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by swiley 5y ago
This kind of thing is why you really can’t have conversations on phones in confidence. You really have no idea what the chat client on your phone (much less the other person’s) is doing.
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by swiley 5y ago
As someone who doesn't want to take the vaccine: I would prefer this. Let us make the decision and deal with the consequences.
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by swiley 5y ago
I wonder when Apple will “invent” having an overlapping window manager on a smartphone like what many people are doing on the Pinephone.
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by swiley 5y ago
>which is hopeful That’s like saying “the house is on fire but there’s little smoke which is hopeful.” Of course they’re denying it!
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by swiley 5y ago
One thing people forget is that some of these hospitals are firing workers for not getting vaccinated which means fewer ICU beds.
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by swiley 5y ago
Most Christians I know are against legislating morality because that could result in the government being involved in the church.
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by swiley 5y ago
Nope that would be a two weeks notice from me.
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by swiley 5y ago
So despite small ARM computers costing almost nothing these companies have managed to get everyone to overpay for and finance them then publish their SSN. Anything that touches the phone network is cursed.
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by swiley 5y ago
Ah yes, the blackstart situation. So terrible once you switch to nuclear.
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by swiley 5y ago
I've noticed I can just hack out pretty complex stuff if I stick to APIs and languages I already know, often this is even faster than using other people's libraries for it.
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by swiley 5y ago
FIOS is one of the only decent ISPs in the US still on IPv4 only.
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by swiley 5y ago
Use soprani.ca. It's open source and they run a public pay for instance on jmp.chat. It's the best VOIP service I've ever used.
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by swiley 5y ago
IMO: NetBSD might be superior but the lack of GPL means less work on it is published. The net effect is that everyone puts up with Linux because it actually runs on everything.
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by swiley 5y ago
So can we get rid of the surveillance crap now? Since it didn't work.
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by swiley 5y ago
A better alternative would be user accounts with the credit companies but then people would realize how sloppy they are.
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by swiley 5y ago
SSN should not be used for ID.
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by swiley 5y ago
I'm against it. Not for religious reasons but because of the potential to concentrate power.
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by swiley 5y ago
>Can we please have this in the US? Absolutely not. How about not requiring an ID? There are plenty of carriers here that don't do that.
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by swiley 5y ago
It's nowhere beafy enough for Gnome. It runs fluxbox, FVWM, and apparently i3 and dwm just fine.
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by swiley 5y ago
The bar is way lower when the source is available. That they won't share the source code for a free program is also a very big red flag.
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by swiley 5y ago
The last thing from Apple I had was a phone, I've switched to a Pinephone entirely. That was a lot of work, I had to write my own power management service so I could get notifications during sleep without draining the battery excessive
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by swiley 5y ago
Absolutely no one else should be able to run a carrier on those frequencies, these people are experts. That's why they let foreign companies run their infrastructure for them.
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by swiley 5y ago
It also hides errors that come from casting between different pointers types.
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by swiley 5y ago
Eventually people will realize computers aren't any more a truth oracle than books and writing are. Hopefully.
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by swiley 5y ago
IMO: economics is just heat transfer with extra steps.
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by swiley 5y ago
Yes, we should have stuck with Big-endian.
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by swiley 5y ago
No. It's the result of massive inflation but the information exchange is still ongoing, at some point the market will correct and things will get very ugly.
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by swiley 5y ago
Because you're not supposed to be downloading random binaries from the internet and running them like some toddler on Windows or OSX would. STOP DOING THAT.
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by swiley 5y ago
Your crap is being exfiltrated. Stop using non-free software if you're doing anything important on that machine.
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by swiley 5y ago
So the Taliban is on Twitter but not our last president? What the fuck?

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