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by superkuh 11mo ago
That's called chemical dependence and it's the point I'm trying to make. Dependence is not addiction. Addiction means wanting is hijacked, not that stopping is aversive. Addiction and dependence have real medical meanings and
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by superkuh 11mo ago
They're under the encouraged belief that they are in control over what is shown on their youtube channel. They think they should control what text is shown under their videos on "their" channel. This illusion of control of pr
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Caffeine is not chemically addictive. It can lead to depedency but that is not addiction. Motivation and wanting are not altered but unpleasant withdrawl effects can occur.
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by superkuh 11mo ago
The citation chain for these mastodon reposts resolves to the Gamers Nexus piece on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJgDHJJoE
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Most of my use for my blog posts is linking people to them on IRC and forums. I don't need or want search engine traffic. It's true there's no money or the churning waves of activity associated with that money in blogging any
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by superkuh 11mo ago
By stopped getting bigger I mean people still think 4TB is big in 2025. Just like 2010 when 3/4TB was the max size for consumer storage devices. u.2/u.3 is not consumer yet, unfortunately. I have to use m.2 nvme to u.2 adapters wh
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by superkuh 11mo ago
It is no surprise to me that people still have to use HDD for storage. SSD stopped getting bigger a decade plus ago. SSD sizes are still only equal to the HDD sizes available and common in 2010 (a couple TB~). SSD size increases (availabi
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Gitlab did seem like a hope. But they very quickly became an even more massive and slow SPA javascript app than even github was.
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by superkuh 11mo ago
It's pretty simple: 2 computers have twice the parts and having twice the parts means there are more chances for something to die. But it goes beyond this too. Far less software stack complexity (the big one), no flaky network link, no
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by superkuh 11mo ago
It's 1 step forward 2 steps back with this "server side rendering" framing of the issue and in practice observing Microsoft Github's behaviors. They'll temporarily enable text on the web pages of the site in respons
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by superkuh 11mo ago
There's 'enabling javascript' and then there's 'requiring a javascript VM with bleeding edge features basically only found 3 browsers'.
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by superkuh 11mo ago
>frontend barely works without JavaScript, ... In the past, it used to gracefully degrade without enforcing JavaScript, but now it doesn't. And the github frontend developers are aware of these accessibility problems (via the for
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by superkuh 11mo ago
While there are use cases for NAS, generally, if you have a desktop PC it's far better to put the hard drives in it rather than setting up a second computer you have to turn on and run too. Putting the storage in the computer where you
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Being rolling doesn't fix the lack of upstream support for GPUs that AMD does for the first half year (and any years past 4~). LTS distros are great because they work pretty good "forever" instead of great for brief unknowabl
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by superkuh 11mo ago
The problem isnot cracking the glass. The problem is breaking it apart enough to get through. Your reference joke is not quite appropriate to this context.
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by superkuh 11mo ago
https://archive.is/qs9kj - A mirror which includes the text of the article without having to execute random code from third parties.
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by superkuh 11mo ago
You can use ublock origin browser extension per-site CSS rules to restore an arbitrary number of rows and columns to the youtube frontpage. https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube is
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Yes. At the tail end of my comment I stated that calls for violence (forced imprisonment) against either CEO (like original poster in this thread) or parents (like me, as satire) for not sanitizing a child's entire life is wrong. Both
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Automatic execution of javascript from arbitrary random domains is the biggest mistake the web ever made. A completely 180 from the old "Don't run programs you don't know where they're from." We're doing this t
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by superkuh 11mo ago
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-proposal-st... Basically, the same as before re: invasive searches of your property except now surrounded by weasel wording so it seems voluntary but won't be. But
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Or the parents. I wasn't aware the corporations were responsible for the raising of children. That said, I'm with you on reducing the abstraction of liability that is the purpose of corporations. I just don't think parents no
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Newer hasn't been better for quite a while when it comes to computing devices.
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And this is why very long support windows are great. All the corporate persons and the bleeding edge devs can improve off into the sunset while a stable base for non-dev culture human people who want to get things done and have them keep be
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by superkuh 11mo ago
It wouldn't work with modern Ubuntu releases. They're all container based and Canonical has no control over Firefox and many other packages on those platforms. They've given up and that's upstream's job. So there wo
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by superkuh 11mo ago
I've used Canonical's free 3-seat extended service mantainence (ESM) support on my one 14.04 LTS machine for a long time. It's so nice having a stable target for more than decade for my personal projects. I have so much softw
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by superkuh 11mo ago
It could get us out of this mess after a decade of it's hardware encoder/decoder being built into things. If we all just switched to it now, if everything shipped with hardware encoder for AV1 now magically, it would still be a de
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Congress asserts this since they passed the 2001 bill that destroyed the country. It was called The PATRIOT Act. It created this, not any particular president's interpretation. All the executives since Bush jr. have asserted it. And I
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by superkuh 11mo ago
Okay, so you linked to https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone which contains this text: >The federal government defines a “reasonable distance” as 100 air miles from any external boundary of the U.S. So,
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by superkuh 11mo ago
The border patrol should only be able to do this within the 100 mile no constitution zone that extends from all foreign borders (including internal borders like the great lakes). If they do this in Minneapolis, Minnesota or Denver, Colorado
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by superkuh 11mo ago
This only runs on the user computer. It does not allow any control of the baseband modem computer. Alternate operating systems of the user computer do not change the fact that one does not own "their" smartphone.

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