buy a PinePhone. It might very well be more open and trustworthy than some laptops or desktops.
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> Free speech is about protecting the right of the un-popular and views that some may find utterly repugnant Wrong. From the third paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech """Freed
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citation needed
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User’s sense of entitlement is probably driven by many companies astroturfing FOSS. People are getting used to the freemium model popular in software, apps, games, and the "free" model of gmail/youtube/facebook (where yo
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Under GPL-like licenses you are obligated to provide source code if you provide a binary No, this requirement applies only if you are using somebody's else GPL code, and it's meant to allow other developers and users to benef
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The rules are rarely followed. So many times I get bunches of silent downvotes just because...
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Total deaths over 1000 years after a catastrophic release of nuclear material, for example 10 fully-fueled power plants being hit by missiles during a conflict. Also, probability of nuclear waste being unearthed in the next 50.000 years mul
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No. Accusing somebody expressing an ethical concern as "virtue signalling" it's often used to signal cynicism.
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That would be illegal in many countries.
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> ElasticSearch repo has jaw-dropping 1076 PRs merged for the same month Code change frequency is not a measure of quality or development speed. One organization can encourage bigger PRs while another encourage tiny, frequent changes. On
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Is everybody using 500ppi screens or is the logo ridiculously big?
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> conspiracy theory Sounds like a run-the-mill everyday business decision.
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The article is not arguing that the Earth should support 1 trillion people or some equally unsustainable numbers. This is not the point. The point is the racist and genocidal undertones expressed by malthus and repeated even nowadays: &quot
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Inequality mostly. Which is due to the economical system, and wealthy countries are largely responsible for this.

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