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by jabbany 5y ago
> Orwellian oppression is very visible Yes. > people work to fix it and eventually do. No? My understanding of Orwellian oppression is exactly that even though people are very aware that it exists, only a small minority of people care
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There's some sci-fi (that I cannot remember off the top of my head) that actually uses this as a plot point. I may be misremembering, but the idea is there's a special race of humans who have continued to evolve living in low grav
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It _is_ special but we cannot perceive it correctly. We do not have an absolute sense of "down" (and our absolute sense of "forward" and "backward" are based on a assuming fixed "down"). We sense &quo
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by jabbany 5y ago
From NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/F_Hu... "When there is no visual input as is common in many flight situations, we rely more heavily on our vestibular sense for thi
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by jabbany 5y ago
Actually, the high level question in here is quite interesting (and has even been discussed in some sci-fi). Humans evolutionarily think about movement with a 2 dimensional mindset because for much of our history we only needed to think abo
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by jabbany 5y ago
I feel like this article doesn't address the reason why people moved away from the "old" Internet --- most people only care about their _content_ not the particular technology that backs it. In the old times, you could only h
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by jabbany 5y ago
And this is part of the reason why places like China have things like the GFW. Because they know that the US would never cooperate with even relatively benign things like foreign privacy laws (let alone more controversial things), so best b
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by jabbany 5y ago
Hah, I know you're joking here but this is (was) a thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9sc0qj/deepcre...
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My point really is just that as a matter of reality there are plenty of people who don't expect these features out of even smartphones, let alone non-smart phones. Unlike things such as "loading a page with JS/CSS", &quo
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I can't do most of these things even on a smartphone in the US!... - identify myself: The state I'm in has not rolled out any support for electronic IDs so short of "taking a photo of a DL (which the Nokia also would allow fo
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by jabbany 5y ago
It's the blog's author that calls these dumb phones. Just trying to keep with the original post terminology.
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> There are TONS of easy and healthy recipes out there. The cooking itself is not difficult, but you have surrounding activities that take significant time like prep, cleanup (dishes, cookware, table etc.), and extra time for grocery sho
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by jabbany 5y ago
Figuring out directions (driving, walking, transit) is actually quite easy in most cities. My approach is to just lump specific places into general "areas", get familiar with how to get between areas (transit/driving options)
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by jabbany 5y ago
If you're talking about things like TOTP token apps, I'd expect there to be a possibility to do that. The protocol isn't that complex, so worst case you can write your own. (I've ported the TOTP protocol to get a 6 digit
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by jabbany 5y ago
I'd say it's really a time tradeoff. In my experience, the main reason to not eat healthy or exercise is because doing those things takes time, easily a LOT of time (e.g. cooking and cleanup easily account for 2-3 extra hrs/d
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by jabbany 5y ago
It's great that this exists but also sad that this has to exist. It looks like this is relying on what are essentially hacks (injecting DLLs into the explorer related processes -- something that apparently can trigger AV false positive
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by jabbany 5y ago
It's Microsoft's url shortcut system. Beyond the obvious shortening feature, the main benefit is that MS can change the underlying resource the shortcut links to should they need to in the future.
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by jabbany 5y ago
But in this case you can. KaiOS actually has quite the plethora of apps available and because it has a modern browser engine, you can run modern web apps mostly with no problems (besides the limited resolution / memory).
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by jabbany 5y ago
As others have mentioned, this is not really a dumb phone. Sure it puts some more _friction_ into using modern Internet connected services, but you can still basically do everything a modern phone can do (it has a full modern browser). Heck
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by jabbany 5y ago
You could say the same for game consoles and yet people are okay with those being closed systems because you can choose between different brands. I don't like Apple's business practices either, but labels like monopoly and "r
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by jabbany 5y ago
Except there are alternatives for all of these, you just have to use a different operating system. Interoperability has never been legally mandated in the past, but for most of history it has just "happened" because people could g
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by jabbany 5y ago
> Because it'll be rewritten by later developers using commonly-used tools. Everything will eventually be rewritten so this isn't much of an argument... What's "common" today won't be that way forever, likel
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by jabbany 5y ago
What I don't get about the rant is why it matters what the "modern" way is. It's not like any of the old tools have disappeared right? If you don't like Electron/NW, nobody's stopping you from building nat
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by jabbany 5y ago
Wait, isn't Qt proprietary? I feel like that kind of vendor lock-in alone disqualifies it for a lot of use cases... There seems to be a dearth of actually open, native, and cross-platform GUI toolkits.
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by jabbany 5y ago
Hmm, many parking starved cities I've lived in tend to have permit systems in the especially bad areas that (1) only allow residents to acquire permits and (2) have ramping cost structures (like $0-$10/mo for the first permit per
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by jabbany 5y ago
Actually, the reason WalMart has free parking is because it is always placed far from where people live so everyone has to drive there, and because everybody has to drive they all have to park eventually. Then, to accommodate all this parki
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by jabbany 5y ago
Implying people are happy to pay those things...? There's just as much drama about all of those things as there is for parking. Have you seen how much people complain every time registration fees, insurance costs or gas prices increase
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In practice people do this all the time already because there's no perfect enforcement. Plenty of people will risk parking in "no parking" / "permit only" spaces if they expect to only be away for a short durat
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The problem with paid parking at least in North America is that many/most cities are designed so that you need a car to get around -- driving is a necessity not a luxury. This makes paid parking feel like a tax rather than a service. C
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by jabbany 5y ago
I'd imagine someone could build a Chrome extension to do this as a fully client-side solution... i.e. Grab all the scripts on a site, recompile for something like an ES5 target, and then replace them with the locally compiled scripts.

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