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kakarot
9y ago
Right, and I'm saying I fundamentally disagree with this vendor-locking approach. Qt doesn't lock me into a particular environment and is cross-platform. It's a view framework, not an entire browser. Huge difference.
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kakarot
9y ago
Then why is it a web app? What happened to open standards? Why not just make it a standalone application, following your logic?
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9y ago
I'd be bragging about my satellite fleet, too. The guy's only human.
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9y ago
Or better, consider protecting those offering their experiences as well by using an encrypted email provider like protonmail, or offering a GPG key.
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The path to sustainably working on FOSS full-time
(drewdevault.com)
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9y ago
Just when I was on the verge of leaving Firefox over UI issues.
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9y ago
A DIY subdermal approach by one of the early pioneers at biohack: https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/biohacking... A surgery guide for a commercial transdermal product with lots of fun pictures
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9y ago
It's not at all the most effective. It's only the most effective if you severely limit what factors into that.
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Are you serious? That kind of widespread banning of information is fundamentally incompatible with a democratic society. It's absolutely preposterous to think that I could prevent someone from downloading and using a database of pict
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9y ago
Homomorphic encryption + cloud services + VPN chaining. If there's one thing that won't be in shortage for the foreseeable future, it's compute cycles. And I'm with you, the socioeconomic aspects of AI are far more impor
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9y ago
Perhaps this is the Great Filter. Nuclear war, societal collapse, supervirus... all these can come from rogue / misused AI
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9y ago
> The trouble is how people setup their node/npm installation. Instead of having global packages setup under the home directory, people use the default which requires root access. No, like you say in your next sentence the trouble i
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9y ago
How does NPM protect from namesquatting now?
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9y ago
I will have lost my battle for privacy when I am six feet underground or in a straitjacket, and not a moment before. We can NOT accept defeat.
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9y ago
Here's the crux of the issue with respect to nuclear WMDs: In order to prevent citizens and other countries from creating nuclear bombs, our government severely limits access to relevant tools and materials, and actively seeks to censo
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9y ago
I'm referring to grinder / transhumanist / biohacking communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinder_(biohacking) Personally, I've been a member of https://biohack.me since more or le
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9y ago
Are you eventually going for an external "headphone" system, a transdermal solution, or actual implants similar to BAHA hearing aids or the DIY transducer implants some of the grinder community have installed, or perhaps even pier
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9y ago
I try very hard to keep my pages pure css and html. That's cool, but you obviously have different requirements for the pages you build, and likely aren't in the SPA space, so your better-than-thou outlook doesn't apply.
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9y ago
I've been out of the game for a couple years now but I remember reading about an expansion pack coming out that had been calculated to have a (rather marginal) edge in favor of the consumer for crack packing. I assumed if there's
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9y ago
No, they are wrong because they are analyzing secondary market prices, while the discussion was about introductory market prices, which are indeed set by WotC and made to, on average, be higher than the payout for selling the cards within.
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9y ago
Supportive of it being illegal for one individual or group of individuals to give an item with an agreed upon element of randomization to another individual in exchange for money? That is more than a little heavy handed, if not a downright
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9y ago
In any system where an actor can be either honest or dishonest but certain qualities of correctness can be probabilistically ascertained, consensus is often a great replacement for trust. In the case of an anonymous decentralized marketplac
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9y ago
I love the art Nintendo produces and the company has been an integral part of my childhood, but I find their stance on piracy to be some of the most detestable in the industry. Fuck them for sending some poor guy to prison for modifying har
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That's illegal? Are you serious?
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> If Amazon becomes abusive, the US Government will still be able to take them. I agree that we shouldn't preemptively act, that "but what if they attack us first" mentality, but I contest the accuracy of that statement. A
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I don't associate with this stalker, I've blocked them from my contacts, moved away, told my friends about them, and I still experience moments of anxiety associated with their incessant invasion of my personal space, and the fact
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That only begs the question, "Where did the peanuts come from?"
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The reason we don't see a killer "business" app yet is because of the resolution. Once we solve this, and figure out a way to scan and accurately represent the location of interfaces like keyboards, we will see a rush of kill
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9y ago
What card are you using, and what virtualization solution? I'm running my Windows KVM on a GTX 1080, and it took months and months to work out all the little kinks causing system instability... now it runs quite smooth. I could never e
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9y ago
Did you play around with the different clock timers available to you in your VM' xml template? You may have been able to override the system time.
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