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781.
by swiley 5y ago
I don't know about you but after what happened with smartphones I'm pretty much done giving OS vendors the benefit of the doubt.
782.
by swiley 5y ago
I'm actually going to agree with that. Any country jailing political activists on their position alone is not a democracy.
783.
by swiley 5y ago
Just because the US performs extralegal execution doesn't justify. The same goes for anything and anyone else.
784.
by swiley 5y ago
It's possible to authenticate TXT records, you just have to do it yourself.
785.
by swiley 5y ago
Twitter has not had free speech in a very long time. I would be more concerned about India blocking TOR and self hosted forums.
786.
by swiley 5y ago
To be quite honest: I'm not comfortable with my current education level regarding the vaccine considering the pretty aggressive censorship everyone has been doing with information on it.
787.
by swiley 5y ago
No. "The only reason people aren't manufacturing guns illicitly in Illinois right now is because it's easier to drive to the next state" is a little closer.
788.
by swiley 5y ago
Canada has their own issues, their government effectively lost its mind last year. Maybe forcing everyone to take planes to enter the country will make the northern shore prime real estate though. Maybe they're behaving rationally and
789.
by swiley 5y ago
Also people are using glibc++ on avr micro controllers.
790.
by swiley 5y ago
I'm comparing driving to another state to driving to an illicit gun smith.
791.
by swiley 5y ago
Man those are both terrible. Just use a pastebin if you really care so little.
792.
by swiley 5y ago
It's odd, people freak out all the time with hiring saying "hiring a poor candidate does more damage than hiring no one" but spewing ML generated noise directly into your repo is somehow considered reasonable.
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by swiley 5y ago
You don't think people who are willing to break the law this way won't just manufacture them?
794.
by swiley 5y ago
>Why would Google even attempt to spy What?
795.
by swiley 5y ago
My cubical has too much sun. The way it was set up when I came the monitor is in line with the arc the sun follows in the early spring. Working from home I can just move my desk, I'm not sure what I'll do when I go back.
796.
by swiley 5y ago
> but collaboratively editing documents in Office 365 is a vast improvement over emailing documents around and clumsy manual version management[0]. I would never go back. Both workflows suck compared to git.
797.
by swiley 5y ago
Smartphones are the first communication technology where the primary feature is that it's easier for the other end to ignore you. IMO: you practically lose nothing by avoiding them.
798.
by swiley 5y ago
Obviously she would use different software, my point is iOS essentially forces people like her to use this.
799.
by swiley 5y ago
Own your data or quit gripping when this happens. On my phone I keep all my personal stuff in git with the remote set to my desktop (it has a public IP) over ssh. My photo stream is just rsynced occasionally over ssh. Not having to deal wit
800.
by swiley 5y ago
`(50 3 8)/10=120.` What robot component do you think costs more than that?
801.
by swiley 5y ago
Guns are illegal in Chicago too.
802.
by swiley 5y ago
I only watch movies when My girlfriend or someone else says they want to. When I'm by myself it's all NileRed, Adam Neely, and Applied Science.
803.
by swiley 5y ago
>All the data is encrypted Where are the keys though? If they ever end up on the same platform it doesn't matter.
804.
by swiley 5y ago
> We don't GPL scientific research Because people don't hide their equations and ask you to pay them money to evaluate them given a set of variables. GPL wouldn't be necessary if sharing code were already the default. It&#
805.
by swiley 5y ago
NPM style package management :p But there are some significant improvements WRT memory management/indirection.
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by swiley 5y ago
The easiest "Do Not Track" is to stick with FSF approved software. I know it looks pseudo religious and a bit ridiculous but the more that happens the more I'm convinced they're actually right.
807.
by swiley 5y ago
We have device tree. The problem on ARM is 1) Qualcomm and other SoC vendors fighting interoperability and 2) Users not understanding device tree.
808.
by swiley 5y ago
If you have online documentation a great measure of the popularity of your project might be unique IPs connecting to the server for it.
809.
by swiley 5y ago
Even if it's fine now, using telemetry to make decisions is a pretty strong way to say "no power users or people with unique problems wanted."
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by swiley 5y ago
Open source is the only stuff that doesn't reliably leave gaping wholes laying around for years because anyone can pay to have them fixed.

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