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by nvy 3y ago
Who's claiming that it is? Why are people in such a rush to shit on this company?
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by nvy 3y ago
>This is an tiny kit plane from a Czech manufacturer, though, not a company in Tanzania sourcing components from elsewhere for their own design. So? There's more skill in that than in what, say, System76 does. Just installing Linu
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by nvy 3y ago
Aircraft are fractals of subassemblies. The engines are made in one place, the skin panels in another, the avionics are assembled in one place from components made in yet another, and so on. Is it such a surprise to you that a complex mach
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by nvy 3y ago
What a load of malarkey. The US intelligence apparatus discovers that a Japanese company has backdoored all its hard drives which are apparently also installed on USN vessels. The US, out of benevolence for this non-US company's reputa
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by nvy 3y ago
I didn't get the same impression, but age is pretty good. I find a lot of the PGP hate to be a little overblown, but anyone who's engaged honestly with the issues ought to be able to admit that PGP just isn't a very good tool
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by nvy 3y ago
I feel like professional/prosumer photogs, aka the kind of people who buy fancy SLR cameras and serious business lenses, probably already know this stuff. I also suspect that the vast, vast majority of phone users just want subjective
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by nvy 3y ago
Felt it up here in Victoria, too.
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by nvy 3y ago
Because the repairable laptops were Thinkpad-class devices which weighed quite a bit and had fucking terrible touchpads. When slim Ultrabooks (or whatever they were called) started appearing, those of us who actually use our laptops like a
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by nvy 3y ago
This is hilarious
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by nvy 3y ago
I feel like at this point you're also building glassdoor or levels.fyi in addition to rolepad.
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by nvy 3y ago
Oh that's a neat trick I'd never encountered.
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by nvy 3y ago
Ever driven a car through a field? What looks smooth is often anything but, and airliners are simply not designed to take off from unprepared surfaces. Flattening frozen ground seems significantly more difficult than just laying down panel
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by nvy 3y ago
I keep those types of tabs in Private windows.
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by nvy 3y ago
I was under the impression that only fools trust NIST after DUAL_EC_whatsit. Is that not the case?
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by nvy 3y ago
>What's the endgame here exactly? All of us paying a set of subscriptions to the FAANGs, for literally every aspect of our lives.
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by nvy 3y ago
>Nothing is sacred anymore. If it can be specified, it can be automated.
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by nvy 3y ago
Could you link to the specific tutorial?
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by nvy 3y ago
Sure but then you're using some cheap plastic Acer piece of trash.
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by nvy 3y ago
> When people suggest FSF is bad at advocacy, what they really imagine usually is they could have been nicer and said some of the things that everyone else in Corporate Open Source world say. This is a straw man entirely of your own cons
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by nvy 3y ago
Perhaps if the FSF had actual professionals running communications, people who persuade other people for a living, the FSF's message would actually get through to people.
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by nvy 3y ago
>The vast majority of people don't care much about their freedom and easily trade it away for convenience, that's just that. Perhaps if the FSF wasn't so abysmal at advocacy, more people would care about software freedom.
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by nvy 3y ago
Never said I was USAF.
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by nvy 3y ago
I think it's obvious that the implicit question is: Why is the FSF so bad at spreading their gospel? They're terrible at it, Youtube or not.
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by nvy 3y ago
It's not a copypasta; I was there for Reply All 2019.
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by nvy 3y ago
Reply-All cascades are classic entertainment in government work. When I was in the Air Force some poor Warrant Officer started a Reply-All clusterfuck when he replied to a base-wide email about issued Android phones. After about 30 Reply-Al
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by nvy 3y ago
edit: never mind, it does
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by nvy 3y ago
Mine doesn't have a date at the bottom, just a macOS version number.
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by nvy 3y ago
On my mbp, the man page for `pfctl` contains the following: >HISTORY > The pfctl program and the packet filter mechanism first appeared in OpenBSD 3.0.
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by nvy 3y ago
>Break up Meta and Google and MS... Don't threaten me with a good time.
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by nvy 3y ago
Rachel isn't a fake nerd though

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