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by kdtsh 5y ago
This is exactly the way I feel. The best way I heard this described just today was by Anthony Fantano on his Twitch stream, where he said that a music streaming service just shouldn’t be in the news this much. That is spot on in my opinion
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Why is it unethical? Again, the alternative here is that both Young and Mitchell are forced to maintain an association with Spotify against their will, or change their opinion on Rogan (an opinion which many people share and hold to be corr
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Who is censoring anyone? Both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are exercising their freedom to associate with who they like, and expressing the terms by which they will associate with businesses like Spotify. I have always found it very telling
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by kdtsh 5y ago
By ‘steal a session’ I mean be currently logged into my computer, either with the desktop locked or unlocked, and to jump onto another computer and log into the same session - so I get all my open programs, windows, etc. if that makes sense
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by kdtsh 5y ago
I transitioned to Linux at work after Windows+WSL2 for a number of years. I went with Fedora - most of my work is with RHEL-compatible servers, so I’m somewhat familiar with the package manager. I generally develop in Emacs as it integrate
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by kdtsh 5y ago
I finally transitioned to Linux on my work desktop at the end of last year, after using WSL for a number of years and Linux on my home desktops for ages. I found that managing a Windows 10 VM in virt-manager for all the Windows-specific stu
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Are there any OEM laptops with RYF certification? The only ones I can see on ryf.fsf.org are 10 year old refurbished and re-branded (and very expensive) Thinkpads.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Patrick has already done this for us :-) The standard practice for Slackware is to install the entire distribution - roughly 12GB. If you don’t do this then your mileage may vary, and you may find yourself wasting time doing your own depend
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Haha, nice. I’m a happy Password Store user of some 2-3 years, but I starred your repository - very cool idea to use PKCS#11 modules.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Leaving aside the fact that binary blobs already existing in x86 processors doesn’t mean much for users because they can’t help that - I mean, GNU existed before Linux, and only became a completely free operating system when Linux was relea
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by kdtsh 5y ago
This is completely obtuse. Why isn’t your anger at the Guix or Linux-libre maintainers’ supposed withholding of information (‘censorship’) directed instead at publishers of closed-source, unauditable binary blobs, which constitute a fundame
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by kdtsh 5y ago
You can inspect it freely, the entire distribution is maintained as a single git repository: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
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by kdtsh 5y ago
For my part, I think Guix has a much nicer CLI experience, and I find the documentation easier to comprehend. I also prefer the Guix DSL in Scheme to the Nix expression language. I haven’t used NixOS though, which could make things a bit di
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by kdtsh 5y ago
This is an enormous thread now - in case it hasn’t already been mentioned, Guix neither helps nor hinders users from using any kernel they like. There is a repository called nonguix, made available by community members, which includes the u
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Absolutely. git at the command line works fine but I have always found it very dense, and prefer to use it only for very basic or very specific tasks. Magit makes all the usual things I do with git so easy. I have been using Emacs on Window
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by kdtsh 5y ago
There is an enormous Java community, Java is the language of enterprise. But there are not many JVM developers, and most (all?) developers of the Java language work for Oracle. The only natural candidates I can think of would be Google or E
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Their episode Memento Mori[1] with Kate Gregory cemented for me that this podcast isn't like others, it is incredibly thoughtful and insightful and has a lot to offer everyone whose interests involve software and engineering. For all t
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by kdtsh 5y ago
What does it mean for something to exist then? Does an apple exist in the same sense that a number exists? There is something in common between two chairs; there is something in common between a red ball and a red book; there is something i
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by kdtsh 5y ago
If you have hardware which doesn't support USB-C, or you want to have external storage in one of your ports, it is perfect. For all the other uses, you can just get one of the USB-C ports (or pull the dongle out if you're thrifty&
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Over the past year I’ve built an ESB for a client’s deployment of a brand spanking new distribution management system … which you could integrate with only and solely using SOAP. The tooling in Java makes it bearable, but I am still shocked
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Strongly disagree. The experience of Linux on desktop computers has never been better, and has been steadily improving for years. ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’ is of course a meme so it doesn’t really matter how long it has been current year,
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by kdtsh 5y ago
There are few real use-cases for any commercial VPN which claims to sell privacy, they are generally snake oil. The one possible exception is to get around geo-blocking, and in that case you just want to go for one with the most numerous an
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Patrick Volkerding, BDFL of Slackware, must be fairly close (or at least I hope he is). He started a Patreon late last year which has built up to a steady monthly stream of cash.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
I find this partly true, but I still only need to use Google over DDG maybe 20% of the time, and when I do it’s usually because I’m desperate (and even then, I rarely find what I’m looking for, or what I think I’m looking for). I find Googl
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by kdtsh 5y ago
One of my colleagues is a old Unix hacker (one of my favourite things to do is get him ranting about his least favourite OS of all time, HP-UX 8.x). I have wondered before what editor he uses, and once when I peeked over his shoulder I saw
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by kdtsh 5y ago
> Of course most on HN would probably point out that this is obviously why your personal notes should always be hosted / backed up locally And they would be right. Having your notes pushed up to the cloud is great and I use a featur
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by kdtsh 5y ago
The people who drive that wealth redistribution are the unproductive class of elites and have an interest in and the means to doing so.
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by kdtsh 6y ago
It's a very neat looking phone and there are probably some economies of scale involved which mean they can't produce a $50-150 phone, but 330€ is absurd, I cannot imagine more than a few dozen people around the world would use thi
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by kdtsh 6y ago
Not at all unreasonable. You could very rightly consider any other arrangement ‘overengineered’
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by kdtsh 6y ago
Agreed. I just don’t see why I should not continue to use Firefox, Multi-Account Containers, and DuckDuckGo, and just use Tor Browser if I want to use TOR. The whole crypto thing in Brave especially rubs me the wrong way, it feels like a Po

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