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by robonerd 4y ago
Meh. A lot of people have said that, some before disaster and some before victory. It was already an old saying when Pliny the Elder said it. Wellington made it his motto, and he beat Napoleon.
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> For more manmade disasters, George Floyd aftermath and Jan 6th 2021 would tend to disagree. Switzerland would be a good place for an archive. Connected, stable, neutral The threat of a Nazi invasion of Switzerland was a more severe
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It seems bizarre to framing this as something bears discovered about themselves, rather than something scientists discovered about bears. It's not like anybody actually asked bears what the bears know.
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A "thumbnail" that's one tenth the size of my actual thumb's nail is hardly deserving of the term.
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Every mainstream desktop has thumbnails in the file picker. People who want this aren't the odd ones, those who dismiss it are. > I don't really have anything against channers. I seriously doubt that, since you're the
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The security model in Wayland seems to keep the application largely isolated from its environment. I really don't see what good that is when considered in the greater context of the Linux desktop paradigm, wherein any applicatio
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> I have been using one for a few months after getting tired of throwing away M570s once a year because the switches wear out. This seems crazy to me, yet it seems to be ubiquitous. Everybody I talk to about it says their computer mic
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by robonerd 4y ago
> sacrificing power-user functionality if necessary? Scratch "if necessary". Power users have privilege, so deliberately throwing them curveballs for the sake of equitable outcomes seems to be the GNOME way.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Maybe that's why we don't see bags of apple seeds being sold next to sunflower seeds in grocery stores, but there's no way you'd be able to eat enough whole apples to poison yourself with those seeds. The supposed toxic
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> Seems like a channer problem. Whether you like 4chan or think anybody who goes there is the devil incarnate, using 4chan as your excuse for dismissing such basic functionality as thumbnails in a file picker is deranged. Why not a
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by robonerd 4y ago
I used zsh for years with a moderately elaborate configuration that grew into a pain in the ass to manage. I started using fish a few months ago with no configuration of my own. I'm still not sure if I'll stick with it in the lo
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by robonerd 4y ago
Incidentally, the customary way of eating an apple wastes about a third of the apple. Instead of eating it from the side and throwing away the core, try plucking out the stem then eating the apple from the top. There's no perceptibl
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Its values align with "woke" values because its profits do not depend on the favorable opinions and/or work performance of racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, or other traditional Western bigots. It's deepe
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by robonerd 4y ago
No, the LDS never owned BSA. However they were the largest sponsor of BSA for about a century, until a few years ago.
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Cults like this generally target and recruit damaged or otherwise vulnerable people. Also, they generally keep the crazy dialed down to a minimum in the beginning, then slow boil people over the course of several years. It often starts wi
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> It is so pervasive and so stealthy that it is hard to even talk about it without sounding like a crackpot You're sitting in the intersection of 'it's pervasive', 'nobody is noticing it', and not listing
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by robonerd 4y ago
The only places I ever read people complain about cookie consent dialogs is on forums with lots of people in the web/surveillance industry. I don't take this complaint seriously. Anyway, the forms should all be standardized gove
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Imagine a million people buy these and take them seriously. One day they all have a false positive, how many crimes are committed?
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think organized crime doing this sort of thing is at least plausible, but I agree that state-funded seems likely. For criminal motive: I've read claims that some cartels have infiltrated telecom companies before, to track down inform
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by robonerd 4y ago
Fascists use rifles, and so do those who fight those fascists. Is that hypocrisy? Not really (or if it is, it doesn't matter.) What you're fighting for is what really matters, not having some nebulous moral high-ground in the t
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by robonerd 4y ago
Eh, most narco-submarines aren't really submarines; almost all are semi-submersible boats that run low in the water with snorkels. However, organized crime using unmanned true submersibles might [soon, or presently] be feasible. The
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by robonerd 4y ago
> They can send their hitmen all over the world to kill dissidents without getting ratted out, but a little cable tapping is too much for someone to hold in? Well, you have to account for the individual. Suppose this informant is an e
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by robonerd 4y ago
So it wasn't "undersea cables off Hawaii" that were targeted, but rather servers on Hawaii that service those undersea cables. I expected submarine antics, which would have a much smaller list of suspects. It sounds like
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I fear you're right. There are some privacy issues GOP voters care about though; privacy regulations could also be framed in terms of protecting private gun sales for instance. Or to prohibit stores from keeping track of who the prep
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The surveillance industry is very hostile to the idea of letting the public know what's going on and giving them a choice. If people consent to it after being informed, then fine. But they need to be told and asked.
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> So, how am I supposed to use Google Maps? Atlas data can be sent to the map application without the map application sending personal data back to the atlas provider. If that means the map application can no longer be "free&quot
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by robonerd 4y ago
Health data is only part of it, and there needs to be more regulations about what and when it can be collected, stored, digitized, transmitted, sold, etc. Every aspect of this needs more regulation and much of it needs to be prohibited ent
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by robonerd 4y ago
"War on drugs" and alcohol prohibition are frequently used by libertarians to suggest that all forms of prohibition are doomed to cause more damage than that which they prohibit. But this is a sleight of hand, drawing attention t
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> What's needed is a ban on usage of location and health data unless very specific conditions are met We need a ban on collection of that data, not just the sale or use of it. The conditions under which it is legal to collect t
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by robonerd 4y ago
Plasma crashes are not uncommon even with Intel graphics using a GPU driver in the mainline kernel. I don't see much "everybody's got different hardware" excuse with such a configuration; the GPU (and wifi, etc) drivers

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