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by swiley 5y ago
>I'll fight for YIMBY policy til the bitter end Man I'd just move if I lived somewhere like that. In fact, I did. There's infrastructure, dense housing, etc. I can select exactly what I want in the "affordability, ame
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by swiley 5y ago
iOS has files now, it could just get them from a folder and have a companion app to download gif collections in the background. That would keep the behavior user visible.
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by swiley 5y ago
IMO: like most of the web it's about accumulating bookmarks. Newegg is really great for electronics in general Sparkfun/mouser/adafruit is great for hobbiest parts. For specific niche stuff check your favorite forums.
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by swiley 5y ago
How exactly do you know it's not? Do they even say it isn't? Why would you trust them at this point?
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by swiley 5y ago
F-droid does it, here are their rules: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/ So do most Linux distros, which have very similar rules.
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by swiley 5y ago
Just keep pumping that Co2 into the air for the rest of us why don't you
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by swiley 5y ago
I don't understand what the difference is from the perspective of the user.
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by swiley 5y ago
E2EE is meaningless with a closed client downloaded by individuals from the service provider.
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by swiley 5y ago
They had to cave on something after all the crap they pulled this year I guess.
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by swiley 5y ago
Those countries probably also require upfront price estimates and the hospital admins might not be trained experts in gaming regulation.
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by swiley 5y ago
Considering that no one in my state spent time in lockdown this year (and mostly didn't last year either) I'm not sure I'd agree with that.
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by swiley 5y ago
iOS is dead. Any innovative app is prohibitively expensive to develop and publish, the App Store is for push notification subscriptions and in app purchases.
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by swiley 5y ago
E2EE means just about nothing without open source clients.
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by swiley 5y ago
Anything else, even something proprietary.
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by swiley 5y ago
Wait, governments are still using zoom? WTF?
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by swiley 5y ago
Oh so the machine isn't sending a hash of the binary on exec? Tell me what I got wrong.
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by swiley 5y ago
I remember seeing a defederation list a while ago that was supposedly for "alt-right/nazi" instances. It of course contained qoto and fosstodon due to their being pro free speech.
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by swiley 5y ago
Excluding certain races X Reporting conversations to the government X Dictating what kinds of commerce and information exchange are allowed (in particular, no sexual deviance) X When does comparing Apple to Nazis stop being crazy?
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by swiley 5y ago
Arch is a distro so they only package other people's GUIs? Which one are you referring to?
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by swiley 5y ago
Wear a mask and/or hat and sunglasses when outside Don't drive Don't carry a cell phone (if you're worried about emergencies, HAM licenses and 2M radios are cheap.) Don't use non-free software Don't use hosted
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by swiley 5y ago
The "Industry vs Sam's garage" chart is pretty funny.
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by swiley 5y ago
>currently I've been on and off Mastodon since 2016 and there is always tumblr-style drama about how Eugen is a dictator for not doing <whatever> with everyone's instance.
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by swiley 5y ago
You'll note quoto.org is at the top of the technology oriented instance list. I know the admin to some degree (he followed me almost immediately after I joined) and while he won't tolerate you using his instance to harass people h
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by swiley 5y ago
I don't know what they're called, but they have dog runs supervised by professionals where you can drop your dog off to socialize. You might consider one of those.
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by swiley 5y ago
Linux. (Alpine on most things with Gentoo on my most powerful computer) When something gets messed up I can read the source or just rip it out and replace it (or worst case, re implement it myself.) I almost never end up "negotiating&q
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by swiley 5y ago
In a binary repo (http/sftp server.) That's literally what LFS does.
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by swiley 5y ago
The price of MacOS is sending telemetry to Apple on every exec().
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by swiley 5y ago
China is still locking cities down this year.
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by swiley 5y ago
>What is it about RSS in particular, but also tech in general, that makes Googlers incapable of listening to the what people are telling them? "Data driven decision making." The real death of any piece of proprietary or central
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by swiley 5y ago
I posted ~8 months ago (albeit on an anonymous forum) that those really stupid 5g conspiracy theories might be a coverup for the privacy implications of 5g (my meta conspiracy theory if you will.)

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