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by rodgerd 3y ago
Until the Industrial Revolution people worked where they lived. Your horizon for "always" is myopic.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> This is exciting, but I try to maintain my composure. One wit on a different social media site opined that "all technological advances such as plumbing and petrol result in lead poisoning, so perhaps this is real".
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> It's full of X brands. "Thanks to Microsoft" is kinda arbitrary of the article. Quite. It's pretty big corp 101 to sort this shit out as a rebrand.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Safari has far more weight here though people are loathe to admit it. On HN people are more likely to complain about Safari existing and demand Chrome everywhere.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Google are a monopoly, near-monopoly, or duopoly on the browser, search, maps, advertising, mobile, and mail. The only regulatory action we've seen - supported on HN - is to go after their competitors.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> the web is Chrome And lot of people here squeal like stuck pigs if you suggest anything other than the Chrome monopoly. HM is a constant barrage of demanding that legislators force the Chrome monopoly to be extended to iOS devices!
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by rodgerd 3y ago
It's worth noting that the FSF consider that supporting microcode updates makes software "un-free". This is a great example of what an inordinately stupid and harmful position that is.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
"The Holocaust was good because gays, homosexuals, and jazz shouldn't exist" is a very Nazi take.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Germany, up until the rise of the Nazis, was a popular destination for Eastern Jews fleeing pogroms, a centre of sexuality research, cutting-edge culture for music and film. We should do a better job of remembering that, because the reason
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> What is a utopian view of cyberpunk fiction? Solarpunk, I would guess. "The street finds uses for things" doesn't end up being hardscrabble against dystopia.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Is everything culture war all the time now on this site? Always has been.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The only thing that I miss about LPs is the glory of four square feet of art.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
When I want to know what the future of money transfers could look like, I'd ask people from, say the Swahili-speaking regions of Africa, not Silicon Valley.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Yes, but in many cases the people using candles fight like hell to insist that electric bulbs aren't better, can't be better, and even if they were better, there's no way to have electricity in the US.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Singapore has had extremely aggressive settlement (and availability!) requirements for a while now, and doesn't seem to have collapsed.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> My only complaint is that it is very expensive. On the one hand, I guess. On the other hand, I have a pile of the WebSphere product stack in my life. The app server is ten times the cost of MQ. WPS is another ten times the cost of the
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I mean it pre-dates probably every open source MQ implementation, for starters.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Lawmakers around the world are asleep at the wheel. Lawmakers are actively pandering to the gambling companies, as the likes of Epic successfully push to make it illegal to have controls on gaming devices under the rubric of "brea
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> This is not a strange hardening technique at all. On the one hand, I agree. SWIFT recommend (in a similar vein) that machines that you do SWIFT tasks with are segregated from your daily driver last time I read the SWIFT standards; Micr
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> I'd much rather have to maintain nothing rather than something. The pain point is that when you can't boot for some reason, grub2 is significantly harder to reason about and fix than classic grub, lilo, systemd-boot, and so o
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Vulnerabilities get patched rather sooner than later. Unless they're in the file systems, in which case it's in the too hard basket.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Indeed. "Run a program or browser extension in Sandbox mode" is a great deal easier in Windows than the equivalent in Linux.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Also, this seems like an argument in favor of a walled garden. It is always entertaining to see HN's commentariat both rail against walled gardens by (for example) Apple or Android that are aimed at making life easier for regular
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Oh lordy is that a way to kick off a fight 8) Personally I use an Anthem receiver (an older MRX720), KRK powered speakers for the base (5) channels, Paradigm speakers for the overheads, and all crammed into a rather small-ish space (6.5m x
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> What are people using to listen to these spatial audio mixes My home theatre setup. I do not have either the space or money to have two separate Atmos listening areas!
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Sometimes the 3D stuff is a gimmick, and I understand why some people see it as a money grab. One of the most interesting things about the fanfare around this has been seeing how different artists/engineers use the capability. Som
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Well, they fight tooth-and-nail to keep crims and fascists online, but they pre-emptively kick sex workers. What does that tell you?
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by rodgerd 3y ago
That large numbers of people threaten to murder retail workers for having a rainbow in their store suggests there's a bit more to it than "the internet".
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The software developers who were maintaining X? Perhaps you could show them how it's done, since apparently you can do a better job. They've certainly been clear that they're happy for anyone who wants to take over Xorg, yet
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by rodgerd 3y ago
One of the things that Twitter used to do well was have a balance of pseudonymity and real identities, and allow multiple identities per person; the latter of those particularly reflects how humans actually work, with separate personae for

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