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by mmjaa 9y ago
I've never been a fan of PulseAudio, and always remove it and replace it with Jack on my Linux DAW systems, so this article wasn't really of interest to me .. until I started reading it. I think its the first time I've actua
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by mmjaa 9y ago
For 7 years I've been turning Wifi Off using Control Centre, and now I have to un-learn that behaviour, or modify my own needs to have Wifi 'disabled but not off'. I don't think this is as positive as some people think.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>no big deal Its a UI anti-pattern, because they're changing the definition of off from 'its off, end of topic' to 'well, its not really off, only disconnected, and you can not really tell what is what' .. So, no
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I too am from Perth and am also often amused to hear of any form of software development industry in our home town .. but it has to be said that Perth can produce some very interesting technology outliers at times. Just look at whats happe
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>We need new words - or wider usage of existing ones. Agreed - trouble is, though, whenever you start to enforce this particular aspect of the discussion, you end up either being accused of starting a cult, or following one...
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I wish this thing had made it out of crowd-funding hell: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920064946/oscilloscope-... Sure would love to wear it!
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Yup. Look behind the smoke and the mirrors of America's corrupt political donor system, and you see the real power. Of course, thats not easy - these people don't want to be known. But, it has to be done if you want to understa
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I'm having troubles differentiating between Hack and Menlo .. is it just me or are they quite similar?
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Countless, endless warfare. Un-counted victims, streaming across the landscape, being hidden from the American public by its military-industrial masters. Americans are, still today, very very ignorant of what their sovereign nation state i
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The problem is that the CIA is an entity unto itself, and as a consequence of the velvet veil of secrecy in which it has cloaked itself for so long, it is no longer really beholden to the American public. American corporations, yes. The pu
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I would argue it was Bush/Obama/Trump .. I mean, the 'collateral damage' video wouldn't have been so harmful to the so-called integrity of national security, if in fact Bush hadn't pushed the USA into such a he
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I would say that what she's done is stand up to the criminal government currently using its mighty powers to repress millions of individuals around the world. She stood up to this power, suffered personally for it, and survived. That
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by mmjaa 9y ago
This attempt to repress her rights of speech and participation in open culture is, clearly, an attempt to compel people to not even question the reasons for why she leaked sensitive information. Another slide down the slippery slope of Amer
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Secrecy. This is the one thing the CIA respects. All else - human decency, dignity, culture - is irrelevant in the CIA's mission to rule by secrecy. The corruption of government begins with its secrets. A truly free people keep no se
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by mmjaa 9y ago
It truly is astounding, the level of dire ignorance that defenders of America's right to destroy nations, seem to employ in their effort to hinder truth. Astounding, and also, enlightening. No wonder their nation is allowed such free
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Communism died decades ago. The one doing all the killing and murdering of innocent civilians, now, is America and its allies, the so-called "Coalition", who have decided that only they have the right to start world war three. An
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I don't agree that Russia should have done what it did to Ukraine, and its territories. No, sir. But I find the argument that "USA is not bad, because Russia did bad" to be highly specious. Russia, and the Russians in the re
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The problem is, you thought it was acceptable to be there in the first place. Fuck, its 2017, are we really still explaining this? Of course we are. We must .
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by mmjaa 9y ago
True power is assumed, never granted.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The point is, Russian military action in Ukraine was for the purpose of protecting its sovereign borders and access to the Black Sea. While I agree that it was a heinous action, it is more justifiable than any military action the USA has p
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Yeah, the USA did do some good for the world. 80 years ago. But what it is doing today is a terrible, atrocious tragedy, and its far beyond the point where the means justify the ends. I mean that as someone who follows closely the cost o
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Hopefully, the democratic public. Realistically though, authoritarian power brokers.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Nice straw man. Russia has done plenty, wrong. But the USA has erred by a factor of 500x the sins of Russia, yo. If you can't understand that, I've got 1000 kilometres worth of walking refugee children to show you ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
What part of "Russia needs the Black Sea to protect its sovereignty" do you not understand? What part of "Iraq is essential to the sovereign protection of the borders of the USA" do you .. not understand? I'm not tr
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by mmjaa 9y ago
.. and more to the point, it didn't work. Panama is still a festering cesspool of money laundering and drug trafficking. Its just that, the USA has its hand in the pie now. And that is the true reason for that heinous war.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
So .. where is all that good ol' American-supported living in .. Libya? Syria? Iraq? Afghanistan? Cambodia? Pakistan? Yemen? Nigeria?
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Yes, I did. Because its over. The West won, in 1991. Its only the USA still fighting it.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Russia is not invading and destroying foreign sovereign nations around the world. It is protecting its borders and its local territory. The USA has invaded, and destroyed, far, far more territory, resulting in 100x more human suffering and
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Wake me up when Austrian malware causes a total collapse of key infrastructure projects in a developing nation that didn't deserve it...
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The USA has a policy of not invading local countries, because they're too close to home. So, its mostly power projection "fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them .. here". Really, this is a fundamental

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