lwhalen

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by lwhalen 6y ago
The BSDs are getting more and more appealing every quarter, personally. I've moved some personal/home services over to OpenBSD, the process was smooth and straightforward.
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by lwhalen 6y ago
I am heading to a remote cabin (well, farm actually) in Montana. Just waiting for Starlink to go GA. I'm currently in the Seattle area though.
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by lwhalen 6y ago
Sad to see 2fa is at the bottom of the still later" deck
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by lwhalen 6y ago
I think OP was being sarcastic....
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by lwhalen 6y ago
Democrat
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by lwhalen 6y ago
Last time I checked, this country wasn't "to each according to their need". They wanted it, they could afford it, so they went out and got it :-)
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by lwhalen 6y ago
I wonder how long before these companies pull out of Seattle, or Washington entirely. If it's just Seattle, will they just geofence the city and not allow rides to originate or terminate there? What happens if a driver is transiting th
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by lwhalen 6y ago
Take a cue from Uncle Bob (Heinlein) and start working on his list: A human being should be able to: - change a diaper - plan an invasion - butcher a hog - conn a ship - design a building - write a sonnet - balance accounts - build a wall -
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by lwhalen 6y ago
I quit venmo when they went mobile only. There's no obvious way they make money, so it must be in the metadata they collect... somewhere. I can control what they see from a desktop web browser, but on mobile their app asks for far too
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by lwhalen 6y ago
Glad to hear the team is making progress. Slightly OT, might anyone here know what is up with the super-slow release of 2.10.20 installer for OS X? It's been several weeks since the latest release, and there's only the 2.10.14 i
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by lwhalen 6y ago
All of my agreements.
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by lwhalen 6y ago
Lol, and how did that work out for you?
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by lwhalen 6y ago
BMW dealership did it for me after I signed a standard form that, yes, this is what I wanted. A friendly chat with the master mechanic gave me the rough location of the cell box (easy to get to in a convertible) and a 'wink wink nudge
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by lwhalen 6y ago
Is there a way to disable all the Tesla telemetry, even if it means reduced functionality? I'd love a Model X, but I refuse to own a car that tracks my location and reports it back to the mothership. I'm so serious about this, I
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by lwhalen 6y ago
Ever since the Phoenicians invented money, there has only ever been one answer to that question :-)
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by lwhalen 6y ago
We can spend ~decades rooting out every potential English synonym that could potentially offend someone, or we could just start over with a 'clean', 'pure' language with none of that pesky baggage. In my opinion, this en
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by lwhalen 6y ago
This is what is preventing my move from suburban Washington State to rural Montana or even Idaho. Getting ANY information from wired ISPs is like pulling teeth. Each address has to be called in, and no ISP can say something helpful like &
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by lwhalen 6y ago
No. There is a finite amount of time and energy (physical, emotional, and other) that an individual, and by proxy a group, can dedicate to a given cause. Wasting those resources on token gestures like this means there is _less_ energy to
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by lwhalen 6y ago
So all it takes to shortcut your "rational examination of the evidence at hand" loop is to have someone label a subject as 'a conspiracy'? That's certainly an interesting way to move through life.
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by lwhalen 6y ago
What's wrong with ESR's work? I know the man himself can sometimes be controversial, but many of us came up on his works like The Jargon File, Cathedral and Bazaar, etc.
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by lwhalen 6y ago
How does it play with Squarespace sites? I didn't see that mentioned as one of their supported back-ends.
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Take a cue from Uncle Bob (Heinlein) and start working on his list: A human being should be able to: - change a diaper - plan an invasion - butcher a hog - conn a ship - design a building - write a sonnet - balance accounts - build a wall -
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Certainly. But humans are supposed to be responsible for their own outcome, more often than not. America is the land of opportunity. Many people who are otherwise more than able to work, choose to Trustifarian it up and be a pimple on th
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Food-stamp recipients and folks on social security are completely different classes of citizen. Firstly, we expect the food-stamp recipient to eventually get off of them and start providing for themselves. The social security recipient ha
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Indeed, and do you know what kills you faster and more reliably than lack of free/subsidized medical care? Lack of food (9 days), and lack of potable water (72 hours). Since we seem to be leaning towards the opinion that the gov'
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Thinkspot, MeWe, and Mastodon.
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by lwhalen 7y ago
I mean, so is Pascal's Wager. I'm no climate scientist, but from what little I've read is that _all_ climate models are terrible at predicting more than 10-20 days out, and are on the same level of accuracy as financial fore
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by lwhalen 7y ago
It's not nearly as clear-cut as one might hope. Cliff Mass, a respected University of Washington Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, is a noted 'skeptic' of the urgency of climate change, at least the anthropogenic causes the
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by lwhalen 7y ago
If voting changed anything, we wouldn't be allowed to do it.
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by lwhalen 7y ago
And once we're all on mandatory government healthcare, how does that reduce the incentive for the government to dictate the exact same policies (vis a vis 'penalizing the smokers, the overweight, the gun-owners, the non-conforming

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