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by genericid 8y ago
They can't. It may be technically possible, but users can't. Even for power users it's a pain in the ass.
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by genericid 8y ago
You don't HAVE to use energy, banking or telecommunications either. It's not like having a monopoly on food or water. The line you drew here is completely arbitary.
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by genericid 8y ago
This is nonsense. To start with, a capitalist is someone who employs and exploits a worker. A 1-man blogger (or a 1-man anything) does not employ anyone.
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by genericid 8y ago
Do you understand the difference between private and personal property?
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by genericid 8y ago
So you think that emojis should not have been added to Unicode because, in 10 years, they will be obsolete like Linear A (U+10600..U+1077F)?
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by genericid 8y ago
The original URL worked fine for me without Javascript.
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by genericid 8y ago
> It's new, and you can still save pages No, I can't. That does not work reliably. > Browsers will do their best In other words, they will fail. > Which one? Is there any cross-platform one with consistent design and UX?
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by genericid 8y ago
> As I said before, it's a 5-minute thing to get started with service-workers. Web-sites can use that and then you don't even need to save. I don't care if websites can use that if they don't. > You are dealing wit
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by genericid 8y ago
Quick experiment: In a new Firefox profile, I opened a couple of websites [1]. Then I went offline and tried to load them again. Every time I just got the default "server not found" page of Firefox. "Offline" is no more
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by genericid 8y ago
> I don't see how this contradicts my point at all. It doesn't, sorry for suggesting that.
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by genericid 8y ago
Not everything is a chat application. But even a chat application can and should partially work without an internet connection: Reading old messages and composing new ones can work offline.
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by genericid 8y ago
> Like any code which has network access, they can be dependent on various resources. Online resources. So you cannot run them offline.
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by genericid 8y ago
It does not apply to Trump.
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by genericid 8y ago
Unfortunately Javascript-infested websites are a bit of an archival nightmare. Javascript can do pretty much anything it wants, it isn't consistent in that sense. You can't run them offline. Javascript in the browser is just a bad
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by genericid 8y ago
> though maybe concerning that the host OS is actively "snooping" on what we're doing in a client application How is that concerning? The OS can do whatever it wants. If you don't trust it, you have already lost.
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by genericid 8y ago
> by default
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by genericid 8y ago
> these voluntary cartels very rarely work for a long period of time in a 'free market'. The Phoebus Cartel worked for fifteen years . That's plenty of time to prove that "free" markets just don't work. &gt
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by genericid 8y ago
> The cartel ceased operations in 1939 owing to the outbreak of World War II. World War II was a kind of competition, I guess.
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by genericid 8y ago
> Get on Premium so you don't have to listen to ads That's an ad blocker I haven't heard of yet.
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by genericid 8y ago
In theory, someone else could make an alternative client that behaves sanely. In practice, DRM.
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by genericid 8y ago
> Mozilla discovered that the vast majority of Firefox users, 99.9% according to the organization, don't use the functionality at all. Can someone put these guys in charge of something like an office suite? That'd be hilarious.
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by genericid 8y ago
No, they're telling people how to evade tax.
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by genericid 8y ago
> Government mandated ID cards and the authority to demand them at any time. > Searches without probable cause. > Elimination or severe restriction of anonymous financial transactions. You know that a jew-hunting government can sim
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by genericid 8y ago
People use Windows to run Windows applications. They use Android to run Android applications. Whether they would use it for the GUI and experience or not is secondary, they don't have much of a choice anyway. If an OS cannot run Androi
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by genericid 8y ago
Windows is free, ntoskrnl.exe and Win32 are properietary Microsoft software and they can be replaced, for example, with Linux and Wine.
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by genericid 8y ago
archive.org has a copy. http://web.archive.org/web/20180718181856/https://nimbleindu...
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by genericid 8y ago
Windows is also open. You can do whatever you want, it's just if you want their stuff (except .NET and Powershell), you play by their rules.
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by genericid 8y ago
Google has abandoned most AOSP apps. It has moved large parts of the API into Play Services. Android is not open, what is open is merely an incompatible fragment of an OS.
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by genericid 8y ago
If the principle of rule of law meant that a democratically elected government cannot use its powers to take care of its citizens, it would simply be a bad principle.
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by genericid 8y ago
AdNauseam ( https://adnauseam.io/ )?

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