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by xyst 1y ago
My code is self documenting.
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by xyst 1y ago
When will governments and people learn prohibition doesn't work?
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by xyst 1y ago
Migrating all personal devices and infrastructure (homelab, digital ocean droplets, hetzner) to nix and nixOS.
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by xyst 1y ago
Not all washing machine appliances are same, unfortunately
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by xyst 1y ago
I am contemplating hacking my washing machine "smart" module into its original silicon dust and replacing with a dumb interface. Anybody interested in this write up? Might even include a "Office Space"-esque montage of t
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by xyst 1y ago
Ah yes the days of "aero ui". Sad to hear Apple designers are taking cues from _old_ windows designs now.
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by xyst 1y ago
I have a gallery of cease and desist orders. I would love to add MSFT to the list.
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by xyst 1y ago
The bitchx irc client is probably my first exposure to ascii art. Sad to see it’s not in here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitchX
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by xyst 1y ago
It gives them a reason to continue being a parasite on this planet rather than attempt to gather a collective and formulate plans to protect future generations on this planet.
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by xyst 1y ago
Blaming tariffs when it was the greed of Wall Street, private equity, hedge funds, "corporate raiders" that ultimately shipped manufacturing overseas. All of this under decades of psuedo-economic theory called neoclassical economi
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by xyst 1y ago
Can’t recall the last time I used `curl … | bash` to install anything on personal or remote devices. Switched to nix + home-manager as a package manager to replace defacto package managers on some operating systems (ie, darwin uses macports
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by xyst 1y ago
Car based transportation is just not scalable. Other countries have figured this out. Norway in particular. Working transportation models exist and this country has the funds to make it happen. However because of American Exceptionalism, we
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by xyst 1y ago
Ban _all_ cars, bud. Make streets narrower. Reduce parking. Return road infrastructure in favor of walkability, green areas, and reducing urban heat islands.
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by xyst 1y ago
Very careless to give an 8 y/o a smart phone. Why is it so hard to raise your child? Guess it’s easier to sedate/distract them?
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by xyst 1y ago
Very very tired of subscription hell.
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by xyst 1y ago
If I am ever on the board of a company, I will always vote no confidence in the dipshit CTO or founder that willingly install/mandate use of Microsoft junk in the company. As a corporate drone that has accidentally opened various Micro
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by xyst 1y ago
All billionaires are permanent stains on US history. Musk is just the poster child for this behavior.
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by xyst 1y ago
I have the misfortune of living in this city and godforsaken state where they let any company with enough money use it as a testing ground. Cruise was/is fucking awful. But these tesla taxis somehow 10x worse than Cruise. Going to end
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by xyst 1y ago
It’s a shame he doesn’t self host an internal mail server at least with restricted outbound/smtp. Something like this is very easy to setup with projects such as stalwart which also offers CardDAV and CardDAV (think easy synchronizatio
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by xyst 1y ago
"You’re using it wrong" arguments/hype articles showing up. Speculators love it. But in reality if you need to extol the benefits of AI, then is it really the user or the technology? Honestly reminds me of the digital currenc
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by xyst 1y ago
But who will think of the shareholders?! \s I’m surprised anybody works at bcom these days.
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by xyst 1y ago
yup, the traditional banking system as a whole really
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by xyst 1y ago
Steam gift cards are funded by traditional banking products and partnerships. They can’t live without the invisible hand of the banking and credit card industry.
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by xyst 1y ago
If you consider the minutiae of percentage apple shaves off transactions with Apple Pay. Sure. But they have partnered with GS and MC. Far from any sort of "finance industry roots". They essentially offer a fancy UI on top of GS p
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by xyst 1y ago
Nope. Even a company such as valve would be intimidated by the regulation of setting up their own company payment network outside the traditional banking system. Maybe crypto is an option but I haven’t seen use in retail. Only speculation i
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by xyst 1y ago
credit card companies (Mc?) did the same with mindgeek. No due process. Just revoked their access to CC networks. mindgeek then wiped all _unconfirmed_ content regardless of whether it was revenge porn or not.
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by xyst 1y ago
yup, trying to unionize with H1B workers nearly impossible as well as a majority of them feel this will threaten their sponsorship/visa. The wage suppression is real.
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by xyst 1y ago
Reading into the history of Secure Boot. Discovered Intel and AMD processors have back doors via Intel Management Engine [1] and AMD Platform Security Processor [2]. Both are closed source and have had a number of vulnerabilities over the y
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by xyst 1y ago
This is why many of the companies are trying to get sold to big tech. "Windsurf" is an example here. They want to exit, get paid, pay off investors, and let big tech hold the bag. Another example is "Devin" or whatever t
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by xyst 1y ago
> a small cost seems to be the actual labor and materials Say less. HN used to be a message board to gain better knowledge around certain topics, but seems it more or less has the same armchair dilettantes that plague other platforms.

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