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by fapjacks 5y ago
Hello! Data hoarders [0] like myself use tons of automation for this task. For online videos specifically, I watch them locally so as to avoid as much telemetry as possible, and when I see a video I want to watch, I save it to a playlist. T
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Yeah bitrot is way worse than people imagine. About ten years ago (wow time flies) I ran an experiment to validate hyperlinks and measure bitrot and even then, links older than a few years did not work. This is why we will be leaning ever h
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by fapjacks 5y ago
This is exactly what I do, but I use a randomly-generated-per-call two-digit number to advance the caller from my (Asterisk-based) IVR. It works like a charm.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Privilege is being a day person.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
It's been clear to me we're at the tail end of the golden age of online videos and I and many others have been furiously downloading in preparation for the inevitable.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Microsoft repos were silently added to Raspberry Pi OS earlier this year, ostensibly "in case anyone wants to use VSCode" and definitely not just as a super shitty way of adding telemetry to every Raspberry Pi OS install without a
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by fapjacks 5y ago
If I buy hardware, it's mine, and I'll figure out a way to take ownership of the hardware I've been sold. One way or another, every artificial limitation shimmed into in every piece of hardware goes down in flames.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I interviewed at Doordash when they were just starting. I think I would have been like employee number twelve or something. To this day, I have not interviewed with a founder that repelled me more.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I think "unwitting mule" is something been happening for thousands of years, just with different tools.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
This is the crux of the issue. I have spent a lot of my adult life in places that would horrify the average westerner. The root of the problem in recognizing what could go wrong with this stuff, is never having been exposed to a jurisdictio
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Anytime anyone leans on the old "think of the children" meme, it should immediately raise suspicions about intent.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Decentraleyes is also very helpful on the privacy front. It will cache commonly included libraries like jQuery from various CDNs like Cloudflare, preventing them from tracking you across the internet. ClearURLs is another one that I install
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by fapjacks 5y ago
You can't answer that question any more than I can. This is a question for Andrew Lee.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I am genuinely curious: Was this at least partially in response to the bots over the weekend spamming "JOIN #LIBERIA ON LIBERIA.CHAT"? Because that probably didn't come from libera staff or even from the libera network, for t
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I've been trying hard to keep people from making rash decisions about moving, since I have read enough to know that there is some amount of duplicity on both sides of this split, and we were playing a waiting game for the truth to come
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by fapjacks 5y ago
While I agree with your assertion in the general case, I think the response from other factions is that they, too, must lie in order to compete, leading to much more systemic, intentional, strategic lies.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
What the fuck did I just read.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
We live in the age of the lie. It's impossible to take anything at face value, because it seems like every organization we interact with is just lying to us all at every opportunity.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
As with anything, we need to ask ourselves how something can be used to attack political enemies and punish outsiders. The woke politics thing is dangerous, and I think organizations (like the CIA) will ultimately be the ones to wield this
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Maybe it will surprise you to learn that monarchies (and their supporting monarchists) are a weird bunch, and will fight for generations over a throne that hasn't existed for generations. They will even have generations of supporters w
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I think this right here reflects the reality of many or most of the channels on Freenode. I am one of the few operators of one of the larger channels on Freenode and it cost me otherwise productive work time (with no warning whatsoever) jus
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by fapjacks 5y ago
It always comes down to money or power.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Is it possible you have conditioned yourself through the years of needing to reflexively post these kinds of replies? I took a break from HN when I took a break from all the things associated with the industry over the last couple of years,
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by fapjacks 5y ago
For one interesting example, take a look at how the Luftwaffe responded to the placement of machine guns on the B-17 and adapted to the number of crew members available to man the guns.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
However this is a statement of fact, not partisanship on my part. How do you suggest someone say this in a more neutral fashion? You can see some of the comments in #libera on the new network, and here is one of the staffers saying it in th
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I think "the RH crowd" does care, but they don't have the time or resources to learn. A bit surprised I'm saying this but, people generally care about their money. If they knew for example how easy it is to transfer ou
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I think we are exposed to the loudest and most annoying of these groups by media that has every incentive to showcase the nutjobs for clicks, and so this is what we remember, even though most people aren't this way.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
There has really been a dramatic shift on HN in the last couple of years.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Having read a lot about the air campaign over Europe over the last couple of years, I would gamble this weakness was known at least informally among Luftwaffe pilots, if not stated explicitly in training materials. This is exactly the kind
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by fapjacks 5y ago
And 50 years from now when I'm gone and the kids around here have grandkids, people will cherry pick shitty quotes from shitty people in 2021 about race or gender or whatever else suits their political aims and lots of people that reme

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