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by testific8 5y ago
I doubt this. People are willing to reupload videos that they like, so why wouldn't they seed? for example this video has been reuploaded quite a few times because people like it so much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by testific8 5y ago
I agree with most of what you've said, but some cryptocurrencies use proof-of-work systems (like RandomX) that truly are ASIC/FPGA/GPU-proof by design.
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by testific8 5y ago
Yes but so is any asset. Gold, property, etc.
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by testific8 5y ago
Because (at least originially) the goal of cryptocurrencies were to combat the double spending problem, providing an alternative to fractional-reserve banking.
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by testific8 5y ago
You could use a rolling-release distro, but it means you are still updating like every year or so (although in more of a ship-of-theseus fashion).
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by testific8 5y ago
the ultimate solution is to release the source code and compile it against the newer ABI.
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by testific8 5y ago
I think the new GNOME is pretty comparable to the Windows and MacOSX interfaces. Is there something I'm overlooking?
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by testific8 5y ago
pine64 and purism are lot smaller than qualcomm and the like. They don't have that type of leverage.
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by testific8 5y ago
Speaking from experience with the pinephone, the browser situation is actually pretty good on postmarketOS because they have a custom firefox configuration for mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6qnlw4hgE I can also
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by testific8 5y ago
I disagree. Fuchsia will eliminate the need for the hardware vendor to supply open-source drivers. In this regard, it is a major step backwards in security and upgradability.
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by testific8 5y ago
The pine64 position on binary drivers is not as hard as the purism one (perhaps they try to balance more with cost), but there are still projects to reverse-engineer and replace some non-free firmware, such as the modem firmware: https:&#x
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by testific8 5y ago
If you are interested in postmarketOS linux, I think there are some faster phones that have been bootstrapped: http://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
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by testific8 5y ago
There are many standards on linux, but in my experience they are mostly inter-compatable. I have KDE/X11 programs running just fine in my GNOME/Wayland environment. I also have alsa, pulseaudio and pipewire playing nice on my lapt
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by testific8 5y ago
Quite a number of terminal emulators have this feature. Alacritty and xfce4 terminal as well.
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by testific8 5y ago
bitcoin and related systems are a solution to the double spending problem. Perhaps a flawed solution based on the information we know now, but it is a solution nonetheless. some related systems such as monero, zcash, and GNU taler make atte
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by testific8 5y ago
Yes but you probably would make those optimizations in C code and not assembly. The amd64 compiler is basicially the same C code whether or not it's been bootstrapped on armv8 or amd64.
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by testific8 5y ago
care to enlighten us?
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by testific8 5y ago
I didn't pay for the OS on my pinephone, but for some reason the vendors decide not to use that as an opportunity to create a mass surveilance campaign.
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by testific8 5y ago
Nothing in the article indicates that it was racially motivated... except the title.
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by testific8 5y ago
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by testific8 5y ago
You can argue that all you like, but it is a ridiculous point. It's not perfect, but most of the time democracy works. This much is self evident. If you are comparing the difference between having a company in charge of public health a
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by testific8 5y ago
it is regretable that the bitcoin network and related networks are so dependent on modern computer infrastructure which is controlled by a handfull of institutions. But perhaps it does not need to be this way
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by testific8 5y ago
regulating intellectual "property" will only become increasingly difficult to protect and regulate as the technology for recording, copying, and disseminating information improves. In order to regulate intellectual "property&
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by testific8 5y ago
In any case, I think this is a good thing. If crypto-currencies are regulated against, the remaining crypto-currencies must succeed on their technical merits as a currency (privacy, security, byzantine fault tolerance, speed, etc.) in order
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by testific8 5y ago
how is this any better than security cameras? It's not like it would even stop them from forcing their way in
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by testific8 5y ago
Perhaps today you could have machines manage many clerical duties. Essentially like a giant vending machine.
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by testific8 5y ago
How so?
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by testific8 5y ago
2FA has historicially been broken because it is usually attached to a phone number, and phone service providers are suseptable to social engineering. What twitter (and other websites) should be using is PGP, where the user holds the secret
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by testific8 5y ago
I was looking to use this feature, alongside some other C++20, but I was dissapointed to see that it wasn't supported yet by my compiler. So hopefully that gets supported soon. Until then a condition variable and an atomic<bool>
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by testific8 5y ago
>The internet isn't a "surveillance network". It's just a network. I posit that the internet is a surveillance network. Not only because its surveillance is a now primary function, but because it was always designed t

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