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by swiley 5y ago
The only thing you really miss is right clicks. The Gnome (not phosh) keyboard supports some of that but I prefer xvkbd.
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by swiley 5y ago
I own a Pinephone. I use jmp.chat so messing around with the phone doesn't effect my ability to use the phone network. It's gotten a lot better, I would recommend running a lightweight X11 WM (I like fluxbox and fvwm) rather than
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by swiley 5y ago
They've been saying this since the 80s. The magical world where prolog/pascal/java/NPM solves all your problems is eternally 3 years away.
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by swiley 5y ago
Sounds par for ruby.
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by swiley 5y ago
GNU didn’t need to do this and the App Library for GNU/Linux is often more complete.
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by swiley 5y ago
Do not cary smartphones.
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by swiley 5y ago
I doubt this will be the helpful kind of diversity.
128.
by swiley 5y ago
I thought you would fail most driving tests doing that.
129.
by swiley 5y ago
Meh. They’re only bad in urban areas. There are plenty of other loud tools/toys people use in rural places and it doesn’t really matter because everyone is so far apart.
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by swiley 5y ago
I was quiet about it until the mandate and planning to get vaccinated once everything child out. After that I’ll die before I get vaccinated and I’ve been posting about it under my real name which is something I almost always avoid doing wi
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by swiley 5y ago
Many legal things are immoral.
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by swiley 5y ago
That depends on how much energy is required. It does mean that settlements in places like the Yukon and Northern Alaska are now much more interesting.
133.
by swiley 5y ago
There are no good smartphone messaging apps. XMPP with OMEMO is the best you can do currently.
134.
by swiley 5y ago
What the hell is going on with US software companies? Torching people's machines just to collect a little more data makes no sense!
135.
by swiley 5y ago
I’ll take good faith bugs and missing features over the pathological psycho warfare in closed software any day of the week.
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by swiley 5y ago
Smartphone Apps are universally shit.
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by swiley 5y ago
I’ve been hearing exactly this since I started messing with crypto in 2011.
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by swiley 5y ago
“Linux” (as in Linux based operating systems) are attractive because they’re community maintained and you can hack around in the OS with minimal skills and no special tools or extra computers. Android is almost the polar opposite of that.
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by swiley 5y ago
Those two don’t have mainline Linux, they use a custom out of tree 4.x kernel.
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by swiley 5y ago
> Unixs and Apples have also always relied on passwords as a first authentication method. Nowhere have I seen anyone primarily relying on passwords (unless they didn’t have a clue.) Everyone is using PKI.
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by swiley 5y ago
There are good reasons to be a renter, it’s hard enough getting an apartment in the time between accepting a job offer and your start date, I couldn’t imagine hunting for a house/condo in that time.
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by swiley 5y ago
These companies have a history of absolutely abusing things like this. Comparing reasonable concern that’s informed by history to superstition is very upsetting to me.
143.
by swiley 5y ago
I don’t know if you could pay me enough to have one of these in my house.
144.
by swiley 5y ago
Lately it’s looked like applying AI to CRT/political correctness or so.
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by swiley 5y ago
I think software quality was actually higher then. Dealing with a new API or framework is work too, often it’s actually more work than a bespoke implementation.
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by swiley 5y ago
One company, which likely has a retention problem, is writing all of the code for your system and setting things up so that you can’t easily use anything else. Do you think this is a recipe for secure computing?
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by swiley 5y ago
>an absolute failure to understand Bayes theorem.
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by swiley 5y ago
It doesn’t matter why, stop rationalizing this bullshit.
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by swiley 5y ago
Provided your employer is willing to absorb the risk of a late result which is $14k.
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by swiley 5y ago
At this point anything done with covid as an excuse should be thought of as a power grab. We have vaccines for those that want them. We have drugs that treat it very well. There’s no reason to censor information or shut things down over it.

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