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541.
by hkt 3y ago
I love it. I've wanted something like this ever since nanoblogger died. Cheers.
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by hkt 3y ago
Which country? 89 makes me think not Russia.. Romania? It is worth pointing out your observation applies to lots of post-colonial societies, too. Socialism took Tanzania's literacy rate from about 10% at independence to 80%+ in a gener
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by hkt 3y ago
Some people find this helpfully confusing: it allows them to remain in denial of the obviousness of how horrendous the ruling class is.
544.
by hkt 3y ago
Why not? Well, if you're self hosting for yourself, friends, and family.. it isn't likely to be a thing you'll want to care about fixing when it eventually breaks in mysterious ways. Better to use sqlite or just a blob of yam
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by hkt 3y ago
"as" He means DH, as in Diffie Hellman, was not the first approach to key exchange. The difference is that in the UK we did what we usually do: we squandered an amazing innovation and let some other country benefit from it.
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by hkt 3y ago
Far more people need to say this. Remember folks, this week Boris informed the covid inquiry he has "forgotten" the pin to the phone all his WhatsApp messages from that time are on. If it was one of us, they'd use the bit of
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by hkt 3y ago
I read about the long walk of the Navajo recently. You can say that again..
548.
by hkt 3y ago
It makes sense that Tor would be funded at a level that allows it to defend against the intelligence gathering capabilities of most countries, but not so well funded that it can exceed the intelligence gathering capabilities of the US. Howe
549.
by hkt 3y ago
It is always a little bit bizarre to see things like this. Domains are generally for organisations, for good reason: they cost money to acquire, they're globally unique, and they cost money to run. Identity is a funny thing, and certai
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by hkt 3y ago
Keeping in mind european attitudes to carrying ID - in some EU countries there are formal and informal penalties if you don't have it - this is not especially far fetched.
551.
by hkt 3y ago
I suspect the thing people find offensive is that this is not the default
552.
by hkt 3y ago
That is a really interesting response and I hadn't considered any of it. TIL. Relating to this: > so what's going on here is that local mining companies are fishing for government subsidies with rhetoric about sovereignty based
553.
by hkt 3y ago
Alas, lots of devops feel like they're cleverer than they are. I certainly did when I was younger. The sign of seniority in a devops engineer is removing code, breaking down complexity, and being able to design simple, standalone servi
554.
by hkt 3y ago
As a devops engineer, 100% of my time is wasted on computer problems. I increase my efficiency further by following instructions to the letter: this allows me to also waste multiple 10s of %s of other people's time too. The 10x program
555.
by hkt 3y ago
Ah, finally a way to turn the output of nodejs programmers into something less hateful! All it took was the early days of the singularity ;)
556.
by hkt 3y ago
Seems eminently doable though. I for one look forward to seeing it loaded in!
557.
by hkt 3y ago
Self hosted alternatives: Gogs Gitea GitBucket Sourcehut In fact, just google it. Torrents-csv uses gitea: https://git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-server
558.
by hkt 3y ago
We won't get there while people would rather rely on doing a bit of systems administration and hoping a developer can pay the bills. Not without strictly ideologically motivated admins and devs.
559.
by hkt 3y ago
See my comment above: these companies could be the formal and effective property of their users.
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by hkt 3y ago
Centralisation vs decentralisation in tech is pretty much irrelevant. What is relevant is governance. We allow billionaires and venture capitalists to govern a commons that we all rely on. Surprise surprise, it isn't going well. The so
561.
by hkt 3y ago
I came across this recently while looking at buildroot and tinycorelinux. I'm still working on it but tinyX+awesome is my target for a kind of minimum-viable-system. I love software that I can conceivably learn enough about to contribu
562.
by hkt 3y ago
Not really. I've found the opposite: last time I was single I spent a year dating professors, PhD students, professionals of various kinds, scientists etc. It was off the back of a profile that was specifically designed to highlight my
563.
by hkt 3y ago
Style of communication matters. There are different modes of interaction and being a caregiver/care-receiver is one of them that doesn't mix well with being desired sexually. You can, however, switch between modes. This is in fact
564.
by hkt 3y ago
Totally. When my kid was young and I was out with him the other parents (invariably women) treated me as an oddity and assumed I would be incompetent. Yet, many don't like the fact they're saddled with the majority of childrearing
565.
by hkt 3y ago
If I was losing 10%+ a year I absolutely would. I'm sure not everyone would,but the present rate of investment is absolutely dire and needs to change. If inflation does that, then great. If instead it puts more onus on the state to inv
566.
by hkt 3y ago
Inflation means sitting on cash piles makes no sense: it spurs investment.
567.
by hkt 3y ago
This is exactly why criminal law requires two things: the actus reus and the mens rea . Act and intent. So, great point. I guess the only problem on the internet is it is very hard to determine intent, see Poe's law.
568.
by hkt 3y ago
It is worth remembering that France got its current constitution in a bloodless coup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1958_crisis_in_France It amazes me that the constitution that was put in place then is largely unc
569.
by hkt 3y ago
I'm not sure, but encryption was outlawed entirely in France until 1999 or so: https://www.theregister.com/1999/01/15/france_to_end_severe_...
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by hkt 3y ago
> freed under surveillance One of many problems with western societies at the moment is the idea that we can be free while under surveillance.

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