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by swiley 5y ago
IMO: It's slightly easier for small children to learn to program than adults. I'd imagine anyone here shouldn't have an issue but saying a kid gets it isn't quite right.
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by swiley 5y ago
You don't have to though, that's what makes it so great. Just push with ssh to a directory under /var/www and you're good to go.
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by swiley 5y ago
Meh, we've put plenty of various kinds of nuclear reactors in space.
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by swiley 5y ago
Youtube has been using their platform to openly manipulate people's ideas since 2010 (it started as a tool to slow ISIS, but now you can get your comment deleted for mocking the CCP even in the US.) Use PeerTube, Odyssey, or Bitchute i
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by swiley 5y ago
This exactly, after looking for my first job I feel like I'm always going to need a backup pan that can be Sustainable with very long periods of no income. The upside to having that in place means the minimum I need to retire is very l
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by swiley 5y ago
Lightweight X11 Desktops like Fluxbox or FVWM work pretty well on the Pinephone, I'm posting from Fluxbox right now infact. Also the main bottleneck is really the slow RAM and not the CPU.
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by swiley 5y ago
I've been daily driving a Pinephone since 2020. There's a lot of stuff that doesn't work, when it's bad enough I deal with it.
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by swiley 5y ago
I've been using a Pinephone on At&t's network since August last year.
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by swiley 5y ago
HN as a whole only very recently started to "beat" on Apple. Before 2021 it was a lot of "well maybe there are two sides to Apple curb stomping both devs and users."
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by swiley 5y ago
Flatpack will be the death of Linux's software ecosystem.
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by swiley 5y ago
That's illegal IIRC.
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by swiley 5y ago
Keybase had one of the few centralized chat apps I didn't hate. It's all such a shame but I guess that's why I stay away from centralized chat services.
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by swiley 5y ago
It's PG's toy forum for the CEOs he's investing in. Of course it's dominated by business news.
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by swiley 5y ago
If you don't like too many choices then just stop looking. Why does everyone else on the platform have to suffer for you?
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by swiley 5y ago
Nothing the federal government is doing now appears to be motivated by public health concerns.
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by swiley 5y ago
I don't fucking care if this can be disabled. It's a shit default and the people at Mozilla should personally feel bad it shipped.
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by swiley 5y ago
It's almost like you can be racist to anyone.
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by swiley 5y ago
>Math promotes white nationalism Jesus they've completely lost their minds!
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by swiley 5y ago
For anyone else I'd be skeptical.
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by swiley 5y ago
Like the "mostly peaceful protests that don't spread covid" burning down my home town?
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by swiley 5y ago
There's plenty of factless garbage reporting on CNN.
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by swiley 5y ago
If you're talking about the division in the US: that comes from being authoritarian not from being connected. Disagreement isn't a problem when you're not forcing your ideas on eachother.
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by swiley 5y ago
You'd want to reduce it and convert it to some organic solid. When that becomes remotely economical it will likely compete with crypto mining as a use for spare electrical power and won't need further incentives.
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by swiley 5y ago
Windows is rapidly heading to where iOS is. The TPM requirement isn't a trivial thing.
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by swiley 5y ago
Bookmarks have limitations but I really think the issues most people have are not forming good habits.
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by swiley 5y ago
This is what I'm planning for my browser; the web engine will serialize a continuation of sorts that you can load into new instances and mutate in eg cli tools or another computer. Still chugging through basic features like js for now
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by swiley 5y ago
We'll see how much longer the states accept that for.
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by swiley 5y ago
Didn't Kitty add opt-out telemetry recently? Either way Xterm works very well.
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by swiley 5y ago
Few people where I live (DC suburb) are still wearing masks outside the metro and other government run buildings.
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by swiley 5y ago
I use a Canadian VOIP service with an American number. I'll be a little pissed if this breaks that.

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