pacamara619

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by pacamara619 6y ago
Even in my town, with 40'000 inhabitants, there are some "roads" in the forest on google maps which were closed for over a decade (mostly for safety reasons). Especially when riding a bike next to the forest you'll end u
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by pacamara619 6y ago
"Software problem, nothing we could do." Every time someone fucks up using technology and noone is held accountable, that's what we hear.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
Check out the archwiki for information about what hardware works. I assumed you mean the Gen 8 X1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb... You can find a lot of other laptops there and see what
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by pacamara619 6y ago
This analogy is flawed in two points: 1. Let's Encrypt isn't useless because 2. With certificates you can be sure, the message you received, is from the certificate owner. This applies to websites and emails.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
Do you see the irony in your reply or would you like me to explain it?
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by pacamara619 6y ago
KDE and Gnome are significantly more expensive resource wise.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
This really bothered me too, so much so that I downloaded some unofficial LineageOS source code for the latest version, patched it for signature spoofing to be able to use microG and flashed it to my device. That play protect popup was the
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by pacamara619 6y ago
I used to donate to Wikipedia but stopped when I saw that they have enough already. I still donate to ffmpeg (it's used in more software than you might think), newpipe, signal (the signal foundation, the people behind the end to end en
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by pacamara619 6y ago
From the article it seems it wasn't on purpose: >An unnamed businessman forgot the canvas—an untitled and undated work by French painter Yves Tanguy—at a check-in counter when boarding a flight [...] He soon realized that the 16- by
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by pacamara619 6y ago
This seems an awful lot of text for being basically identical to the advice I get from older relatives, ehich are detached from the current reality: "Just power through it."
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by pacamara619 6y ago
I can only agree that it's nauseating. One time on a trip from Copenhagen to Munich it was so unbearable that I had to throw up. I've told about a dozen friends about this when I got home. While all of them found it very unpleasan
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by pacamara619 6y ago
Imagine the mental gymnastics you have to go through to defend China's clear disregard for human rights and human life.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
I wouldn't touch anything that's even remotely tied to Oracle with a 10ft pole.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
Yes, clearly, probably because some buttoned-up wannabe-manager wants to impress his higher-ups my presenting them BS like "these new UI tweaks of my team increased our user retention by 26%!" so he can get a raise or a slightly h
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by pacamara619 6y ago
While Chrome is proprietary, Chromium and Brave are not.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
> (...) the app also employs a proprietary open-source encryption protocol (...) Is it possible for something to be open-source and proprietary at the same time? Is it possible if one assumes the definition of the OSI?
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by pacamara619 6y ago
These randos on the internet are people. And who works in government and/or the justice system? You guessed it! People! The govermnent is not some sort of abstract infallible entity. It consists of regular people. And giving those peop
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by pacamara619 6y ago
Vivaldi is also proprietary, which should be a dealbreaker for every IT person with half a brain.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
I really love their customer service. Since it's not possible to delete your account from whithin the settings (after disagreeing with updated ToS) I had to contact them. It only took me 16 emails and 27 days to delete my account! Very
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by pacamara619 6y ago
Yes it would be worth it but don't rush the purchase and inform yourself beforehand. Definitely check out /r/telescopes. An 8 inch dobsonian reflector telescope is recommended so much that it has become a meme, but it is righ
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by pacamara619 6y ago
There are three versions available for download on their website. The smallest one, which calls itself _lite_ contains chromium, flash player, thummy and pulseaudio. So much for "lite".
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by pacamara619 6y ago
This might be the opportunity to unironically recommend tinfoil hats.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
In Croatia, where the VAT is 25%, the solution was: every customer has to be given a receipt without asking for one and the customer has to take the receipt and carry it out of the store. Stores who don't comply get massive fines.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
> It won't be a dangerous issue because no one can force a TV inside your house/office. No, but the government forces me to pay for the public TV stations and there is no way to opt out. So yes, I do want a TV in my home. Inb4
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by pacamara619 6y ago
Open Source has always worked with companies, which is why Micro$oft loves it - developers code for free, release the code under an open source licence, and companies just take that code, slap some features on it, rebrand it, and resell it
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by pacamara619 6y ago
I was joking, putting blockchain anywhere near voting is a terrible idea.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
Blockchain Machine Learning would be a perfrct fit for that.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
> Is there anything that prevents anyone receiving a DMCA take down letter from charging a fee if that request is found to be fraudulent, illegal or otherwise unwarranted? Well, yes, the law. How would you enforce a contract which binds
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by pacamara619 6y ago
AFAIK in Pennsylvania they have a paper trail for all electronic votes, so essentially, they bought a pencil.
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by pacamara619 6y ago
No, he's just telling you that your anecdote is sad but does not at all reflect the impact cannabis has on most people, while the effects of alcohol are widely known, studied and quantified. We know how many people die of alcohol poiso

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