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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> The data hoarders of this world don't need you to submit your data yourself in order to have your data. It's the vaccination problem (not that one) — if enough people get vaccinated you can prevent a flu outbreak; if they d
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
tronc [vt] To make content unavailable in certain jurisdictions due to unwillingness to comply with their laws. Examples: * Tribune have troncked Europe because their data control is jazzy. * Google should really tronc China - fight the Fir
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> Result is equivalent to censorship. I don't agree that if a business chooses not to operate in a country, because it's unwilling to spend the money required to comply with the country's laws, that that is equivalent to c
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
My point is that Sears is synonymous with the concept only in some countries. Amazon seems to be established in more countries. In absolute terms, perhaps Sears wasn't as huge as it seemed from your perspective.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
I agree it's good to have someone else looking after your device for you. But Samsung's flavour of Android is not that. You have to pay extra attention because you can't trust it not to trick you into something you don't
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Librem 5 is going to be a phone that runs free software (Purism's Debian-derived, FSF-endorsed PureOS) on mostly–open-source hardware; any closed-source hardware will be physically separated and kill-switched. The dev kit is essentiall
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
How very generous of them! Not getting at you personally here :) just... it's astonishing how quickly we've gotten used to the idea that you'll pay hundreds of dollars for a licence to use a device that you're not really
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
For the sake of other species it's probably beneficial for humans to go extinct. In practice I think Earth will first become less hospitable to humans. The ones that survive will be those who can consume fewer resources. Maybe this p
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Not everywhere. In the UK that would be Argos or Littlewoods. I've only heard of Sears in passing on American TV shows.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
If that happens, I don't think the problem will be perceived as "Amazon" — people will say "online shopping" is untrustworthy, like how "social media" is responsible for the world's ills, not "Fa
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Yes, or local storage — they're essentially the same as cookies in terms of UX. I don't want to continue where I left off on another machine — right now I just want to see the thing in the first place. If you expect people to sign
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
This question — is maths discovered or invented? — was discussed at length in a recent BBC series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bn9dth
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
I don't use accounts with any of those companies, and I certainly wouldn't start just for a JS tutorial. Why not just save progress as a cookie? (Why do websites have to have centralised corporate surveillance?)
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> the ability to paypal or western union or otherwise send to people without their consent exists Surely the recipient has to create a PayPal or Western Union account first, which constitutes giving permission for that company to take pa
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
I think the [Franklin Street Statement]( https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Franklin_Street_Statement_on_... ) is a good start.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Antitrust?
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> move their budgets elsewhere This assumes Google isn't effectively a monopoly. Is that assumption valid?
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
The article is both a why-doc and a how-doc. I do agree that this is a useful distinction. I'd have called how-docs and FYIs "howto", as I think that term would be recognised more clearly, but that's a quibble.
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> this issue has gone unfixed, for unknown reasons The reason is just that no-one has thought it important enough to fix, and/or no-one has been able to get sufficient agreement on what the correct fix is. Let's not pretend the
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Chad's garage is becoming really unprofessional... https://xkcd.com/1150/
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
How many people here seriously thought “Gee, I was trusting Dominic, but now he's broken my trust”? So who were you trusting? What's the risk for Scuttlebutt, Dat and the Knight Foundation? Dominic will be the only maintainer of
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> The centralized naming scheme is to blame here It would have been better just to use URLs, so if you see "npm install https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream" then it's clear you're trustin
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
He's been too naive and creduluous in judging a person based on limited information. His coding skills aren't in question — the software was fine while he was still in charge of it. I suspect Dominic didn't see himself as th
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
https://reproducible-builds.org/
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> And if we are concerned, we should, he would advise, simply make a fork and write an email to npm to warn them. Well... yeah. If you don't trust him, don't trust him. If you don't trust NPM's vetting, don't tru
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
> Unless a literal city council thinks Doesn't seem likely. Seriously, I'd imagine they treat it as “someone else's problem” — like backups. If GitHub gets hacked, I imagine their plan is “be affronted, and sue”. When GitH
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
Surely there was an open procurement process, where they considered the available options for web-based version control, and came to the conclusion that GitHub was justifiably better than its competitors. They wouldn't just have picked
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
If Sono Motors' Sion lives up to its description, it's approaching usable for commuting using only solar power. https://sonomotors.com/sion.html/#st-viSono Edit: Ah, this car is mentioned in the article. Good
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
I've been using macOS at work for a few weeks now, and I'm surprised at how buggy it is. Sometimes it just refuses to wake from sleep, and I don't understand why. I used Linux on an Apple laptop for years and didn't have
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by gregknicholson 8y ago
If the code was AGPL'd and included contributions for which DDG didn't own the copyright (so DDG would be using the code under the terms of the AGPL), they'd be breaking the licence terms if they failed to disclose any change

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