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by sandov 8y ago
>Shutting down a largely toxic website that fuels the flames of extremism is an order of magnitude less alarming than 50+ people losing their lives. Under that logic, let's also shut down Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. Also, one thin
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by sandov 8y ago
Is it easy to set up a secure (i.e. encrypted) channel through IRC? I've been thinking of learning how to use it, but the fact that it's not encrypted by default is off-putting. It's not IRC's fault though, considering
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by sandov 8y ago
>"an a320 crashes every two years" sounds quite different than "a brand new 737MAX crashes during take off every 6 months because of the faulty sensor thingy". If you cherry-pick the time interval, you can say that ba
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by sandov 8y ago
Judging by number of sales, people seem to either like these walled gardens or don't care about them. For those of us that care about freedom, we can just buy a phone that's compatible with LineageOS (or Replicant if you're w
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by sandov 8y ago
Asking the European commission to impose regulations is morally worse than taking advantage of your market position and consumers' ignorance.
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by sandov 8y ago
That already happens, but instead of bots, it's dumb people with a political agenda doing the harassing, and they even do it with their own resources, you don't have to pay for bot servers.
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by sandov 8y ago
Any plans to move the source code from github to sourcehut?
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by sandov 8y ago
What should be done in that case? posting a video in some ancient codec (VP9 is from 2012) to be 100% sure that everyone --sans Lynx users-- can play it?
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by sandov 8y ago
Oh boy! Here we go again.
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by sandov 8y ago
I've always wondered what's the use of gaps.
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by sandov 8y ago
Being in favor of net neutrality != being in favor of net neutrality regulations
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by sandov 8y ago
>I feel like something went wrong a few steps ago if you find yourself needing this. "You're holding it wrong"
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by sandov 8y ago
It doesn't bother me that it's "controlled" (someone has to lead the project anyway) by Google. being Google doesn't disqualify them from doing good things, but needing a Google account makes it seem like it's
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by sandov 8y ago
>c.f. apt-get upgrade or similar, which takes a few seconds. Except when the package isn't included, or it isn't the version you needed, because then you have to spend 40 minutes trying to install all the dependencies and build
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by sandov 8y ago
>Never install anything that isn't in the package manager. If I wanted to not get any work done I would be using Windows instead.
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by sandov 8y ago
Something I consider off-putting about Go is that you need a Google account to contribute. https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html > A contribution to Go is made through a Google account [...]. Google accounts can ei
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by sandov 8y ago
That's also wrong when the percentage is too high (and it's too high in almost all countries). Doesn't change what parent comment said.
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by sandov 8y ago
>Look at how the society is in countries with mandatory military service (S. Korea,Switzerland to name two) I would like to know exactly what you mean by this.
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by sandov 8y ago
>tarball installs is pretty much close to the state of Windows app installations. Except that they're hard to install for a novice user. >You have to find the bloody things, download them each time and hope you have found the rig
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by sandov 8y ago
I think it would be useful to separate this in problems that are Linux's(!) fault and problems that are someone else's fault(e.g. nvidia, the hardware market, intellectual property laws, the user himself). (!) With "Linux&quo
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by sandov 8y ago
But you have to live under the wing of your distro mantainers, instead of installing whatever you want from any third party. Isn't Linux supposed to be about freedom? Yes, you can install software using tarballs, but it's not usab
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by sandov 8y ago
Before switching to Linux I thought it would be hard to live without Windows. it wasn't. Before purging Facebook and Twitter from my life I thought it would be inconvenient to live without them, it isn't. Living without a phone lo
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by sandov 8y ago
You do not own the phone number, your phone company does, and the implementation is a chip that you can physically "own" but can't control or know what happens inside.
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by sandov 8y ago
To be honest, most people wouldn't even bother to know if it was open source, they would install it anyway. Actually most people probably don't know what "open source" means. It would work against the HN crowd though.
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by sandov 8y ago
I really hope they are new grands in something not directly involving computers, because otherwise they would have to live in a cave to not know the difference between git and Github.
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by sandov 8y ago
The way I see it: Democratic states are institutions that enslave people in ways that the majority of people living there decided. If you think the same way as the majority then it doesn't feel like enslavement to you. Anyway, the stat
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by sandov 8y ago
>If anyone were to get access to my things I'd rather it be the government I feel the complete opposite way. The government having access to my things is worse than cyber-criminals having access to my stuff.
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by sandov 8y ago
I think you meant this link?: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/18/austr...
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by sandov 8y ago
If following an ethical code is banning projects that don't align with your political ideology, then I don't want to associate with companies that "follow an ethical code".
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by sandov 8y ago
- McDonalds food is unhealthy, we shouldn't eat it. - You don't have a god-given right to take advantage of a company's food to make you more healthy[...] This is basically the argument you're making. I agree with the pr

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