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   by tazjin 6y ago

   I have one and use it outside regularly (e.g. [0]), it's pretty amazing! There's some open-source tooling[1] for it which can control screen features like brightness/refreshes/rendering modes/... and I've set i
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   by tazjin 6y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man
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   by tazjin 6y ago

   I'm mostly familiar with the Oslo scene, which has Hackeriet[0] (of which I'm still a member) with more of a CCC-style crowd and Bitraf[1] which has a lot of physical equipment for "makers" and has a much larger space. H
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   by tazjin 6y ago

   You're saying exactly the same thing as me: There are very few independent hacker spaces (in most cities, none), unlike in Germany and Norway where that is the norm.
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   by tazjin 6y ago

   Yes, they're called Erfa-Kreise: https://www.ccc.de/en/club/erfas They're all in German-speaking countries.
6. 636.▲
   by tazjin 6y ago

   Good luck. In countries like Germany or Norway there is a culture of hacker organisations sustaining themselves financially via their members. This culture doesn't exist in Sweden, and the spaces and organisations that aren't subs
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   by tazjin 6y ago

   I did not entirely keep the original title (verbatim: '"I ATE TOO MANY DRUGS": ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!") and instead edited it to explain what this is about, hopefully that's okay :)
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   Linguist’s analysis of body cam footage of George Floyd in Derek Chauvin trial(languagejones.com)

   47 points by tazjin 6y ago|81 comments
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   by tazjin 6y ago

   I wrote a language tutorial for only the language a while back, and have gotten the feedback that it has helped a lot of people - maybe it'd clear something up for you: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    See also: https://royal.uk
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    There's a lot of unexplored potential of Nix in granular build systems and displacing systems like Bazel. If applied correctly, it lets smaller organisations get much of the benefit of Google-style monorepos but without as much mainten
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    See also: https://royal.uk
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    No. Ganpati is a system that provides user & group information (not ACLs themselves), but it's only sort of related to Zanzibar.
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    Hibernation or suspend?
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    > by far the _most_ important measure Yes, we are very privileged to live in a time where there is literally no other problem in the world that even comes close. Sorry for the snark, but this attitude is so incredibly ... Western. It rea
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    Nope, that's not it - I block all of that.
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    My honest take is that the frontend development stack focuses almost entirely on the developer experience (mostly oriented towards shiny things), and the user experience is only a secondary effect of that. That the developer experience also
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    There is - by definition - more overhead in client-side rendering. Think of it this way: The server needs to first serialise data, the client needs to deserialise it, then it needs to construct the DOM to update. The server can just do the
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    HN seems to be pretty split on this issue. I concur with the linked tweet. Using the web beyond very simple pages like HN feels like wading through garbage. Everything is slow, laggy, loads ridiculous amounts of stuff (I live in a country w
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    Also, "authoritarian" is defined as: > favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom This currently describes a lot of European countries. The proponents will make the argument that thi
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    This doesn't sound particularly evil to me and seems perfectly in line with the Russian government's intention of reducing its reliance on American tech companies (by nudging consumers in the direction of their domestic alternativ
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    You might want to look into who Navalny was before he got famous in the West (and what kinds of things he said), and what grounds the various claims surrounding this stand on.
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    And they will lose people over this.
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    It's just a type of sensation!
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    I'm hesitant to go into detail about this on HN because people on here will do their best to attack/criticise and there's not much to be gained from that. The short version is that the last year's politics have uprooted
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    I commented about that in the other thread, but fwiw I'm not near Cairo.
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    Currently in Egypt (spending a few months here can alter your perspective), next up ... we'll see! My next permanent base is going to be Russia.
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    Leaving (~Western) Europe. The last year made it clear that I'm not compatible with its values and priorities, and I'm now going to live in places that aren't living museums. It's freed up a lot of mental space which has
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    Cell networks are only semi-reliable here, a significant portion of people don't use smart phones (or really care about their phones), and that also needs to be linked to some electronic "value store". Sure, it's possibl
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    by tazjin 6y ago

    There's still more to this than just having payment infrastructure. People need to have cards, the cards need to have money on them - both of these are already assumptions that aren't guaranteed to hold for a lot of people.