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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
I'm sure this is what is happening. Income from readership of physical paper goes down, pressure mounts and even reputable news papers feel thsy have little choice... ask any journalist. It is brutal, earning a decent living is hard, e
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
I suppose fake news has been totally normal in the showbizz coverage world - and popular. Now it goes mainstream and people complain...
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... Problem is that we can only do cider things based on the information we have and to the extend we understand the issues. Controlling media and limiting education are two powerful ways in which both governments and companies control peop
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Banks and investment funds control our currency, governments are at best a serious player. many governments are smaller than and often forced to do the bidding of corporations. Companies like wallmart and macdonalds control more what people
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Indeed, the concept of free will is simply illogical and inconsistent. There is no space for it in even conscious experience if one is just honest about it. Sam has made that point quite clearly and Daniel Dennet's way out (a bit of ra
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
unless, of course, you care about security or a project that is, well, alive... There have been 1 or 2 commits in the last month so I wouldn't bet my data on it. But I'm hopelessly biassed, working for Nextcloud, so please check g
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
well it is way cheaper than any synology solution, plus that the whole stack is open source so you can actually trust that it does what it says it does. If you care about privacy and security, that is a plus. It also will probably be slower
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
The kit to compare it to is the PiDrive kit from WD, which costs alone more than our kit WITH case. A normal external hard drive risks not working with a Pi. This 2.5" USB drive is optimized for low power usage, esp at startup and come
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
The case is designed to be able to house a 2nd 1TB hard drive. We don't have software support for RAID yet but we would welcome contributions very much. I agree with some others here that backups are more important and this would have
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
1. it is open source so you can actually trust it 2. it is based on software used in serious enterprises so if you want more of it, you can get that 3. it has a big and healthy ecosystem of customers, contributors and apps so it isn't
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Well, it is cheaper than the pi-drive disk alone ;-)
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
yeah, the Pi isn't a super platform for this. We've made the box hardware-compatible with the oDroid C2 so people have an upgrade path - I understand Linux 4.10 will have out of the box oDroid C2 support so it shouldn't be to
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
yes, coming later this month.
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
yeah, that is what it is. The price is lower than the separate USB3 hard drive kit from WD so it is hard to argue it is expensive, though. The OS is put together by Canonical, until now it was based on Ubuntu 16.04 and they'll soon upd
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Yes, it is icky, a bit scary the first time you put it together, but it works and doesn't break or cause issues. Considering the cables are made by the same company as the box itself (WDLabs) and that we've sold almost 1000 boxes
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
You shouldn't use a smartphone if you expect to be TAO. Even the hardware could be compromised. Use a laptop with Linux for anything anyone might want to track...
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
well you can run something like the nextcloud box on a local network, no problem, and it's super cheap, too. If government blocks the pipes to services like Twitter etc, that sucks but doesn't block local, self-hosted services. Th
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Indeed. And SA is where most modern 'terrorists' come from, btw: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/saudi-connection-...
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Mubarak was elected in an election about as free as the last one for Erdogan. Where Mubarak jailed most opposition and killed and bombed their supporters into submission, Erdogan jailed them and killed and bombed their supporters into submi
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
he didn't mean attendance but percentage of votes for the winner.
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
With regards to Saudi Arabia and stability - that might have been a rather short term decision then... http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/saudi-connection-...
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Right. Replace people with computers perhaps? Because our few pounds of gray matter will never be rational. Us techies tend to think we are, which is exactly why we're even more prone to act irrational in some situations!
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
... and people pay less attention because so much more is going on, we are flooded with information. It is easy to hide bad things in plain sight... kittens will hide it.
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Wow. At some point this theory just becomes so complex it will collapse like the wave functions it talks about... Seriously, to my also-completely-laymen mind this seems adding epicycles to me.
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Contribute to a project with one or more healthy companies behind it. From Linux to Libreoffice or Nextcloud - good chance they will hire you.
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Nextcloud 9 does their 2nd release with iOS client and theming(nextcloud.com)
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
That is true, yes. Base ruby or C or PHP make it easy to make entire classes of mistakes you won't get using certain other languages. But many of these problems can also be caught using the right tools and framework. With Ruby, using R
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
The problem here is our lack of understanding of statistics. Yes, there probably are differences in averages on things like criminality, intelligence, lazyness and so on between groups like male/female, ethnicity, gay or straight and
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Yup. Be it government or business, no difference there. Of course, in both cases a cleanup is possible- and occasionally happens. But then you need a proper market for business or a working democracy for government and those are frequently
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by jospoortvliet 10y ago
Yeah the article points to that, talking about different ways of seeing and describing free will. In the end, the focus of the article isn't on the philosophical concept but it's impact on society and it does a fine job describing

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