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by oarsinsync 5mo ago
I don't think the GP is calling contributor guideline restrictions a form of DRM. I think the GP is focusing on: > I guess we're giving up on the idea that you're free to do whatever you want with software you own? ... But
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by oarsinsync 5mo ago
> Respectfully, After a certain level of compensation, you are indeed judged purely off of input and output. Workplace improvement does not justify your salary. I'd have to disagree. There's a narrow band in the middle where th
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by oarsinsync 5mo ago
There's more to life than the Internet, social media, and anonymous trolls. This is sanding the edges off the Internet. It's gonna make you happier.
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by oarsinsync 6mo ago
> None of the self hosted apps are designed with e2e encryption in mind https://ente.com is open source, and self hosted, and end to end encrypted.
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by oarsinsync 6mo ago
Rosetta 1 delivered 50-80% of the performance of native, during the PPC->Intel transition. It turns out, you can deliver not particularly impressive performance and still not ruin your app ecosystem, because developers have to either upd
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by oarsinsync 6mo ago
> They'll say it sucks ass, and they'll be right. And yet my wife will disagree hard with you, as all her fingerprints on my laptop screen will attest to. She always defaults to trying to swipe the screen instead of going to
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by oarsinsync 6mo ago
> This has been my theory for a while: during this autumn Apple will release a version of Apple Intelligence that runs locally and works better than ChatGPT. In this theory, can you explain why Apple has announced it’s paying Google for
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
Or this should be done at point of sale, like we do with all controlled substances. We don't sell bottles containing alcohol and then expect to filter the alcohol out if the child wants to drink from it. We have two different bottles:
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
Is this a per-item behaviour or can this be set as a global default? I'm guessing this is 1Password 8 only, as I can't see this option in 1Password 7.
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
> > The big idea with Linux/BSD/fully-open-source is that you can fix whatever you don't like. > That's a great theory, and sometimes it's actually true, but in reality for most users most of the time, Linu
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
> Debian hasn't let me down, and I'm very familiar with it. I was on my way out the door before the Apple Silicon launch. They managed to briefly bring me back in Debian (courtesy of the Asahi project) still wont let you down i
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
> Have you tried getting an ipblock from a RIR and failed? they seem widely available if you justify it and at a reasonable price RIPE wont "sell" me an IP block, no matter how reasonable a price I offer. RIPE will gladly let m
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
Unless the "leftovers" in question are "leverover capacity on the previous process node that doesn't have pricing competition, so Apple's able to continue to demand all of the supply at their desired price point&quo
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
> Would the parents comply though? Consider that even with something as divisive as covid lockdowns and vaccines, the overwhelming majority of people complied with government instructions. There are a minority of people currently refusin
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
WhatsApp iPhone syncs to iCloud unencrypted by default[1]. iMessage also syncs to iCloud unencrypted by default[2]. [1] Depends on you paying for iCloud storage, so that you have space for a full phone backup to occur. [2] Might be "fr
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
If you are a grown adult and don't do research on "<insert any topic that could have a material negative impact on your life, but that is not currently on your radar as being a topic that could have a material negative impact
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
That's nuts. My iPhone 13 actually feels quicker after the iOS 26 update (and this is the first time I think I've said that about an iOS update since it was iPhoneOS / single digits)
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by oarsinsync 7mo ago
> a markdown file could transmit data when rendered. This is a new threat vector to me. Can you tell me more?
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by oarsinsync 8mo ago
They're not different unrelated corporations, they're subsidiaries of a parent that is ultimately a US entity. The citizen has literally upped and moved themselves entirely to a foreign country. The corporation has just forked a b
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by oarsinsync 8mo ago
Or the US could tax it's corporations just like it taxes it's citizens. Doesn't care that the citizens pay tax in whatever country they live in. If they earn over some 6 figure sum, they have to pay tax in the US as well. Tha
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by oarsinsync 8mo ago
> default zero-effort privacy for the ignorant. (Which WhatsApp does pretty well for example.) Can you elaborate on what default zero-effort privacy for the ignorant WhatsApp offers, that Signal does not?
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support Or more detailed results at: https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/overvie...
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
> It is astounding to me that someone would complain that a non-root user cannot install software. Depends on what you mean by "install software". If your definition is "put an executable in a directory that is in every ot
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
> When Spain blocks CF (it does this regularly), it breaks all CF sites. Of course, the actual problem here is organised crime. Spain and Italy do this because the mafia owns them. Mafia has a vested interest in broadcast rights of footb
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
> > Apple ... is shoving Liquid Glass onto devices that don't really benefit from it. > Yeah: most experiments fail and even the ones that ultimately succeed have rough edges. Vista / Aero 2.0 already did Liquid Glass. At
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
The comment I was replying to was claiming that using your computer 'poorly' does not harm others. I was simply refuting that. Having spent the last two decades null routing customer servers when they decide to join an attack, thi
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
Your unpatched Wordpress install is someone else’s botnet host, forming part of the “distributed” in DDoS, which harms others. It’s why Cloudflare exists, which in itself is another form of harm, in centralising a decentralised network.
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
Amusingly, there a lot more special IPv4 networks that you just don't know about too. e.g. Link local IPv4 is 169.254.0.0/16. It just isn't auto-configured on every IPv4 interface by default, like fe80::/10 is on IPv6 in
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
Yes and no. I took my physical media with me along with my player, and all was fine. I took my digital media with me along with my computer, and all was not fine.
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by oarsinsync 9mo ago
> I can assure you that offline installer you got today from GOG will not work on Windows 20 Given the lengths the Windows development team has gone to, to preserve backward compatibility, to the point that there was individual-game-spec

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