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811.
by fao_ 6y ago
Yes, if you, as a nazi or other sort of radical, create services dedicated to "free speech", that include people who are openly nazis, or otherwise genocidal in nature, people will not want to be associated with you. That is a con
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by fao_ 6y ago
Right, but the way it was phrased was that it was the CD that was being listened to. I was curious.
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by fao_ 6y ago
afaik pretty much all games work like that on a deep level? And it's an industry standard for game engines to expose their interface in that way. Anyway, it's in the README: ""24a2 can also run a function [...] when a do
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by fao_ 6y ago
> which someone would have to listen to 471 times to reach Spotify pricing. You might have misphrased, but in the event you didn't: How does listening to a CD generate revenue?
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by fao_ 6y ago
If you get a chance, please post it to the TUHS/COFF mailing list, it would be greatly appreciated. If you can't, do you mind if I crosspost it there?
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Flatpak – A Security Nightmare (2018)(flatkill.org)
218 points by fao_ 6y ago|120 comments
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by fao_ 6y ago
[citation needed] I know americans that use it, and south africans, and elsewhere.
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by fao_ 6y ago
The parent thread referenced windows as something that handles spaces in filenames. I'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted when my comment was relevant to the debate occurring, and my point (that all features have downfalls caused
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by fao_ 6y ago
But how difficult is it to move to whatsapp or something that everyone has supported, and most likely has on their phone anyway?
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by fao_ 6y ago
Yeah, but that makes every single file an object. Then you need plugins to deal with plain text objects, plugins to deal with every single type of object and their versions. Objects aren't human readable and if they get corrupted the o
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by fao_ 6y ago
Try finding out which registry key you need to edit to get something to happen. Some things across different systems have pitfalls as a result of their implementation, or some features have pitfalls. There are half a dozen things I can poin
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by fao_ 6y ago
You might like http://news.ycombinator.com/classic which uses an older ranking algorithm that (IMO) delivers more interesting news
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by fao_ 6y ago
Honestly this seems like a feature of the social circles involved. I can't really imagine being, or even wanting to be, around people who are so shallow they won't have someone in a group because they can't change the chat na
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by fao_ 6y ago
When I read it it was 50$ per month, so many they have changed their pricing? Or I could have misread? fake edit: yes, they reviewed their pricing since I read it. the "sync" tier used to be at the 50$ mark.
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by fao_ 6y ago
Can you re-read my post more closely and actually critique it. You chose one of my points, arguably the weakest (partly because it's an analogy -- analogies are mostly for flavour, they don't make a good argument but they help you
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by fao_ 6y ago
"But in total for a year," In other words, a year's worth of this (which is based off the idea that you would actually be using it. If you plan to use something you don't just stop using it after a month), is an entire
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by fao_ 6y ago
So you're saying that not only would it be better for the workers, but San Francisco would become more affordable to poorer people who don't have tech jobs and who were perhaps born there? Sounds like a win-win to me.
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by fao_ 6y ago
whups! corrected
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by fao_ 6y ago
I mean, if you're in a software job, sure. But in total for a year, it's almost 1 month worth of rent in the city that's close to me.
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by fao_ 6y ago
Hi there! It looks like you're shadowbanned, although I don't see the reason why. I vouched for this comment so people can see it, as it doesn't seem to be inherently harmful or against the guidelines. You should probably mes
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by fao_ 6y ago
Exactly. People on here seem to forget that almost every single rich person that can be named had hereditary money. Jeff Bezos now has more money than can be made if an American family earned 63k for 2 million years. He also had parents tha
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by fao_ 6y ago
These types of worries always strike me as worrying about keyhole surgery going wrong, before we are capable of making scalpels, anasthetic, or even video cameras -- or hell, before we even know what a tendon is or what the purpose of blood
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by fao_ 6y ago
> And after a while, I was wanting a way to have the keyboard and all its layers in front of me, as text, and to just simply say in a consistent way: "I want this key to switch buffers, that is, call `other-window` when I press it&q
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by fao_ 6y ago
Android 9 and 10 has multi-user. And if you take into account the "lending phones to kids" scenario it gets worse because that just means that when your 4yro kid gets your phone they can irrecoverably delete all your messages, s
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by fao_ 6y ago
> "It's kind of a difficult thing to ask. "Do you want this app to work like every other app in the world in the ways you've come to expect?" If people were to simply reinstall Signal and find that all of their c
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by fao_ 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted? Backups are an essential feature of chat apps, and it seems pretty sane that a lot of Signal users don't want any information stored in the cloud, full stop .
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by fao_ 6y ago
I mean, for a start the messages are stored locally, it doesn't protect the messages server-side, because they are never stored on the server. All the pin does is keep the server-side data, i.e. your address book and conversation infor
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by fao_ 6y ago
At this point it'd be easier to just duplicate the sources to an external recorder, right?
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by fao_ 6y ago
I guess? That's a fair point. Although I'm on the younger side myself compared to the average population here.
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Microsoft's still a business concerned with trying to dominate on as many different fronts as it can. It may have changed up its strategy, but the goal hasn't changed. And, while they do seem to be doing some good, their whol

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