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by jzb 1y ago
"Love the fetus, hate the mother and child"
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by jzb 1y ago
In answer to the first question... there's been an isolationist streak among the right for decades. But in answer to the second, expecting consistency from the American right is a bad idea. They do not care about being consistent, any
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by jzb 1y ago
No, because “better products” won’t exist. That’s the complaint: every company is rushing to throw AI into their stuff, and/or use it to replace humans. They’re not trying to satisfy customers: they’re answering shareholders. Our syste
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by jzb 1y ago
Some of that has a lot to do with COVID and streaming. Obviously people aren't staying away from theatres now because of COVID, but I think it had a big impact on habits. Once the habit of going to the movies was broken, enticing peopl
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by jzb 1y ago
No, because it’s not realistic for me - I’m not going to leave my siblings behind, nor my inlaws. If this was happening when I was single? I’d have been out before Trump took office the first time.
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by jzb 1y ago
It’s no longer a reliable place to live, either.
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by jzb 1y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong here -- let's say the Signal folks are breached or have been secretly waiting for just the right moment to push out some malicious code. How would they coordinate rolling it out to client devices to take ad
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by jzb 1y ago
"Kids don't have a shared cultural experience like I did." I think this is two claims -- AFAICT kids do have a shared cultural experience, but it is true it's not like yours, or mine. The Spotify playlists are one way th
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by jzb 1y ago
Not arguing for Nix here, but couldn’t you use Distrobox on Nix to mitigate some of the author’s problems while still getting benefits from Nix for the basic install? Note: I’m not a Nix user - primarily Fedora and Debian, though I’ve used
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by jzb 1y ago
I must have missed the part of the article where the author said it was NixOS’s problem. If you want to use it as your desktop, nobody’s stopping you. They’re making the case why they think it’s unsuitable.
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by jzb 1y ago
What's "fun" is when companies try to be different and schedule meetings at :05 or :10 past the hour, so if you have any regular meetings with people outside the company that do the :50 or :55 thing, it's complete chao
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by jzb 1y ago
"Discord servers and other contemporary solutions are much worse on the long run, but it does not matter. Software is like startups, long term is not a goal when you are not sure to survive (or in that case, being used and having contr
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by jzb 1y ago
Upstream requested that the SUSE team take a look at it. It seems that development is understaffed and the upstream may not have the expertise to maintain it properly. Which, if true, is sad -- I know that tmux and others exist, but a lot
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by jzb 1y ago
As someone inside the United States... I sort of agree with you, though not entirely. Where we are today is the culmination of decades of attacks on our institutions and public discourse. This is not majority will, but it is a failure o
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by jzb 1y ago
The same reason I hate cancer. Musk is a threat to me and people I care about. His DOGE bullshit will, if it hasn't already, result in harm and deaths of people who have received assistance or support from programs in the U.S. and abro
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by jzb 1y ago
I wish people would stop with the “Trump doesn’t understand $thing” stuff. It doesn’t matter whether Trump understands $thing. Pretending that he’s acting in good faith to make things better, but is somehow failing because he doesn’t get X,
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by jzb 1y ago
The Linux Foundation pays Linus’s salary, not LWN.
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by jzb 1y ago
That kind of assertion really needs some backup or it's just noise. I'll be honest and say that I have no idea what the usage stats for Valkey are -- and it may be that it's a drop in the bucket compared to Redis. But I
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by jzb 1y ago
The thing is, subscriptions do add up. Lots of folks are carrying a bunch of $10 a month subscriptions that individually are no big but when added up start tacking on $100-$200 a month to their bills. I'm a big proponent of paying for
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by jzb 1y ago
Having an ID is a high bar when it can take a day or more at the DMV to get one. Right now in NC you either have to book an appointment - none are available for months - or show up like you’re queuing for concert tickets in the 80s at 6am b
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by jzb 1y ago
"I don't think it is that hard to vote" Says a person commenting on HN that almost certainly isn't in a demographic that it has been made intentionally difficult to register, stay registered, and get time off an hourly j
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by jzb 1y ago
Flirting? That was years ago. Fascism has its shit in U-Haul and is ready to move in.
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by jzb 1y ago
I can't speak to what audiences find boring now -- I know that I watched it as a kid when my attention span was not at its peak, and I found the pacing to be just fine. (I did see the much-panned version with the narration first.) I&
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by jzb 1y ago
A title doesn’t have to do anything other than draw the reader’s attention to the work. “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is, IMO a great title — and it does relate to the humanity of the androids. It’s a far superior title compared to
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by jzb 1y ago
Oh, I assure you, it's hard to escape knowing about Nix if you write about this sort of thing. Someone will be along almost immediately to inform you about it. Nix wasn't mentioned (I'm the author) because it really isn'
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by jzb 2y ago
Are you referring to a model for supporting YouTube hosting the videos or for the people who produce the videos? YouTube already has subscriptions. An ad-free YouTube could extend that and maybe add lower tiers of subscriptions for X hours
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by jzb 2y ago
Check out Foliate, it's a really nice reader and Standard Ebooks display quite nicely using Foliate IMO.
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by jzb 2y ago
"This is something that I still struggle to wrap my head around: if a company is paying X$ for advertisement, it means that people subjected to this advertisement will give Y$ to this company that they would not have paid otherwise&quo
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by jzb 2y ago
"But newspapers, TV and Youtube would die out." The missing part of this sentence is "as they exist now". There are other models that exist that could support broadcast and publications. There are other models yet to be
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by jzb 2y ago
Debian uses a tool called `strip-nondeterminism` to help with this in part: https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/strip-nondeterm... There's lots of info on the Debian site about their reproducibility effor

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