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by luxpir 11mo ago
I agree. I also don't know how that could realistically be achieved, with everything nowadays being lowest common denominator, aid budgets being slashed and drawbridges being raised. It would take an extraordinary initiative by an extr
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by luxpir 1y ago
I should have said why I'm against "Libre" as a term. I'm into FOSS, so I get it, and speak other languages, so I get Libre has a wider adoption elsewhere. But not in the English-speaking world. And I'd guess that w
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by luxpir 1y ago
Freedom Software? Beats Open Software because open is still ambiguous to non-technical people. "Freedom Apps" if you truly want to talk to the masses.
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by luxpir 1y ago
This guy hams. 73.
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by luxpir 1y ago
Agree. I've mentioned to a few friends how that feeling of emptiness and scale is quite awe inspiring and was a first for me. Theory can't replicate how small and isolated you physically feel when you are between systems. At least
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by luxpir 1y ago
I'm a Brit who speaks Swedish, and recently watched the Swedish TV company SVT's documentary "Sweden in the war" (sverige i kriget). I can maybe add some info here just out of personal curiosity on the same subject. Ther
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by luxpir 1y ago
Guess what... I left FB around the time of Snowden leaks. And watched the others all go the same way. I only use them judiciously now for specific information. Even YouTube i have history off so I don't see a recommendations page and I
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by luxpir 1y ago
Sell a course.
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by luxpir 1y ago
I think it really is that simple. Have a discovery channel, recommendations side bar, just stop trying to add "shareholder value" through flawed machine learning attempts. Maintain a useful piece of software, is it too much to ask
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by luxpir 1y ago
Just to thank you for that point. I think it's likely more true than most of us realise. That and maybe the ability to mentally scaffold or outline a system or solution ahead of time.
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by luxpir 1y ago
Yes this. I worked in restaurants a lot and embarrassed myself back home when I could only remember the term pichet for jug, making me not look like a very talented linguist at all. Now I've been away from the learned language countrie
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by luxpir 1y ago
As a complete layman with a curiosity-based interest, I'd have to guess it was (what is now called) Welsh, surely? Could it have been some lost continental Germanic/Celtic tribe? Seems less likely on balance. Maybe a big discovery
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by luxpir 1y ago
I'd imagine so, yes, before being pushed back to the edges and corners of the islands. Shame the warrior culture took over a less militarily focused one. History rhymes, no?
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by luxpir 1y ago
Not sure where you're from, but the way it seems to have fallen now is Irish Gaelic is called Irish and Gaelic (pronounced "gallic") is usually the Scottish variant. Unless you know better, or of some reform, in which case I
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by luxpir 1y ago
Really great to see. These languages, sadly largely killed off in the name of I don't know what, are as the final Tolkien quote in the comment says: the senior languages of Britain. Fun fact; Cumbria is named in the same way as Cymru,
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Hacker who breached app used by Trump aide stole data from across US Government(reuters.com)
15 points by luxpir 1y ago|4 comments
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by luxpir 2y ago
Just get a radio? Not to be glib, they're well built, mature tech that can go many tens of km from elevated positions. Don't get triangulated in a conflict situation, but it's the thing most likely to work and remain durable&
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by luxpir 2y ago
It worked for me last year, and entertained a few of us for a good while. Been meaning to revisit. Side note: Elite Dangerous is on offer at the moment and that has been the only thing to give me that unnerving sense of scale you get when t
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by luxpir 2y ago
That's really interesting. Any further cost savings going from Go to Rust?
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30 years ago Tomorrow's World predicted 2025 – how did it do?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by luxpir 2y ago|0 comments
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by luxpir 2y ago
I like seeing trading tools released. Kudos. Barriers are falling, fees and such. APIs popping up and interest in markets growing. I'd be bullish on retail trading and its healthy future.
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How Do Isochronic Tones Work? The Benefits and the Research(mindamend.com)
2 points by luxpir 2y ago|0 comments
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Mark Cuban hasn't profited from his 'Shark Tank' investments [2022](techcrunch.com)
1 points by luxpir 2y ago|0 comments
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by luxpir 2y ago
Also of interest are Arabic, Hebrew and other RTL scripts. Not sure if more myth than fact, but their origin was apparently in stone masonry and right handed hammer use. I can't quite believe it though, given the difference of ease in
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by luxpir 2y ago
Lefty, but also someone who has a brain that prefers the right for sport (bat/ball games), as disclaimer... Handwriting is clear and can print or use cursive. When I used to write more on paper, many moons ago, I'd turn the paper
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What to Use Instead of PGP(soatok.blog)
16 points by luxpir 2y ago|21 comments
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by luxpir 2y ago
He blocked me on Twitter for a very moderate counter point/alternative offering type post. I'm typically a reasonable person and not rude as a rule, I didn't feel like I'd said anything untoward. From that event I realis
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by luxpir 2y ago
A little trivia: since the recent 23andMe breach, the desci project genomesdao has launched a new service that allows 23andMe data exports to be imported into their platform. They then attract pharmaceuticals to make specific requests and s
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by luxpir 2y ago
Goosebumps thinking of how many universes could have played out before this one. Or alongside it.
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Julian Assange walks free after pleading guilty to US espionage charge in Saipan(theguardian.com)
27 points by luxpir 2y ago|4 comments

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