xethos

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by xethos 6mo ago
Bluntly, the alternative to recovery is failure to recover . America being the sole superpower in a mono-polar world until the end of time is hardly pre-ordained
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by xethos 6mo ago
Which almost might have been one of the arguments the Minister of Finance used to dissuade CDG
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by xethos 6mo ago
In 2015 Apple refused to push an update, specific to one user, to weaken the iPhone's encryption to help the FBI While it didn't (IIRC) make a meaningful difference to the FBI, it was still a positive stance taken by Apple (albiet
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by xethos 6mo ago
I'm running out my contract with TekSavvy (~$80 CAD for gigabit) before switching to Novus (~$60 CAD for 2.5), and my partner and I just switched to Fido (~$30 CAD for 80gig and international calls/SMS). Considering the geography
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by xethos 6mo ago
Google's already tried taking down Invidious. If they could use the DMCA for it, I believe they would. Notable, Invidious is still up, and there were fun articles from the response https://www.vice.com/en/article&#
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by xethos 6mo ago
> A member of the 'deep state'; however, is ideologically driven What you're describing is a federal employee. The kind that takes a massive pay cut, and loses out on paycheck stability (due to government shutdowns), becau
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by xethos 7mo ago
I'd also mention that black lasermarked white wire has marvelous contrast, even in the dim, covered in dust. Black lasermarked (or god help you, heatstamped) wire on damn near any other colour, like one finds in automotive, is distinct
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by xethos 7mo ago
Self-hosting UnifiedPush / ntfy drops FCM / Google Play Services as a requirement, extending the usable life of my phone pretty dramatically; the better battery life I get is just a bonus. Apps drop from RAM less-frequently. The s
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by xethos 7mo ago
Without taking a side, you've skipped every step past the field here. Transportation, butchering, packaging, and grocery store shelves, with profit margins, health / sanitation checks, and shrinkage at every step
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by xethos 7mo ago
> Apple's servers being down makes it impossible to test your code on your _own_ devices. Which makes it sound an awful lot like they aren't actually your devices
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by xethos 7mo ago
While I think you and I would agree if I argued it was more about culture than firearms per-capita, it's pretty hard to say children aren't suffering some pretty real harms from said firearms (to say nothing of adult suicide sta
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by xethos 7mo ago
> don't you have problems with apps that add events to calendar transparentny? Not to be dismissive, but no, not at all. I'm not even sure which apps I'd want that add something to my calendar. A massage therapy place&#x
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by xethos 7mo ago
Countering "most Motorola phones don't support video out" by going back a decade and a half to find a single example is not the argument-ending line you seem to think it is
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by xethos 7mo ago
And making it easier, better, faster, and more common isn't going to be a good thing. Reminding us that this already happens in smaller scale isn't really adding anything helpful considering the entire goal is to prevent it happen
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by xethos 7mo ago
> DAVx5 actually didn't work reliably afaict I've been self-hosting it for several years, with the entire thing (ntfy / UnifiedPush for calendar event updates, Radicale for CalDav & CardDav) working perfectly once back
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by xethos 7mo ago
Just a note about police overtime: The correct amount of overtime for a union employee is not zero. Paying overtime for a few weeks each year to cover vacation can absolutely be cheaper than funding a pension and other benefits for several
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by xethos 8mo ago
Agreed. This is not the first time Manjaro has made a boneheaded mistake, nor will it be the last. This is just the most recent.
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by xethos 8mo ago
I may be out of date, but last I looked there was a push to rotate the "default" through servers with open sign-ups and reasonable policies to prevent one server ruling them all
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by xethos 8mo ago
Are we sure it isn't the offensively-well-funded tech industry that's being referenced here?
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by xethos 8mo ago
If one goes looking, Zinwa-made Passport mainboards are starting to enter testing. Based on my experience with the Q20 / Classic revival, I'd recommend one for anyone that loved their Passport
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by xethos 8mo ago
My Zinwa (full-device, not kit) BlackBerry actually showed up, and has been my daily for several weeks. It's fan tast ic, and I adore it. I love the trackpad, and use it for scrolling and cursor-placement in text daily. The keyboard is
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by xethos 8mo ago
America finally caught up to Canada and ditched the penny. That's a victory everyone can feel good about. Hopefully the nickel is on it's way out too, and we can get bigger bills back in circulation to catch up with inflation
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by xethos 8mo ago
> "Boy, he's lucky this bus is full of Americans!" Perhaps only because they have a high likelyhood of speaking English and being able to help him? And sure, many Italians speak English, but if I needed help finding my wat
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by xethos 8mo ago
> my feed was filled images of children wearing bathing suits and in suggestive positions > I was taking screenshots for a while More than a little surprised this seemed like a good idea at the time, let alone that you did so for a wh
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by xethos 8mo ago
I'd amend that as "didn't have enough [IRL] friends *on FaceBook* in first place", but that starts off a conversation about platforms being only-technically not required socially, network effects, etc.
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by xethos 8mo ago
You might be using old clients that are recommended against, as (AIUI) Jitsi stopped being the default with Matrix 2.0 (released ~late 2024 [0]). Is it totally fair to blame users? Not entirely, as some features are still being pushed into
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by xethos 8mo ago
> Author analyzed the IRC and Matrix deficiencies as not being acceptable. Which I have all kinds of questions for; my Synapse install is the FOSS community release, and pmap -d shows <1.5G of RAM usage even without the paid-org-optim
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by xethos 8mo ago
Sure, but they wouldn't have been the market for XMPP's cross-compatibility before, either. You would have been, and you can have that now - your friends don't have to move to Matrix for you to get one chat app to rule them
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by xethos 8mo ago
We have that today though - it's called Matrix. While other platforms aren't literally built upon it like Hangouts was in the beforetimes, it allows inter-op with more platforms. Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, Facebook Messenger, Si
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by xethos 8mo ago
What part of Ring or Nest's cloud-connected camera network do you consider "closed circuit"?

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