grey_earthling

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by grey_earthling 4y ago
“You” works the same way, for the same reason: originally it was only plural (and “you” started to be used as a singular later than “they”). Notice “skate” versus “skates” in these cases: - Alice skates; Alice is a skater. - Alice and Bob s
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> under federal labeling rules, they can’t state that their products contain sesame unless the items actually contain it — so they’re adding sesame and labeling it This is the crux of it. Here in the UK, it's common for food to be l
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> why would that need a blockchain (even without proof of work), as opposed to simple signed, timestamped, indexed posts and having the reading client app check the signature and post indices? Yeah, that's exactly what SSB does, plu
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
In SSB it's a public key. Most users announce their own display names (which needn't be unique) and some clients let you set a pet name for other users (like a phone's contacts list).
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> What problem, exactly, is a blockchain based social network trying to solve? Proof of origin? (SSB is blockchain in the strict sense, but there's no proof of work or anything like that. Each feed is its own append-only chain with
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
Basically, copyright. The BBC generally doesn't have the rights to stream programmes outside the UK. Even within the UK, they often don't have the rights to stream programmes they've acquired for linear broadcast (typically s
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
They also co-ordinate development of Forgejo, a soft fork of Gitea (and Codeberg now runs Forgejo rather than Gitea).
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
Pocket is a proprietary centralised bookmarking service, which uses Firefox as a vehicle to compete against Wallabag, which is open source. Mozilla promised to open-source the Pocket server years ago, but they still haven't.
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> A search engine’s job is to surface reliable information quickly. I disagree with this. For me, a search engine's job is to find relevant web pages quickly.
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> Never understood why more didn't just go with Fedora back then. For me at least: back then Fedora didn't have a supported non-terminal way to upgrade to a newer major version. (Whereas now upgrading Fedora is more polished an
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> Software updates rarely work. There are random crashes that take hours to fix. This (IMO) is precisely why Ubuntu is not a user-friendly distro. Fedora (and especially Silverblue) is much more user-friendly in this regard. I know it&#x
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> Look, if you are hiring an engineer, it's easier than it seems. Just sit an hour with them and have a good talk about his career on the business domain or the technical field. “his”? Doesn't sound like a very fair recruitment
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. Unless the broadcaster cares about their show and wants people to hear it. If enough people care enough, someone (perhaps the broadcaster themself) will f
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
Fedi.video has a lot of recommendations, which you may find useful: => https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
jan utala li toki e ni: ni!
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
It's called “Pocket”, so probably not ;)
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
Different jurisdiction to what? :) My UK-based employer seems nonchalant about expecting me to agree to be subject to the laws and courts of California in order to receive internal company newsletters delivered via a 3rd party. While I agre
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
If you're going to bother migrating and presumably taking people with you, why migrate to another company's proprietary service, rather than an open protocol? Or (bluntly): why not Matrix (and/or XMPP)? What makes WA so much
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> Companies (Google or Apple) are never on the consumers side, and yet we fall for it all the time. It genuinely surprises me how often the HN crowd falls for it. I would have expected them to be more aware than the average consumer of h
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
“You aren't gonna need it” is ordinary colloquial British English. “I aren't…” is not.
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
https://tauday.com/ is a good entrance to this particular rabbit-hole.
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
The EU's browser ballot was a solution to the wrong problem. The problem wasn't that IE had a monopoly within Windows; it was that Windows had a monopoly on computer OSes. (And Microsoft actively reinforced it by saying that if yo
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
Ah, yeah. I don't think anyone sells laptops with Silverblue pre-installed, so that would be a hurdle. After that though, IMO Silverblue fits the bill very well, and may surprise you with how polished its update/upgrade flow is, e
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
Yeah. Maybe this will turn out to be a genius strategic move, but it just seems weird . It's the same sort of cognitive dissonance as if a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant just announced they're adding a Subway Footlong sandwich
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> A true laptop-appliance with an immutable-ish OS, decent security and fast/easy updates is actually a quite compelling notion. I'd be pretty uncomfortable with it not being local-first for user data though. Fedora Silverblue
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> Framework began with the goal to remake consumer electronics to respect people Do you honestly believe Google respects people? What measures have you put in place to mitigate Google's surveillance of its users?
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
It depends what you mean by “secure”. I don't count leaking data to Google as “secure”.
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A Climate Love Story(dothemath.ucsd.edu)
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
They mean Brendan Eich. He was appointed Mozilla's CEO. There was then some public discussion about his political donations (Brendan donated money to a campaign trying to prevent gay people from marrying because of their gender) and wh
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by grey_earthling 4y ago
> has essentially been erased from the internet > This post is a cry for help to Google to stand up for smaller web developers You perceive Google removing you from their Search service as being essentially erased from the internet, w

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