gunapologist99

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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
"Papers, please" is the fastest and slipperiest slope to authoritarianism. Europeans are ironically blasé.
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
It's simply discounting the fees for that one user to zero. (It's not writing off a bad debt, which is technically different) So: your costs are still X but now your revenue is Y instead of Y + (that one user's fee which li
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
I can help you restore from backups if you will tell me where you backed it up. You did back it up, right? Right before you ran me with `--allow-dangerously-skip-permissions` and gave me full access to your databases and S3 buckets?
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
But in some ways publishing your opinions on other countries might be the equivalent of sharing your hand at the poker table, right? So this arguably strengthens the soft-power method as well. (OTOH, to your point: how you describe other
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by gunapologist99 8mo ago
I know this isn’t a popular opinion, and yeah, I will also miss it, but I’ve always thought the World Factbook was a strange thing for the CIA to be publishing in the first place. Not because the information is false, but because the act of
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by gunapologist99 9mo ago
This is also kinda funny and ironic: 'This is not, as I have labeled it, a flood, deluge, or avalanche. It's an earthquake. A rupture. Quiet in 2022, five-alarm fire in 2023.' (ibid)
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by gunapologist99 9mo ago
That does sound interesting; what is your business (or at least the category if you don't want to disclose)?
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by gunapologist99 9mo ago
Seriously reads like a hallucination https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by gunapologist99 9mo ago
I think parent was referring to how challenging it is to move data (files like photos and other types of files, all of which are only accessible through apps with those specific capabilities) out of the Apple mobile ecosystem and to somet
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Wikipedia Donation Destroyer(github.com)
2 points by gunapologist99 9mo ago|5 comments
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by gunapologist99 9mo ago
Funny but true
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Nucleix needs to focus on fixing middle-out compression instead of kicking cameras.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Yet another reason to switch to SSH keys instead of passwords wherever possible. Simple and bulletproof, with a minimum of footguns. EDIT: @tedunangst is right, wouldn't have helped. Even so, switch to keys!
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
.. thus removing a significant portion of income from these so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries. No one has accused Germany of being a tax haven, for instance.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
In fairness, closed source software is a very very tiny minority of the software available on Linux, which is why ABI backwards-compatibility hasn't been much of a concern. In that respect, it's essentially the polar opposite of
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Excellent article. The admittedly abbreviated history unfortunately completely missed the shared (and contentious) history between IBM's 16- and 32-bit OS/2 in the run-up to 32-bit Windows NT.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
For seldom used (or cared about) accounts, this is pretty low friction, and most of those will keep you logged in for an extended period of time. From a perspective of one of these people, why even bother with trying to remembering a login
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
And why, in 2024, is requiring any encryption at all a violation of RFC 5321, thus making any MITM literally a trivial and impossible to defeat downgrade attack?
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
>> Paul Krugman: "[cryptocurrencies] mainly seem suited for things like money laundering and extortion." > unhelpful and misleading misrepresentation This was a direct quote from the actual cited article that Mr. Krugman
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Paul Krugman: "[cryptocurrencies] mainly seem suited for things like money laundering and extortion." This is not new from him, but I still don't understand why he's a columnist for the New York Times , of all publicati
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Why is Apple promoting Chinese spyware apps?(thehill.com)
10 points by gunapologist99 2y ago|1 comments
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Dell Rugged vs Dell Rugged Extreme. Rugged Extreme is definitely as rugged as a ToughBook, but with that obvious very visible tradeoff in weight and size.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
I'd love to see a list of pros. There are no pros. It's effectively death to competitors and actually extremely damaging to the companies themselves as well.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
1. Of course you are right :) 3. Thank you! It just seemed quite curious (and I don't want a JRE!)
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Exactly -- or with a piece of their real estate! Just take a chainsaw, cut a bedroom and bathroom out, and the government gets that piece.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
A pretty good article and I am looking at Yugabyte more seriously (again). But I still have questions: 1. Is CockroachDB actually faster (generally) than Yugabyte? Their (own) benchmarks seem to show it is. 2. If true, why? Did writing thei
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
The DOJ has not a prayer of proving that RealPage (or its clients or whatever) controls more than a tiny minority of the housing market, because it just doesn't. This is a tiny tiny fraction of all housing nationwide. So, since it can&
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
> That reveals a startling statistic that 80% of the market is controlled by only 12,000 users. That's 433 units per user on average. This conflates the market for this type of software with the larger housing market. Presumably,
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
This is not appropriate for the DOJ to be taking up. They have nearly unlimited resources and have far bigger fish to fry. The appropriate enforcement agencies are the States' Attorneys General. If they feel that their constituents are
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Excellent point, thanks for the correction!

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