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by sjwright 7y ago
Since none of us know exactly how much you already know about IP routing, we’ll likely either waste time providing an answer that assumes knowledge you don’t yet have, or waste time providing extraneous detail you don’t need. I suggest goo
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by sjwright 7y ago
Here’s my shot: satisfaction of work performed and stress levels at the end of the day—even if considered relative to remuneration.
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by sjwright 7y ago
And it especially doesn’t make sense because resolving to the same IP on the server right now doesn’t guarantee it will resolve the same on the client, or even on the same server in 15 minutes time.
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by sjwright 7y ago
No, Steve would correctly point out that the supplied cable isn’t for connecting to a computer, it’s to charge the phone or dock with a car. Connecting an iPhone to a Mac is a niche activity these days, and anyone who needs to do that surel
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by sjwright 7y ago
It turns out the microphone modules used in smartphones have integrated preamp and ADC circuitry which needs to be powered. This makes a lot of sense as mobile phones are an extremely hostile RF environment. If it were any other way, the ph
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by sjwright 7y ago
It is a major failure if the DRM causes the game to be unplayable after a few years.
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by sjwright 7y ago
If the excluded system service is reporting location to Find My iPhone, then I’d say it’s working exactly as I’d expect.
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by sjwright 7y ago
A dim/dark light bulb to complement the bright light bulb. The mouse pointer symbol. More than one breed of dog.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The USB, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth symbols. A spray can to represent spray paint, insect spray, or spray lubricant. There's a power plug but no power socket. There's no staples or stapler. There are no appliances—no oven, microwave, toa
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by sjwright 7y ago
Android: for people who want the freedom to do anything.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I used to run a Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP. A great monitor for the time, but the power LED was so damn bright that black electrical tape didn't fully extinguish it.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I'd argue it's entirely fair. The fact that people in the US spend a lot more time in the car is part of the problem. Fatalities per distance is fine for a technical comparison of road safety regulations. Fatalities per population
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by sjwright 7y ago
The Ford F-150 is the most popular vehicle in the USA. Despite this, new car sales of the F-150 outside of North America appears to be negligible. This disparity is instructive. Cybertruck is a product designed squarely for this North Ameri
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by sjwright 7y ago
Whereas my point is that the developers of Atom have shown their true moral colours—and their honesty isn't sufficiently instructive to you? Unless you can get the developers to change their principles, getting them to change their sou
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by sjwright 7y ago
You're responding to an argument that I didn't make. Your entire post appears to be a response to a fictional rewriting of my posts which doesn't exist. For the record—: • I didn't say (and I don't believe) that dev
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by sjwright 7y ago
The vendor could also independently monitor their Wikipedia page(s) and deal with the problem through Wikipedia's resolution processes. The benefit here is that the vendor would be the first to know when someone is attempting something
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by sjwright 7y ago
It'd be nice if they did.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Hi. I'm the person who described Tesla as making the benchmark EV. You're all completely missing the point talking about sales—the benchmark product in any given category/market is rarely the one with the highest global sales
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by sjwright 7y ago
The imperative to fork generally stems from fundamental philosophical disagreements between the current maintainer and the user base. Concern over privacy seems pretty fundamental to me. Badgering the maintainer doesn't fix the fundame
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by sjwright 7y ago
It's not a restriction on the definition of open source. A truly open source marketplace has space for apps that do shitty things—and for forks that do fewer shitty things. If anything is a restriction of open source, it's demandi
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by sjwright 7y ago
I really want to agree with you. But that assumes that the vendor/maintainer of open source software has a responsibility to not engage in "bad behaviour." I simply disagree. The only reason Linus Torvalds doesn't scre
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by sjwright 7y ago
It's not a lie if they aren't logging anything. (I'm not saying that's the case, by the way. It's just an observation. We can't really know if they're lying or not—and to that extent I agree with your poin
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by sjwright 7y ago
A popular solution has been available for MacOS for sixteen years (Little Snitch) so if something comparable isn't already available for Linux—the operating system of the internet—that's pretty embarrassing.
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by sjwright 7y ago
> (to stop replay/rollback attacks) In my imagining, the content of the Wikipedia article does nothing more than trigger a notification to the user; it would be the user's choice whether to initiate a network connection with th
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by sjwright 7y ago
I didn’t say it was acceptable. It’s also not acceptable for alligators to bite humans, but the appropriate solution isn’t necessarily to kill all the alligators. Like the biology of a crocodile, this is the natural behaviour of a capitalis
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by sjwright 7y ago
If you actually care about that—as opposed to complaining for the sake of it—you shouldn’t be allowing new software to establish outgoing connections without your consent anyway. So if you actually did care, you the user would know because
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by sjwright 7y ago
Or you could maintain the current version number on the Wikipedia page for your app. Your app could then request its wiki page over HTTPS as a check for updates. Then the only useful logs would be held by Wikipedia. And more broadly, reques
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by sjwright 7y ago
It’s open source. They aren’t forcing you to use their software, and they’re certainly not forcing you to use their binaries.
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by sjwright 7y ago
That’s not “better”, in fact it’s not really in the spirit of open source, where criticism comes in the form of patches and forks. “Doing one better” would be patching and compiling from source yourself. Better still would be maintaining an
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by sjwright 7y ago
Obviously. Which is why I used a plural—I was referring to Comcast’s overall customer base.

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