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by rnd0 7y ago
Agreed, particularly in the U.S. It's very unlikely that Biden will take significantly more steps to deal with climate change than Trump will. The political will to deal with climate change simply isn't there; it would piss off to
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by rnd0 7y ago
There's permissive and then there's exploitable. People who benefit (financially) from being able use other people's work without contributing their own changes would prefer us to call it "permissive" instead of &qu
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by rnd0 7y ago
Hello -and thank you. VLC is one of my favorite must-have programs, and I use it almost daily. I do have a request. If at all possible, please make it possible to continue using the current UI and keyboard shortcuts as an alternative. I lik
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by rnd0 7y ago
Seems to be the endemic problem to all of these alternative social media platforms. See also reddit -> voat. Mastadon (and the fediverse) seems to be trying to fight the nazi-flight problem. But they have their own problems that keeps it
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by rnd0 7y ago
>You can't read any thread that touches on filesystems without the ZFS zealots coming out. Agreed 100%. That's particularly annoying to us desktop users. It took me years to figure out that no, FreeBSD aside, it doesn't br
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by rnd0 7y ago
I'd buy it -but only for short-term use to sneakernet shit I already had backed up reliably somewhere else. of course, where we run into problems is that btrfs is meant to be the reliable backup. Oops.
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by rnd0 7y ago
>and ritualistic sacrifice in particular, I'd think. Does data loss count as a sacrifice in this instance?
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by rnd0 7y ago
It's great that it's being preserved instead of thrown away. I'm curious -is there plans for mirroring it on bitsavers too?
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by rnd0 7y ago
I'm not really sure how useful it is for most of us -but it doesn't have to be. Not all operating systems are general-purpose. I'm glad to see it continues to be maintained and published though I share the frustration other&#
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by rnd0 7y ago
I think it's a mix of both? I "loved" XP once two things happened: I got a computer with more than 256mb of ram, and I installed SP2. After that it ran really well and yes, so much better than Windows 98 did.
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by rnd0 7y ago
No law against updating the software collection and the media ...that's what I do.
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by rnd0 7y ago
I have to say that I'm pleased as punch that there's already a windows/64 installer available for download. I was expecting a much longer wait.
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by rnd0 7y ago
It's doing quite well ...after instituting moderation.
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by rnd0 7y ago
4chan tried that; everyone knows how spectacularly that failed.
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by rnd0 7y ago
I don't agree about the 70's, in that assesment; even the 60's are dubious (eg "trouble coming every day" by Frank Zappa, misc protest songs, the Doors). According to "Please Kill Me" part of what led to t
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by rnd0 7y ago
In this case, I was more insecure being subjected to advertising networks (and the malware carried on them) because of Firefox's mistake which meant I wasn't able to load ublock origin. I'm also not sure how many of those &qu
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by rnd0 7y ago
Personally, I've switched to waterfox -which is a fork of an older firefox branch, and it supports addons (at least the ones I use). I'm pretty happy with it, and I'm strongly considering staying with it even after firefox is
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by rnd0 8y ago
>Maybe this is a complaint about Ubuntu, or gnome, or systemd. In the 90's Linux was pretty well aimed at the techy crowd. you were expected to know or learn administration (including the location of and editing of etc files) and no
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by rnd0 8y ago
If you're gonna take anything, that's a good rule to follow. Don't get a taste for shit you won't be able to afford down the road -I agree.
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by rnd0 8y ago
My experience was different, and I disagree with the statement that trying things is always bad. I tried coke, heroin and meth once each. Coke was a huge let down, and I've had no interest in trying that again. Meth, on the other hand
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by rnd0 8y ago
> Look at all the Comcast ads that celebrate binge watching. I think it's more insidious than that -at least the ads I've noticed. There's a lot of normalizing of binge watching. Of making it a "given". When I sa
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by rnd0 8y ago
I lived there then; as I remember it was put to the ballot two or three times -and when it kept getting voted down they basically just said "screw it" and built it anyway.
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by rnd0 8y ago
>Yep, just waiting for the day I can no longer opt out. Feels like it’s coming soon. Agreed; it seems like I'm having to re-opt out every day, at least once a day. I haven't figured out if it is a setting in the subs' that
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by rnd0 8y ago
>why not call it Gnome "Imp" Because it's not an imp. Because it's wholly unrelated to the Gnome project. In fact it predates GNOME by three or four years. It's the GNU Image Manipulation Program, though most peo
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by rnd0 8y ago
I have a feeling that it's possible we're going to see this ban play out the same way, I'm not sure. As many people have pointed out here and elsewhere -the platform is largely used for porn, and once those users are driven o
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by rnd0 8y ago
1997? The OSKit is old enough to go out and drink beer now, yikes. They stopped development on it shortly after this, didn't they? Like within 4 years? It's easy to see why, given changes in the codebases that they pulled from (L
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by rnd0 8y ago
Stalin's five year plans, Pol Pot and Moa's Cultural revolution immediately spring to mind. The ancient Roman practice of having Soldiers work on construction projects (eg Hadrian's Wall) between battles is a similar idea (th
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by rnd0 8y ago
> unsure if that continues. This. This is what is behind the so-called negativity. IBM has been an exemplary open source citizen; but it's very fragmented with conflicting internal fiefdoms which means no one can count on them conti
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by rnd0 8y ago
>You can either fear the future and hence never enjoy what's good today. Or you can forget the future and actually enjoy the present. A better choice would be to enjoy what's good today while making contingencies for when thing
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by rnd0 8y ago
I'd be pretty surprised. To be sure that there's no 3rd party crap in it they'd probably need to re-write it the way they rewrote their C# compiler which would be both pointless and difficult to justify (to put it mildly) fro

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