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by swiley 5y ago
Expected a Rickroll but got an ad for a mobile game. Heh
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by swiley 5y ago
I just set static IPs for important things and put them in my domain. There's also MDNS although most of the MDNS responders are pretty fat for what they do. I tried hacking some basic MDNS stuff into busybox a few years ago but never
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by swiley 5y ago
I'm not convinced it's an improvement over ballistic delivery with some kind of elastomere faring.
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by swiley 5y ago
Oh neat, isn't that the parent to the company running Matrix? (for anyone that freaked out, you should have been using XMPP.)
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by swiley 5y ago
Requiring a license to run LTE base stations is a disaster. Zero of the carriers are managing their infrastructure in any way resembling competence and responsibility and most of them probably couldn't even tell you how bad it is becau
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by swiley 5y ago
I'm sorry you got downvoted, it's a reasonable question to ask and I would have voted it up if my noprocrast hadn't run out.
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by swiley 5y ago
That's the way its treated though; everyone assumes you don't know what you're doing if you haven't been to university because there's some top-secret stuff there that you couldn't have possibly found somewhere
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by swiley 5y ago
Media companies make money entirely by selling ideas to you (this is what the "advertisement industry" is.) When you're scared and depressed its easiest to sell things to you or change your mind, unfortunately you're bes
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by swiley 5y ago
Can you get a degree from them online though?
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by swiley 5y ago
Yikes!! What are they going to do when the shortage ends? They'll have a bunch of loans with little collateral.
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by swiley 5y ago
The people paying the highest tuition are on student visas with similar constraints. I totally forgot about that, foreign tuition is an even larger profit motive to restrict distance learning.
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by swiley 5y ago
The alternatives are left and right respectively. They're more clear because left and right are usually relative to the speaker or listener who may be facing each other and are often moving around.
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by swiley 5y ago
The whole thing is built to export moderation to an external service. It's a bit creepy IMO.
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by swiley 5y ago
Leaving a job is easier than leaving a University IMO. Most don't accept transfers (especially when you've gotten to the 300/400 level classes.)
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by swiley 5y ago
Restaurants don't hold lectures? You're going to have to rephrase what you're saying.
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by swiley 5y ago
Programming is about clearly communicating theory. Mariners use "port" and "starboard" for vehicle relative directions not because it's "cool" but because it's clear and unambiguous. Problem decomposi
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by swiley 5y ago
Yeah, webcams are prohibitively expensive for a University. No. This is because remote learning makes these institutions obsolete and they're going to continue throwing their reputation around to try to prevent that.
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by swiley 5y ago
Institutions like this are profitable because of the status quo. Recorded lectures and remote learning threaten them to a great degree and they might not be able to afford all those overpaid administrators. Go ahead and try to find Stanford
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by swiley 5y ago
A Pinephone haha. I post here often enough on it that I'm thinking about adding hackernews to /etc/hosts or deleting my account.
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by swiley 5y ago
Well yeah, without free speech what you say is literally limited.
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by swiley 5y ago
WTF? We already do this via the gas tax, all this does is tax you while causing accidents. They're only doing it this way because they're cowards.
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by swiley 5y ago
You're always consuming someone else's software on it though. Being able to rip out and re-implement even parts of your OS gives you a radically different view of computers than the one you get from an OS that doesn't even le
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by swiley 5y ago
I'm typing this from an AArch64 device that's not an M1 and runs Linux. What are you talking about.
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by swiley 5y ago
I was explicitly thinking about spacemacs when I wrote that. I guess it might be attractive to a VS code user but it's a lot to manage.
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by swiley 5y ago
Patents should include source code. The original idea behind American patents is almost exactly the same as the GPL.
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by swiley 5y ago
Have you tried vanilla Emacs? It doesn't require any configuration to just start using it.
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by swiley 5y ago
FVWM2
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by swiley 5y ago
Yes, the UK has abused things like this in the past too. What's wrong with you? Why are you still with Apple? Are you paid by them?
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by swiley 5y ago
Burn it all down. If you can't understand the theory and reimplement it then you shouldn't even look at it. The internet is full of pathological wizards and witches. Come here for obscure books but otherwise stay far away.
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by swiley 5y ago
> It's either that or getting shut out of markets gradually by law enforcement and governments. How come that's not happening to desktop Linux then?

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