luqtas

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by luqtas 6d ago
after reading Ford Foundation document [0] i'll go beyond and purpose FOSS not only limit commercial use but also forking [1] as it seems we have an endless stream of libraries which do the same thing, scattering even more this "f
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by luqtas 8d ago
oh yes sure. just like we can shift the population into installing Debian into their machines so we also deter M$ and Apple abuse /s
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by luqtas 9d ago
how the wealthy would get more votes in a direct democratic system? they are literally the minority, thus fewer votes
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by luqtas 9d ago
> Democracy is about (in theory at least) giving each person a meaningful say in their own governance, which in turn implies not allowing any single person to become too powerful. this is "direct democracy" and it's not ev
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by luqtas 14d ago
> You seem like a good and principled person, and you have a record of giving things up for what you believe. i mean, 3 months ago i started to use AI for a project i'm working for around 6 years, full-time but calling a billionaire
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by luqtas 15d ago
there are some papers about communal gardens heated by data centers... since they don't produce as much there, hope it also paves the way for developing indoor agriculture
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by luqtas 16d ago
the expectation combined with more studios doing stuff, the fact that video-games don't have 100 years (so it's a maturing art form, somehow) and also investment money... i believe there's much more chances of quality declini
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by luqtas 17d ago
soon we'll have a like amount predictor connected with your personal assistant talking with your social media
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by luqtas 18d ago
> a day when TVs contain cellular or satellite modems so you can’t block the telemetry finally my startup of faraday-cage rooms will boom /j
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by luqtas 20d ago
with good strumming and fretting technique, you can play any of the 10 most used chord progressions in a nylon guitar and impress A LOT of people most popular songs on charts today aren't on the edge of what's new... music theory
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by luqtas 20d ago
fine you won :( but i still make my point on Terpstra. they use hall effect sensors and have continuous actuation force...
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by luqtas 21d ago
oh yes, this isn't a physical instrument but a MIDI keyboard, not in a thousand worlds you need an arm and a torso for a fortissimo
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by luqtas 21d ago
maybe a society which has laws and regulations voted by citizens (anarchy for example) commercial products shouldn't profit over 700% or some absurdity which caps the 5000 usd number... it's not like velocity sensible keys are exp
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by luqtas 21d ago
> Any idea why something like this costs $5,000? It seems like manufacturing costs would justify 1/10th of that maybe? welcome to Capitalism and Niche Products sir
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by luqtas 22d ago
isn't the main point of Fairphone to not use conflict minerals? by using FOSS only myself and hating monopolies like Apple etc., i still pretty much convinced that being "green" or "ethical" is more about participat
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by luqtas 25d ago
garageBand /j
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by luqtas 1mo ago
you can perfectly justify whatever you want based on whatever else... will take myself for example: i just slave workers on my IT firm because there are sweatshops elsewhere /j like there isn't a correlation on more resources bein
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by luqtas 1mo ago
> The real heroes are the ones ambitiously raising the next generation while changing the world right now. so pedagogy and psychology researchers? giving that having biological children is the worst ecological offense someone can do in a
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by luqtas 1mo ago
woah! don't be so harshy... they sell hardware at loss /s
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by luqtas 2mo ago
sometimes people violated the rules and used the donkey in local matches. some of them used to get pretty mad
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by luqtas 2mo ago
lol. AI can't even iterate properly on a low-poly tree generator with Blender and your thinking about AGI
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by luqtas 2mo ago
https://m.youtube.com/@dj_dave____ she started with Sonic Pi back in ~ 2020 but i guess she uses other stuff by now
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by luqtas 2mo ago
yes! i still wondering why feminism had to be created /s
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by luqtas 2mo ago
> impossible task in the present. lot of gen z can't even read or concentrate for more than 5 minutes so the old timers not even being able to open Settings of a Windows desktop /j
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by luqtas 2mo ago
yes! and giving current scientific research on reading efficiency pointing towards fixed pages being much better than scroll, the whole web is screwed but these fancy sites... a big merda
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by luqtas 2mo ago
i'm using this mouse for over 2 years now: https://happort.org/mouse it uses this board: https://github.com/jfedor2/rp2040-pmw3360 and i can dig into my .stl files for the mouse if you want... mad
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by luqtas 2mo ago
finally my children will be secure and my bank account impenetrable!
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by luqtas 2mo ago
just like the general mechanical keyboard community... over expensive hardware, sometimes not even shipping with friendly layers for rookies (like VIAL framework for configuring QMK) and oh! QUESTIONABLE ERGONOMIC DESIGNS like ortholinear a
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by luqtas 3mo ago
barbaric is society which has half of the worlwide population living with less than 6 USD per day in borderline slavery
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by luqtas 3mo ago
> hold you arrested for breath has been a revelation of the kind watching fable 5 build cannot bring biology has it's tricks to keep us hooked into: basic things... why do you think heterosexuality is so common? having children as f

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