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by jalami 10y ago
Pinboard is a great service. I like the paid, ad-free model with a nice open API. I haven't had my Pinboard for long, but already think I'm going to keep it going for a long time. It's one of the few cloud services I don&#x27
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by jalami 10y ago
You are correct, but you can still get around some of the warts involved if you want. You can always lock the bootloader again after installing your ROM. Unlocking it will wipe the device again which is inconvenient for ROM updates etc, but
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by jalami 10y ago
If the messenger is not open sourced, it's trivial for Facebook to add something to the client binary (now, with a flag or at some later date) before the Signal libraries are hit. I'm not saying they are doing so, but without a c
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by jalami 10y ago
I could understand "checking under the bed" to calm the patient's nerves from a purely consequentialist standpoint, but legitimately saying "I don't know, could be demons" is A: saying nothing at all as it coul
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by jalami 10y ago
I had this running in the background for hours one day. They got pretty good. He's also got one for biped walkers that's fun to play with. http://rednuht.org/genetic_walkers/
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by jalami 10y ago
I recently stumbled upon his channel and I enjoy a lot of his insights. Sometimes he seems to gush on emotionally a bit too much and it gets painful to listen to, but I enjoy the lack of filter overall. The ease with which he's able to
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by jalami 10y ago
Location: Milwaukee, WI Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: - Willing to learn your stack - Javascript (ES6), CSS/PostCSS, jQuery etc - Java, Node.js, npm - Git, Linux, Windows, SQL - Learning to use React/Redux, Ty
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by jalami 10y ago
As I've said before, I'd love to have an open source dumbphone. I know there are some big duct tape and PCB examples out there, but something polished and minimalistic would be fine with me. I think there would be a solid niche ma
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by jalami 10y ago
F-droid builds everything from source so there would have to be a build flag that would remove GCM functionality. From what it looks like, when GCM is disabled, vector reverts to polling the server for information instead of messaging inter
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by jalami 10y ago
Matrix and vector look more interesting by the week. I would really like to see the Android port on F-droid. I haven't done a tonne of research, but I believe Vector uses Google Play Services, specifically GCM. This makes it impossible
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by jalami 10y ago
My father was born in Gaza, but got out as soon as he could and went to college in the states. I'm glad this is happening! There's certainly talent there like everywhere else. A big problem I see with Gaza digging itself out of th
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by jalami 10y ago
Regulation is a big reason the ISP situation is the way that it is. You can't just up and build an ISP in most neighborhoods. Simply controlling a large percentage of the market is not the same as a monopoly; That word gets used far to
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by jalami 10y ago
I think you're right. It's not perfect, I just gave a lowest-tech example that would be serviceable to some people with low middle-man cost. A lot of Uber drivers aren't loyal though, they'll have both apps open in order
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by jalami 10y ago
Everything would be more efficient and safer if regulated by a transparent, centralized public body, at least initially. Where that line is drawn differs everywhere. There is also still a cost to every one of these regulations, it doesn&#x2
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by jalami 10y ago
I've always wondered how necessary something like Uber or Lyft really was. Centralized networks lead to critical mass and that's what I always saw as the appeal. No one wants to hunt for something manually. I feel like something l
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by jalami 10y ago
Matrix is interesting. I like where they're going and once their encryption-layer gets out of beta, I'll take a harder look. Right now there seems to be a significant Axolotl/PEP/ratchet/OMEMO/olm schism[0] tha
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by jalami 10y ago
I think we should coalesce around a clean modern modular standard that's not XMPP for the perfect world scenario. It's not perfect, but I think you overstate how bad it is. Conversations (a mobile client) allows pictures and (file
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by jalami 10y ago
The current state of chat is depressing. The trend on the Internet today seems to be centralize everything . I think it's because centralized systems are easy to understand, maintain and take advantage of. Why maintain a library of me
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by jalami 10y ago
Just some more information if anyone else is curious. I have this setup and it works well enough when you have one device, but when you have multiple, I get garbage on one device and decrypted messages on the other. So if I keep my computer
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by jalami 10y ago
Also some websites won't let you put + in the address despite it being a valid character per protocol. Crippling email sign ups for one company, astonishing. Fastmail has subdomain addressing. eg. hackernews@myemail.fastmail.com which
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by jalami 10y ago
Ithkuil is really interesting and certainly special, but was never intended as a natural spoken language replacement. Lojban has a more natural word/meaning verbosity ratio and seems less structurally complex. Ithkuil's goals seem
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by jalami 10y ago
I haven't looked into how Esperanto is inconsistent and I'm sure it's very consistent compared to modern languages. I think the two are built on two different paradigms though. Esperanto seems to be a language built for easy
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by jalami 10y ago
I like the idea around Lojban[0]. Esperanto feels like another standard to replace the 99 others where lojban seems to be more than that. I don't like inconsistency in structured language and there's always glaring inconsistency i
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by jalami 10y ago
Like others have said, Netflix is acting like a channel. Unfortunately, Americans love exclusives. When people talk about Playstation v. XBOX, they're not talking about the UI or controllers anymore, but the exclusives. Exclusives are
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by jalami 10y ago
I think crippling systems is anti-consumer. Ubuntu is an example of an attempt to mitigate the hassle while allowing the user to control their own device. Is it perfect? No, and they have a very diverse audience to please with one offering,
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by jalami 10y ago
As I've written earlier, ChromeOS doesn't interest me. It's a tightly locked down linux-y distro as a vector to peddle Google services. It's not complicated, it's very cheap and almost impossible to mess something u
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by jalami 10y ago
It's not really easy depending on who you ask and running Crouton isn't really making it a linux box in this way as you're just running on top of ChromeOS with most of the hardware integration still handled by ChromeOS. N
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by jalami 10y ago
I think it's fair to say that nothing will be as convenient as a single centralized body controlling all the data management, client software/hardware and services under one roof. Nothing, not ever. So its not really an incompeten
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by jalami 10y ago
I agree with you. Their cloud is really the danger in this relationship. Educators should use products and services whose business model doesn't hamper their ability to remain in control of their students' education. I didn't
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by jalami 10y ago
Congrats on the adoption, although I still don't think it's moving our public institutions in the right direction. It's really just moving a lot more kids into a walled garden. I know Google has been in hot water for collecti

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