lrvick

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by lrvick 9mo ago
Supporting free and open source technology means supporting whoever can get it in as many hands as possible as cheaply as possible while paying your employees fairly. Adafruit gets this. Making anything proprietary at this point for use in
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I for one abandoned the Teensy for all projects once I realized it was closed as I have no interest in promoting or teaching closed hardware and software in my personal DIY time. I will gladly be a customer of your open hardware replacement
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by lrvick 10mo ago
The linux ecosystem is a peaceful and effective system of anarchy with no central authority. Pretty much the exact opposite of the Apple dictatorship. I am a Linux distro maintainer and my team and I do whatever we think is best in our dist
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by lrvick 10mo ago
So you believe dictatorships are a good idea when it comes to technology control. My question is then the same of anyone who prefer to give up freedoms to centralized seemingly benevolent dictators: What happens when you are told you can no
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by lrvick 10mo ago
As a security engineer that regularly architects and helps implement new defense tactics that no LLM has trained on, I choose not to use LLMs at all, like a cave man. Being differently trained and using different tools than almost everyone
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by lrvick 10mo ago
It is not for anyone but Apple, because they control the source code and full remote code execution access to your device at a higher privilege level than you as the supposed owner have.
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by lrvick 10mo ago
I do not have a smartphone and have had no problem being a customer of multiple top banks. They strongly _encourage_ you to use apps, but if smartphones are against your unspecified religion, alternative paths always appear.
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by lrvick 10mo ago
It causes a major difference. It forces all uses of screens in common spaces with others present, to be inclusive to said others. You do not open anything on shared screens you do not mean for others to participate in, so they function more
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by lrvick 10mo ago
Suddenly the one good use case for lead paint becomes clear.
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by lrvick 10mo ago
I have a mini PC hooked to screens in every room other than the bedroom and bathroom, and remote controls with built in air-mouse and keyboard (pepper jobs remotes). This way anyone can pick up a controller in any room and look something up
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by lrvick 10mo ago
I host weekly friend-of-friend open events where some people show up most weeks, find a nice comfortable spot to doom scroll in for a couple hours, maybe take a nap, leave, sit in their car for a bit, scroll some more, then go home. I am ju
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by lrvick 10mo ago
This makes me worry about the future where I will be unable to hire anyone that actually knows how to solve novel engineering problems via programming with a real keyboard on a real computer with their actual brains. To be honest it is alre
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by lrvick 10mo ago
When a kid is old enough to pay for their own apartment and bills and has money left over for a smartphone, drugs, alcohol, or other poisons, that will be their choice to make. Until then, they are not an independent adult, and it is absolu
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by lrvick 10mo ago
We banned proprietary software in our home, self host the internet services we need and want as a family, and block ads in everything. Gave up my own phone entirely a few years ago partly to ensure kids never see me use one or rely on one s
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by lrvick 10mo ago
Knowingly giving a child poison known to cause lasting damage to their brain sounds pretty abusive to me. It is the modern day equivalent of putting whiskey in the bottle to calm a kid down. Also it is not about 80s/90s content so much
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by lrvick 10mo ago
Spot on. Giving kids a smartphone and unsupervised access to algorithm driven content is child abuse, though sadly a legal form of it. Also, model the behavior you want to see, so put your own phone down around kids and let them see you pur
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by lrvick 10mo ago
Exactly this is why Japanese blu ray releases of streaming shows that lack physical US releases are a great backup option.
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by lrvick 10mo ago
I literally burned and sold bootleg software to churches as one of my go to hustles as a kid, and have a blu ray burner handy. Knowing how, and being willing to do it for piles of titles and make cases that are nice to display and browse in
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by lrvick 10mo ago
I mean, I do both. But physical disks make it easier to stay away from the internet when I want a simple entertainment experience without distractions.
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by lrvick 10mo ago
I suddenly no longer feel bad about my 6 figure salary working full time in FOSS.
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by lrvick 10mo ago
Once supply chain attacks enter your threat model, you suddenly realize that the entire internet breaks if any one of a few hundred volunteer owned home computers are compromised. Fixing this requires universal reproducible builds redundant
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by lrvick 10mo ago
Yet most distros have maintainers build and sign their own package recipes and/or artifacts on their own random home workstations infected with who knows what so the trust is distributed (but not decentralized) which is the worst of al
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by lrvick 10mo ago
I to am in the bay area, and clearly I have been shopping at the wrong colos. I expected to find nothing with unlimited bandwidth for under $1k/mo given past experience with what may have been higher end DCs. In any event if I was the
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by lrvick 10mo ago
It is not just Google Ads that are dead. Advertising in general, is dead. No one wants this shit and no matter where you go, people will find a way to block your ads or leave the platforms they cannot easily block ads in. As soon as you adv
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by lrvick 10mo ago
400K would go -fast- if they stuck to a traditional colo setup. Donations like this are rare and it may be all they get for a decade. Personally I would feel better about round robin across multiple maintainer-home-hosted machines.
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by lrvick 10mo ago
> It makes it sound like a very amateurish operation. Wait until you find out how every major Linux distributions and software that powers the internet is maintained. It is all a wildly under-funded shit show, and yet we do it anyway bec
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by lrvick 10mo ago
100%. Just as an example I have several racks at home, business fiber, battery backup, and a propane generator as a last resort. Also 4th amendment protections so no one gets access without me knowing about it. I host a lot of things at hom
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by lrvick 10mo ago
F-droid makes the most sense when shipped as the system appstore, along with pinned CA keychains as Calyxos did. Ideally f-droid was compiled from source and validated by the rom devs. The F-droid app itself can then verify signatures from
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by lrvick 10mo ago
You actually do not have to trust the people who run f-droid for those apps whose maintainers enroll in reproducible builds and multi-party signing, which only f-droid supports unlike any alternatives.
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by lrvick 10mo ago
As someone that has run many volunteer open source communities and projects for more than 2 decades, I totally get how big "small" wins like this are. The internet is run on binaries compiled in servers in random basements and you

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