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by neilv 1y ago
You can use it as an SSH terminal. :) In grad school, I ended up borrowing an old teal Indigo2, with graphics upgrade, that my research group had sitting around, to use from my dorm room, mainly as a terminal. (I owned almost nothing in the
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by neilv 1y ago
SkriftOS is impressive. It's very similar to a plan that I assumed I could only do as early-retirement avocation (if ever hit a startup equity lottery jackpot). I didn't imagine it could be done on the side.
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by neilv 1y ago
It's pretty much necessary to have Internet access to function in US society. So we shouldn't even have to talk about whether someone can be cut off from that. A complicating factor is that we're looking at decades of rampa
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by neilv 1y ago
Very impressive. I wonder how the great (better than "AI") human designers and copywriters and marketers will stand out, amidst all the good-enough-for-many-purposes, at scale, AI slop. How will they even establish their career re
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by neilv 1y ago
Google might have to be careful how hard they push on security+greed+control tactics like this. I think that most of the world is overdue to replace their ubiquitous computing devices with ones not controlled by the US, and the current admi
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by neilv 1y ago
> > that there will always be people at the top and people at the bottom, so any claim towards making things equal must be a Trojan-horse for something that benefits them. They're right... when the other is someone like them. A
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by neilv 1y ago
Italy obviously has much rich and beautiful culture, though I don't know it well enough to understand the difference on this point. Does my response to someone else clarify how and why US corporate culture may be different? https:&#x
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by neilv 1y ago
I think one part of it (not all of it) is that the US has a long history of women being sexually harassed in the workplace, in various ways. It's not nearly as bad as it used to be, but it's not fully solved everywhere. (Note:
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by neilv 1y ago
Unfortunately NSFW in parts. It might be insensitive to circulate the top URL in most US tech workplaces. For those venues, maybe you want to pick out isolated examples instead. (Example: Half of Case 1 is an anime/manga maid-uniform
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by neilv 1y ago
I guess if you set up an `ntfy` server, and you also run the `ntfy` app on iOS, then the `ntfy` app can do a local notification on the iOS device (without going through Apple APN servers)? Then it looks like you can probably just do the com
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by neilv 1y ago
I would love this. In my US town, which I believe gets high walkability scores, they've shifted more pedestrian-hostile in the last few years (while incidentally also managing to tick off many drivers and brick&mortar small busines
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by neilv 1y ago
I'm glad that worked out for you. In this other case, a company publicly announced that people were being fired for low performance. Even if the colleagues of a given person knew/suspected that the person was a good worker, every
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by neilv 1y ago
This is definitely a problem to solve. I could even see harassment being the most likely initial use case, until you manage to reach people with the problem seeking a solution. (People are more likely to want to eat pizza themselves than
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by neilv 1y ago
If you make a Rayhunter, think twice before enabling its smartphone notification feature. The documentation doesn't directly warn, but presumably the notifications leak the fact that you use Rayhunter, and they go through centralized
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by neilv 1y ago
Thanks for finding that. Nice. Starting at 14s in the video, looks like it's doing both coarse and fine movement. I don't know whether it would have to calibrated for best balance on the tiny display, but looks like it will pro
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by neilv 1y ago
You could let eBay be your junk drawer.
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by neilv 1y ago
In the HackberryPi CM5, does that pointing device (which IIUC is repurposed from Blackberry hardware) work like a joystick/TrackPoint? Can you move smoothly at all angles with it, well enough to use the desktop GUI?
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by neilv 1y ago
If there was someone for whom this strategy worked, they wouldn't speak up to tell us.
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by neilv 1y ago
The next sentence is one of the conclusions it might lead to.
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by neilv 1y ago
Maybe best not to joke about that. An enthusiastic and muddle-headed person might get inspired by disposable Internet chatter, and then go and get themselves sent to federal prison (or worse). Also, I suspect that an attack like that would
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by neilv 1y ago
> This is critical infrastructure, and it gets compromised way too often. Most times that I go to use some JS, Python, or (sometimes) Rust framework, I get a sinking feeling, as I see a huge list of dependencies scroll by. I know that
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by neilv 1y ago
Is the title a nod to Molly White's skepticism? https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/about
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by neilv 1y ago
> There is no defamation case anywhere in this situation. They said they were terminating lots of people for poor performance, while terminating lots of people. And there's plausible reason to suspect, given the frenzy of headcoun
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by neilv 1y ago
Interesting. I think I want to avoid the downtime of my phone (and preserve resale value), but that insurance price point isn't bad if you want to go caseless and also cover less-predictable oopses.
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by neilv 1y ago
Technologically impressive, how thin they got it. Since it costs $1000-$1400, I'm going to need a nice big thick ruggedized case around it.
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by neilv 1y ago
Also, in combination with possible constructive dismissal, the company is possibly defaming the employees in a way that predictably adversely affects their ability to gain new employment. And there may be other potential problems that aren
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by neilv 1y ago
For better or worse, neither of us is a lawyer, but I'm comfortable in saying that the affected people should: Talk. To. A. Lawyer. Isn't that better than us random Internet people telling them -- although we think something sh
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by neilv 1y ago
To non-lawyer me, this sounds like something for which lawyers have a term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal If I've heard of this angle, I assume that lawyers know many angles that may apply.
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by neilv 1y ago
But likely really into cocaine.
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by neilv 1y ago
Would you support censoring the publicly available imagery of "asymmetric" vulnerabilities like that, against a number of less-sophisticated national security adversaries? (Such as adversaries without their own satellite imagery c

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