thumbellina

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by thumbellina 5y ago
The Pine64 SBCs look to be good choices. They don't have WiFi, but fortunately I don't need WiFi for this.
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by thumbellina 5y ago
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers is more up to date.
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by thumbellina 5y ago
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Single_Board_Com... has suggestions.
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Which single board computers work with a vanilla blobless kernel?
3 points by thumbellina 5y ago|3 comments
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by thumbellina 5y ago
Perhaps the continual raising awareness of problems is a key part of progress.
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by thumbellina 5y ago
> All we need is to build distributed systems that work. That means decentralized bulk activity, hierarchical regulation. XMPP fits this definition. Bulk activity occurs via decentralized federation. Regulation occurs via yearly updated
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by thumbellina 5y ago
TIL. Do you have any links that go into more detail about these differences?
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by thumbellina 5y ago
I don't know enough about Nix internals to know how much of a problem this is, or the right way to improve it. However, it's good to see an ecosystem forming around the derivation data type, with the possibility of reuse across pr
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by thumbellina 5y ago
I suspect many, perhaps even most, are aware of the bias they are exposed to. I don't expect I'm particularly resistant to it. I am keen to learn more about what I can do. An alternative might be to focus on local community matter
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by thumbellina 5y ago
It's a clear case of censorship. In censorsing they might have amplified the story, but this amplification only occurred after the matter/case was decided. That is too late. > If you decentralize you will end up with a media fo
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by thumbellina 5y ago
The question is, if media centralization continues, what evidence/perspectives could have been removed from the public sphere, and what impact could that have on impartiality? Tech has the potential to decentralize power. Alas...
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by thumbellina 5y ago
I fully accept that FB is free to run itself how it pleases. That said, it's clear they are not in a position to act as a neutral platform for civic discourse. I try to support technologies and platforms that provide a voice to all. De
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by thumbellina 5y ago
> You can live here for the rest of your life carefully achieving satisfying challenges "rest of your [professional] life" suggests at least 30 years. How confident can you be predicting 30 years in the future? Note that 30 yea
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by thumbellina 5y ago
Yeah... Guix does not distribute Firefox and instead distributes GNU Icecat, which comes with the unremovable libreJS and an extension to make UPS's site work without JavaScript. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzil
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by thumbellina 5y ago
Or, more typically, the binary is built your distribution.
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by thumbellina 5y ago
I'm jaded about the Internet. https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence didn't last. The web is no longer "surfed". The web is an escalator of sanitised material, surveilled and stateful. On the plus s
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by thumbellina 5y ago
Helm might have info documentation, available offline within Emacs. Try `M-x info-apropos` and type "helm". Info docs form a tree: press '^' to go up a node, 'n' and 'p' to go forward and back on same