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by thataccount 2mo ago
Yep, Gnu has a lot of great ideas, but it seems like the implementations always get scotched.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Generally, clients generate keys. If someone gets there before you do, then you are SOL. You will have to take a name close to but not identical to your trademark.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
One key to one name?
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Feels more like a kind of closure to an era than it does a discovery.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
The internet DNS system is broken in multiple ways. We would do better to have a shared DHT table with unique keys addressable to names.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Mine was in the 90s and concerned X11 failing or crashing due to the video card typically. Redhat 5.2ish or Suse.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
This reminds me of the feeling of when Linux got graphical installers instead of long text based ones asking you many, many questions.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
I had to read the comments to figure out whether this was AI or not. I guess that's a sign of the times...
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by thataccount 2mo ago
1. No. Everything else, No.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Yep, I used 3.x and Tabworks. Mac also had a habit of crashing and inopportune times in that era. BeOS, though, was in a league of its own...
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by thataccount 2mo ago
I guess this depends on how you see things. Windows was meant to be a desktop OS and crashed all the time. Probably still does, but the wise have abandoned that burning ship. Linux, however, rarely crashes on a desktop, and when it does, it
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by thataccount 2mo ago
I wonder if they got it to run smoothly in Qubes yet?
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by thataccount 2mo ago
I always thought the whole point of burning man was to forfeit your soul anyway?
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by thataccount 2mo ago
I didn't read the article, but I bet the answer is the author meditated.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Speaking of supply chain security breaches...
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by thataccount 2mo ago
https://san.com/cc/no-the-nsa-wasnt-hacked-by-ai-heres-what-... If this article is accurate, it sounds like Mythos via Anthropic had proven itself to be a security risk. This explains the dual speak around it being bot
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by thataccount 2mo ago
I think the actual curve of "rebellious hacker sort" eventually comes into contact with "orderly military type" and how a person chooses to deal with that interaction more or less determines the next 50+ years of their l
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Medicine is big business. Insurance exists because people are betting against their health. Profits this high indicate insurance is REALLY GOOD at getting people to bet against themselves.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Guess he's off doing the time warp somewhere...
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by thataccount 2mo ago
If they actually walked the walk, her going there would be a sign they were going to do what they were proposing. Them ignoring her was an indication they were full of it, hence why I left.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Goodbye DuckDB and hello surprise enterprise DuckDB that has special features that you can't live without that only work with Enterprise DuckDB.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
You really don't understand what is going on in places like Latin America with Bitcoin do you? Let me enlighten you a little. People with a ton of Bitcoin go there to have fun, while trying to sell poor villages on the idea that Bitcoi
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Pray you never require charity, poster.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Elon was more or less made in environments where the informational flow was free. I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing with all this.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
I always liked the command structure of Vim better.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
I am talking about the Q posts. You are talking about everything else. So, whatever conversation it is you are having, it isn't with me. Maybe take some meds.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
You are right about things not requiring a conversation--with you.
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by thataccount 2mo ago
In its early inception, it wasn't so bad about that. As it grew, though, it became insular and favored those who were going to the conventions for bitcoin and shouted things like "Pura Vida". My "done with it" momen
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by thataccount 2mo ago
Colleges generally cleave between the humanities and science. The humanities, one will discover, often have a highly left/liberal lean. If you happen not to have that lean, you will probably find yourself over in the sciences somewhere
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by thataccount 2mo ago
It is clear that this article simply does not know the power of Vi/VIM!

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