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by hda2 6y ago
I'm a bit late to the bitcoin game (and gearing up to accept bitcoin payments in an upcoming project) so excuse me if my question is trivial, but how does bitcoin show that decentralization is a bad idea? Aside from energy consumption
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by hda2 6y ago
I know this is besides the point, but rust can be installed - without piping the output of a public-facing server into a privileged shell - by using their offline installer: https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/other-insta
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by hda2 6y ago
> hold down the power button and a volume button for a second On android phones, it takes a screenshot.
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by hda2 6y ago
That's what happens when you centralize silicon production to a few players. Integrated circuits are a requirement for modern life. Every country should have its own fab, even if not competitive, to cover its own needs during shortages
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by hda2 6y ago
I'd pay for a book that sheds light on the questionable decisions Mozilla has made throughout the years and the rationale behind them. From where I'm standing, they seem to consistently make the poorest decisions.
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by hda2 6y ago
OEMs and software vendors have been pushing hard towards locking-down and controlling people's computing devices and people have largely been indifferent. It genuinely seemed all was going to be lost until the tech industry went crazy
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by hda2 6y ago
Google did the same with Google maps and GPS coordinates: at first you could easily get the coordinates but now I have no clue how to get them. I've given and started using google maps. I hope antitrust action destroys them.
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by hda2 6y ago
they used to be, but not anymore. webextensions are usually not capable enough to support most of these protocols unless said protocols were designed to support the "web"
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by hda2 6y ago
> First of all, I've never heard of PING. Doesn't surprise me given how neutered it is. I wonder whether google considered the alternative (government intervention) when the vetoed this.
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by hda2 6y ago
I haven't jumped to the brave bandwagon just yet, but their native support for IPFS is very enticing.
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by hda2 6y ago
This reminds me of the Rust "community". They exhibit a lot of this toxic positivity, often to the determent of the discussion. I wonder what drives people to harm themselves and others like this.
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by hda2 6y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but how are you using .wasm in the browser? How are getting values out of the web assembly module?
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by hda2 6y ago
> If you aren’t willing to fork over $100/year to at least minimally tie an identity to your actions and go through all the signing nuisance then you don’t get control of my computer. I think what people who think like you are missi
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by hda2 6y ago
Not providing a standard view in their file picker is only one problem in a looong list of GTK/GNOME inadequacies. Try not having any way to set up or interact with system tray icons in a toolkit that purports to be a "cross-platf
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by hda2 6y ago
But can I only seed from a regular webtorrent seedbox without seeding from the server hosting the web app?
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by hda2 6y ago
Can peertube be split into two parts that live on separate servers: one that hosts the web interface and the other that seeds the videos? I would love to use peertube but the webhosting infrastructure I use would never be able to provide th
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by hda2 6y ago
Matrix as soon as they support short voice messages. My parents use voice messages to communicate with me so anything without voice messages is a no go.
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by hda2 6y ago
People might not be preventing failure by using ECC, but they significantly decrease the likelihood of having to deal with hard-to-debug problems caused by bitflips.
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by hda2 6y ago
I came to this realization a while ago: Without fail, one way or another, the shit US dishes to non-US citizens will eventually find its way back to US citizens. If US citizens shrug when their government does bad things to other people, th
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by hda2 6y ago
I don't think it's silly. Having access to high-level source code beats combing through disassembler output.
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by hda2 6y ago
> YouTube & co could not have been more lucky that an entire segment of the culture came up with the perfect catch-all term to enable them to walk back their horrible business blunders. I don't think they were lucky at all. Ther
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by hda2 6y ago
No, it really doesn't.
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by hda2 6y ago
My brother did, and he used it daily until Sony took it away.
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Ask HN: How can I disable the christmas theme on HN?
2 points by hda2 6y ago|6 comments
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by hda2 6y ago
I still remember how their developers requested that transmission (a popular third-party torrent app) remove support for system tray icons because Gnome removed them. They eventually decided to side-step developers and remove system tray su
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by hda2 6y ago
I don't understand how this can be argued to be a point in gnome's favor. Gnome's HIG is only followed by the 5 or 6 core apps that ship with it. The rest of my apps do their own thing (yes, even gtk-based ones). From my pers
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by hda2 6y ago
And water is wet. Apples priorities are still misplaced. The point being argued is that apple is not giving enough attention to important security issues while also preventing others from doing so themselves.
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by hda2 6y ago
Flexible open source systems with sane defaults and access to proper documentation.
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by hda2 6y ago
You don't "try pinning". You find proof. Again, accusing someone of something without proof solely because they have a history of doing it is moronic and downright retarded.
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by hda2 6y ago
I like the idea of innocent until proven guilty. Russia is guilty of a lot of things and their horrible reputation is well-deserved, but pinning any hack on them because I don't like them is moronic.

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