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by nomdep 1y ago
Of course now there are comments here about how evil Musk is "getting political again" or "aiding one side". But last time ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422514 ), allowing it was "walking
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... and pardoned the moment it was declared guilty.
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Fascism comes from “fascio” (not from the small town of Fascia) that means “bundle”. The idea is that, like rods are fragile by themselves but strong as a bundle, an individual is either with the group (making it stronger) or an enemy of it
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Because the alternative was to keep letting the Chinese Communist Party to do it. Anything else is preferable.
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It would be great if that were true, but TikTok is filled with accounts dedicated to virtue signal and “news”. I’ve tried multiple times to clean my feed but there are too many
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> “Following these budget adjustments, Mr. Arko’s consultancy, (…), submitted a proposal offering to provide secondary on-call services at no cost in exchange for access to production HTTP access logs, containing IP addresses and other p
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by nomdep 1y ago
Keeping the country in one piece is exactly why Trump won, the alternative was falling off the cliff.
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by nomdep 1y ago
I was misremembering it. Now that I've checked, it's clear that the claim was that the money was for paying "the team" [1], which consisted of André Arko and David Radcliffe [2] [1] https://web.archive.org&#x2
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by nomdep 1y ago
> When Ruby Together first launched in 2015, the website suggested donations went to pay "our team" (...) This resulted in a nonzero number of donors believing they were funding the work of people like Steve Klabnik, Aaron Patt
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by nomdep 1y ago
>It kind of feels like this fork is the better-maintained piece of software now. Maybe, but I feel the value of the index is the storage and bandwidth and not the software itself, isn't it? Could an index work by just being a search
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by nomdep 1y ago
Stack ranking has got to be one of the dumbest and most toxic ideas in tech. Pitting teammates against each other like that? It's a guaranteed way to kill off mentoring, knowledge sharing, and any real sense of collaboration.
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> “… and stealing credit card information” That goes well beyond doing “dumb stuff on the Internet”
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by nomdep 1y ago
The company is not "walking all over national and international laws", the citizens are. The company is simply not enforcing those laws as strictly as it could. In practice, laws are only as effective as a government's willin
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by nomdep 1y ago
That reminds me, yesterday a friend told me she believed the Trump assassination attempt was staged to make him look good: that the shooter had missed on purpose and the ear wound was fake. I mean… it’s not impossible. I just don’t think Tr
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Unless is a opinion not shared by their colleagues
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So Bluesky for academia and X for tech and everyone else. I don’t think X is in trouble. Scientist tend to form their own closed communities anyway.
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by nomdep 1y ago
You obviously want that they fail. Your "the rocket is not safe and will never be" is what is aspirational.
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by nomdep 1y ago
What? This is not my list. I am merely listing what the post says and asking which one of those aren't true. You are taking it like a personal attack. > There are more white grooming gangs than Pakistani ones So the situation is e
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by nomdep 1y ago
My point is that it’s not about what work is done, but about what users get from that work. Everyone could, in theory, learn how to configure Arch and Hyprland, but most of us don’t have the time or interest to do it. So Omarchy is to Arch
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Like Dropbox was "just an sftp server"
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by nomdep 1y ago
Nevermind, this tweet (mostly) disproves my prediction: https://x.com/dhh/status/1969051000867610709
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by nomdep 1y ago
Until a few years ago, RubyCentral was very similar to the Python Software Foundation in that it managed all the infrastructure and the main conferences - everything except language development. A few years ago, RubyCentral lost power when
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by nomdep 1y ago
I can already see the future: The Rails Foundation will start its own central gem registry and set of forked tools. Then, RailsCentral will lose its sponsors and fade into irrelevance.
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And the follow up question: why the author want to flip the map to see the countries at the top as bad and the lower ones as good?
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by nomdep 1y ago
What's the relation of KDE Linux with KDE Neon? The former was made by Blue System and the new one by Techpaladin or something like that?
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by nomdep 1y ago
The other side of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266332
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A few corrections about the transition from Blue Systems to Techpaladin(pointieststick.com)
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by nomdep 1y ago
This story need some context. Who are Nate and Dave? Why the deal with Steam went automatically to Nate? UPDATE: Apparently it was a deal done months ago with the Blue Systems owner: https://pointieststick.com/2025/03&#
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Without knowing anything about the particular person, in what ways a black thumbs-up is different than a non-skinned thumbs-up? Adding a skin-tone is saying there ARE differences, but any difference you can name are actually prejudices abou
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by nomdep 1y ago
Adding a skin color, let's say a thumbs-up with a black skin tone, its saying: "this is not just a thumbs-up, its different, it's a BLACK thumbs-up". See how racist it is?

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