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by gregknicholson 8y ago
This is great. It would be nice to have a way to auto-play each piece (something like https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/dronezone ) so that I can start the music automatically (e.g. from a script) withou
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
But you're an honest, decent citizen with nothing to hide, right? Why would you want to opt out? And anyway, it's “to improve your experience”, so you can't opt out. It's for your own good. Remember, Big Brother loves yo
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
But they can know which domains you visit, which would strongly imply a number of searches using DuckDuckGo, which might be interesting to Google.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
How important to Google is their web search product? I know it was their first product, but I would imagine they get much of their revenue from other avenues, such as Android's built-in totally-not-antitrust web search app, and YouTube
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
The article doesn't seem to explain why this subject is important — why should I want to learn about this?
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> The driver should not be punished for correctly using a legally purchased vehicle. So where's the market incentive to bother making the piloting algorithms less killy? Consumers will choose cars that prioritise speed and the safet
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
It seems to be working for The Guardian. I think if something's valuable enough, someone will be willing to cover the cost, irrespective of whether it's also freely available.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
“Days”?
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
XMPP and Matrix (and arguably ActivityPub) are open specifications for IM, each with multiple interoperable implementations. (I'm counting mxhsd as a 2nd implementation of a Matrix server; I accept that it isn't mature yet.)
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
The software will (I believe) be a rolling release, so they only really have to get the hardware right before shipping. What API design is there, beyond "Linux apps, probably GNOME with libhandy"?
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Essentially, it's GNOME. The shell is phosh instead of the GNOME Shell, but you can see from the video that the look and feel is intended to match GNOME Shell. The default apps will be GNOME apps. You should be able to run other Linux
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> According to one of the project founders they are cooperating with Delta Chat to ensure interoperability Great! Good luck to them.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
It's a good sign (I mean this sincerely!) when the first comment is the project founder with a caveat, setting realistic expectations. Keep up the good work! (…but do remember to get some bloody sleep every once in a while)
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
As a Gnome purist, I like Fedora. It's curated almost as strongly as elementary and Solus, just with a different set of software. Ubuntu is always a reasonable choice; I'd recommend it if you don't mind a slightly clunkier us
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
And it's not objective — one person's "education" is another person's "indoctrination".
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
I don't accept this assessment of how Bitcoin's consensus fundamentally works. Yes, anyone can fork the code, but consensus comes only when the miners choose a fork. As far as I can see, there's no significant incentive to
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> To go beyond the LAN, you point at a "pub server", which anyone can host anywhere. You could also get messages into and out of Russia by physically moving a laptop or phone with a Scuttlebutt client. Forgive my ignorance here
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
I'm hoping that Firefox is once again seen as a viable alternative, that “power users” would consider switching to if Chrome falls behind.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Have you met our lord and saviour Arch Linux?
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> Finally they combine all of this data with their knowledge of the person using the computer. Almost everyone on the Internet uses something owned by Google – search, mail, ads, maps – and as you know Google Tracks All Of Your Things. H
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Welp, it's a good thing these companies don't have a large amount of control over a lot of people's lives. And luckily their business practices are transparent and we all agree they're fair. This is fine.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> After extensive research and weighing the pros/cons of different collaboration options (covering tools like Discourse, Discord, Gitter, etc.), we’ve happily landed on Spectrum. What was wrong with each of those other options? To m
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Source: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce/%3C201902062237...
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Plus codes are just a well-specified algorithm for encoding lat/long. They are intended to be used alongside a hyper-local identifier, such as a door number (or colour or other symbol).
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Congratulations! This is xkcd #783. There's no need to remove addresses from places that already have them, and a system like [Plus codes]( https://plus.codes/ ) could identify physical locations without an address.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> I still believe social networks have a future, but that this future will have to be based on radically different business models, ones that do not see users as a commodity to be bought and sold, and that instead, respect them. I don&#x
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
If they allow each person to view a few articles for free, the “paywall” is just an inconvenience: you can simply make sure you look like another person. Mozilla and Google have decided that clearing cookies and faking a referrer is illegal
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Sorry Google, I feel "icky & gross" when you use me.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
This is a social problem, only exacerbated by technology. There's no technical solution.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> ...influencing future behavior... This is insightful (to me at least) — the next step after surveillance capitalism is coercion capitalism. I think the “nothing to hide / nothing to fear” people won't like being coerced. (Als

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