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by sandov 8y ago
How did Linus --or whoever generated that pdf-- think that comic sans was a sane font choice for the article?
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by sandov 8y ago
I'm betting it has to do with video indexation. I was watching a long video just fine, then I searched for something else and clicked on one result. Error message.
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by sandov 8y ago
And Twitch.
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by sandov 8y ago
If they don't care enough to do a quick search and learn about it, then it doesn't matter that much.
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by sandov 8y ago
Except that sometimes "those you don't agree with" don't really care about the repo, they just want to push their political agenda. Other times your conscience might feel cleaner just knowing that you aren't part of
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by sandov 8y ago
Sorry for the ignorant question, but what does it mean for a format to be "fast"? Does it takes less time to compress the image? and why would that matter in 99% of cases?
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by sandov 8y ago
>It’s going to be some time before we have the machine intelligence necessary to do enough for this robot to find a toolbox on its own, retrieve the necessary tools, unload the drywall from a truck, carry it to the room in question, inst
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by sandov 8y ago
That's what we get for still using gmail in 2018. I'm migrating to paid email next month.
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by sandov 8y ago
>rich white couple from the U.S. buying up a ton of Chilean land The "white" part is unnecessary, as we don't tend to racially classify our population, or we don't use it as a hate tool as in the US, we have better wa
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by sandov 8y ago
True. The other day I was talking to my cousin and the conversation was something like: — Facebook copied Snapchat's functionality on all their platforms. — Instagram and Whatsapp copied it too. — Yeah, that's what I meant by all
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by sandov 8y ago
>The researchers also found that if User A, whom we’ll call Anna, shares her contacts with Facebook, including a previously unknown phone number for User B, whom we’ll call Ben. Why didn't the author use Alice and Bob?
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by sandov 8y ago
Sorry for the "your", I just noticed it.
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by sandov 8y ago
Your conflating two unrelated issues: (1) Liking or disliking democracy (2) Liking or disliking certain policies that may be taken under democracy, or under an authoritarian regime. A country could democratically ban the use of cars, that d
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by sandov 8y ago
Can anyone point me to a good resource on updating the BIOS/firmware under Linux?. I know absolutely nothing about it, and it looks like the user has to manually do it. And the obvious question: How do Windows users do it? When they ar
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by sandov 8y ago
Have you thought about using your hosts file to ads?
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by sandov 8y ago
Firefox got much faster on November last year (FF 56)
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by sandov 8y ago
Replicant runs on a total of around 5 devices. LineageOS runs on a lot of devices, the only difference is that LineageOS includes proprietary drivers, but not proprietary userland. So, Lineage is a more realistic alternative. They're u
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by sandov 8y ago
mailbox.org and fastmail seem to be popular alternatives.
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by sandov 8y ago
Reading stuff like these always makes me so sad about Chinese people. Guys just like me, who like fiddling with computers and just want to be happy have to live in this totalitarian nightmare. I know it sounds silly to care about this stuff
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by sandov 8y ago
Limiting freedom is bad unless you have a very good reason to do so. Does it make sense to ask "Why is fascism bad?". At a philosophical level it makes sense to ask this, but most of us would agree that freedom is desirable, becau
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by sandov 8y ago
Yeah, who needs freedom anyway? Your solution is worse than the problem.
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by sandov 8y ago
And in this forum, I would guess the OS being proprietary is a deal braker for many, including me.
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by sandov 8y ago
Without GApps.
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by sandov 8y ago
Why try to appeal to the creators when people are willing to pay thousands of dollars for pretty social media boxes?
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by sandov 8y ago
It's your phone, and you voluntarily allowed Google to control it. I didn't want Google to control my phone, so I installed LineageOS.
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by sandov 8y ago
>or make a digital copy of it And do so in a computer you control, not in one controlled by someone else. I'm not talking only about having physical possession of the hardware, but also controlling what instructions that hardware ex
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by sandov 8y ago
What are the improvements of hiding part of the URL? >Like, who actually runs separate HTTP servers on example.com and www.example.com anyway? My university doesn't work with example.com but does work with www.example.com. I see how
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by sandov 8y ago
Then how do they usually bootstrap C? Do they write a C compiler without structs, then program a C with structs compiler using C without structs?
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by sandov 8y ago
Both optimists and pessimists were right. The Internet is the most powerful tool we have to spread knowledge, but it's also the most powerful one to spread bullshit. If you hang around smart people you'll get positive effects from
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by sandov 8y ago
Maybe I exaggerated a little bit, Minecraft is a good/decent idea, but it would be much better if it was free software. I imagine the disappointment in the face of the bright kid of the class when he asks the teacher to see how the gam

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