nyx_land

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by nyx_land 5y ago
Because there is effectively no alternative. Bing and engines that are different frontends for Bing results aren't alternatives, don't kid yourself; it only exists still because Microsoft is another company like Google that shoves
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by nyx_land 5y ago
Already exists. I'm using ygg on OpenBSD 7.0 right now: https://openports.se/net/yggdrasil-go
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by nyx_land 5y ago
I started using yggdrasil yesterday. The ability to get a static IPv6 address on a meshnet, with encrypted traffic by default, and the option to only accept inbound connections from public keys I trust is incredibly cool. Just like that I c
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by nyx_land 5y ago
I often have to search the web for information about hormone therapy for trans peoole, long story short being that doctors tend to be pretty misinformed about HRT for trans people because the standards they use are based off information tha
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by nyx_land 5y ago
I'll believe a cat is Turing complete when someone ports Doom to a cat
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by nyx_land 5y ago
The TSA exists to normalize control. It doesn't matter if it works or not at stopping terrorists, the point was never to actually prevent terrorism. Much like "communism" or "drugs" during the wars on those two thin
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by nyx_land 5y ago
This is such an important topic that feels like it's hardly ever talked about. In the common lisp world, it's pretty much a cultural norm to use as few dependencies as possible and stick close to the spec, because part of the stre
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by nyx_land 5y ago
sysadmins are kind of a dying breed where what's left at this point is mostly split into either the IT sector (which seems like it's mainly Windows admins and MSPs supporting small businesses) or the programming side of things wit
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by nyx_land 5y ago
With everyone here pointing out that this is a really bad security practice, I don't understand why the response from the dev has been "not my problem, take it up with the Matrix spec people". If a protocol didn't suppor
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by nyx_land 5y ago
I agree with you but I'm also not really interested in getting into what would undoubtedly be a fruitless tangential debate about anarchism on the orange site, so I just phrased the comment in a way to skirt that potential discussion
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by nyx_land 5y ago
David Graeber already had an answer to this with his idea of "bullshit jobs", wherein as the labor that is necessary to keep society running is slowly reduced or automated away entirely by technological advancement, more jobs are
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by nyx_land 5y ago
"Android 12 and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race" - Ted Kaczynski
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by nyx_land 5y ago
A lot of people here saying to install Firefox in the comments for a thread about how Google goes to pretty much any lengths it can go manipulate the market in its favor, when Mozilla's funding comes almost entirely from Google and Moz
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by nyx_land 5y ago
The irony of private platforms censoring hate groups (for their own PR I might add; let's not forget that YouTube's algorithm famously favors alt-right content because weirdly enough algorithms that favor "engagement" te
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by nyx_land 5y ago
it's good to see this is finally being addressed. lack of multi-device support is the one thing that has kept me from using scuttlebutt other than poking around to check things out and it's been several years now that people have
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by nyx_land 5y ago
Given the state of the human race right now I think I'd rather give the Borg a fair shot. I'll be the first to volunteer for assimilation.