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by lfam 11y ago
I don't mean free as in price. I mean free as in freedom, and I mean proprietary as in non-free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software
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by lfam 11y ago
Careful with the headphones. If they are loud enough to obscure the noise of your coworkers, they are probably loud enough to damage your hearing if used every day.
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by lfam 11y ago
Why would a free software project leave GitHub just to run a proprietary "stack"? You could try one of the self-hostable free software alternatives listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_sour
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by lfam 11y ago
It's absurd that so many open-source and / or free software projects are happy to host their public-facing development infrastructure with a private company running proprietary software.
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by lfam 11y ago
Tavis Ormandy started tweeting at AVG about this subject several months ago. And it's been pointed out that they aren't able to remove the extension from users' machines due to how it bypasses the Chrome security system. So t
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by lfam 11y ago
If the vendor is incompetent and the bug is being actively exploited, then it's reasonable to violate the 90-day policy, which is designed in the spirit of cooperation with competent vendors. 6 months ago they decided to limit inline i
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by lfam 11y ago
Do you have a citation for this? I'd love to share it with a friend of mine who is afraid of being a victim of terrorism in the US.
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by lfam 11y ago
Yeah, this sucks. You can install the Let's Encrypt client in a way that you actually have control over by using the GNU Guix package on any GNU / Linux distro. The installation has no side effects to your system (since it's
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by lfam 11y ago
> So, basically, we should restructure our entire economy so some multi-millionaire's luxury vehicle and lawn won't flood on an island? The economy will restructure itself and the area will depopulate. The article mentions the
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by lfam 11y ago
The cool thing about Olimex is that their hardware designs are open-source, so anyone could make a compatible motherboard with the faster chips.
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by lfam 11y ago
> The old man the boat When spoken aloud, this is easier to understand. A fluent English speaker will be able to put the emphasis in the proper places.
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by lfam 11y ago
If this means that apps like OsmAnd can do traffic-aware navigation, it will help the entire OSM ecosystem. I try to use OsmAnd but I often have to use Google Maps in order to route around traffic in my city. They should really work with th
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by lfam 11y ago
I think the issue in most US cities is capture of zoning boards by property owners and developers. They have made it impossible for supply to meet demand. For example, new apartment buildings in New York are required to include parking if t
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by lfam 11y ago
Of course you should use it when you think its appropriate. For example, if you left your boots on the ground, it would be appropriate to describe them as "boots on the ground". If you are talking about the historic center of a ci
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by lfam 11y ago
Those are all major problems. I think that "ruined life" is crap Newspeak. It's like "boots on the ground", "inner-city", "financial crisis", "cloud", and a billion examples from the &q
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by lfam 11y ago
I'm very interesting in maintaining security and privacy while still being able to use the internet, so please don't interpret this comment as a dismissal of your concerns. I share your concerns 100%. But I hate the phrase "r
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by lfam 11y ago
Why would you use YouTube if you care about these issues? The whole business is based on monetizing your effort without compensating you. Sure, youtube has a big network effect, but that doesn't matter for the use case of using it as a
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by lfam 11y ago
The population of France is about 7.5% Muslim. France has had a close relationship with the Muslim world since the 19th century when they colonized parts of North Africa and the Middle East. Sadly, the position in French society of colonial
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by lfam 11y ago
> Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book Before disappearing into outer space (leaving Facebook) I found that Facebook had become my address book. I think that is Facebook's greatest use: a self-updating address
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by lfam 11y ago
A good graphic designer will work with people like sociologists, psychologists, etc to convey the information in the most effective way based on some set of requirements. If a graphic designer does not approach their work in this way then t
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by lfam 11y ago
Interesting. Since the difference between not buying something and a boycott is communicating your intentions to the public, I think this is really a restriction on speech.
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by lfam 11y ago
Depending on your needs, you could try Syncthing [1]. IMO the major functional differences between it and Dropbox are: * You have to provide the servers that Dropbox provides. I.E. you have to provide the level of availability that you want
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by lfam 11y ago
In the case of sites like what.cd, I think that FLAC 16/44 rips of CDs and vinyl are useful for creating distributed backups of our cultural corpus. But I agree that 24/192 FLACs of vinyl are ridiculous.
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by lfam 11y ago
This is true. Mastering for vinyl is basically a completely different set of skills than mastering for other media.
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by lfam 11y ago
> it just sounds like a waterfall with a few bandpass filters changing between the verse and chorus. That's a good way to put it. I hate over-compressed music. It sounds terrible and is no fun to listen to once you notice the issue.
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by lfam 11y ago
This is always the issue with mechanisms of control like "trusted computing" and cryptography in general. The question is, "who is in control?" Cryptography can be used to control you (for example, signed BIOS), or you c
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by lfam 11y ago
From the mailing list: > 1) The container tools I'm working on are completely declarative. > 2) There are no disk images. > 3) Software and other files shared amongst many containers are deduplicated system-wide. > Once aga
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by lfam 11y ago
> Guix is great, but it is its own OS with its own ecosystem. The point here would be to unify the API to package management on the ecosystems that already exist, such that you could interact with the package manager in ignorance of its
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by lfam 11y ago
> I'm not convinced he analogue hole won't ever be plugged. The analogue holes for visual media are the two holes in your skull where your eyeballs sit. The analogue hole won't be plugged until you can implement a secure p
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by lfam 11y ago
> This is one reason why getting insurance coverage as a type 1 diabetic is almost futile as pretty much anything could arguably be caused by your diabetes. Do you mean that insurance won't cover things related to type 1 diabetes?

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