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by hkt 1y ago
I'd suggest anything able to match a professional doing knowledge work. Original research from recognisably equivalent cognition, or equal abilities with a skilled practitioner of (eg) medicine. This sets the bar high, though. I think
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by hkt 1y ago
Self hosting (which is often adjacent to local-first software) is fine. I've done it for years. But it is a nightmare when it goes wrong: the conclusion I've reached is that it is out of reach to regular people who don't want
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by hkt 1y ago
There's a subreddit for that
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by hkt 1y ago
No need to ditch Android. Fairphone exists: https://fairphone.com Their stock android is fine. If you want more privacy, installing e/OS/ is trivial. It blows my mind that anyone is concluding Samsung stuff is worth bu
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by hkt 1y ago
Used it for years, it is great. Webxdc apps work in both android and desktop clients (not sure about iOS) so I can play chess, share calendars and to do lists, and even collaboratively edit documents, all by email, all privately. Anyone who
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by hkt 1y ago
They're hoping that in the long run AI won't say no and will be cheaper
187.
by hkt 1y ago
Maybe there's more redshift than they intended!
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by hkt 1y ago
Maybe the right thing to do is to measure from ideal room temperature? From zero doesn't make any sense but setting an anchor temperature makes sense. This is done when people rate the efficiency of home heating: SCOP is a function of
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by hkt 1y ago
Terrible and predictable. Saw it coming years ago, and have used Wallabag ever since.
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by hkt 1y ago
Banks can potentially act as gateways that prevent large transactions that are otherwise possible with crypto. They can do this simply by saying that for any amount above a certain level, you need to attend in person. The whole "time i
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by hkt 1y ago
Fascinating how the wording has changed from sharing to tenancy. Maybe reading a bit more into it, but isn't it funny how the modern word evokes the landlord/tenant relationship? (I'm reading into this further than it needs t
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by hkt 1y ago
Features that are useful to competitors who would like to provide an alternative to a Google product also don't get prioritised, it seems.
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by hkt 1y ago
Regrettably competition law doesn't really work like this: in the US it doesn't kick in until consumer prices are affected, and in the EU it is a combination of consumer prices plus market fairness. Market fairness could be for
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by hkt 1y ago
It is a tragedy that this kind of visionary architecture isn't the mainstay of housing in the UK. I used to live in Park Hill in Sheffield, and the sheer beauty of those clean lines against a blue sky is hard to understate.
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by hkt 1y ago
See also, placing limitations on political and economic power.
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by hkt 1y ago
I love the web, but it is also clear that much of the internet is now a hub and spoke model. Client/server, in other words. The difficulty was always matching clients with different servers, and the centralised services never had to so
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by hkt 1y ago
Just disable JavaScript and get on with your life
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by hkt 1y ago
There's good money in it, I expect. Plus, there's no harm in making a career (or a joke) out of being vaguely anti-nonsense.
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by hkt 1y ago
Cloudflare being, if it wants to be, an epic MITM given its control of DNS and its role as WAF. Line level surveillance barely matters now.
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by hkt 1y ago
Reactions, though.
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by hkt 2y ago
Americans might not know their number is up explicitly, but they can smell it. The days of US hegemony are numbered. In one way or another, people get it. Why else would they want to Make America Great Again? It is an inherent recognition o
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by hkt 2y ago
German engineering etc was famously rather good before the war too. The Ruhr valley is part of the reason for this: energy sources (coal) and minerals (iron, copper, etc) very close together. It was the ideal setting for an industrial awake
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by hkt 2y ago
Why does everyone assume the commonwealth wants and FTA with us?
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by hkt 2y ago
Ansible? Fabric? Cloud init? Fabric is a favourite for this kind of thing (although I'm configuring VMs at runtime instead of building AMIs)
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by hkt 2y ago
Classic apple apologia: hey user who spent ££££, you're doing it wrong! Reminds me of that iPhone model where they issued guidance on how to hold it because people lost signal during calls.
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by hkt 2y ago
Not sure what GP means but I gather the x230 era (2012?) has a cult following. I picked one up a few years ago when a laptop died and I didn't have the cash for something new: it is still my daily driver and I'm not replacing it t
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by hkt 2y ago
ThinkPad x230T owner here. I believe mine is 12 years old. By contrast, my son is 9 this year. Still, the kids are good to one another.
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by hkt 2y ago
It's just like O'Brien always said.. you've _got_ to have a redundant backup. (Third foundation?)
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by hkt 2y ago
Are they silent, or just not being represented by the American press?
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by hkt 2y ago
Unless you tell the fed to run inflation at 20% for a few decades and tie everything else (wages, pensions, welfare, etc) to that rate. It is called fiscal repression and it has it's drawbacks, but it would serve to end inequality by m

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