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by madez 9y ago
You also could stop misusing the browser as an application frontend, and write a proper frontend with a cross-platform toolkit, and distribute that. I don't understand why developers so often choose the browser as a frontend. Are there
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by madez 9y ago
Smaller scale of production usually decreases efficiency, increases costs, and thereby decreases consumption.
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by madez 9y ago
> I just meant that my reduced negative externalities will be produced instead by an opportunistic actor. I don't think this is true. Humans are deeply social and copy each other. One can easily see this with young humans, but I did
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by madez 9y ago
Your actions are not meaningless. They are what one person can accomplish, and thats what everybody has to be content with when in doubt. If you make the world better by being less bad, then chances are you are already doing what one human
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by madez 9y ago
> Torrent laws are used by lawyers and scamers to send out fines to random people and scam them for money, what does a consumer get out of those laws? Nothing... If you are a provider of internet access for example via WiFi, and you didn
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by madez 9y ago
> These kinda a laws is why germany has no free wifi anywhere cos owner gets fined for anything that happens on his wifi... The law has changed. Since October 13th 2017 the owner of the internet access point is no longer responsible for
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by madez 9y ago
Get a waterproof phone or tablet?
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by madez 9y ago
> when those bitcoins would be converted in real $ money Maybe never, because they might be converted to €, ¥ or ₽ among many others.
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by madez 9y ago
> I‘m sorry, but 99% of the population will prefer a random shiny device That part gives me the impression of a fatalist stance, and I see that waaay too often. When everybody does x, but doing y gives some profit, people are all interes
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by madez 9y ago
Active mainlining of Allwinner chips is under way.[0] I only use the devices with kernels from trustable sources, like Debian. The A20-Olinuxino-Micro works already quite good with Debian out of the box. It is even recommended by FreedomBox
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by madez 9y ago
That's why it is important to not buy random shiny devices. Open source hardware like for example the Teres-1 [0] are what allows us to stay in control. I can't wait for even more open successors based on RISC-V processors. [0] h
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by madez 9y ago
I must applaud the doctors, as they did the right thing, and even gave explicit and detailed explanation. Pain is indeed important. It is a feature, not a bug. If you don't know what resting after a surgery means, then you are in need
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by madez 9y ago
Sound waves don't add up linearly. However, it is a good enough idealization for many uses. Fourier analysis is also approachable from the discrete setting of finite vectors instead of functions, where the fourier analysis is just an o
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by madez 9y ago
I cannot confirm your answer. In "6. Data Deletion" Google assures that data will be delete in a reasonable fashion upon request or on expiry of the term. Google reserves the right to share the data with other entities in "11
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by madez 9y ago
Let me piggyback on my own comment. Because there are only so few people who have factually so much power, I urge every hacker, everybody who understands the digital world, to act in the best faith of everybody. This technological revolutio
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by madez 9y ago
By now we all should have realized that all but a tiny fraction of people is illiterate about computers, the internet and their possibilities and dangers.
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by madez 9y ago
Will Google record the input from the users and/or analyze it?
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by madez 9y ago
A good way would be to accept gpg keys as identities.
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by madez 9y ago
> even if it pisses of a few folks Are there only a few people who realize how big of an issue having no vender-neutral solution is? That'd actually scare me. If you think this deeper, then why not organize the voting of the governm
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by madez 9y ago
The form is debatable, however their critique is not completely wrong. The diagnosis that at least a vocal part of the crowd here is finance-obsessed fits my experience. More generally, some of the people I regularly interact with face-to-f
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by madez 9y ago
Decentralization and safer protocols are needed. Plain HTTP and even HTTPS are really not the best one could come up with. There are better alternatives, but using them is not always easy. So, thanks a lot for your work on making that easie
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by madez 9y ago
The same could be said about operating systems and many other complex software projects. Advanced video and picture creation and manipulation, for example, and yet we have Kdenlive and GIMP. And we also have Debian and GCC and then some. No
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by madez 9y ago
Mozilla is spreading garbage completely independent of how their business model relates to the economics of other sites.
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by madez 9y ago
Count me in. But I'm not so much interested in destructive activity, but positive constructive change. Abandoning FireFox and spreading the word about it would be a good start to gain momentum for browsers that are loyal to the users i
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by madez 9y ago
So, they are not part of the web or are they? A lot of pages on the web work by providing porn. Is porn the business model of the web? This is just ridiculous. There are many projects that need money to survive and don't sell their use
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by madez 9y ago
> While advertising is the business model of the web Come on Mozilla, stop spreading this bull ! Is LWN.net not part of the web? Is tagesschau.de not part of the web? Are my personal pages not part of web? None of them have advertisin
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by madez 9y ago
What difference made the search bars in IE if you never clicked on them? Mozilla should never have added Pocket by default, and should remove it. But they won't, just like they set a default search engine for you: they need money. They
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by madez 9y ago
Think of two libraries that use unsafe Rust and interact with the same hardware, but work correctly when used on their own. A program written only in pure not-unsafe Rust might use these two libraries in a way that breaks because the assert
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by madez 9y ago
The problem aren't the developers of alternative systems. The culprit is Apple.
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by madez 9y ago
The site works fine without JavaScript.

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