pmlnr

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   by pmlnr 3y ago

   What freaks me out is the transition to electric handbrake. That thing was meant to be manual, no electricity, nothing, ever.
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   by pmlnr 3y ago

   > I’m not even sure it’s unethical. If it doesn't respect robots.txt, it is unethical.
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   by pmlnr 3y ago

   > new users can be intimidated by the information overload The learn to use it? There's now a reverse trend in appliances: they use to be simple, now they are quite complicated, see washing machines, yet people handle it.
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   by pmlnr 3y ago

   Export it, put it on your website. If you ever want to "own" any content on the internet, a website is still the closest thing.
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   by pmlnr 3y ago

   There was, when Facebook still looked like a useful tool.
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   by pmlnr 3y ago

   > Domoticz is a bit of an odd bird, I never figured out what was their value propositon Simple, rock solid functionality. If you want more, write scripts. I really like the approach.
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   by pmlnr 3y ago

   I tried Home Assistant multiple times, always went back to Domoticz. It allows simple, but quite powerful scripting though actual lua instead of overcomplicated, weird YAML files, eats significantly less resources, and is rock solid. Some t
8. 188.▲
   by pmlnr 3y ago

   Alternatively put them on ebay for 0.99 and let people be happy with their findings.
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   by pmlnr 3y ago

   Opera had a mail client that just hit the right spot of simplicity and functionality. I miss it to this very day.
10. 190.▲
    by pmlnr 3y ago

    Debatable. I knew someone who's X200 was eating 6W.
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    by pmlnr 3y ago

    You can do the same with an laptop and LTE card in them, which is much more stable.
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    by pmlnr 3y ago

    Not much, at least not directly. But there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/ which is great.
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    by pmlnr 3y ago

    ... Are you aware how shitty the grid in most residential areas actually is?
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    by pmlnr 3y ago

    > will have read all of your emails Not if we go back to smaller mail providers, which we really, really should.
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    by pmlnr 3y ago

    Dude... IMAP is decades old. I used Squirrelmail webmail when gmail came out.
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    by pmlnr 3y ago

    BS. There are and were (I lament dspam) excellent spam filters, plus if you enforce greylisting barely any spam gets through.
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    by pmlnr 3y ago

    >One of the reasons for Google getting so good early on was that they had oodles of usage data to test and improve their search functionality forming a positive feedback loop ??? PageRank. It was PageRank, and the fact that they didn&#x
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO I'm guessing it's built on the same idea.
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    I wonder if this can be used to replace the fairly broken GPG keyservers.
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    Hardcode the original product in the review, match it against the current?
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    I'm with you, honestly, and yes, I also know how to circumvent a lot of things. > And if it does happen, society will be very different. Indeed, but I barely recognise our society from 20 years ago when having a palmtop made you a w
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    > The corruption of EU politicians is a major concern Yes. I never said otherwise. > then they should certainly have to defend why they get any privacy at all That's the funny bit: they won't. They - and their family - will
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    And where would you go? The US? China? India? An unknown tropical island with no economy?
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    > If so, how will that prevent people from setting up their own chat infrastructure for child-abuse purposes? It won't.
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    how: by stopping you from installing the software needed, which is the part that worries me.
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    This is whataboutism and derails the conversation. These two things are unrelated.
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    25 Years of ThinkPad: The Best and Most Innovative (2017)(laptopmag.com)

    9 points by pmlnr 4y ago|0 comments
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    WHY THE HALF SIZE ARROWS?! FFS, it's a 16" machine, there so much space.
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    > if we don't pay up, systems will break for many free users. Yep. These things happen, which is why hosting a copy on your own gitea, website, etc is so important. > Start publishing images to GitHub Why, to have this repeated i
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    by pmlnr 4y ago

    28MB? Damn it got bloated.