gaius_baltar

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by gaius_baltar 1mo ago
Same thing here. I can get it with Tor as most of the exit nodes as far from Brazil (for good reason). Perhaps we should mirror the entire site (it seems to be plain good old HTML) and archive it on IPFS or so to get rid of these dumb geobl
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by gaius_baltar 2mo ago
> It does not take $60 to ship small sub $1 chips from Asia to Nigeria/Bangladesh So don't even try to find how expensive is bring these to Brazil. Even the $5 orders from JLCPCB become infeasible for hobbyists here due to all
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by gaius_baltar 5mo ago
> 1. Never underestimate developing countries' governments' willingness to absolutely bend their people over to extract tax revenue (and then their corrupt representatives extract bribes on top of it) As a Brazilian with a love
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Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the codebase from LGPL to MIT(chaos.social)
3 points by gaius_baltar 7mo ago|0 comments
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A [Firefox, Chromium] extension that converts Microsoft to Microslop(addons.mozilla.org)
29 points by gaius_baltar 7mo ago|13 comments
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Pwn2Roll: Who Needs a 595€ Remote When You Have Wheelchair.py? [video](media.ccc.de)
3 points by gaius_baltar 9mo ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 10mo ago
> "...what do you mean, 'World War One?'" Oh sorry, spoilers. (Hell, I miss Capaldi)
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by gaius_baltar 10mo ago
Thanks, I didn't know this trick! Perhaps soon we'll need to keep lists of per-site white-listed user agents...
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Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening(economist.com)
52 points by gaius_baltar 10mo ago|66 comments
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by gaius_baltar 1y ago
Would CBP pay the travel costs? :)
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Ubuntu Stainless Steel Edition: A Corrosion-Resistant Alternative [April First](discourse.ubuntu.com)
1 points by gaius_baltar 2y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
> What is your process for automating this checksum twice a year? Backup programs usually do that as a standard feature. Borg, for example, can do a simple checksum verification (for protection against bitrot) or a full repository verifi
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
Did my best to try to summarize the issue within the length limit but, hell, that's hard to explain with so little words. At least the actual post does a good summary of it.
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Hachyderm.io bans post on Swedish TV as disinformation for not being in news(hachyderm.io)
2 points by gaius_baltar 2y ago|1 comments
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
> Are there any examples where legitimately purchased licenses were made unavailable? From customers point of view, these purchases were legitimate. But the important point is that they did it in the past and only the right balance betwe
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
I'm surprised that it had not started before. The cycle o bait → switch → enshittify is faster and faster after all.
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The Freedom Covenant(github.com)
2 points by gaius_baltar 2y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
Brazil had a similar thing a few weeks ago, but it got drowned in the news because if was related to the Twitter/X block. While the block itself may be legitimate, as the motivation was the refusal from X from deleting a few tweets dox
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
Jokes on Boeing are ok, they are just people with some loose screws.
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
> I don't understand the hate. They did a very bad decision and had major backlash. Fast-forward one year: they rectified it completely, they greatly improved the free terms compared to what was before, they replaced the CEO and oth
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
A more fitting quote would be "They gave them the propaganda number".
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Brazilian Supreme Court serves a court order to Twitter through Twitter itself(xcancel.com)
2 points by gaius_baltar 2y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
That's lemmy.ml . See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41143632 edit: they already did.
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
It still down at the moment. Is there any details on the outage somewhere else?
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
Funniest thing is that they are the same people who reject Linux because they need to read some docs from time to time.
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
> Disclaimer I am not very familiar with Linux for Desktop - but to me this is an indication that we are not yet in the "just works" state for desktop linux. Or it does just mean that while the Windows recurrent problems (how t
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
> edit: I mean they had to remove Solitaire and Minesweeper to save space... Don't worry, you can still install Minesweeper from the official store ... with ads and play-to-win microtransactions. https://news.ycombinator.
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
I should have used the title "The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram" but let's tick to he rules!
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We tried to design the perfect sellside note. How did we do?(ft.com)
1 points by gaius_baltar 2y ago|1 comments
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by gaius_baltar 2y ago
In Brazil we have an entire PKI based receipt system, every single purchase generates a full listing record straight to a government database sent in realtime (or later, in "contingency mode" as called, if having network issues).

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