star-glider

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by star-glider 3y ago
This is another huge problem with RMS: the nitpicky obsession with language. Although, in fairness, this seems to be an issue with a lot of technically-minded people. Words are not like code; a word can be imperfect but work well enough in
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by star-glider 3y ago
Maybe I'm out of the mainstream, but his dogged insistence on it is pathetic. It actually annoys me when I see "GNU/Linux" every time I log into Debian. It feels less like a tribute to the GNU project and more like givin
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by star-glider 3y ago
Most of the time, the great visionaries don't make effective leaders. There are exceptions (Jobs, famously---not that he was perfect, but he was capable in that role, charismatic, and visionary). We all owe RMS a lot. He had a principl
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The Last Page Of The Internet(defector.com)
21 points by star-glider 3y ago|2 comments
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by star-glider 3y ago
We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylis
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by star-glider 3y ago
That, and Jobs had incredible design taste and ran a company that solved real, complex problems. "spez" runs a website that hosts a bunch of content created, moderated, and shared by other people. It's a clone of Digg. The de
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by star-glider 3y ago
That last point is, IMHO, the real problem. It's pretty reasonable to want to charge for the API, but saying "we just want a fair price" and setting a price that's clearly meant just to kill them off is dishonest. Just s
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by star-glider 3y ago
Correct: with the latest images, W11 will not under any circumstances allow you to avoid creating an MS account. It will insist you go online and halt the installer until you do. Rufus ( https://rufus.ie/en/ ) offers an
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by star-glider 3y ago
This is the default list used by the pihole project as well; it's a very good list. FWIW, something like ublock origin is going to be better for in-browser blocking (for example, DNS poisoning won't work with youtube ads, which ar
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by star-glider 4y ago
Sounds beautiful, and I hope your Starlink terminal is working well. :)
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by star-glider 4y ago
Setting up WireGuard is definitely the way to go. I learned a ton about networking doing that. It's a beautifully elegant implementation and actually very easy, but it exposes a lot of networking concepts that are important to understa
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by star-glider 4y ago
Generally speaking: You broke half the internet: BGP You broke half of your company's ability to access the internet: DNS