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by rakoo 3y ago
See my other replies: it's not about the will of the masses, it's about our collective will of us, the tech people, to build the tools that make using these technologies ubiquitous. We've been fixated on our own problems (&qu
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by rakoo 3y ago
> Which is the group being crushed by capitalism? The workers who are barely paid a living wage, the workers who are currently in a row with Meta because it used their work for mediation but exploited them, the workers who are currently
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> since the fall of the USSR and some of it's satellites states , it seemed like we were on an upward trajectory in terms of human rights, democracy and civil liberties. The fall of the USSR is the victory of capitalism and most abo
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As I said in another comment, I'm not expecting everyone to actually learn and install those tools, I want all the people who can use them and modify them build on top and provide tools that spread the use of these technologies. I don&
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by rakoo 3y ago
As I said in another comment, it's not about everyone installing ssh and pgp and configuring them and learning how to use them, it's about us in the tech community to provide tools so easy to use you don't even know you&#x2
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by rakoo 3y ago
That's exactly my point. I'm not deluded to the point I expect people to read up and install all these tools; it's our job to make these tools so ubiquitous that it doesn't take any effort to effectively use them.
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> I am baffled how we went from a liberal "free" democracy to this ersatz of a totalitarian regime > How come we end up here again? Why can't the powers that be just leave the people to live their lives in peace without
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That's not unrealistic then, it's just a lack of will.
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"Want to contribute ? Open yet another account" Nope "Want to contribute ? Give Microsoft even more power" Nope
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You mean - cloning the repo in github to your own fork - cloning your fork locally - pushing to your local fork after you've made your change - opening a PR Which is the expected flow for any project you're not already part of, ie
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So, like a centralized git server ?
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> The Myanmar government incited a mass genocide, Facebook was just one of the communication mediums they used. It's not about who did the genocide, it's about what was the role of Facebook in the genocide > Abolishing capit
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by rakoo 3y ago
I think you're mixing up "people in Myanmar" and "the Myanmar government". The post is primarily talking about the first one, and Facebook has had an effect on the first one. > Is it hate speech when we dehumaniz
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> its greed that Apple doesn't solve the family issues of all their workers. its not reasonable. Of course it's greed, and of course it's reasonable. Apple is directly responsible for the work conditions of its workers and
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We're specifically talking about an OS here, so the scope is not really the same, but still: are you ok with no package updates ? No update to the documentation, the wiki, and stuff like that ? No forum or chat ?
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Yes but what is the right price for a one-time payment of software ? If you're going to use maintenance, updates, all the work that comes after you paid, what do you consider is a correct price to pay in advance for all future change
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Isn't that WSL though ?
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The problem is, in a capitalist world even libre/open source needs money to live. A race to thr cheapest is a loss for everyone in that kind of society. No OS is ever "done", there is always maintenance, security updates, ...
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by rakoo 3y ago
As soon as linux is ready for desktop !
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I'll say it again: it's not about working better from home or from the office. Of course you're supposed to be working correctly as a group, and your example is a dysfunctional group because one dev who wants to stay home doe
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by rakoo 3y ago
I think too many people are misunderstanding what we're talking about and creates confusion. It's not about RTO. It's cool if you find it better for you and your team, if your team also likes it better; as others, on some oc
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by rakoo 3y ago
1. I'm not always on a computer that has the go distribution 2. In that case, why allow reading the code un the browser ?
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GDP growth is not the indicator we should be looking at now. It is not compatible anymore with a viable planet for the years to come.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Giving Fairphone money has a much higher chance of turning the whole industry than supporting shitty companies. If it's shit you're probably going to buy another one next year anyway, and in the end spend a similar amount over 10
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Reading source code.
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It's source code. If we can't read it without privacy extensions, it doesn't work.
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A naturally distributed key/value store. NoSQL wasn't a product, it was a radical rethinking of the balance between what we wanted and what we needed. Turns out some absolute necessities of using a RDBMS or even using SQL are n
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by rakoo 3y ago
Ah, you should check out Garage ( https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/ ) for a self-hosted, cluster-y API of S3
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by rakoo 3y ago
Couchdb/pouchdb remains one of the best: it's super easy to setup and is production-ready, but it's gonna be json docs with no transactions, so it can be limiting. Y.js and automerge emerged as solutions combining CRDTs and c
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by rakoo 3y ago
> There isn't much of a point to all that I've typed out besides some personal nostalgia. There is a very real point: as a society, we don't really need new computers. Some people want new ones, because games, video editin

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