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An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek(infiniteconversation.com)
495 points by hrbf 4y ago|137 comments
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Apple clarifies security update policy: Only the latest OSes are fully patched(arstechnica.com)
3 points by hrbf 4y ago|0 comments
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by hrbf 4y ago
> Energy isn't fungible and it isn't wasted if it's securing hundreds of billions of value for hundreds of millions of people. Sadly, this echoes the kind of defective reasoning I have observed with a majority of “crypto”
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by hrbf 4y ago
Since the company incorporated in the EU, I don’t quite see how this is relevant.
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by hrbf 4y ago
While communication may not have been handled perfectly, this is an annoyed, entitled, entirely unnecessary tract. Tellingly, it never appears to be the ones who do the actual work who throw such tantrums. And how about just extending the b
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by hrbf 4y ago
I say it’s not only “refreshing” to see a company like Signal taking a principled stand, it’s necessary. It’s a powerful demonstration why critical infrastructure of any kind needs to be operated by public non-profit entities. At the very l
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by hrbf 4y ago
While Apple Music is annoying to use, the Spotify app is even worse for me. Audio quality is also markedly worse — I have verified my hunch with a double-blind side-by-side test. Spotify is now way too expensive for what they offer and the
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by hrbf 4y ago
Please don’t introduce any element of cryptocurrency or blockchain to the project. Nothing it offers will solve any real problem that a simple database couldn’t do more efficiently. No matter how you turn the worm, ”crypto” is a grift. Enou
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by hrbf 4y ago
Thanks, it appears to serve the same function as gitolite, which I use in my setup and somehow forgot to mention. The SSH interface seems unnecessary though.
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by hrbf 4y ago
The manual bare repo setup obviously offers no user access management beyond what the system's SSH configuration provides. Beyond that, a bare repository is actually an essential Git feature and what software like Gitea and even GitHub
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by hrbf 4y ago
Funny you should ask. I had actually written this up back then – for a FreeBSD install because it’s what I use. https://herrbischoff.com/2021/10/how-to-install-cgit-with-gi... I’ve also tripped over something rega
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by hrbf 4y ago
I cannot stress enough how much I love this as well. This is what we need, all of us, all the time. It’s more common in traditional handcrafting and should be a guiding light for the future of tech. Less is more. Less but better (to i
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by hrbf 4y ago
Gitea is a great piece of software. In fact, when starting out with self hosting, I found it to be a very capable solution with a small footprint. Over time I realized: I don’t need to be able to merge pull requests and do code reviews in a
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by hrbf 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/378/ :)
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by hrbf 4y ago
I hear this argument repeatedly. What’s missing is the question _why_ said people do this. I feel it’s not sufficient to lump them together under “some people are leeches” and be done with it. I’d argue that if they had a meaningful respons
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by hrbf 4y ago
Back when I started as a freelancer, I initially copied the 9-to-5 rhythm of „working“. That, despite having viewed this forced window of work as one of the biggest annoyances that come with a job. Over time, I could overcome this „weird“ f
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by hrbf 4y ago
The workaround is trivial and painless, whereas “solving the original problem” would require fundamental changes to decades-old systems conventions. I was responding to the “annoying” part, which is effectively solved using an alias.
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by hrbf 4y ago
> Hiding hidden files is annoying because you have to add -a to ls command Have you ever heard of aliases?
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by hrbf 4y ago
Well, as long as there are people insisting on calling animals “protein sources”, instead of what they are (living, feeling beings) how can we expect anyone to develop the empathy required to see killing animals “for quackery” – or any othe
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’m going further to say that the speculative investment style itself is the problem, for many if not all areas. Once this kind of investor comes in, they want to squeeze the market for all it has, effects be damned. They may as well bet on
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Unstoppable Domains disables .coin extensions, illustrating issues with NFTs(web3isgoinggreat.com)
4 points by hrbf 4y ago|0 comments
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’ve observed this for quite some time now. I’m not exactly affluent. The maximum amount I’m willing and able to spend on any ticket is $50 – and that would have to be an artist I really want to see. The market price is closer to $500. As t
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by hrbf 4y ago
I sincerely hope you’re right on this. But as long as we rely on a monetary system based on capitalism, I don’t see this happen, ever, for any extended period of time. Even if you threw everything away and started from scratch, as long as y
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by hrbf 4y ago
> "The saddest thing for me about modern tech’s long spiral into user manipulation and surveillance is how it has just slowly killed off the joy that people like me used to feel about new tech. Every product Meta or Amazon announces
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by hrbf 4y ago
This is a very good idea that I would love to see implemented but it goes against the economic incentives driving websites today. Lower fidelity would also mean to restrict tracking. Good luck with that. Internet advertising and data mining
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by hrbf 4y ago
It amazes me to no end that some people appear to be genuinely surprised by stuff like this. Or they just continue business-as-usual, entirely ignoring massive risks. In Germany, chancellor Scholz is actively trying to enable the sale of a
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by hrbf 4y ago
It’s for this reason alone that bureaucracy can not be reduced or its processes streamlined in the foreseeable future. It doesn’t even need AI, just digital services. The bureaucrat will fight tooth and nail for the status quo to remain in
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by hrbf 4y ago
But why do that? What do you gain with a process that is more involved, slower and open to many forms of attack?
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by hrbf 4y ago
> At best they record the intent of an author at some unknown point in the past. This probably says something about the priority the teams you worked with put on documentation. Write once and never update?
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by hrbf 4y ago
Generally, I like the idea with the user agents filtering and “block everything” rule. No need for geoblocking. Insert a comment about why this is happening and ask for it to be changed. However, as we’re living in the real world and the au

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