xethos

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by xethos 5mo ago
One thing I hope we've all discovered by now is that, if Stallman hasn't been proven right at the present moment, on any topic that touches on libre computing, is that it's only a matter of time until he is
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by xethos 5mo ago
That's because having to pay the large fine does not deter crime, and bumping the price does not have a major affect. Increasing the odds of getting caught is much more effective. [0] shows states this outright in the abstract [0] htt
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by xethos 5mo ago
"The United States switched to Metric to show smaller numbers at the pump", due to a surge in gas prices, caused by a war in the Middle East started for fabricated reasons, would be the most on-brand thing for America I can think
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by xethos 5mo ago
Between the US and Canada, Canada (with it's population the size of California) has three out of four of the highest-ridership light rail systems. Blaming sprawl or population count, while being outshone by Canada, means it's neit
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by xethos 5mo ago
I actually went to call you on this before double-checking just to be sure. No, you were right - 80 characters exactly . Couldn't even fit the apostrophe for "reporter's"
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by xethos 5mo ago
> EVs were sold in the US as muscle cars for rich people Yeah, the Nissan Leaf was a high-torque monster . Though to describe the BMW i3 as a muscle car is... not the descriptor I would use. EVs were not sold by every OEM as high-power
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by xethos 5mo ago
Fennec, for Android too. The unfortunate part is that it doesn't (by default, on F-Droid) use Firefox Beta - meaning custom extension packs can't be used This matters for things like Redirector (www.reddit -> old.reddit), Greas
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by xethos 5mo ago
You've actually got that backwards - being wealthy makes your time and effort worth more (to you) than the half-hour you'd spend price-comparing every item in the cart for each price difference (each between $0.03 and $2.00), whil
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by xethos 5mo ago
Except for how either Apple or the pinout forced it to be (excluding very rare situations) stuck at 480MB/s. USB-C can hit 20GB/s. Lightning also tops out at lower wattages. And by the time you revise the pinout, you effectively h
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by xethos 5mo ago
Everyone seems to be discussing physical, in-person shopping. Multiple stores near me do "Click'n'collect", where one picks out items online and just drives to the store to collect them (for example) on the way home from
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by xethos 5mo ago
As a bonus, you can run your account on your own server, play with it, and offer to host anyone else's that's interested as your gain confidence
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by xethos 5mo ago
An American court order, meeting American legal standards, does not necessarily produce results when delivered to a German or Swiss entity.
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by xethos 5mo ago
The app in question couldn't be bothered to do E2EE, and your solution is a public, immutable database?
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by xethos 5mo ago
Parent's workaround was literally to use software frequently found on Linux desktop (and typically absent on MacOS and Windows) Whatever's going on in Cupertino, it's hard to arguethe people working on the Linux ecossytem don
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by xethos 6mo ago
Sure - that's saved for Visa or Mastercard to track your purchase history across time
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by xethos 6mo ago
War can only legally be declared by Congress. America is currently at war with Iran. Is the current war legal? I would say no. That doesn't mean it's not happening, just that the law was ignored.
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by xethos 6mo ago
The irony of this username being dropped or forgotten about by a large institution
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by xethos 6mo ago
> More demand for a fixed set of land drives prices up. This works because both you and GP specified "[free-standing] house". This is not true of homes , where multiple homes can occupy the same land - just 15 feet higher or l
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by xethos 6mo ago
> sexist No, I thought Kenny was a schmuck too
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by xethos 6mo ago
> This isn't even what drives obsolesce of phones, it's software updates. Agreed, and software-locking parts, like batteries, to only first-party or authorized third-party repair shops is one of those drivers. I can see the arg
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by xethos 6mo ago
Clicking through and stumbling upon Croatia, which specifies only "Classified deployment", has left me absolutely cackeling. Seems hilarious that they're willing to say that they use it, but unwilling to state if it's fo
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by xethos 6mo ago
> I'd say the differences are purely aesthetic I would have a hard time arguing that after seeing Alex Pretti's public execution. I also think we can at least partially agree on who should be targeted (emphasis my own): > Ca
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by xethos 6mo ago
I'd say the difference with the deportations under Obama (aside from deporting more people while spending less money doing it) is that he followed the law when doing so
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by xethos 6mo ago
Apple takes a proactive stance towards apps that can even be used to access adult content. That's why Tumblr had a hard time. Saying the mere ability to access adult content is very likely to get one shut down, but crypto wallets a
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by xethos 6mo ago
Only if you made it past Apple's developer review, which is their most public argument for why software must be vetted by Apple first. So are they infallible (preventing the headline and refuting your argument), or is there a point in
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by xethos 6mo ago
> I don't understand why they can't hire better software engineers. Beyond the fact they're competing with the most valuable companies in the world for talent while being less than a decade past "Bet the company"
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by xethos 6mo ago
It was hard to imaigne the United States sticking their nose in the middle east again It was hard to imagine America kidnapping a head of state, the president of Venezuela It was very hard to imagine Amercia threatening annexation of Cana
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by xethos 6mo ago
If public perception was the only metric, and gaming it was an option, why would they have let the number get so high in the first place? They look bad, their boss looks bad, the paperwork for each individual crime begets a massive, impossi
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by xethos 6mo ago
Because grandparent (that I was replying to) stated "Mobile data is even worse". You're right that it doesn't compare to a 2.5G pipe, but that wasn't my point
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by xethos 6mo ago
Roughly 3,000 Americans died September eleventh. Similar numbers of Americans die every month from the automobile, with enough deaths annually for a bonus thirteenth month I've seen America declare a war on Terror, but I'm still

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