xethos

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by xethos 3y ago
I would have thought "Outsourced", personally. Because whether to America or Uzbekistan, outsourced support always leaves me feeling like the company just does. not. care.
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by xethos 3y ago
> There's no political will at any level (muni, provincial, federal) to build housing, remove zoning, to reduce immigration I see at least one level that sure gives the impression they want, and are subsequently demanding, more hous
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by xethos 3y ago
> Closing your eyes does nothing No, but throwing away the trash leaves a nicer common area for the people that hang out there. The Nazis will pop up in your replies, your followed hashtags, fuckin' everywhere. It's dramaticall
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by xethos 3y ago
> some form of limited distribution using encryption I can't claim to know what your exact vision is, but that seems to line up with AUTHORIZED_FETCH [0], an existing (off by default) setting on Mastodon servers. [0] https:/&#
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by xethos 3y ago
> More than ten per cent of the eligible men today won’t marry, but that will largely be due to the fact that they prefer to remain bachelors. I'm sure that's the full story on why they won't marry, 1940's era author
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by xethos 3y ago
> self-inflicted injuries. > the EU's top court struck down two previous agreements over fears of U.S. intelligence agencies' snooping. Yeah, if only America's government agencies could keep within the confines of the l
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by xethos 3y ago
That already exists for some people - not "which people were right" so much as "which of this persons predictions have come to pass" though. My preferred example: https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWas
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by xethos 3y ago
Your example is literally reviewed in the article: "If you were to say to me, 'Let's go out for dinner tonight, and I'll meet you at this restaurant at this time,' and I send you a thumbs[-up] emoji, what does that
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by xethos 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorvault is for Google, with the 3 linked sources being very fun reads.
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by xethos 3y ago
I'm not asking others to give up smartphones, just like I'm not asking others to give up stairs or cars. I only want the world to remain accessible to those without. Keep paper menus, build a ramp, and maintain cycling or public t
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by xethos 3y ago
Y'all forgot adblock via at-home (or at least self-hosted) PiHole, for when you want to block ads on LTE.
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by xethos 3y ago
Then give me (hell, you pick a person) complete access to your communications. Give up all privacy, even just for this given person. Will you still be free? Or somewhere along the line, does information turn into power?
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by xethos 3y ago
> but mean a linux system to which they have root access Ah, like my Pixel 2. Respectfully, you might be on the wrong forum (and possibly the worst one outside XDA) to say "Most people here do not, and never did, have root access on
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by xethos 3y ago
I agree, but the article is about Intel vs AMD, not AMD vs nVidia marketshare among Linux gamers.
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by xethos 3y ago
Makes sense - article mentions Windows is the opposite (with Intel's share increasing, and AMD's sitting at ~32%), and Windows users are much less likely to care about open source drivers and contributions.
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by xethos 3y ago
Most people say linux, but mean GNU+Linux. Clearly, being a world-renowned software dev, and being in-your-face pedantic for literal decades isn't enough to get the point across for some people. Add whichever tooling you want (I&
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by xethos 3y ago
Yeah, the gender that values education in a mate has never before, on average, attained higher levels of education. But women value education in men, and men have fallen behind.
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by xethos 3y ago
> Store security still has the leeway to decide what action to take > But while the technology had correctly identified the woman, it did not leave much room for human discretion. Neither Facewatch nor the store where the incident occ
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by xethos 3y ago
Or worse - it could be popular.
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by xethos 3y ago
But people think it's creepy when they realize how much metadata they're feeding to the multinational conglomorates (to then be bought or commandeered by their government agencies).
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by xethos 3y ago
That's actually a seperate lawsuit, unrelated to the class action in the headline.
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by xethos 3y ago
> but this was entirely hidden in sub-menus without me even realising For context in case it was missed in TFA: While Samsung has a settings page for the feature, some users report the page doesn't actually have an "off" s
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by xethos 3y ago
From TFA: > The funny thing is, Android 12 — and this easy emergency call feature — came out a year and a half ago. [...] the feature is only now hitting enough people to become a national problem. Google's Pixel devices get new And
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by xethos 3y ago
Matrix is this (IMO), but self-hosted. And I doubt the ability of a non-profit to eat (or have subsidized) hosting as they approach Discord's size
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by xethos 3y ago
I can't speak for America, but > but then you take them off anyways, out of politeness ...as is the Canadian way
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by xethos 3y ago
> the US has not expanded the school day or year significantly. No, but while some students can benefit from the internet in general for school, I'm convinced keeping a socially-expected Skinner box on one's person every waking
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The Matrix.org Foundation Membership Program(matrix.org)
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by xethos 3y ago
Frankly, it just makes me appreciate the HHGTTG reference more.
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by xethos 3y ago
Prepare for pushback in the form of "Who the hell will be using our site from Vietnam?" Personally, I think a correct response is "Hey man, you wanted to sell things on the World Wide Web. If you want to exclude Vietnam, Ma
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by xethos 3y ago
What makes this worse is, AFAIK, HDDs follow the bathtub curve for failure rates. Did it fail in the first 6-8 months? No? Then it's likely good for most of a decade, at least (barring nothing egregious like physical abuse). Western Di

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