maybewhenthesun

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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
What makes you think we trust big SaaS :-P
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
I reads like a corporate driver page. I'd much prefer a simple git repo with a readme.md
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
Based on their trackrecord, That's definitely a concern. I don't really understand on which basis you conclude 'isn't one of them' . 'Don't be evil' ? :-P
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
Not only those wardriving vehicles. They use everybody to scan the world's wifi networks. Well, except people like me who stubbornly turn off 'location accuracy' every time some app demands you turn it on. I don't know
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
I like it that the scruffy teenager hacker mentality is preserved in the name. It was also a bit of self deprecating humour at the time, because using Gimp instead of Photoshop did make you feel crippled a bit. I hope they never give in to
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by maybewhenthesun 4mo ago
Dingdingding, we have a winner. The main use of such a policy is to be able to just close those giant wall-of-text PRs and have something to point to when people start to scream it's not fair.
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by maybewhenthesun 4mo ago
19th century begs to differ. A better answer would be 'not always'. The proposed regulations forcing everybody to use google or apple are ridiculous and very much the opposite of the kind of regulations we need though...
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by maybewhenthesun 4mo ago
I don't think so. Because the theories about elastic markets and monopolies do have a high 'spherical frictionless cow` smell. And they are posed here as gospel. So while it might be a bit of an ad hominem to frame someone as a 12
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by maybewhenthesun 4mo ago
Very nice. I guess most dutchies would disagree with the decision to pick De Hague as the Main Capital, though :-) While all power is in De Hague , Amsterdam definitely is the Capital. De Hague is for complaining about, Amsterdam is for cel
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by maybewhenthesun 5mo ago
Still, it was called voxel rendering back then. Not technically correct, sure, but it sounded as cool as it looked!
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by maybewhenthesun 5mo ago
exactly. and chromium is a good looking space shooter with too few levels!
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by maybewhenthesun 5mo ago
I strongly disagree. Altavista had exactly the same function as google, but with worse results. Both linked to original sources. Early google had a very good idea with pagerank and that payed off. An llm rephrashing / regurgitating oth
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by maybewhenthesun 5mo ago
Google search has been over for a few years already. Nearly all other search engines give better results with less annoying ads at the top. First thing I do when installing a new browser is switch the default search engine to duckduckgo. Du
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by maybewhenthesun 5mo ago
> what has fukushima to do with storing nuclear waste. They had (still have I think) a rather nasty problem with storing lots of contaminated water in leaking containers on the Fukushima site. Storing nuclear waste might be 'easy&#x
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by maybewhenthesun 5mo ago
When a debater makes a lot of bad points, extrapolating to be suspicious of any point he makes is not and ad-hominem. And ad hominem is when you dismiss his points because he might have done something immoral in a completely unrelated fie
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by maybewhenthesun 5mo ago
I like the top panel in gnome. You need a place for your clock and you status icons. I don't really care much if it's at the top or bottom or sides. As an aside: From a 'clickability' perspective the app menus in the top
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by maybewhenthesun 5mo ago
But how do you know it's not conscious? It's a very poorly defined concept. I know various people that to this day say that fish do not feel pain (because they want to catch them with a hook through their mouth without feeling gui
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
People having been saying for aeons that consciousness originates in the (mammalian) cortex and not in the brainstem. To justify killing all sorts of animals ;-) The whole thing makes one thing extremely clear: people are very good at movin
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
My experience is that politicians tend to hand-wave this problem away, while physicists and geologists acknowledge the problem and actually think about it. So imo not really a political problem.
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
I know it's not a green ooze. But thinking it is possible to store something safely for >10000 years is just wishful thinking. The waste is a lot more dangerous than the uranium we dug out and packaging it in a way where you are s
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
The engineering side might be a theoretically solved problem, anybody looking at belgium's crumbling nuclear powerplants can help but feeling slightly nervous! I agree we probably need nuclear to bridge the gap until solar or wind can
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
It might be a scared cow, but at least deservedly so. There is imho a difference between accidental incompetence (debatable, even) and active malice. Microsoft has done a lot of the latter so gets bashed more, nor surprise there.
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
The problem is that the kernel devs (correctly imo) consider all bugfixes security fixes. So the distros need to decide for themselves which ones are important enough to warrant an update. Apparently this one had a quite unclear commit me
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
The distros dropped the ball. imho. One of the (main) tasks of the distro is watching the changed of you upstream packages for important changes. This is slightly complicated by the fact that the linux kernel considers all bugfixes secur
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
You can setup handlers to automatically launch windows executables using wine/proton . This trickery is called binfmt_misc , which is a linux kernel system to associate random binary files with custom userspace 'interpreters'
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
The problem here, and the source of OOPs annoyance I think, is that the governments of the constituting member states have the habit to present unpopular regulations as 'from Brussels' while taking credit for the popular things as
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
The eufemism treadmill works bot ways. Eufemisms loose their politeness. Swearwords loose their strength (to be replaced by new ones). Language changes. I don't think people are inherently more rude and disrespectful. "The childre
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
The linguistics of swearwords are interesting I think. They need to be taboo or they don't work. A certain amount of offensiveness is needed for their function. I think swearwords are very useful. Both when used of emphasis, comedy or
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
exactly
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by maybewhenthesun 6mo ago
The second interpretation is nonsense of course. If you want GPL-like obligations, use the GPL. A license is what it says in the license, nothing extra. It's a legal document not a moral guideline. I do think it's a very good idea

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