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by goku12 1y ago
> It's not just the OS makers. They're also responding to the demand of companies and governments to control their users through them. They will not say "no". I don't believe that entirely. For example, how much
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by goku12 1y ago
Direct install isn't true either when you think about package managers like Fdroid, Epic store, etc. They are about as indirect as the official stores. Perhaps you should try 'user loads' for them and something like 'off
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by goku12 1y ago
Have you considered the possibility that those 5% may be concentrated in certain markets, since it's mostly accounted by steamos?
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by goku12 1y ago
Those replies corroborate my point, if you think about it. They would have had an opinion if they had seen the alternatives. They would at least wish that Microsoft stopped doing these annoying modifications. I would know, because I have a
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by goku12 1y ago
> Personally: the idea that a "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy has always seemed like bulllshit to me. I don't know if I got this wrong, but the 'slippery slope' argument by itself never appeared to be a log
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by goku12 1y ago
I have been a computer user, developer and a system administrator for longer than I care to recount. I don't like Windows and I don't use it at work or home. But I do encounter it from time to time, and the experience is worse eac
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by goku12 1y ago
It's still government regulation. It's just that they have changed the target or regulation from commercial entities to regular individuals like you.
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by goku12 1y ago
> Are there still people who like using Windows? You are assuming that everyone knows about or ever experienced the alternatives. Windows way is the only way for many.
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by goku12 1y ago
Did she ever get anything side loaded like that? I have downloaded malware by mistake before. Not once were they allowed to proceed with installation. The only way I got anything side loaded was if I installed the first one (which is always
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by goku12 1y ago
Pandoc and git-annex in my case. Basically any substantial application written in Haskell.
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by goku12 1y ago
Why do some distro maintainers choose otherwise? I have seen some users complaint about this before, without any correction being done. So my guess is that there is something that forces those distro maintainers to make that choice.
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by goku12 1y ago
Very likely. But then, why is this an issue with Haskell alone?
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by goku12 1y ago
I used to have issues on Arch/pacman. Now on ebuilds/Gentoo.
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by goku12 1y ago
My only problem with git-annex is Haskell. I don't hate the language itself, but the sheer number of dependencies it has to install is staggering. Many of those dependencies are not used by anything else, or may be incompatible version
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by goku12 1y ago
National security concerns? Local energy sources improve energy independence and consequently national security. I get it. US has a lot of domestic oil production. So that isn't a big factor. But decentralization of power generation is
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by goku12 1y ago
RSS/Atom feeds can use them. How does it make sense to maintain two versions of the same data on the server?
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by goku12 1y ago
Here are some of the common sense rules for evolving a standard: 1. Keep the standards simple. Avoid adding features if you can. Standards define implementations. Don't invert that pattern and make the standards morbidly obese. 2. Keep
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by goku12 1y ago
How did this become a case of us vs them? Government websites are meant for our benefit.
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by goku12 1y ago
It's the use case. Here is one concrete example. I worked as a project engineer during the development of a launch vehicle. The telemetry data frames from every test and every flight were processed into numerous CSV or TSV files that w
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by goku12 1y ago
Why can't they retain stories like Dredd, The Minority Report and Continuum as fiction? They were supposed to be warnings, not user manuals. Something being possible doesn't always mean that it's a good idea. PS: This rather
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by goku12 1y ago
As someone else already pointed out, it's rather easy to find one law or the other that any particular person has broken - that's a fundamental problem with laws everywhere. So what you suggest is rather impractical when the regim
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by goku12 1y ago
That's what I was hoping for. Thanks!
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by goku12 1y ago
Please take this as a point of discussion rather than as an argument. That title is something that I and many others would have come up with on our own without needing any provocation. In fact, the exact same thing has been said numerous t
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by goku12 1y ago
Not surprising, given that hyprland switched away from wlroots. I assume that it's not that easy to switch a core framework like that.
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by goku12 1y ago
Neat! I'm going to try this one for sure. I really like the use of a programming language to configure and control WMs and software in general. I just find it easier to write programs than to write complex configurations. Even better i
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by goku12 1y ago
Honestly, the guidelines must also include a clause prohibiting those activities. Sometimes the pattern is overwhelming. But it's prohibited to complain about it. Not an ideal situation. Hope you'll give it a serious thought.
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by goku12 1y ago
> Probably labeling a removal of a format (which is somewhat niche anyway) as "killing the open web" was a bit hyperbolic and not entirely warranted in this case. Incorrect on three counts. That article lists a bunch of useful
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by goku12 1y ago
Respectfully, there is nothing baity about that title. The body of that article justifies it. XSLT is only about the last third of it.
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by goku12 1y ago
This was also in your reply: > Therapists can give you tools and strategies to avoid watching social media videos. Suggestion of therapy is widely misused these days to deflect attention and accountability from the fundamental issue - se
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by goku12 1y ago
DRM, device locks and remote attestation are hate-worthy uses of cryptography. But don't you think that crypto has far more well known and beneficial uses? I have a hunch that even a layperson will understand the implications if anybod

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