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by pferde 6y ago
Check your faulty logic there. The statement "if A, then B", does not imply "if not A, then not B". There's nothing wrong with accuracy of "If you aren't paying, you're the product".
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by pferde 6y ago
That is why I still prefer old-style patch submissions via mailing lists - the bar is higher, so it usually weeds out exactly this kind of trash. Of course, if a company started offering free t-shirts for mailing list submissions and some f
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by pferde 6y ago
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. You prefer narrower lines, I like my lines as wide as my browser window allows. For me, it's more comfortable reading text with long lines and having to scroll less, than having shorte
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by pferde 6y ago
This is not at all about "dumbing down" or "information density", this is about choice and ability to consume content at one's own terms. If a website leaves the text width to the reader (or their user agent), every
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by pferde 6y ago
This is what I don't get. Why not just make your browser window narrower? Wikipedia is one of increasingly smaller set of sites which have the decency of NOT WASTING MY FRIGGING SCREEN SPACE by putting text into a narrowest of columns
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by pferde 6y ago
Just make ForgeFed a reality, and then it won't really matter where the project is hosted. :) https://forgefed.peers.community/
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by pferde 6y ago
Doesn't keeping camera on increase battery drain, though? Also, with Facebook being evil and all, what's stopping them from hopping on "hey, the camera is already on, let's not waste that, and use the incoming visual dat
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by pferde 6y ago
Step 5 is then that an open, federated and/or decentralized protocol gets developed, and it either gets traction or dies. Unfortunately, for many such communication channels, we are still only in the middle of this step 5, and we have
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by pferde 6y ago
Fair enough, I did not read the article too carefully, and thought that the config checker was the part of sshd that validates the configuration when the daemon is starting.
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by pferde 6y ago
Yes, in rare, flukish circumstances. Most of the time, there are no issues.
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by pferde 6y ago
It should, and it likely will be, since it is a popular piece of software. However, it is usually better to ask the maintainer to step down and continue his work without forking it. That saves everybody (distro packagers, users) a lot of ti
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by pferde 6y ago
Just like a flat tire is a problem with the tire, not with the car.
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by pferde 6y ago
Isn't that exactly what these federated platforms (and the apps to access them) are doing?
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by pferde 6y ago
You are simply not the target audience for enterprise Linux distros. But they have their uses, and I am glad that they exist.
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by pferde 6y ago
Because making content exclusive to a single platform is not adding value - it is removing value from other platforms, and as such is a net negative move.
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by pferde 6y ago
That... is actually an argument that can't be refuted. Happy hunting! :)
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by pferde 6y ago
Sounds like you could get the same thing by writing a real software project to scratch some itch you have. Sure, other users might come eventually and, but you can just ignore those and keep building what you like.
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by pferde 6y ago
I am sorry if my post came across as defending Apple, I certainly did not mean to do that. I was merely trying to point out that people tend to put too much emphasis in being safely vocal (online, where you're sitting safely in your ow
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by pferde 6y ago
Yes, sure, make your voice heard, fight against the abuses, that can only help. But at the same time, do not pretend that there are not any alternatives. Yes, perhaps those alternatives are not as convenient, but choosing them over the &quo
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by pferde 6y ago
I'm sorry, but that overrated comic strip is not relevant at all. It shows three situations, two of which depict normal progress ("there is this useful thing that has flaws because nobody has cared enough to fix those flaws, let&#
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by pferde 6y ago
By all means, yes, mock away and raise awareness. That's good, it helps. But I know too many people who are very vocal about how Apple is bad and how they should be stopped, and yet these people keep buying a new iThing every year.
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by pferde 6y ago
No, Epic has the money to fight for what they believe, which, like all other modern corporations is getting money, more money, all the money. That's what corporations do. That's all they do. Some of them are just better at bambo
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by pferde 6y ago
What monopoly? Nobody is forcing you to buy Apple and enter into their rotten walled garden. If you "pay damn much and buy the phone", you are doing it of your own volition. "Take the power back" by not continuing to giv
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by pferde 6y ago
I can attest to that. I run a Matrix homeserver for a small community, and it's blazingly fast all the time. Everyone should migrate off matrix.org sooner rather than later. I fully expect seeing regional public Matrix homeservers popp
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by pferde 6y ago
While it's an amazing progress, make sure not to overdo it. Muscles get used to increased stress quickly, but joints (especially knees) and tendons not so much - and those also heal much slower after a stress-induced injury.
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by pferde 6y ago
Yes, you are right, most of my grievances were against RSS - either old RDF, or RSS 2.0, or perhaps against Atom 0.3, which was not all that common before much better Atom 1.0 took over. Still, I vaguely recall that there was at least one v
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by pferde 6y ago
RSS's (and Atom's) problem is not using XML, it's the woeful ly vague, and overly forgiving specification. As someone who has written a parser library and a RSS reader program, I can tell you that it is an endless battle of u
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by pferde 6y ago
The "how" would depend on how you implement it. The servers could determine at the beginning which one gets to host the call and tell all participating clients to connect there, or there could be some client-server-server-client m
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by pferde 6y ago
There is a step between peer to peer and centralized, and that is federated. For most services, that should be the sweet spot.
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by pferde 6y ago
This is not a game of Civilization, you know. We are allowed to work on multiple things at the same time.

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