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by rapind 3y ago
> With Linux I don't get bullied to install their stuff. $ sudo apt full-upgrade ... Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled ... Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://xxxxxxxxxxxxx&
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by rapind 3y ago
True and yet companies will cite costs when they raise their prices, so ignore that marketing BS too.
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by rapind 3y ago
Wasn’t Gandi’s whole schtick an ethical thing? Then they sold out?
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by rapind 3y ago
> So the only question we need to ask is if it’s easier to cut emissions or sequester them. I can think of another. How do we get everyone to do the answer to your question? I think it’s fine to identify what’s most efficient in a politi
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by rapind 3y ago
> If those sites can't support themselves they'll more than likely disappear. Newspapers and television (pre-digital) managed to survive just fine on advertising before tracking was feasible. There are also subscription service
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by rapind 3y ago
> Some people in the privacy community seem to think advertising and tracking in any form should not exist and will always make a stink about whatever incarnation they take. I don't think I'm in the "privacy community&quot
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by rapind 3y ago
Police stop staying police.
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by rapind 3y ago
Sanction who? Israel? Talk about political suicide! Regardless, sanctions don’t, and never have, actually solved anything. We just ignore the data because no one has a better idea. NSO group will be its own worst enemy anyways as greed lead
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by rapind 3y ago
> Installation and administration used to be hopelessly complicated, but self–hosting tech is simpler now and vastly improved. Plus, IT departments are hungry to run their own IT again, tired of being subservient to Big Tech’s reign clou
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by rapind 3y ago
As a complete outsider, I found this fascinating series of talks a few years ago that go into great detail on soil for farmers: https://youtu.be/uUmIdq0D6-A
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by rapind 3y ago
> I honestly do not know the best solution In these cases, usually the simplest solution is best, because none are perfect and trying to "engineer" perfect in politics (and economics) is doomed since there is no objectivity. 1
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by rapind 3y ago
> It’s not Google’s fault that Canadian media oligopolists have no interest in paying for good journalism. Crap journalism is not a uniquely Canadian problem. I would argue that like in most things we lag a bit behind the states (US jour
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by rapind 3y ago
> Twitter LLM that accurately represents the sum total of the Twitter firehose, We need an xkcd showing a conversation between twitter, reddit, and hacker news based LLMs. Political rage meets memes meets pedantry.
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by rapind 3y ago
> 3) Youtube Comments Is probably LLM poison. > 4) Gmail content Is huge but also has enormous privacy issues. Most people by default assume their emails are reasonably private, whereas most people wouldn't assume their comments
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by rapind 3y ago
No. Two problems with your ask is "all browsers" and "no usability quirks", which is never the case. In general compatibility can be found here: https://caniuse.com/?search=datetime-local
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by rapind 3y ago
> Why in 2023 is this still an issue? I mean Safari and Firefox only recently (2021) got datetime / datetime-local input support and afaik they still aren’t feature complete (html5). Date pickers have been one of the most popular &#
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by rapind 3y ago
I missed the part where he said the Chinese did good at X therefore dictatorship’s must be amazeballs! Leave room for nuance and discussion.
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by rapind 3y ago
> Now i have to make sure I watch a channels playlists because I wind up in Hitler territory every other video if I don't. Godwin's law
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by rapind 3y ago
The pricing looks like SaaS only. I'm happy to pay a one-time fee for software (even when it doesn't include future versions), but not a subscription, unless of course there is a common sense benefit to a subscription (like paying
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by rapind 3y ago
A monthly fee? No thanks.
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by rapind 3y ago
Oh absolutely. I’m just intimating there’s no moral high ground with any of these mega corps, whether it’s Alphabet or Disney.
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by rapind 3y ago
Remember when we were all talking about how bad "Big Tech" is? Hollywood's like "Hold my beer".
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by rapind 3y ago
It doesn’t usually matter to the user “why” a product is no longer appealing. Financial woes though will usually produce change that impacts the user, for better or worse (a good kick in the ass, or craven desperation may follow).
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by rapind 3y ago
> I suspect that in the long run, compile-to-JS type systems will go the same way. I think the plan was to compile to WASM. The hype phase seems to be over, but afaict it’s been delivering on at least some of it’s promises no?
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by rapind 3y ago
> In my experience, it's always the junior who shouts "This could all be so much simpler!". 20+ years later and I’m still saying this. Quite possible I’m still the junior in terms of skill though.
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by rapind 3y ago
It’s weird that you can change a product after it’s been sold, and especially after it’s received reviews. The only reason I can think of is to keep your reviews. Regardless, simply version the product on change and only show reviews for th
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by rapind 3y ago
Tech salaries in Canada are already ridiculously low compared to the states. 10k new tech workers is not insignificant in Canada, so this will just lower them further. Not to mention our housing is in a ridiculous bubble and our economy in
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by rapind 3y ago
Don’t forget, there’s a “labour shortage”.
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by rapind 3y ago
Maybe Bob would be a good fit too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
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by rapind 3y ago
> and if they are appended, in which order are they evaluated? This would be a problem for first wins too.

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