krmboya

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by krmboya 4y ago
Not familiar with such kind of software, but if it were written for, say, Linux, would it need such an expensive rewrite to work with current versions?
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by krmboya 4y ago
How does the quote relate to not wanting to work?
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by krmboya 4y ago
"all other things being equal"
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by krmboya 4y ago
Imagine if the computing world would have standardized on Lisp and Smalltalk 40 years ago. If Alan Kay had got microprocessor companies to steal the Xerox microcode design like they got Apple to steal the GUI design, then the genius compile
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by krmboya 4y ago
It seems to me companies beyond a certain size become so dysfunctional that no one person can handle a situation like this coherently. It's all different factions internally each pursuing their own objectives, protecting their turf or
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by krmboya 4y ago
In non-western cultures, the primary goal of 'dating', if you can call it that is marriage, and the primary goal of marriage is to have kids.
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by krmboya 4y ago
It's like how the web was originally meant to be used. Your own little corner of self expression and memories
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by krmboya 4y ago
Brave search introduced a related feature recently. They have a 'Discussions' section in the search results page where they pull results from online forums (it seems like it's all Reddit for now).
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by krmboya 5y ago
I do sympathize with them though if they decide to put in ads, endorsements, solicit for likes and subscribers because from what I hear putting out high quality videos requires a lot of investment that needs to be compensated in one way or
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by krmboya 5y ago
Thanks for the insider viewpoint. Something felt really wrong about how Brendan Eich was ousted. I now understand it was the first instance of the cancel culture I witnessed.
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by krmboya 5y ago
I use andOTP[1] installed via f-droid. You can easily get a backup file with your codes. [1] https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP
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by krmboya 5y ago
What counts as global poverty in the course of human history?
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by krmboya 5y ago
The Free Software Movement is for free as in free speech and not free as in free beer. It's about freedom to access, modify and distribute the source code.
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by krmboya 5y ago
I guess it goes back to 'scratching an itch' when it comes to hobby contributions to open source. It's easy to contribute to something that solves one's own problems - and if the maintainer abandons it, someone else can
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by krmboya 5y ago
I know at least in Christianity tribalism is addressed. One instance where Jesus says love your neighbour, then the listeners ask him who should be considered a neighbour. He responds with a story about a Samaritan who goes out of his way t
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by krmboya 5y ago
What you've described suspiciously resembles the 'midwit' meme.
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by krmboya 5y ago
Social media companies seem to optimize for virality. In such circumstances there are users who will learn to wield such capabilities to suit their goals
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by krmboya 5y ago
Somaliland is an autonomous region seeking to break away from the larger Somalia and get international recognition as an independent nation. From what I hear, it is a relatively peaceful and orderly place
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by krmboya 6y ago
A primary requirement I've had over the past few years when purchasing a phone is whether it is supported by Lineageos. Less data is collected hopefully, without gapps installed.
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by krmboya 6y ago
Indeed you are right, Ubuntu touch is not a full Ubuntu. I don't know how I got that impression. First time I've heard of Mobian, looks really interesting. Will keep an eye on it
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by krmboya 6y ago
Have you taken a look at Ubuntu touch? I came across it while researching for my next device. From what I recall, it gives you a full Ubuntu environment on your phone. Didn't go that route though because of the unavailability of the su
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by krmboya 6y ago
I can't understand how Mozilla failed to execute on Firefox OS. From where I am at it was a massive opportunity for Mozilla and Web developers all round the world. They didn't have to take on Android and iOS directly, but may have
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by krmboya 6y ago
Does number of lines of code deleted also count?
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by krmboya 6y ago
But one can do this with Ansible in a non-containerized environment
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by krmboya 6y ago
I'm not too experienced with Terraform, can one use it to, for example, do a rolling deployment with something like haproxy as the load balancer?
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by krmboya 7y ago
A more recent example, some folks in Kenya chased some cheetahs, that had been killing their goats, to exhaustion and handed them over to wildlife services. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-24953910
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by krmboya 8y ago
> You can see how stupid people are when you just read the questions on Stackoverflow today. Nobody seems to figure things out by themselves anymore. OTOH given the proliferation of tools a programmer uses in their day to day work and th
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by krmboya 8y ago
> “This is a prime example for why free as in beer is not enough. Small share browsers are at the mercy of Google, and Google is stalling us for no communicated-to-us reason.” - Brian Bondy, Co-founder & CTO of Brave Stallman strikes
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by krmboya 8y ago
Interesting perspective. I wonder what kinds of projects a motivated individual would be able to tackle say, 20-30 years from now.
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by krmboya 8y ago
I'm likely to get some downvotes for posting this, but the title reminds me of this talk [1] by the well known man called Billy Graham. The three problems technology cannot solve: - Human evil - Human suffering - Death [1] https:&#x2F

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