piaste

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by piaste 2y ago
Richard Stallman, of all people, is not as intransigent as you. > I've considered selling exceptions acceptable since the 1990s, and on occasion I've suggested it to companies. Sometimes this approach has made it possible for i
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by piaste 2y ago
> As an actual sidestep, you could be legally obliged to provide your password to a third-party computer I don't understand how this is a sidestep: could you expand?
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by piaste 2y ago
Yep, I'm not sure Blow is the person I would take productivity advice from, to put it mildly.
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by piaste 3y ago
Yep, those are the devices I was talking about: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/categories/headphone-amplif... They range from desktop-sized, to dongle-sized, e.g.: https://www.head-fi.org/showcas
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by piaste 3y ago
> These include their own DAC Isn't that exactly why audiophiles - in the broadest sense, not just the golden cable types - stick with jack headphones? The DACs and amps built into headphones, or even earbuds, being very likely su
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by piaste 3y ago
It's not technically hereditary. But if the job licenses are a finite resource, and the licensee "owns" the license and is allowed to give/sell it to a person of their choice, and the job is reasonably pleasant/pr
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by piaste 3y ago
> What I'd expect instead, based on my having taken exactly one class in economics as an undergraduate, is subtler effects that play out over time. Maybe the general growth in prices over time slows down a titch until a new equilibr
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by piaste 3y ago
> Good, it leans left, but not so far left that it’s just LGBTQ/feminist spam. It's not quite _spam_ but I think it's fair to say it's much more left-leaning than mainstream Reddit. Some of the biggest communities, ev
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by piaste 3y ago
Yeah, Lemmy is a pretty decent platform but the suggestion of browsing "All" is godawful, if one is looking for something closer to pre-smartphone internet. You need to curate your homepage a bit to get a good Lemmy experience. Th
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by piaste 3y ago
> E.g. your linux distro might no longer package it and you might have to rely on packages maintained by redis which might not be as well integrated into your distro (although lots of users probably don't care about that) This might
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by piaste 3y ago
You can still use a lot more APIs from AOT C# than from C/C++/Zig/Rust :)
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by piaste 3y ago
> The solution is to add a requirement that any platform the software is hosted on also has to be open source. Even that is a somewhat temporary hack. The SSPL spreads to: > "management software, user interfaces, application prog
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by piaste 3y ago
And this was actually a significant controversy some years back. A lot of users, including myself - though definitely still a small minority - quit Reddit over the increasingly aggressive monetisation attempts; some of us used automated his
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by piaste 3y ago
I suspect that the Steam Deck is considered a desktop rather than a mobile device. Same as laptops.
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by piaste 3y ago
You can also upgrade to Rawhide if you don't want to wait a couple of months.
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by piaste 3y ago
"There are no permanent friends, only permanent interests."
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by piaste 3y ago
What is your use case? You can fit a few terabytes in the internal slots; if the additional storage were in the form of USB drives, would that be a problem?
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by piaste 3y ago
Thanks for the response. It makes sense, for sure. Gonna drop a wild take - if it's such a problem, have you thought about straight up merging the mini-app store and sandboxed GPS package from the GrapheneOS codebase? I know that they
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by piaste 3y ago
I'm on GrapheneOS now and the OTA updates are as automatic as on Google Android. I imagine they went with the first option you listed, since they famously ship Google Apps as a sandboxed unprivileged optional package through their own
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by piaste 3y ago
You're right, my mistake. Ignoring for a second both the human factor and the Sun having gone red giant much earlier... I wonder what kind of ecosystem that would create. If the Earth were tidally locked to the Sun (which is what I was
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by piaste 3y ago
I'm not sure those considerations are applicable. There is no "ecosystem" that depends on the rate of slowdown of Earth's rotation - we do need to leave some rotation to keep flora and fauna alive, but that's a &q
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by piaste 3y ago
It's good that you are aware it's a crazy thought :) Nothing wrong with looking into it though. Wikipedia offers: > Movement of tides causes a loss of mechanical energy in the Earth-Moon system: this results from pumping of wa
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by piaste 3y ago
If you search for launchers in F-Droid, regular ones are largely nonexistent / unmaintained (Neolauncher has some repo activity, but the last actual release is from two years ago). Instead you'll find it's full of lazy KISS c
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by piaste 3y ago
All my dev stuff, editors included, is in a Debian distrobox - since that's usually well supported by tooling, but you could also go with Ubuntu for even better support and/or Nix for more obscure packages. GUI applications work f
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by piaste 3y ago
Yeah, I've been running Kinoite since it came out and I agree. The name is still very obscure, I'd be happier to just tell people "I run Fedora KDE Atomic".
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by piaste 3y ago
I run GrapheneOS. It's an amazing project, and I always pay attention to what their developers say. But you should keep in mind that the GrapheneOS project is very laser-focused on a certain threat model: aggressively malicious softwar
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by piaste 3y ago
> It's almost as if the creator(s) built that site ironically. No, the site's advice is simply more narrow and fine-grained than a blunt 'never use jquery'. From the front page: > jQuery and its cousins are great,
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by piaste 3y ago
Who said anything about trust? Server-side validation still applies; you don't just DELETE /user/{id} without verifying ownership, regardless of where the id comes from. But client-generated IDs make idempotency easier and re
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by piaste 3y ago
When I lived in a small European town a few years ago, upon hearing that I was a software developer, regular-ass business dudes would regularly want to talk about NFTs, inbetween a conversation about football and one about cars. I'm su
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by piaste 3y ago
Copyright covers the specific work of art you created, not anything that looks like it. Birdman didn't violate Batman's copyright even being an international callback. Nor did every superhero movie that tried really hard to copy N

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