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541.
by pferde 6y ago
Social media do actually have a lot of political influence - at least those which curate and promote certain content. They are the ones who control what kind of information gets consumed by more eyeballs and what kind of information gets su
542.
by pferde 6y ago
Don't just chuck your bookmarks into a pile. Sort them, label them - curate them. Otherwise it's pretty much "garbage in, garbage out".
543.
by pferde 6y ago
> That is, the ability for your connections to keep going even if you hop between IP addresses. If you had IP mobility, then you could migrate connections between your two internets in real time, based on live quality feedback. This bit
544.
by pferde 6y ago
No, power - within your own platform - absolutely means that you're right - again, within your own platform.
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by pferde 6y ago
Unless it's for something physical (assembling an object) or otherwise visual (painting, 3D computer modelling, mapmaking), video tutorials are pretty bad for conveying information, due to low information density. For programming, it i
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by pferde 6y ago
I apologize for an off-topic comment, but I just had to chuckle at the term "living aboard". In similar contexts it is usually a typo of "living abroad", but here it is quite fitting. :)
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by pferde 6y ago
Oh wow, this looks interesting, I hope it gets some traction. As someone who migrated away from Github the moment Microsoft bought it, I will be watching it and keeping fingers crossed.
548.
by pferde 6y ago
Or just keep your music collection local and laugh in disbelief at these Black Mirror-esque problems. The simple act of listening to music should not require a vast server infrastructure at the other end of the world, under control of a thi
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by pferde 6y ago
I for one don't think the name Vector is any more "techie" than Signal.
550.
by pferde 6y ago
Well, Usenet has its own version of "tut": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet)
551.
by pferde 6y ago
You don't need (and probably don't even want) every single participant doing this. A given community can pool money on a server of their own, and federate it with other communities' servers if they want.
552.
by pferde 6y ago
Fair enough - you're basically erring on the side of caution, although it limits the usefulness of the network to you. Can't say I blame you. :)
553.
by pferde 6y ago
I get #2 and #3, but why #1? I like being able to "whisper" to people privately. Private messaging has been part of all communication protocols and pre-web2.0 social networks, and even in real life, you can lean in towards someone
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Running Kwin Wayland on Nvidia(blog.davidedmundson.co.uk)
2 points by pferde 6y ago|0 comments
555.
by pferde 6y ago
Not clickbait at all. The article explicitly discusses how Qt might go defacto proprietary _despite_ Qt Company's arrangement with KDE. "The 12 month restriction would, in principle, not make Qt proprietary software, but it might
556.
by pferde 6y ago
So why write this comment? What is your comment adding to the discussion? Knowing when to shut up is a valuable skill to have.
557.
by pferde 6y ago
How does it deal with code blocks normally defined by indentation? (As an aside, indentation being part of syntax is the only thing keeping me disgusted with python - I like the language otherwise.)
558.
by pferde 6y ago
> They are supposed to not be directly routeable to/from the public internet. They can be directly routable between non-public parts of the internet. Sure, but this is different from a VPN. This would be untrusted code downloaded fr
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by pferde 6y ago
What if the my network uses several different local subnets? How would the browser figure that out? No, blocking all these IP ranges is a good idea. After all, these ranges are supposed to not be directly routeable to from the Internet.
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by pferde 6y ago
I don't think it's about the manpower, but more about controlling a browser engine that powers an ever-increasing number of mainstream browsers. Chrome's lumbering march to total dominance has been frightening to watch for ma
561.
by pferde 6y ago
Not wrecked, they just relocated. They seem quite happy over in sub-Saharan Africa.
562.
by pferde 6y ago
I suspect that resulting articles would be, while probably reasonably safe from style analysis, awfully boring and difficult to read. Good and interesting writing style is a skill.
563.
by pferde 6y ago
It is a social problem because even the strongest, most bullet-proof cryptography solution can't prevent people slipping up and making mistakes, which a motivated attacker can then use to de-anonymize and connect their various identiti
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The 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Has Taken a Dark Turn(wired.com)
6 points by pferde 6y ago|0 comments
565.
by pferde 6y ago
At the risk of getting downvotes for being snarky, it essentially boils down to the "Stop it, you're having fun wrong!" nerd stereotype.
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by pferde 6y ago
After reading the title, I was hoping that the article would be not about advertising, but about technical writing - whether in communication (email) or documentation (internal or public). Good writing is paramount for both of these context
567.
by pferde 7y ago
Serves you right for trusting random websites to execute javascript in your browser. Javascript is a privilege, not an automatic right.
568.
by pferde 7y ago
Cost saving?
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by pferde 7y ago
Wow, just reading about the cramped conditions inside a submarine got me breathing faster due to my latent claustrophobia. And this was a fairly modern submarine, I can't imagine how much worse it had to be in WW2-era subs...
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by pferde 7y ago
https://jmap.io/spec.html perhaps?

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