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by pinusc 6y ago
AFAIK Guix stays very true to the GNU values of ONLY shipping free software, including drivers. A couple years back I had a similar issue where I couldn't get my WiFi card to work because I'd have to recompile the kernel while inc
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by pinusc 6y ago
It can range from trivial to impossible. Full disk encryption does not play well with hybernation on laptops, for example. There is also very limited support for hardware encrypted ssd... And even though it can potentially be a few arch com
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by pinusc 6y ago
Bounty programs are in place so that bad actors are not the only ones on the lookout for bugs. If experts get paid pennies for finding enormous security vulnerabilities, what's stopping them from selling them to actually bad actors for
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by pinusc 6y ago
That VPN provider would likely be out of business extremely fast. If you offer a service that's supposed to increase privacy, and it doesn't... who's gonna pay for that service? Of course exceptions apply with law enforcemen
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by pinusc 6y ago
Paying more for something that you think is higher quality hile beeing just as bad as the cheapest product is a bad thing. Assuming parent comment is right that this is the case.
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by pinusc 6y ago
Savannah might be awful, but there are more sensible options. There actually is a good discussion on the GNU website [1]. Savannah gets an A for ethical concerns (which to be fair is what's important to GNU, rather than usability); Git
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by pinusc 6y ago
The comment above lists many solutions that require compromises to work. We can make compromises on a covid-tracking app. Worst case scenario: fewer people install it and it's less effective—still better than not having it in the first
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by pinusc 6y ago
Because once you learn it, notation gets out of the way rather than in the way. I can't imagine doing physics and having to write out words rather than symbols to express rates of change. It makes sense that specific knowledge uses spe
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by pinusc 6y ago
Although those physical approaches are fascinating, I think there must be an easier software solution. How hard can it be to live edit the webcam recording so that half of the frame is a static picture? Then you just have notes flat on your
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by pinusc 6y ago
You can always hard delete all the data _and_ keep track of deleted users so that their usernames can't be reused. Once you have hard delete, this solution is almost trivial and by far the most user-valuable.
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by pinusc 7y ago
1. Is not necessarily true. If you use an open source browser like firefox, your browser vendor would absolutely not be able to access your passwords (...without creating a huge scandal where users would catch up immediately) 3. Can actuall
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by pinusc 7y ago
Eh, if an attacker has filesystem access you're already pwned.
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by pinusc 7y ago
That's not how decriminalization works. Drugs are not legal in Portugal. What decriminalization means is that you don't go to jail if you use or abuse them; AFAIK the government has rehab programs and actively helps you to get
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by pinusc 7y ago
This. Choose the right distro (ubuntu or derivatives, or elementaryOS) and it's as easy as windows for everyday tasks. And for not-everyday tasks, you can just ssh in and fix it for them.
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Would life be happier without Google? I spent a week finding out(theguardian.com)
3 points by pinusc 7y ago|0 comments
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by pinusc 8y ago
I wrote a `pass` plugin [1] that works similarly to xkcdpass — but integrates it into a password manager. Makes usage far easier! 1: https://github.com/pinusc/pass-diceware
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by pinusc 8y ago
There is! Check out invidio.us
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by pinusc 8y ago
I'm currently self-hosting a Matrix homeserver! I got a few friends to join me and we use it to chat daily. I can't really speak for its security. Afaik the protocol is almost considered stable, and I trust it for everyday communi
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by pinusc 8y ago
I believe the phenomenon you're talking about is called "Peter principle" [1], which states that "people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence. In other words, an employee is promoted based on their
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by pinusc 8y ago
While magic and its limits are indeed defined by the author, the problem with fantasy worlds with widely available magic is that it usually ends up permeating the universe and being at the center of the story. Think of Harry Potter or LOTR
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by pinusc 8y ago
I can read the article just fine on Firefox for Android with uBlock origin. It also loads with no problems through my pi-hole, which blocks Google Analytics.
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by pinusc 8y ago
Link to the full study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/08/384412 I have not read it completely yet, but it seems it lacks any sort of blind trial and control group; hence, it fails to
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Show HN: Kinese, an aid for immersive Chinese Reading(kinese.gstelluto.com)
1 points by pinusc 8y ago|0 comments
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Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible, says study(theguardian.com)
2 points by pinusc 9y ago|1 comments
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by pinusc 9y ago
I. I live in China, so pollution can be a problem at times. Usually I don't bother to check the Air Quality Index, but it's useful to know when it's really bad, so I wrote a small script to connect to aqicn API and display th