hrhrhrd

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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
I'm not a legislator, but I'd like to be able to run an app store of my choosing. I'd like to be able to use my general purpose computing device as a general purpose computer, instead of Apple's business connections deci
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
Mastodon already exists; it's just unpopular outside of small circles. People have already spoken with their time that they prefer hosted, "easy" solutions regardless of the evil they perpetuate (even if this preference is co
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
Anti-monopoly legislation seems like a good starting place. Game console app stores are, at least in my opinion, equally exploitative, but Apple is one of the most problematic publishers out there. Being able to run whatever software you wa
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
I can imagine the headline now. "Rite-aid banned me because I "look like a shoplifter"".
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
That came out of left field.
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
My comcast connection has a static IP not behind NAT.
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
But the parent comment was about neither genocide nor systemic racism. It was about corruption and how, despite it taking different paths in the US, it's equally reprehensible.
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
No, technical debt is a very general category that includes deliberate hacks, structural flaws, and small mistake bugs. It's anything that over time will damage the code base, duplications and wrong abstractions being very much include
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
Sounds exactly like an Amazon warehouse or Uber. The gig economy is Manna.
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by hrhrhrd 6y ago
The components in modern electronics are interchangeable and have interfaces about as complex as a gear at worst but usually solderable components. The number of transistors is completely irrelevant because no one is servicing the individua