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by rolandog 11mo ago
Sorry if I came off as insulting; I admit I thought your original arguments were too bad-faith to not have been made by a bot or a foreign state actor. So... We clearly have experienced different things (or rather, the author and I have ex
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by rolandog 11mo ago
Well, consider me impressed; perhaps I should consider switching away from Android... the only thing keeping me from doing so is Apple's walled garden... the hefty price tags don't help, too. For my part, I can tell you that Samsu
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by rolandog 11mo ago
Perhaps the nuance is in the eye of the beholder? I don't think it's sustainable to go about our lives wearing blinders and averting our gaze from the misuse of technology because one might be afraid of unhappy feelings creeping
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by rolandog 11mo ago
It's definitely dystopian: "we reserve the right to be judged by the judge we have been treating to yearly all-inclusive vacations and to whom we've been paying his grandchildren's college tuitions."
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by rolandog 11mo ago
That's a beautiful strawman argument; let me have a tussle with it to see if it holds on its own. First, let's not miss the forest for the trees. We're engaging in a common "hacker" watering hole. Our opsec skills
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by rolandog 11mo ago
It sometimes feels like hotels are taunting us: "we're behaving like a cartel, whaddaya gonna do? Regulate us!? We've already tricked you into thinking that's socialism!"
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by rolandog 11mo ago
I can't help but think of these wild and free (of regulation) markets as a capitalistic jungle of sorts: "These troll farms are the resting place of one of Capitalism's most resourceful predators: the Artificial Scarcity H
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by rolandog 11mo ago
As I've mentioned elsewhere [0], sometimes there's just fake outrage trying to associate drama or a general feeling of disapproval with a particular project. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45597749
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by rolandog 1y ago
So, no path to one-time pay for a cumulative upgrade? And, if you stop paying after you "upgraded" the license, you lose access to the thing you bought?
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by rolandog 1y ago
There should be a "if you use this product in a for-profit environment, and you have a yearly revenue of $500,000,000,000+ ... you can afford to pay X * 100,000/yr" license.
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by rolandog 1y ago
Exactly. The "shopkeeper" is cross-correlating my sleeping habits, my browsing data, 27 data-leaks, my credit score history, the proximity of other devices and WiFis, the pictures my in-laws posted of a get-together, sentiment an
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by rolandog 1y ago
Actually, you have it the other way around! Why hasn't the US done more to create a rich ecosystem of tech companies, instead of a couple of bloated giants that syphon our wealth and avoid taxes?
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by rolandog 1y ago
I'm now reconsidering whether I should play Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion.
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by rolandog 1y ago
Isn't that because they ask you to sign in if you're not leaking enough information?
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by rolandog 1y ago
Don't forget that this will likely be paired with rubber-stamping one-sided arguments maskerading as quality control processes where some maliciously-biased oversampling of (probably paid-for) good reviews takes place in order to consi
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by rolandog 1y ago
I may be showing my age, but my wife and I both agree that we were very lucky to have met just before the dating apps became a thing.
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by rolandog 1y ago
Totally agreed. There's a great "Philosophize This!" episode I recently listened to precisely about this topic [0]. [0]: "Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzche, Schopenhauer" < https://www.p
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by rolandog 1y ago
You may be missing the forest for the trees; the worrying aspect is not about whether subcritical tests have taken place in controlled environments and been carried out by skilled and talented individuals. What makes everyone nervous is th
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by rolandog 1y ago
This! I think we were all too naïve in having "we would never let it happen, right?" be the motto for our complacency and inaction. I hope more people come around and recognize that Richard Stallman deserves a big, resounding
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by rolandog 1y ago
You can do this with Guix [0], with the added benefit of package reproducibility. [0]: https://www.futurile.net/2023/04/29/guix-shell-virtual-envir...
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by rolandog 1y ago
It's becoming increasingly harder to ignore the censorship happening on the front page. Which is understandable, given the rock and hard place that is current US dictatorship ... But, are there better platforms to discuss tech (and to
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by rolandog 1y ago
That says more about the list makers.
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by rolandog 1y ago
You should! We shouldn't let ourselves be dragged silently into the dark times. In my opinion, it's our obligation to try to understand the landscape and to make sure that everyone — across the different political beliefs — is w
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by rolandog 1y ago
Take a look at their customer testimonials [0] and ask yourself if they have recently made anticompetitive or user-hostile moves. Now, ask yourself: do you think they like being beholden to a license that makes it harder for them to keep t
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by rolandog 1y ago
I'm starting to suspect that market health comes at the expense of people's.
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by rolandog 1y ago
I have a suspicion it's about the license, like this commenter [0] did a year ago. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853429
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by rolandog 1y ago
Thanks Hrvoje Horvat for such a detailed diagram! It'll help me learn the Network stack much, much easier. His book "Operativni sustavi i računalne mreže - Linux u primjeni" [0] (Operating systems and computer networks - Lin
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by rolandog 1y ago
That's the paradox of tolerance for you; we must be intolerant of those that are intolerant... but you probably already know that Karl Popper theorized that [0]. Just looking around globally, we seem to be at that inflection point whe
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by rolandog 1y ago
> Telling a heroin addict to give up doesn't work, same goes for 'electronic heroin'. I'd bet you've not given up your smartphone or Social Media. And how about your gmail account? It's all about continuous
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by rolandog 1y ago
> With such enormous sums at stake and dogged persistence from authoritarian governments it's just not going to happen anytime soon. Not with that attitude! We need to help inform our friends and families about how easily things ca

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