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by marxisttemp 2y ago
Murder is wrong. War is wrong.
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by marxisttemp 2y ago
Like all corporations, Apple only cares about making a profit. Their business model let them implement much stronger privacy guarantees than their competitors, and this differentiation has been a profitable avenue for them. But ultimately i
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by marxisttemp 2y ago
I wouldn’t say all of the privacy changes or even the majority of them are to ensure lock-in, but they have certainly been using their privacy stance as a pretext for lock-in.
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by marxisttemp 2y ago
MacPorts is always waiting for you with more packages, a better design, and Jordan Hubbard’s history with BSD/Apple :)
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I seem to recall that their app also pushed lottery tickets.
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by marxisttemp 2y ago
The map is not the territory. Most of economics is predicated on the same sort of ideologically-motivated cherry-picking of models to justify the status quo, then trotted out ad nauseam as incontrovertible evidence that we should all give u
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by marxisttemp 2y ago
I think 4chan’s model is actually really underrated. Replies can be indicated by referencing the number of a previous post, and a post can link arbitrarily to as many posts as needed. Posts include a header with links to all posts that refe
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by marxisttemp 2y ago
lol I met Josh Boehm years ago, didn’t realize he had crawled so far up the ladder at SpaceX. I tried talking with him about programming but he struck me as one of those insufferable managerial types with no passion for the craft that had f
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by marxisttemp 2y ago
Ah yes, freedom of speech works best when limited only to people who share your values. Truly our greatest allies in democracy.
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by marxisttemp 2y ago
Hahahahahahaha yeah that’s the problem, the employees! Why don’t they “give a shit” about their jobs that barely pay their rent and groceries and give them zero chance of ever retiring? You seem sheltered
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
“For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
Much love, I agree completely. I hope we can find a way to bring justice and care back into this world.
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
Do you believe that what you are working on will really help free people to work on their passions? Every other efficiency increase has gone to line the pockets of the already-rich. I have lost hope for a brighter world. I can find happines
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
Indeed, MacPorts has over 36,000. Homebrew doesn’t list an official number and I’m not at my computer to check myself, but the count was under 5,000 as of 2019: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/324084/how-
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
> Homebrew Or MacPorts, which was created by Apple employee and inventor of the FreeBSD ports system Jordan Hubbard, has more packages than Homebrew, and has a much more correct design. Homebrew is a bit of a joke in comparison, not sure
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
Is your username a SOPHIE reference?
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
Have you considered that density needs to be increased not to provide you with low pollution, low crime, a short commute, food or entertainment options, but instead so that people aren’t forced to live on the street?
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
Why not use ActivityPub? Why should we trust Dorsey again? What is one good reason to use Bluesky over Mastodon?
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
I guarantee you can’t hear the difference between FLAC and 256kbps lossy either. The point is that you have the actual, canonical data as it was released by the creator. You don’t need a massive HDD array, I have my whole collection of 10+
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
I do. But I’m on private trackers where almost all content is well-seeded and long-term seeding is rewarded, so download time is less of a concern. Why? Because I want the highest-quality possible copy. Same reason I download lossless versi
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
> Sonia worked with the Information Research Department (IRD), a propaganda department of the British Foreign Office, which helped to increase the international fame of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. With her support, the IRD was
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
But he never wrote a novel providing a depiction of the pitfalls of corporate capitalism or right-wing ideology.
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
Sure, 1984 and Animal Farm were both fine critiques of Stalinism. They’re not that deep though, and it’s curious that this “socialist” “anarchist” author is largely revered for his critiques of communism. Again, largely because of his wife’
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
George Orwell was a colonist cop who described his subjects as “brutes. The success of 1984 and Animal Farm were largely due to his wife Sonia Brownell promoting them in her job at the British propaganda ministry. He self-described as a “To
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
All water under the bridge now, right? I mean, France never gave that money back to Haiti, but let’s let bygones be bygones right?
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France literally made Haiti pay them reparations for…revolting against their slave colony. There seems to be no low they won’t stoop to for extra bucks!
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by marxisttemp 3y ago
> how are there no successful post-colonial African countries? > Despite giving me Marxist vibes So the author is ideologically opposed to the type of economics that is precisely concerned with this sort of analysis? I stopped reading