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by tombh 7y ago
I know, that's why I said it's unfortunate. But that is not an argument for HK's right to democracy, for one simple reason: before the British invaded, the population of mainland China were also willing to stand up to the b
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by tombh 7y ago
I agree that free, democratic societies are better. I am in fact British, so I should know. Listen, I'm genuinely interested in how you and others justify the destiny of Hong Kong. So we're in agreement that democracy is better, a
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by tombh 7y ago
My points about about native Americans and Australians could be construed as Whataboutism. But the Opium Wars aren't fodder in an equivalency argument, they are literally the very reason that HK even exists. Again, I must repeat, I do
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by tombh 7y ago
Then who does have responsibility? Surely you're not suggesting that all is forgiven and forgotten once the perpetrators are dead? I'm suggesting that, figuratively, if you actually knew that you lived by a volcano, the emotional
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by tombh 7y ago
Why aren't we talking more about the history of HK's creation, namely the Opium wars? I suspect that the majority of people that feel strongly about China's behaviour don't actually have any idea what the British did to
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by tombh 7y ago
I wonder if a browser is considered a self-bot? Because the text-based browser https://www.brow.sh supports modern web applications.
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by tombh 7y ago
I maintain the right to criticise my nation. I am just a single member, but such individuals are the only components that make up the whole. If I don't take responsibility then who will?
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by tombh 7y ago
I don't think being-guilty-of and taking responsibility are the same thing. Eg; I don't think I was guilty of starting the argument with my colleague, but I nevertheless have a responsibility to contribute to its resolution. But t
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by tombh 7y ago
I'm British. Thanks to my passport and digital nomading I have spent the last 4 years travelling the world. In that time I have gone from thinking of Britain being a relatively normal country (did some bad things in history, but made s
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by tombh 7y ago
I can appreciate your point, but I think it'd be good to say why. I'm European, so for example I found the GFW to be a refreshing and ultimately beneficial contribution to the world, simply because it maintains diversity - a globa
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by tombh 7y ago
The very existence of America is a human rights violation, vis-a-vis the original inhabitants and African slavery. Not to mention the multitude of similar abuses those same Europeans caused over the rest of the world. China's violation
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by tombh 7y ago
Of particular recent relevance are the opium trade and the opium wars, which led to the creation of Hong Kong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
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by tombh 7y ago
I find it odd that in all the articles and discussions I've seen about this, the Opium Wars are never talked about. Of course violence is never justification for more violence, but seeing as Hong Kong's very existence is based on
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by tombh 7y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
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by tombh 7y ago
Interesting. And https://html.brow.sh/maps.google.com generates a timeout. The only thing I can think of is the filtering I had to setup after Browsh got blacklisted for rendering https://html.brow.sh/https:
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by tombh 7y ago
For sure. In fact there are already 4 people with commit permissions to the repo.
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by tombh 7y ago
Browsh author here. I feel so guilty about not having merged that branch :( It's been there 8 months or so. It's by far the most requested feature. I'm just so overwhelmed with other things to do. I'd love Browsh to be m
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by tombh 7y ago
Shameless plug for: `ssh brow.sh -t https://maps.google.com`
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by tombh 7y ago
But I think for that to work we'd need to know the size of _their_ pool of word, not the size of all known words (which is debated anyway)
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by tombh 7y ago
I didn't see how to estimate the size of your vocabulary, I just saw a percentage. Did I miss something? Like I want to know something like, based on your answers were estimate you know 8311 words. Edit: oops replied to wrong parent
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by tombh 7y ago
Well put. It's true a lot of the negative stuff here isn't technically incorrect, but the hyperbole certainly has a distorting effect on the conversation. Clearly, discovering negative aspects about China serves some kind of conve
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by tombh 7y ago
Nice, thanks!
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by tombh 7y ago
What are your tweaks? 2Gb seems to totally reasonable for my habits, but I can't keep to it, there are just always leaks. Eg; Slack or Gmail just need reloading every few hours to reclaim RAM.
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by tombh 7y ago
Yes, though you need to pass Docker's `--privileged` and `--cap-add=all` args to enable the loading of the kernel module.
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by tombh 7y ago
This is true. Though to be fair a brief Google does reveal some turnkey full disk encryption instructions noted by others. Just would be nice to have them on the wiki. Of course there's nothing stopping us adding those ourselves.
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by tombh 7y ago
I see, so the hardware detection is from the modern machine detecting the serial port. That truly is the definition of a terminal then. Still, pretty cool!
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by tombh 7y ago
Wait, am I reading that right? Debian 6 runs on the Atari ST with automatic hardware detection? Can it `ssh brow.sh`?
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by tombh 8y ago
I did! See brow.sh It uses Firefox as a backend so can in fact run Wasm. However it doesn't use OCR, it uses the DOM to get precise coordinates for text nodes, this recreating a pure text representation of the page, using nothing but s
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by tombh 8y ago
Without wanting to unnecessarily stoke the hyperbole, I'm struck that the Facebook/Google beast is a level more powerful because the effects of its "scoring" are implicit and emergent, rather than China's being expl
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A Year in China(tombh.co.uk)
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