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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Hey, looks great. What is the state of Windows support? I tried quickloading mccclim under sbcl on windows and it started complaining about fontconfig.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
So it's up to Google and other international companies to decide which laws are diabolical, which laws are bad and which can be tolerable? Why not going all the way down and let those companies write beautiful laws and also enforce the
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I don't get it. The author has an issue that one of the biggest servers hosted in Japan and used mostly by Japanese users has content that is perfectly legal and socially acceptable in Japan, but questionable in the USA? Is this a new
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
So let them exit then. It's not like Google has the right to set prices for themselves. It's similar to Germany where, i.e. book prices are fixed, and every store must sell for the same price, whether they like it or not. Of cours
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Work time is office time. If I can't do anything that I want during that time, it's work.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Blame the victims? If the majority are scared to publicly state their opinions, it's somehow normal that the ones that still do it get punished. They should just be more cautious what they post, right?
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> The key is to use context. A swastika on a temple that's older than nazism? Yeah, not a nazi symbol. A swastika on a flag at a right-wing protest in America in 2020? Probably not a religious symbol. What about an Indian student wi
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Signal is not available on the f-droid at the time. The Development team claims they have no interest in spending their resources on it.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Windows support is actually great. You can use it without draining your phone battery and mobile data. Besides, you can make an actual audio and video call directly from the application, without touching the phone.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Oh man, the basic usability of all chatting apps I saw is basically the same. Click on a person in chat list, write a message. The differences are so tiny. After using WhatsApp for years my parents installed Signal. For some reason it was s
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Honestly, given how much power big foreign companies have in many countries, I started to realize that China and to some extent Russia was right from the beginning to not allow unloyal competition from the big tech giants. For example Germa
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> How would "random" bag checks be milder than video surveillance? > > - They're typically not going to be watching it 24/7. They'll only look at the tapes if something occurs. And they can claim they didn&
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Except you won’t have a choice not to communicate with business. Businesses will communicate with you, based on your data Facebook collects.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Most of the people do need to find a ways to share files more efficiently, but hardly any sane company would choose Dropbox given their security proposal.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Well, that's just you. After some time TikTok actually learns what type of videos you like to watch and shows you more and more of those. You end up in a bubble. Their algorithm is pretty good at that. When I check the phones of my kid
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
This must have been the first time in history that President of the United States openly supports people violently "fighting for democracy" against "elected president" of the sovereign country. Wait what? But this time i
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> (I can confirm that on my side: I'm living in Europe and I haven't seen the dreaded popup yet.) Also leaving in EU and just got the popup this morning, so it's definitely comming to Europe too.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
... but still a company that you have to "trust". I'd rather have a protocol that will allow me to not trust anyone and still be secure/private by default.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
As much as I would like to resist, I will have to surrender and accept the new terms for WhatsApp. The network effect is so big here, that none really bother using anything else. Just checked my address book, and I have 100+ contacts using
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Wow, I watch high-quality, beautiful, comforting and inspiring, knowledge, visual and musical aesthetics, cool, useful and healthy. The others watch stupid, destructive, worse kind of content. I guess everyone can claim the same because all
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I would use Thunderbird in a heartbeat at my current job if it could seamlessly connect to Exchange.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
If you remember the "good old days" of Microsoft, Internet Explorer monopoly only when they were forced out of being default and had to actively ask the users which browser they want and make the users' effort equal for every
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
My guess would be EUR. In most of the Europe people don't mentally convert to USD but to EUR.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> Cloud service providers aren't really optimizing for the same thing that the average website is optimizing for. They're attempting to maximize their velocity, maximize their API stability, and make programmatic usage of their
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Why is everyone assuming that just because someone works for Google has to be competent? Solving algorithmic puzzles is not an indicator or actual technical skills. To me, it looks like a work of incompetent developers led by incompetent te
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Great news. Right now what is holding me from investing in Bitcoin are: - horrible fees - slow transaction - risk of total loss (by loosing wallet, or exchange getting hacked) - no regulation With the Bitcoin ETF I would be getting the foll
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
It's not realy moral hazard, it's about what is the goal. If the goal is to slow down the pandemic, then the "irresponsible spreaders" should be vaccinated first. On the other side, if the goal is to punish "irrespo
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
"I need that bridge yesterday. If my army doesn't cross the river today, we are all dead. I don't care if the bridge collapse tomorrow, or if the rain wear it down, as long as I can use it today." If it's your job t
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I have free grandfathered Google Business Plan, including Gmail, but on my domain. The moment Google decides that I have to pay for it, even if it's 0,01 € per month, I'll be moving to another paid service. Why I didn't do it
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
... unless you are in SV. There it's fully acceptable, and to some extent even mandatory to publicly take a political stance in bashing Trump and praising whoever is the Democratic Party hero of the day.

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