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by jabirali 6y ago
There appears to be a Wikipedia page dedicated to this topic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Dropbox
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by jabirali 6y ago
While I like Syncthing and used it for a couple of years, my experience is that Resilio is way faster for syncing large numbers of files (e.g. Git repos or large photo collections). Resilio also appears to be more easily reachable behind ro
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by jabirali 6y ago
I think most of that guide would require roughly the same amount of work on Linux though (e.g. setting up firewalls, DNS, VPN, and FDE).
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by jabirali 6y ago
Thanks for your thorough discussion of this; as someone currently migrating to macOS, I found it very helpful :).
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by jabirali 6y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience on this :). > I can see how setting up everything in one place could be useful, but I haven't run into a situation where it has been useful in my macOS usage quite yet. What appeals to me person
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by jabirali 6y ago
> Are we expecting for Apple to always be 5 years ahead of Google on privacy features? Or did Google shift priorities with Android 10? Good question! My personal impression is that Google, being primarily a tracking company, reluctantly
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by jabirali 6y ago
> MacPorts has most of the same common packages and doesn't mess up filesystem permissions like Homebrew does. This is more a convenience than security question. I understand that Homebrew can install not only open source command-li
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by jabirali 6y ago
It’s good to hear that Android supports this as well now, but I think you understate the difference in when these features arrived. From a quick search, the location example was fixed in iOS 8 in 2014 [1], and in Android 10 in 2019 [2], put
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by jabirali 6y ago
> You can pretty much do anything with Android, the same cannot be said about Apple's dictatorship. The problem is that app developers can also do anything with Android, often against the users‘ will. Before I switched to iPhone,
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by jabirali 6y ago
I also did this once in early high school, but I personally didn't feel it was worth the time. I had already used Gentoo for a year when I did LFS though, so that probably affected the learning potential. (I do believe that most of wha
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by jabirali 6y ago
> And Linux, as well--including the Librem 5 phone[0]. I think the point is more that in e.g. the US, nearly half the population has an iPhone [1], so a chat service that is only available on Android and Linux can't spread as much.
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by jabirali 6y ago
This is a bit concerning. I have a Max2 myself, and have been satisfied so far. But it cost a lot, and I don't use it that often, so I was hoping to get 5-6 years of use out of it for the device to be worth the investment... Did you ge
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by jabirali 6y ago
If you don't count Android, I'm not sure there are any? Most eink tablets have a user interface that is more similar to smartphones than computers. Thus, most people won't need to run GNU coreutils, Gnome, or other parts of a
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by jabirali 6y ago
> It's sad to see people supporting monopoly this way... The realistic way to avoid monopolies and retain free-ish markets is to actively enforce anti-trust legislation. (And in the case of social media companies: force all players
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by jabirali 6y ago
> The decline of Firefox is because of one thing only - the enormous marketing and engineering clout of Google and their utterly ruthless, relentless, anti-competitive pushing of Chrome across Android and all their web properties and eve
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by jabirali 6y ago
To me that sounds mostly like a philosophical distinction. In most physics calculations, “infinite” just means “finite but so large that we can neglect edge effects”.
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by jabirali 6y ago
I love the “bouncing droplet” experiments. There are some cool videos of it on YouTube for those that want an intuitive macroscopic analogy to how quantum mechanics work.
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by jabirali 6y ago
You’re assuming the Newtonian theory of gravity, the parent poster uses Einstein’s general relativity. These theories disagree on quite a lot; e.g. general relativity predicts that light is affected by gravity, while Newton’s theory would n
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by jabirali 6y ago
I suppose “self hosted” and “easily backed up” works fine since Obsidian is supposed to work on local MarkDown files which you can store and backup in any way you want. Not sure why you’d need a WebGUI since the app appears to be cross-plat
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by jabirali 6y ago
Zim’s main drawback in these days is that it doesn’t have its own mobile app, and since it’s not based on MarkDown, you can’t use any existing MarkDown mobile apps with it.
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by jabirali 6y ago
I used Org for about 8 months last year, while I was testing out Spacemacs and Doom Emacs. My experience was that the Org-mode in Emacs was great. Especially how you could capture notes with backlinks from any Emacs context, and the Agenda
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by jabirali 6y ago
Well, if the ones who sell email addresses to spammers filter out the `+`, there’s a larger chance they can continue to do so without getting caught or exposed?
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by jabirali 6y ago
I think the point is that if a large number of galaxies had Type III civilizations, we would notice, because the definition is that they use most of the available energy in their galaxy making the galaxy radiate more infrared than visible l
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by jabirali 6y ago
My point is that I think convergent evolution would be likely to produce “water blobs with heads, legs, and feet” on other Earth-like planets, i.e. planets with lots of liquid water and lots of solid land. If you’re thinking of planets that
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by jabirali 6y ago
I'm curious, does this still work? Since GMail is likely the largest email provider in the world, I would have expected spammers to simply filter out the `+.*` by now.
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by jabirali 6y ago
Due to convergent evolution [1], I'm not sure life that originated on an Earth-like planet would look completely different from Earth life, at least on a macroscopic level. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conver
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by jabirali 6y ago
> I can easily see a bright, curious person wasting a lot of time before realizing that the content is merely linguistic, not mathematical. While I rarely find graphical methods useful for performing calculations, I do appreciate visua
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by jabirali 6y ago
I also have a positive experience with Redshift, and use it on both computers and phones at night. Since I live in the north, I also have good experience with "rubber curtains" that block out all sunlight at night in the summer, a
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by jabirali 6y ago
So basically an ARMsrace against Nvidia?
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by jabirali 6y ago
I’m not a lawyer, but I recall seeing a comment that one reason companies currently prefer dynamically linked apps in bundles like Snap and Flatpak over static linking, is that dynamic linking permits more open-source libraries to be used w

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