slightwinder

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by slightwinder 11mo ago
Emacs had many changes in the last decade, even very deep changes. What did not change is its fundamental concept, the foundation. And this is probably true for most software. They barely change on a fundamental level after a certain age, j
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by slightwinder 11mo ago
> Dependent types are very useful for some things. For example, I wish Python had the ability to express "a 10 x 5 matrix of float32s" as a type, and typecheck that. What do you mean? Every class is a type, so create your own c
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by slightwinder 11mo ago
Men wearing hats is still quite common today. But the style has changed to baseball caps and similar forms. Most of those "dress codes" usually also have a more practical origin. So it's less of a code, and more a practical b
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by slightwinder 11mo ago
Probably because for most locations, they are actually not very useful, but quite expensive and just cumbersome. They take up space, and create artificial travel-zones, and at the same time they don't even enhance the flow, because mos
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by slightwinder 1y ago
> I don't fully agree with that, IMO it's a multifaceted problem. It always is. > There's the obvious fact that tech has become the new path to high salaries, and culture changes when people are pursuing the money rathe
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by slightwinder 1y ago
> They’re socially conditioned to assume that anything free is a scam or illegal, that every tool is associated with a corporation, and that learning itself is going through certain hoops (by the uni, the certificator or whatever) so tha
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by slightwinder 1y ago
> What is with the negativity in these comments? Excel and AIs are huge clusterfucks on their own, where insane errors happens for various reasons. Combine them, and maybe we will see improvement, but surely we will see catastrophic outc
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by slightwinder 1y ago
Fiction is the superset of definitions here. Science Fiction and Fantasy are genres in that pool, with many other genres.
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by slightwinder 1y ago
You wrote that "Closed-source software" is unethical, not "harmful software & services" is unethical. There is a significant difference. Don't shift your goal as you like. Not all closed-source software is harmf
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by slightwinder 1y ago
The article is about security and trust. Open Source is in that context by definition the only good solution. Though, doesn't mean that a closed app has to be bad, but you have to blindly trust them, and hope that this will never chang
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by slightwinder 1y ago
I hope you understand that ethic is not absolute. It's unethical for you, according to your ethical rules. Doesn't mean that this applies to other people rules too.
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by slightwinder 1y ago
Obsidian is using electron, so the source is already somewhat available anyway. I understand them not making it open source, and risking someone forking it and harming their business. But considering the situation, I would think making it
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by slightwinder 1y ago
No, not really. You want to change the world, but bring up a technical solution, when it's a social situation. If you want to strengthen indymedia, then work on the social level, not technology. Reinventing the same thing again, will n
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by slightwinder 1y ago
That's a different problem, and won't be solved by any P2P-platform. There are more than enough ways for discovering selfhosted content, people just don't use it.
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by slightwinder 1y ago
> We certainly need a more P2P, version of this type of platform and a way to fund and scale it such that it can’t be messed with by billionaire hacks. We already have that. Selfhosting is possible, and today even simpler than ever. And
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by slightwinder 1y ago
Yes, of course, should this just be an optional gadget for a setup, which is already as safe as possible for the situation. After all, when the port has been opened, your setup is also open for attacks. The knockers purpose is to reduce the
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by slightwinder 1y ago
Every door you close, is one less someone can break. Every complex services running, is a door someone can potentially break. Even with the most secure and battle tested service, you never know where someone fucked up and introduced an expl
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by slightwinder 1y ago
More important: Why does that person mobs people for using javascript, but then only displays an ugly trashy side when you disable it?
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by slightwinder 1y ago
Visual appearance is the main indicator to identify the perceived culture of some random person on the streets, so it's a justified assumption the writer was talking about this.
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by slightwinder 1y ago
tl;dr of the summary: Omarchy is a toy, not a proper tool, and dangerously "naive". Why is even the summary longer than most articles nowadays? I will maybe read te full article later, but probably will just let it rot on my pile
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by slightwinder 1y ago
Is there a legal obligation to use ISBN? AFAIK it's a free choice of companies, for the single reason that it's beneficial. ICANN is similar, their services are optional, and the main complaint is that one country has too much con
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by slightwinder 1y ago
As a totally unrelated but somehow relate recommendation: there is a fantastic builder-game named Timberborn[1], where you can grow your own beaver-empire and even build dams. It's not the most realistic game, the proportion of everyth
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by slightwinder 1y ago
> The problem isn't necessarily the need for permission, it is excessive bureaucracy. Certain checks just need time. A lack of qualified experts who are able to evaluation the situation for a permission is in such a case more likely
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by slightwinder 1y ago
The victim would still be dead. And there are not that many murders who even have $12M. This whole thread is so ridiculous...
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by slightwinder 1y ago
The solution are text-files, automation and version-control. Write scripts which are regularly automatically export all data, configs, communication, etc. into a centralized storage which is under version control with an automatic commit ev
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by slightwinder 1y ago
Not sure whether is a matter of efficiency. Efficiency is more about the desired outcome. Insects are small and very low weight. So I would assume wind will give them more push and can carry them for much longer distances even without doing
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by slightwinder 1y ago
Because it IS json with some half-assed enhancements. I say half-assed, because it only seems to work one-way. Parsing this is OK, probably not the most efficient json-parser around, but writing back and preserving the enhancements seems no
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by slightwinder 1y ago
> Because it lets us build an app that works well across all major platforms with the resources we have available. Building an email/contacts/calendar app is a huge undertaking. Doing it from scratch on each platform is just no
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by slightwinder 1y ago
> I find it rather strange that so many email providers have to develop their own "app". It's probably because people want easy access, and have all features supported flawlessly. Mail has come a long way, but there are al
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by slightwinder 1y ago
With batteries included, growing should be a desired outcome.

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