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by frabbit 6y ago
Sure. Agreed. I was responding to your statement that you can send encrypted SMS messages using that handy PSTN directory access provided by Signal. You can't. I think this is a common misconception.
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by frabbit 6y ago
I use Signal because I think it protects my SMS messages It depends. I think calling them simply SMS messages instead of being more precise is misleading because: Text messages sent through your mobile SMS/MMS plan are insecure and
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by frabbit 6y ago
As soon as I see anything nVidia related I know not to waste my time with it. I am not a gamer, I want secure, easily-updatable, stable drivers. That is exactly what you will not get from nVidia. Intel or AMD are the only sane options.
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by frabbit 6y ago
Signal falls into an uncomfortable place for me. I like pre-paid cellphone plans which give me a small number of text messages, a small amount of airtime. Using these I can communicate with people when I am not near a WiFi AP. I do not wan
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by frabbit 6y ago
/That/ I would pay for. Add in Matrix server(s) , email hosting and I'm a subscriber.
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by frabbit 6y ago
If I decide to wastefully and stupidly order a bunch of extra clothes and food when I can fulfill the same requirements by other means... then, yeah, sure. Imagine walking around with an extra 1000Kg of clothes on me powered by fuel extract
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by frabbit 6y ago
we must also note that environmental footprint of private residencies (HVAC, water supply, trash collection, construction process itself) is pretty bad as well; Absolutely, this is another excellent argument against mindless sprawl. unfi
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by frabbit 6y ago
Yeah, I don't buy any of that. Why would a programmer, artist, schoolteacher, hairdresser, restaurant owner need to travel any great distance from their village or town? Most people in the world already live in cities... and they like
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by frabbit 6y ago
It's not just ICE vehicles. These are obviously the worst, but even the most modern, efficient EV causes a massive number of problems when chosen as personal transport: * It makes the streets dangerous for everyone else * It occu
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by frabbit 6y ago
It's not just the US. It's everywhere. I have seen quiet country roads perfect for relaxed cycling and walking turned into dangerous, loud irritations by people who claim to 'love the countryside' as they drive their mo
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by frabbit 6y ago
Interesting re-framing of this sort of operation as 'Dark Kitchens' which facilitate worker abuse in this discussion on Trashfuture: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iaxgv-e4084a?utm_camp...
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by frabbit 6y ago
Obviously not answering for the OP, but: because sites disappear or change and also having a local database that does not depend on internet access is wonderful. (Zotero is also great in this regard).
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by frabbit 6y ago
I have heard people use "a commercial" quite a bit in QC.
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by frabbit 6y ago
I also don't like the idea of étiquette for "tag" instead of balise (which suggests navigation instead of a label or price tag in a store) https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/balise
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by frabbit 6y ago
Don't know about most of them but I like courriel and pourriel (the latter having connotations of rottenness) much more than e-mail and spam. I don't see why Latin/Greek originating words like ampersand need their own &
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by frabbit 6y ago
I take your point, and I am slightly on the fence about this and trying to figure it out. I found this¹ a very useful criticism of the Taibbi line-of-though(that I am also very persuaded by) I will admit: a) individuals and groups should b
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by frabbit 6y ago
Punished by the state specifically. I don't see how you could enforce speech _not_ having social consequences, nor what the purpose of such speech would be if that were possible.
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by frabbit 6y ago
I mostly agree with this: am pretty much a Free Speech absolutist. However, I can't help but suspect that the reason we're hearing arguments about this now is because the liberal-Left are aggressively exercising their intolerance
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EU Covid Tracing Apps' Privacy Questioned by Irish Researchers(thejournal.ie)
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by frabbit 6y ago
Agreed on the SIM swapping being irritating. It would be nice if it were in some sort of caddy. I also have a spare battery and find it irritating to swap it out.
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by frabbit 6y ago
I missed this which irritates me: I have the first Jelly and would definitely like a larger battery and better GPS. May still order one later anyway. I love the size and convenience. I find the keyboard surprisingly good for such a small
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by frabbit 6y ago
Although I like the idea of stopping the insane susbidies given to private automobile transport I do not like the narrow, bi-directional bike lanes that this article is illustrated with. When I cycle I want the option to ride side-by-side c
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by frabbit 6y ago
It seems very unlikely that this report would fall into the well-known problem of not accounting for urban heat islands: https://www.skepticalscience.com/urban-heat-island-effect.ht... Are you specifically clamining that th
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by frabbit 6y ago
CORRECTION: USA 2010 emissions were 5.9 million metric tonnes and dropped to 5.1 in 2019 according to: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...
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by frabbit 6y ago
I completely agree that is doable, and indeed profitable for many of us, but it is only a partial solution. That same report says: a 90 percent carbon-free electric generation sector by 2035, which would reduce economy-wide emissions 27 pe
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by frabbit 6y ago
I know we are not supposed to comment on voting here, but I would appeal to whoever is voting this response down to please consider making a reasoned rebuttal of it instead. Down-voting is supposed to be for something that is just complete
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by frabbit 6y ago
While I agree that a single person reducing their meat and gasoline consumption means nothing, a single person not reducing said consumption probably makes things worse. Why? Because it can become a personal spur towards getting something m
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by frabbit 6y ago
The idea that we can accelerate progress without having any realistic prospect of magical future technologies to produce power is part of the problem. The most likely way to meet targets is in reduction of energy consumption. That is t
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by frabbit 6y ago
Before ranting David Mitchell would be wise to learn the difference between: - Gallic == of, or pertaining to France - Gaelic == the dialect of Irish spoken in Scotland - An Gaeilge (or just 'Irish' seeing as he's an English
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by frabbit 6y ago
By coincidence I was just watching an 8 year old Teilifís na Gaeilge (TG4) program in which the protagonist attempts to travel the length and breadth of Ireland speaking only 'as Gaeilge'. The scenes in which he attempts to get st

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