upboundspiral

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by upboundspiral 7mo ago
The purpose of grades is to punish students, something which they are keenly aware of. Remove grades from the equation and hold students back until they have mastered the material and they will cease cheating. If someone knows 80% of the to
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by upboundspiral 7mo ago
National defense is important, just ask Europe post Ukraine war. People taking a good idea and extending it to do bad does harm twice: in the bad act itself and in making a good thing seem bad. I am strongly against US starting wars and as
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by upboundspiral 7mo ago
I am bullish on AI being used in all sorts of useful and discreet and non-discreet ways in the present and future. However I am exceedingly skeptical of NPUs being some winning bet. No one is running LLMs on current gen NPUs so if we will i
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by upboundspiral 7mo ago
Heads + TPM is solid but I suspect it is not at the level of Google/Apple secure enclave. And a strong secure enclave provides benefits outside of first boot to secure certain processor state and continuosly ensure integrity. For deskt
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
The problem with laptops is that UEFI is a shadow operating system that keeps running after boot, with a bunch of security vulnerabilities. Furthermore all Intel / AMD chips have a microprocessor state called SMF which if you trigger i
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
What about XFinity, which by default shares the wifi you pay for with strangers to create access points around the city?
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
There is actually, though I suspect it's a different one I found. https://github.com/jopdorp/build123d-freecad (it also supports cadquery) Set it up today and I am really liking build123d in general. I've alw
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
While our agricultural sector does use cheap labor, I specifically take issue with the word "needed". I may be nitpicking, but read a certain way it implies the "cheap" aspect of the labor is the essential part. Certain
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
I agree that it would take something catastrophic for people to move off of the service they currently use. I disagree however on the premise that the move will be from one proprietary service to another. Us tech savvy people can and should
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
If anyone wants the surreal experience of seeing blogs and websites made by real humans they should check out https://marginalia-search.com It's far from perfect but it does achieve its stated goal: of resurfacing real peop
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
The idea is that the government is biased towards hiding certain information and private companies are biased towards hiding a different set. While unlikely, the ideal would be for the government to provide a foundational open search infras
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
I feel like a government funded search engine would resolve a lot of the issues with the monetized web. The purpose of a search engine is to display links to web pages, not the entire content. As such, it can be argued it falls under fair u
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
I'm sure that are no adverse effects. This reads like someone with the means to eat good food eating junk food and then putting themselves on weight loss drugs to counteract the effects. I'm sure temporarily it might work but I do
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
Edit: it seems one of the cannonballs comes from the siege of Rome during the unifaction of Italy. Echoing another comment, before unification, Italy (1860s) had its "warring states period". The North were independent small monarc
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
The problem with CAD is that mechanical engineering is still deeply proprietary, especially up and including the software stacks. There is basically no "open source" in mechanical engineering. So you are relegated to super heavy l
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
I'm always a bit surprised that people that work in tech can be so passive in regards to their civic duty. Instead of going to lawmakers and legislators and trying to stop their employers from destroying society they just quietly watch
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
When the choice is between organic food (expensive) and eating pesticides that are meant to kill and neuter living organisms (somewhat economical) it's a choice we never should have allowed to even exist in the first place.
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by upboundspiral 8mo ago
I stopped using it more for technical reasons but when I was using it I installed it as a flatpak and removed network access.
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
One of my favorites is Amphora of Great Intelligence by the artist David Revoy. https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1090/the-amphora-of-great-... https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1092/the-amphora-of
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
What I've come to realize is that the rust belt states have been in huge trouble for decades. They were living in "benevolent feudalism" when GM, Ford, etc all had factories there. The problem is that these companies effectiv
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
I can echo problems with Mint. Currently using https://getaurora.dev which is basically fedora + kde but curated by people that actually care. So codecs are preinstalled, and other sensible defaults out of the box which makes se
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
Commodity markets are necessary for survival. If we cannot make them work as a society something is deeply wrong. Someone needs to be farming the food we all eat... If every farmer decided to just plant saffron who would farm the wheat and
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
I used to buy this thinking, but no longer. People are incredibly resourceful, and instead of innovating towards exploiting and manipulating people, we could choose to innovate towards conserveration of important things, just like we have d
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
fedora / fedora immutable (the aurora project under the universalblue umbrella has a really nice batteries included setup). Fingerprint reader, backlight, etc, everything works (at least for my thinkpads). I think any recent model eve
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
The Linux foundation is not a nonprofit. It is registered as a 501c6, basically a business consortium, unlike the Python software foundation which is a nonprofit (501c3). The Linux foundation also stewards way more foundations and projects
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
I have the widget for global menu right now in KDE Wayland. Its supported by all QT apps, and there's a wayland protocol pull request for it (unfortunaly stalled, as is tradition). Overall I like it a lot - enough of the apps I use sup
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by upboundspiral 9mo ago
Sounds like you want dns that blocks advertsing endpoints. Something like pihole or some other service.
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by upboundspiral 10mo ago
Being able to block network access gives me peace of mind regardless if the app is proprietary or open source. Humans are fallible and life can get in the way (maybe the app has old dependecies with vulnerabilities, or any other random thin
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by upboundspiral 10mo ago
I am far from an expert on this topic, but I think you are right in pointing out that Spectre/Meltdown have greater impact on microkernel designs. I do think there is very interesting research in this topic however, on how systems coul
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by upboundspiral 10mo ago
I would like to qualify that seL4 (and the entire family of L4 kernels) were created exactly to disprove the idea that microkernels were slow. They are extremely perfomant. The idea that microkernels are slow came from analyzing a popular m

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