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by na85 5y ago
I used to work in SAR. We don't want hams on our networks thanks very much. We have satellite-based phones and data. Amateur radio in disaster preparedness is a LARP.
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by na85 5y ago
>There's a subculture that exists that does amazing work in that space, but it's disconnected from the old-timers that represent the face of ham radio. You'll find this subculture at DEF CON and similar events. Is that sub
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by na85 5y ago
>Yes, but ham radio is all about being open and a community of people communicating together. Maybe on paper. Where I live it seems to be about old grouchy white guys gatekeeping and LARPing that they would be of any value in a natural d
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by na85 5y ago
With lsp-mode you can write C# in emacs and still get Intellisense code completion!
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by na85 5y ago
Advertising is, by definition, both intrusive and poor UX.
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by na85 5y ago
Well they're fucking it up, royally, and it seems hard to do worse. I wish they'd stop wasting money on dumb projects like a VPN and instead just focus on making a fast, modern browser that respects my privacy and doesn't fuc
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by na85 5y ago
Fork it, and form a publicly-funded non-profit to continue development for the public good.
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by na85 5y ago
Oh for fuck's sake . When will Mozilla stop making boneheaded decisions like this?
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by na85 5y ago
Did you know Steve Jobs personally? I'm stupefied as to how someone who didn't know him socially can miss a CEO of a giant faceless corporation, especially one known to be such a monumental asshole. I mean his company made consume
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by na85 5y ago
Jony Ive is the reason Apple has a fetish for thinness at the expense of functionality, is he not? He's a chump.
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by na85 5y ago
Those of us who are cynics saw things of this nature coming a mile away. I'm no graybeard but I'm still old enough to remember Microsoft of the 1990s and early 2000s. Being a sort of corporate misanthrope seems baked in to Micros
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by na85 5y ago
My first world problems were greatly exacerbated by Whatsapp being down. I could not communicate with my in-laws via WhatsApp which meant I actually had to speak to them in person.
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by na85 5y ago
One can dream!
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by na85 5y ago
An abrupt, unplanned outage will probably do more to hasten a transition away from these services than any slow, planned transition would.
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by na85 5y ago
I really liked using Go until I tried to publish a module with a version greater than 1. What kind of packaging system chokes on v2 of a module? What kind of language recommends[0] with a straight face that you just duplicate your entire c
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by na85 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/30/amazon-cl... It wasn't that long ago that cheap USB-C cables were destroying laptops
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by na85 5y ago
Here's a good example of unbalanced people: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2228#issuecomment-3926...
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by na85 5y ago
>but the FAANG index in which each company is worth at least $100 billion has pretty much beaten everything else since 2009. The companies that have seen the largest growth, amid the longest bull market in history, have beaten everything
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by na85 5y ago
It doesn't work like that here. Our PM is not the commander in chief.
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by na85 5y ago
SMS, WhatsApp, if you don't care about security and/or privacy. Perhaps Telegram but I recall reading some commentary on their crypto that made me hesitant. Conversations is a good XMPP messenger, and it supports crypto extensions
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by na85 5y ago
This is moving the goalposts. Bitcoin fanboys love to talk about the future where you can buy groceries and order pizza with btc. Do you typically use a bank wire for those transactions? I don't.
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by na85 5y ago
>For it to be used as regular currency you have to have price stability. No one wants to go to the grocery store and find out that they lost 10% of their budget on the walk over. Not only that but Bitcoin or whatever shitcoin becomes the
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by na85 5y ago
>The military doesn't give two shits what the people who wrote the service manual say is "correct" if someone else comes along with something better and testing/operational reality bear that out. The military is not d
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by na85 5y ago
>Apple decided to cut that off to prevent Facebook from making money without Apple taking their cut. The fact that Apple can sell this to users as "privacy" is all the better for Apple. Whatever. As long as it's damaging F
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by na85 5y ago
Well then you'd reach a caloric equilibrium and you'd no longer be at a sustained deficit.
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by na85 5y ago
The problem is it's very poorly understood, even by medical professionals. I had this very argument with an MD who was trying to tell me that if you operate at a sustained caloric deficit you'll eventually stop losing weight. On
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by na85 5y ago
In aerospace engineering, we take that kind of thing seriously. For example when a 737 has a broken light, then it is not in compliance with the approved type design and any aircraft in such a state is legally not airworthy. Fortunately we
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by na85 5y ago
>For businesses, especially those with enthusiastic marketing teams, it's harder because all it takes is a a bug in some transactional email code, or a bad email from a well meaning sales rep to some email list from a "digital
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by na85 5y ago
I have a dovecot+postfix+rspamd setup and I read my mail with apple mail.app, thunderbird, and FairEmail on my phone. That latter app is excellent and I highly recommend.
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by na85 5y ago
I don't run TFmailserver but I self-host a postfix+dovecot setup and deliverability has been good so far. I'm willing to try shooting you an email and we'll see if it arrives.

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