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by lwhalen 7y ago
The 'Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Perhaps those affected could spin up a local Gitlab instance and migrate their data to it?
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Came here hoping someone would say this. Apparently the USPS used to operate as a bank 'way back in the day': https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/post-office-banking-...
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by lwhalen 7y ago
I look forward to F-Droid banning Firefox as well as any and all web-browsers that don't implement a blocklist that perfectly matches their ideology.
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by lwhalen 7y ago
For $15/hr, can they not find employment elsewhere (even in a different industry) with less-terrible work conditions?
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by lwhalen 7y ago
The Mattermost API is a superset of Slack's. "Most" integrations "just work", the rest need a minimum of tweaking to DTRT.
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Oh man, I would've watched the HELL out of this show in highschool. Pity, I didn't even know it existed! I had a beloved Latin teacher back then (regrettably, he passed years ago) who would've been all over this too.
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Any individual or corporation is free to donate directly to the US General Fund, which is where the vast majority of tax revenue goes: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/resources/faq/faq_public... In the me
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by lwhalen 7y ago
I've been hosting my own email for years. It's not without its challenges, but it's certainly not what I would call 'insurmountable'. This 'never host your own email!' meme needs to go.
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ESR's Loadsharers Page(catb.org)
3 points by lwhalen 7y ago|0 comments
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by lwhalen 7y ago
I've been running email servers for my personal and business email for nigh on two decades now. It's "an hour or two of maintenance a quarter", on average, and is nowhere near as big of a deal as many would make it out
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by lwhalen 7y ago
It's trivial to use a Mastodon instance via a web browser. Are Firefox, Chrome, et al, going to be banned from app stores as well if they don't implement morality policing?
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by lwhalen 7y ago
I've got Lobsters (and HN, and barnacl.es) hooked into my RSS reader. It updates when it updates, and I still get the good stuff :-)
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Propofol is regularly used as a general anesthetic, or immediately before application of a stronger anesthetic/hypnotic.
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by lwhalen 7y ago
Ubiquiti is great. They make cloud integration easy if you want it, or self hosted as well.
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Welcome to city-living. If you want peace and quiet, move to the suburbs or the countryside. Spend some of the bajillions you'd save in housing on getting a solid ISP link out to your home, and help your new neighbors get wired up to
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Honestly, it was probably a compromise many years ago to get some other kind of legislation or tax-code pushed through. Last decade's "compromise" is this decade's "loophole".
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by lwhalen 8y ago
"And this is how Republicans are made...." :-D
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Groundhogs, dolphins, whales, monkeys (other 'great primates'), etc, all have a regular social order with shared/close living quarters. Just because they don't have specious (pun intended) arguments with strangers over
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Yup. Cheerfully supporting those "unwilling to work".
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Citation needed. We are monkeys with drugs and guns. Any attempt to deny that basic premise is doomed to failure.
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by lwhalen 8y ago
What's stopping you from going full Siddhartha, selling your house/earthly possessions, and giving the wad to the first homeless person you see on your way out of town to live your best ascetic life? Caring for and providing as mu
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by lwhalen 8y ago
I'd like to add on to that: "Pay more" and "Hire remote". Don't disregard the consultant firms either. Many times I've seen a big push to hire an FTE (or series of FTEs) to do a Big Project(tm), only to
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by lwhalen 8y ago
The hand-wringing by the author in this piece is off the charts. If they're this conflicted about carrying, they shouldn't do it. Carrying is a strictly voluntary practice, and I'm glad to see Ohio is enacting (IMHO sensibl
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Yeah, that's what we call "a job". Make yourself useful to a rich enough person or group of people, they'll "give you a bunch of money" and call it a "salary".
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Ask HN: Google Voice replacements?
10 points by lwhalen 8y ago|2 comments
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Yes, and it's been worth it every time.
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Any individual or corporation is free to donate directly to the US General Fund, which is where the vast majority of tax revenue goes: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/resources/faq/faq_public... In the me
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by lwhalen 8y ago
The last paragraph, to me, is most poignant: "...in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it -so
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by lwhalen 8y ago
A restraining order is just a piece of paper. It solves very little in the face of a determined 'admirer', and stops nothing. Yes it MAY give the police/legal system recourse AFTER the subject breaches the terms, but in the
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by lwhalen 8y ago
You must not have been anywhere near the tech community for, oh, the last five years or so... :-)

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