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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Did anyone notice the English translation of Lula's name is Squid? Honestly?! Fun fact: this name was originally a nickname only. Several election cycles after he became known as "Lula" there was a new law requiring can
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Beware these percents are only of valid votes (excluding spoiled and blanks), while the numbers from the site are relative to all votes. (this information is a given for Brazilians, but people who don't speak Portuguese may miss the
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Other people already explained the base case, but also: for voters who are out of the town were they originally enlisted, it just a matter of going to any poll station and filling a justify form. It is usually quicker than voting but, as th
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
But will Google respect this agreement? If the expected fines are lower the the value extracted from the data or if they can drag the eventual lawsuits for a long time, I'm pretty sure they will just exploit that information anyway.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
But it can only manage policies for Layer 4 and above, right? :)
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Then pay for YT Premium so you don't have ads. Nope. YT Premium only makes the problem worse by requiring you to log in using an account that is tied to your real world identity and was used for payment processing. You just end up
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Great! Also, good insight for basing a search engine on RSS. It is naturally spam resistant: SEO people and other spammers don't like feeds because they cannot bring them clicks and ad views, so no incentive for spam.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
That's nice. Will it start crawling for new feeds or they will be manually curated?
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> has decent interface with minimal ads For now, while they still in "bait mode". If experience has something to show in the web is that once they go into switch mode, the more and more ads will come, interface will become wors
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
This seems to me a fundamentally bad idea: signing commits should be a "long lived" thing, but using an infrastructure designed for easily replaceable authentication (ie: add your pub keys to servers and remove/replace/d
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Popular comment about Bellard yesterday? Bet you'll see a write-up of Bellard submitted today. I don't know what triggered this particular (re)submission, but I found about his quickjs hours ago by reading a thread about java
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> No amount of marketing nor "science" is going to change my mind: Aircraft cabin air is /motherfucking/ foul. I would trust the science, but not an ad from an airliner (which the linked page is).
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Companies wouldn’t touch a GPL let alone an AGPL with a 20ft pole. And this says a lot. GPL does exist for a reason and it is a hell of a good one: prevent the kind of leeching these companies are so fond of.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
It is like that "Stallman was right" subreddit is getting righter and righter every day. Except that Stallman is under some kind of Cassandra Curse, so people ignore all the signs, even when they are repeated by persons more skill
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> but I see no mention of it in my usage of the app. I understand it is country-dependent. Not sure if it users a whitelist or a blacklist, but not everybody will see it.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Imperial units (specifically, feet) are dominant in aviation to measure flight altitude. Despite a recommendation of ICAO to use SI units since 1979, only China, Mongolia and a few former-USSR countries (not Russia) use metres to defin
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Search for "old computer asmr" gave me this: https://youtu.be/tt3kYcHbbLg?t=160 (link right to the relevant part).
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
That's why torrents will survive for the foreseeable future. People got clever about avoiding these bait-and-switch schemes now that spending 5 min torrenting and 150 MB of storage per album became the easy, safe and private approach a
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Some nitter instances also show it: https://nitter.42l.fr/runews/status/1565319649683804160#m You can also search for #YandexTaxi : https://nitter.42l.fr/search?q=%23YandexTaxi
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
I hope my title does not fall in the "editorialized titles" rule, but I had to summarize two toots in that Mastodon thread into the 80 chars limit. The full text is: "I'm not sure if you've tried to migrate a repo
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GitHub API limits prevent Gitea project from migrating issues(social.gitea.io)
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Do anybody checked if the European DMA (Digital Markets Act) will be able to force Discord to open their platform for third-parties? Whether or not it constitutes a "gatekeeper" (in the DMA parlance) is a bit confusing for me...
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> It is important to remember that Germany has still very strong manufacturing industries who hold a lot of sway over the government. Good for them to not get rid of their industrial base otherwise they will depend on China more than the
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
I would take a step towards it, picking an example from a company that was literally created by the guys who caused Godwin's law to exist: imagine a bunch of software engineers at Volkswagen, all from different teams, being individuall
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> there is a certain kind of lock-in. But vendor lock-in is one of the perfect factors to considerate when monetizing these services, as are short notice periods, amount of work required for migration, and time pressure. I can imagine th
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Through the GitLab for Open Source program, open source projects Will a individual developer be able to create a repo for a small FLOSS project under these terms? I don't see the option there. And before somebody says that a small
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> but people are to use to just eat * but people are too used to just eat Sorry, I typed this quicker than I should ...
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
It should end, but people are to use to just eat every piece of crap that Meta drop on them. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp... neither of these services are the best of their class (some aren't even minimally usable when you know the
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Well, at least in the US training an AI will probably fall under Fair Use. Provoking question: so, will it be Ok to train an AI on leaked Microsoft code the publish the models (not the code)? Of course, MSFT won't accept this, but
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Same thing here in Brazil, but for 7 days. That's a law from 1990, written when "remote buy" mean buying stuff by phone or catalog, but also generically written to allow future technologies. That's up for almost 32 year

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