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by feanaro 4y ago
ebooks.com looks great, I didn't know about this! I would gladly pay a premium for non-DRM versions of all books I buy and I'll be using this as a source in the future. However, I'm very militant against DRM, so in situations
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by feanaro 4y ago
Buy an e-reader which doesn't require an account, like some Kobo devices (I'm most familiar with the Kobo Aura ONE which is an older device but there must be others). Then buy some books in epub format and strip their DRM, or if t
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by feanaro 4y ago
So just buy a Kobo device without any account whatsoever and upload DRM-free epubs to it.
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by feanaro 4y ago
If you take a step back, it is a great and profoundly absurd mystery that there is existence at all. So given this background absurdity, how do you even delineate what's absurd and what's not, when it comes to concepts relating to
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by feanaro 4y ago
Buddhism has plenty of "absurd" beliefs of this sort. If anything, the delineation of "absurd" is anything but simple.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Reusing passwords or having low entropy passwords is a larger risk. The thing is... Your password manager should be offline, not a cloud service.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Well I have benefit from running AI on my device, so surely a company will appear in time to take my money. Not to mention there's some cost cutting involved if you offload computing to the customer's device.
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by feanaro 4y ago
I self-host my email, thankyouverymuch.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Use Recoll, a desktop full text search tool which uses Xapian as the backend.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Maybe in the middle part of that period. I'm saying that when it first appeared, it wasn't clearly superior. I'd argue it's also not clearly superior anymore. To bring my own experience to it, I stuck with Firefox all th
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by feanaro 4y ago
When Chrome initially appeared, it was pretty much on par with Firefox, not significantly better. What made it succeed is great marketing and being forced and pushed down every possible Google channel there was, including being preinstalled
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by feanaro 4y ago
"Sick of being forced to watch pesky ads instead of the video you actually want to see? General purpose computing is the reason you can."
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by feanaro 4y ago
Here you go: https://vcmi.eu/
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by feanaro 4y ago
> It's not necessary. I didn't mean "necessary" in the sense of modal logic, but in a more colloquial sense. Physical laws as known to us today are described using mathematics. We know of no other viable ways to descr
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by feanaro 4y ago
You list out a lot of propositions in your comment about what Matrix's role model can or cannot do compared to Discord's, but only some of them are actually true. To attempt to distill the real deficiencies: - Non-monotonic roles.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Wickr is hardly the only platform with end-to-end encryption not requiring phone numbers. The same applies to Matrix, for example. That's not a valid rationale or explanation for shutting down a platform.
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by feanaro 4y ago
That's just some additional structure pertaining to, specifically, clouds. One cloud standing close to another cloud still equals two clouds, which is what 1 + 1 = 2 is really encoding.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Saying Mathematics ≠ Reality fails to capture a large portion of the story, since a subset of mathematics is clearly necessary to be able to encode science, and confirmed by science, and is in that sense a part of reality.
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by feanaro 4y ago
I predict future generations (maybe even those being born right now) to start moving away from recording and uploading everything as it's the uncool thing their parents are doing.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Judging by some of the kneejerky comments in this thread, we should definitely shut down email.
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by feanaro 4y ago
This is a useless feature. Source: I have this blocked and I'm not missing anything. If a feature needs to phone home, I don't need the feature.
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by feanaro 4y ago
If Amazon doesn't demand it, then it must be the book publishers that are actually demanding it. So it's not just big bad Amazon after all. That's interesting.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Some alternative ideas for making JSON more readable: - Pipe into gron ( https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron ) to get a `foo.bar.baz = val` kind of syntax. - Pipe into visidata ( https://www.visidata.org/ )
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by feanaro 4y ago
matrix.org is interested in standardising, see https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mimi/jvyvyJwgUhNgFyNYm...
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by feanaro 4y ago
Not all of them did. Domains shouldn't be related to citizenship anyway.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Luckily there are many, many countries in the world with no semiconductor industry of their own who benefit from no single company or country staying as the perpetual, unchallenged giant.
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by feanaro 4y ago
> but also any company that matters. Wow, that's pretty loaded. Is this some kind of no true Scotsman situation?
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by feanaro 4y ago
Are you sure everything has? Smart appliances in particular are typically terrible with security, so having access to their network certainly gives you an edge.
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by feanaro 4y ago
> I went with building an isolated network, but I think that's outside the relm of what most consumers can do. A bit off topic, but can we please stop calling people "consumers"? It's such a weird and patronising term
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by feanaro 4y ago
Yes.

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