forest_dweller

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by forest_dweller 6y ago
PCs were not the only alternative to Macs in the Early 80s and 90s. In front of me I have an Amiga 600 (with an accelerator) and the whole OS can be installed from 5 floppy disks and is roughly equivalent to MacOS. I also have an Atari ST 1
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> The second component of independent-mindedness, resistance to being told what to think, is the most visible of the three. But even this is often misunderstood. The big mistake people make about it is to think of it as a merely negative
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
The bright yellow flashing balls are called a Belisha beacon and they are for zebra crossings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha_beacon Pelican crossings have the button you must press to cross.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
There is always someone that takes the most egregious examples they can find and then say "well if don't have strong government this will happen" ignoring all proportion and scale to any of these matters and the current reali
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Most of it you don't need. I think Stallman is a loon but he was right about the proprietary code making people slaves to it (but probably not in the way he intended). There is still lots of stuff I kinda have to use but I've mana
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I am aware what the caveats are regarding fighting words are. I think that is a sensible concession. However what most people mean by "hate speech" is protected from what I understand.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
My fellow citizens can do as they like. The problem is when they require me to consume the same news and information when I have no wish to.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
If I don't want to use an Apple or Android phone I can buy something else. I have a choice. If I don't want to use Windows or MacOS, I can use an alternative operating system. If I don't want to use Google's search engin
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
No it isn't a quaint idea. I am aware of the existence of shadow profiles and it doesn't invalidate the general point. Them having a shadow profile of me is an annoyance and is rather minor one at that. However I have no such choi
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
A corporation is much easier to get away from than a government. With a corporation you have a choice in whether you want to deal with them. Government not so much.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I did a quick google search as there was scant detail in the actual article itself. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/17/solomon-island... Some things that stood out to me: > Facebook has als
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> If the USA wants to support local racist terrorist groups, that is your problem. I don't think the USA supports that at all. They don't prosecute speech which was specifically what I was responding to. Not prosecuting speech
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Yes
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Yes it does. In the US free-speech does include hate speech. Even in countries where there is hate speech, what and what doesn't constitute it is normally broad, subjective and is frequently misused by state to prosecute people that ha
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
If you are using Windows there is SMTP4Dev https://chocolatey.org/packages/smtp4dev
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I host my own mail. It runs on a VPS and ti took me an evening to figure it out. Deliverability is fine as well.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
The guys that created the vampire accelarator boards for Amiga now have a open source (ish) OS called Apollo OS. It has a hardware abstract layer which hopefully means there will be a decent x86 port. https://www.generationamiga.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
It is an unfortunate export from the US that seems to have made it way over the pond.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
How about we just do stuff based on merit rather that picking people based on arbitrary characteristics? If there are these great stories to tell then they should do well.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> I do think there is a kernel of truth to what you're saying, but I don't think it's right to dismiss entirely the fact that representation IS important. This idea is insidious. Firstly people have to remember fiction is
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
There are loads of games with characters from every corner of the planet as playable characters. Why do people always pretend they don't exist? Just having a cursory look over my collection on steam: * Streets of Rage had black, white,
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I don't know. They have already had "not advertiser friendly" caveat which is a way of just disqualifying anyone they like. There has been several moral panics incited by the conventional media (TV, newspapers etc) about adve
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Dark Reader is pretty good. However Stylus extension generally work better IME. For wikipedia I use this theme specifically: https://github.com/StylishThemes/Wikipedia-Dark
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Thanks I will take a look.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Where? Most place seem to get quite expensive once you add a Object Storage on top.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
If you even have a few thousand people regularly watching you (whcih is common these days). The bandwidth costs start to add up.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
You are describing the Geil-Mann amnesia effect. > He used this term to describe the phenomenon of experts believing news articles on topics outside of their fields of expertise, even after acknowledging that articles written in the same
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
"Creators" went for direct monetisation because de-monetisation can happen on youtube for almost any arbitrary reason and there is almost no way to contact a human (as far as I am aware) to remedy such a situation.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Glad you agree that there would be at the very least, a short term benefit. Never agreed. You are obviously trolling. Goodbye.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Dusk is an amazing game. The gun, movement and general mechanics of the game are solid. The action is solid and the level and enemy design is great. There are quite a few “wow” moments in the game. For those that like these games I also rec

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