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by lambic 5y ago
I don't think we should be calling it internet addiction though. The internet can be used for so many things, many of them beneficial overall. People may suffer from social media addiction, or gaming addiction or porn addiction, or TV&
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by lambic 5y ago
I had to look up what 4X means. How have I never heard this term before?
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by lambic 5y ago
The distinction between online and offline has always seemed weird to me. You can do destructive things in both, just as you can do beneficial things in both. Instead of going offline for X days I try to have healthy online and offline habi
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by lambic 5y ago
Counting lines of code is not relevant at all.
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by lambic 5y ago
Their 2FA uses the twilio authenticator app now.
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by lambic 5y ago
The "do one thing and do it well" philosophy can be taken to bad extremes, but the tools you list mostly fit the philosophy as it was intended. Vim is a text editor, it does that one thing and does it well. Firefox is a web browse
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by lambic 5y ago
The Crohn's related deaths I've read about have been from complications from surgery, extreme blood loss and suicide (people with extreme cases can't deal with the pain).
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by lambic 5y ago
Severity of Crohn's isn't age related, Crohn's is actually a young person disease. I was diagnosed in my 40s and that was considered a late diagnosis. Also, the article says he died from complications from Crohn's.
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by lambic 5y ago
My Crohn's is under control and has always been fairly mild, but having spent a week in hospital when it was at its worst I can see how this could happen, I lost enough blood for the doctors to be very concerned. A severe flare can def
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by lambic 5y ago
Yep, open book exams should be the norm.
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by lambic 5y ago
It still amazes me that CS students are not allowed to google when working on their coding assignments.
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by lambic 5y ago
> making nice prepared slides like the professors in all their non-math classes do, instead of just showing up and writing on the blackboard. I mostly agreed with the conclusions in this article, but this one stood out as something not s
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by lambic 5y ago
Or just "contains nudity". I always found it strange that people seem more worried about kids seeing naked people than they are about kids being exposed to violence.
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by lambic 5y ago
Comfy chairs at least?
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by lambic 5y ago
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/01/05/using-real-names...
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by lambic 5y ago
Did you really just use the argument that authoritarian regimes already de-anonymize so why can't we?
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by lambic 5y ago
Using real names just means the John Smiths of the world can say what they want while Sally-Annabel Numblenuts has to be careful.
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by lambic 5y ago
What if the admins and law enforcement are working for an authoritarian regime?
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by lambic 5y ago
Reminds me of https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/07/473438101...
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by lambic 5y ago
Instagram was an example, replace it with Whatsapp or Telegram or Twitter or any other uber popular service. My original point was that IRC/Usenet would most likely be similarly cancerous if it had the same popularity. I remember sadly
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by lambic 5y ago
Not instagram popular
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by lambic 5y ago
I miss IRC and Usenet but I'm pretty sure if they were popular today they'd suffer the same problems as everything else.
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by lambic 5y ago
It's not an ideal solution, but when I have to get a new phone the old one becomes my tv remote. I'm not too worried about security updates on a device that just has netflix and kodi on it.
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by lambic 5y ago
I thought the language was evocative enough to not need pictures, but after reading I went looking for pictures to see if it matched what was in my head. Here's a blog post with a bunch: https://beautifulkarachi.zohosites.co
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by lambic 5y ago
The first one here is important. Despite the open data movement pressuring governments to provide their data in easily consumable forms, a lot of government organizations are still unable or unwilling to do so. Political advocacy orgs rely
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by lambic 5y ago
The fake ascii sprite sheet is a weird choice.
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by lambic 5y ago
I've been using a linux laptop for years. It just works and allows me to focus on my actual work without rigid proprietary systems getting in the way. I can't remember the last time I had to spend time "tuning" my comput
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by lambic 5y ago
Protonmail is a good option for a privacy focused group. Proton also has calendar, drive and vpn offerings.
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by lambic 5y ago
I loved The Detectorists, a nice peaceful show to relax to.
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by lambic 5y ago
In my twenties I did some of my best work after a few beers, as long as you define "best work" as "innovative code that works well but is mostly incomprehensible when you come back to it 6 months later"

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