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by sroerick 3y ago
I'm using SQLAlchemy to access external data sources to build reports on. Essentially, I'm using it as a dumb BI connector (mostly to access a Databricks metastore), while my Django ORM manages any app information. I'm not s
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by sroerick 3y ago
I'd like to see this. I don't have anything I can share publicly, but I've been making stuff with Django, htmx, SQLAlchemy and plotly and I've found it to be pretty robust
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by sroerick 3y ago
10 or so years ago I spent a long time customizing a DAW workstation on Arch using JACK and Ardour and a lot of other utilities. It had a steep learning curve and a lot of configuration but I loved the freedom JACK granted to wire applicati
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by sroerick 3y ago
I really love DuckDB for one-offs and analytics and I wonder if anybody here has experience using with medium size data. I still seem to run into the workflow problem where data has to be in proximity to compute in order to function. If I n
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by sroerick 10y ago
The war on drugs and the war on terror is the same war. We stage coups in democratic countries, then we install puppet leaders. Then we start growing, harvesting, or selling drugs there. Then we move on to the next country. Check out the hi
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by sroerick 10y ago
Could you please link to these press releases? It's been very difficult for me to wade through the muck on this one.
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by sroerick 10y ago
This is brilliant . (Mubi is apparently similar, which I hadn't yet seen.) From a user's perspective, this is ultimately the best case scenario for siloed content. The editorial perspective offered by the steaming service provide
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by sroerick 10y ago
I think the crossover part of the diagram pretty much consists of Creative-Commons film producers, who are few and far between.
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by sroerick 11y ago
> No tracking Isn't having an account a form of tracking?
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by sroerick 11y ago
This issue can also be explained a bit by illustrating some of the divides that make up party lines. The call to arrest Snowden has been echoed by both political parties. The mainstream of both parties is very pro-surveillance. While survei
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by sroerick 11y ago
I think Mike Hearn's essay was pretty disingenuous. Most of the people I know who have issues with XT have issues that go far beyond forking. For example, some of the code included in XT includes blacklisting code. It also would break
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by sroerick 11y ago
That's fine, then. Leave the checkboxes out. But at least give consumers the option. Even if it's in Advanced Settings, just like every other obscure privacy invading Microsoft feature. > It's a feature, not a bug. Really?
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by sroerick 11y ago
There was also a story that broke a while ago that text files in text editor would get stored in the cloud by default, even if they were not saved.
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by sroerick 11y ago
Why isn't this a feature that consumers can have? The line I always hear from Microsoft apologists is that "You can turn these features off at any time", but everything I've seen suggests this is only true for Enterprise
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by sroerick 11y ago
"Our research shows that users WANT these features that require us to constantly monitor microphones for certain phrases." Maybe the OS provider should stop being hostile.
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by sroerick 11y ago
I installed Ubuntu for two non-technical people I know. There's a bug in Ubuntu where old kernel packages are kept on the boot partition and not uninstalled. These accumulate, and quickly (<6months) fill up the boot partition. This
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by sroerick 11y ago
Snapchat records silent videos if you disable microphone access, but disallows access to the entire app if you disable camera function. You cannot even read other people's snaps without enabling camera. I deleted the app because of thi
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by sroerick 11y ago
This is not the case with iOS snapchat. Disabling the camera prevents app use.
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by sroerick 11y ago
> This is very easy to verify yourself with a network monitor. Are you sure? Suppose, hypothetically, I was looking to circumvent this. It would be extremely easy. I could monitor for key phrases (e.g. bomb, terror, NSA, freedom.) and th
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by sroerick 11y ago
I'm curious... Is mopidy like mpd in that clients that connect are only able to edit the playlist? Or can they themselves play songs?
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by sroerick 11y ago
GNU Social is Open Source and federated. Your criticism is still valid, obviously there is no way to validate that a GNU Social instance is not running modified code. But the federation itself mitigates this to some extent. If you don'
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by sroerick 11y ago
GNU Social is a great alternative.
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by sroerick 11y ago
It's already happening. This is what the US internet looks like, post-Arab Spring.
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by sroerick 11y ago
I meant with regards to censorship.
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by sroerick 11y ago
>Most internet censorship eventually works on L3 Could you explain a little more about this?
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It doesn't support YouTube.
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by sroerick 11y ago
Right? Why is this so difficult.
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by sroerick 11y ago
IPFS is not like freenet where nodes host content -- it is more similar to bittorrent, where you broadcast the files that you have available on your node. Copyright violations will likely function in a similar route to bittorrent.
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by sroerick 11y ago
I don't really know about restricted data, but AlexandriaP2P is doing pretty interesting work with storing IPFS magnet links in a blockchain.
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by sroerick 11y ago
Reddit's response to the community woes has been "we are building technology to respond to these concerns. The hiring of a new CTO is likely designed to address these concerns. So airing these concerns here seems pretty on topic t

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