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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
A fallacy which the author acknowledges. > "I guess the best way to degoogle right now is to buy from Google" Google has a monopoly on sort-of-open-but-not-really smartphones. And interoperability on ARM desktop isn't look
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
git-annex does support rclone as a special remote iirc
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
With a16z's ridiculous, "spiraling to infinity" press release, or more generally the business culture that appropriates from Jorge Luis Borges' works to justify immense profits, one could generally apply Hanlon's Ra
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
Microsoft was caught doing it for the US federal government, so presumably Chinese software engineers are working on other Microsoft products too. I'll just say Microsoft is not the only company doing that, and there are also Chinese-o
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
Yikes, that'a not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of politics. In fact, it's one of the last thing that comes to mind, and whitewashing the behavior of the NixOS community leaders as simply, "politics" do
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
Obsidian is great, but it's no substitute for a text editor. It's more like a power user's Microsoft Office suite which operates on folders rather than files. Case and point: you can't even open plaintext files (.txt). A
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
Yes, iirc
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
> LFS does break disconnected/offline/sneakernet operations which wasn't mentioned and is not awesome Yea, I had the same thought. And TBD on large object promisors. Git annex is somewhat more decentralized as it can track
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
"AI" corporations aren't just "scraping" the fediverse. They are DDOSing independent websites all over the internet. Blocking and hampering their scrapers is often the best and only solution for some small indie sit
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
If you were intrigued by the prospect of riding on public transit through a city, there is a game called 4Ever Transit Authority which is literally just that. https://turnfollow.itch.io/4ever-transit-authority
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
To each their own. I love a mechanics-heavy game from time to time, but (and this is not NMS-specific) sometimes I want a more laid-back experience and/or just appreciate the game engine. That's not to say there can't be both
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
Trump's social media is literally named "Truth" Social. Incredibly Orwellian. I don't understand how people thought him being president a second time was a good idea.
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
With Donald Trump being president again, there is once again an increased risk of people getting cut off from healthcare due to pre-existing medical conditions. This discourages people from getting tests to see if they have risk for a disea
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
True! Open source = free stuff for a lot of people. This is why corporations like Microsoft encourage open source - so they can profit off of other programmer's hard work, without giving anything in return in most cases, and in rare ca
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by gradientsrneat 1y ago
I love how I can update Linux and expect it to get faster, not slower. Exception to be made for Nvidia drivers, but at least their performance is consistent.
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
VSCode's UI has a lot of distractions. Even if you use AI for other things, I can see the appeal of wanting to disable Copilot.
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
Automatic crash reporting with time travel debugging with capability for graphical snapshots of the frontend. Bandwidth reductions involving incremental loading of images, or not having to reload the whole site after a click. Most sites are
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
You stayed in the Tenderloin? Geez. Most large US cities have, "bad neighborhoods." It's not specific to blue states. The US cities with top highest violent crime rates are more likely to be in red states: https://
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
I've become so disenchanted with internet vitriol that it's surreal seeing these trolls attack a social media presence that's geniunely deserving. Still, I wouldn't invite any of these people to my house.
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
I despise Facebook for many reasons, privacy being a major factor. On the other hand, both Trump and Musk own competing social media companies, and the CEOs of other social media companies have attempted to curry their favor. So, there is a
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
Which three major gaming companies are you referring to? The ones that make walled garden consoles? At the end of the day, I boycott not just from an ethical standpoint, but from the perspective of a customer. Nintendo is a first-party game
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
Vine is definitely worth pointing out as it is TikTok's direct parent feature-wise. Still, YouTube's early democratization of video making for many people, combined with the (later?) recommendation algorithm, make it noteworthy as
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
Huh, TIL
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of guidance in that prompt for topics such as helpfulness, critical thinking, scientific reasoning, and intellectual honesty. Previous generations of LLMs have been accused of a bloviating tone, but is even th
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
YouTube is the original TikTok. Back in the day, there used to be a limited video length. The recommendation algorithm has always been very good, but for privacy perception reasons Google added a configurable limited time window for history
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
Sorry, I meant in the context of desktop operating systems. Steam page says only Windows is supported. Not sure why Wikipedia says MacOS.
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
Back in the day, we'd play city trial in sandbox mode and drive all the vehicles we unlocked up on top of the floating platform. The achievement system was also great.
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
A Kirby Air Ride successor? Kirby Air Ride was one of the best and most unique Gamecube games. A sequel to do the original justice would be a big deal. Sadly, Nintendo has made a reputation for itself as a copyright troll, most notoriously
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
The real movie was humanity all along.
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by gradientsrneat 2y ago
Forgot the elephant in the room here. Public transit fatality rates per mile are much lower than driving your own car.

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