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by kkfx 7mo ago
Honestly? No. In fact, what's actually unsustainable are societies stuck in past models, where stereotypical Fordist worker in production lines organised according to Taylor/Weber/Fayol principles are needed; yes, in these so
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by kkfx 7mo ago
Personally I use LaTeX for anything I have to write as pdf, I understand many critics but... So far is The Tool to makes good typesetting. PostScript can do nearly the same at a harder effort for the user, Typist can't match, others ar
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by kkfx 7mo ago
After many tests I'm on YARR, not super-happy but for my volumes of feeds and time it's the best fit still actively developed, before I was on TT-Rss. I've tried elfeed and RSS2email with notmuch/emacs but while wonderfu
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by kkfx 7mo ago
Nice! A small note: airfryer tend to cycle on/off much less then slow-air/static ovens so they consume way more per unit time, gas ovens never fully stay "off" when operating, they just reduce the flames.
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by kkfx 7mo ago
Science has never been free, and it isn't mostly progressive; like the bulk of the population, it is hyper-conservative without admitting it. So, the first flaw lies in the very social structure of those who practice science. The secon
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by kkfx 7mo ago
Sorry but NO, thanks. I'm and EU citizen, I do not want to switch from a spy service to another. I want decentralized/distributed platforms. The old Usenet is good, Nostr is usable, the Fediverse still works. It's time to bre
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by kkfx 7mo ago
I simply do refuse such systems, so far using decentralized or distributed socials like Nostr, Lemmy (self-hosted) and VPNs as glorified proxies and that's just because there aren't enough co-Citizens to impose a significant chang
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Honestly? It's advertising, not biology. All starchy foods make cholesterol go up, while all animal proteins make it go down, since digesting them consumes LDL. People only campaign against this scientific evidence because there are so
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by kkfx 8mo ago
In the end we are talking about "smart-card-alike" auth, something there since decades, cheap, functional, safe and apparently ignored by most. Curiously biometric crap is not ignored as well instead, and is pushed by any means...
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Personally, while living in Emacs (EXWM), I still can't live on eshell, the issue is "the terminal", too many commands are simply uncomfortable to use in eshell while run smoothly in a real terminal. I've also tried some
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Trezor support FIDO2 tied on the seed phrase, so if you lost it another hardware wallet will works issueless once restored.
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Not a cryptobro but... The only acceptable digital identity is or local (smart-card) or a blockchain kept by any connected citizen on his/her own iron. The Orwellian dream of the nazi will cause pain also to those who push it.
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Aha... Interesting, I'm the sysadmin of myself so I verify myself that I'm entitled to be root on my iron. Sometimes politicians reveal themselves in their future program dreaming things like mandatory online accounts on corporato
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Expensive PCs/homeservers means more people on mobile crap + someone cloud, means students who do not learn PCs FLOSS when they have time and so on. That's the real point.
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by kkfx 8mo ago
While on one hand I suggest revisiting the old Ironies of Automation by Lisanne Bainbridge on the other I've noticed that what's really missing everywhere is IT education. I come from a Computer Engineering background and I saw ab
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by kkfx 8mo ago
I have a bit of unsolicited feedback (in this terms): the basic IT skills, not CS or CE, but IT, that everyone needs but most don't realize, including techies who often stay in their bubble and don't truly understand the classic d
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by kkfx 8mo ago
That's because you haven't seen IT in action outside of your job yet, I'm talking about its true potential. It's not about the terminal or Emacs (the 2D shell), it's about the paradigm. If you teach free software, y
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Which is the very target. Forcing full tractability of anyone for better conformism at the dominus will.
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by kkfx 8mo ago
The issue isn't the laptops, but the proprietary software and the fact that teachers don't know how to use even a desktop on average, so they're even less capable of teaching it. IF you teach how to use a FLOSS desktop, you&#
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by kkfx 8mo ago
I do them in LaTeX and org-mode, but in general tables should be limited in document, the abuse common in the office circles is a typographical abuse and those who makes them should be taught about typography in general
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Sure, but can't break the trusted part of the network who can remain operational in that case, even if not really anonymous anymore.
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by kkfx 8mo ago
It doesn't work for I2P due to its design, but for things like Nostr, it works well. Essentially, the goal is to build up a list of "known" reliable relays over time, while simultaneously blacklisting anyone who joins and pro
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by kkfx 8mo ago
That's why the Web of Trust, or classic GNUPG key signing parties are a forgotten/ignored must have. Anyone can change and go rouge of course, but it's statistically less likely.
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Actually office suites fails to provide typographic quality. Fails also to provide useful computation and presentation tools for the modern time, spell checking and (limited) grammar checking are not their exclusive as well. Essentially ALL
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Honestly? Office automation suites have had their day, along with the people who use them. It's high time people learned to produce documents of typographic quality by writing in markup languages, it doesn't really matter if it&#x
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Honestly, as far as I'm concerned, LLMs are "simply" pseudo-semantic search engines; if you know what you're looking for, they work pretty well for fulfilling "satisfiable" searches, that is, those aimed at con
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Are our institutions more "legal" or "reliable"? Honestly, it doesn't seem that way to me. Oh, let's be clear, the less I have to do with the GAFAM, the happier I am; Hetzner has shown itself to be a good compa
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Ehm sorry but no. Sovereignty means you own the stack not that you just choose other suppliers. Build on EU infra means owning a machine room with some servers, having fiber optic good enough for your traffic and that's is. What the au
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by kkfx 8mo ago
The Nostr model spread, actually, while most still ignore even it's existence...
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by kkfx 8mo ago
EU tech alternative is FLOSS, not copy the model someone else did earlier and better. As an EU Citizen I reject the initiatives of the Commission, which moreover, is not elected but appointed through a mechanism where the will of the people

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