young_unixer

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by young_unixer 5y ago
All existing DEs suck, partly because programmers don't know how to design UI/UX, partly because the one project with actual graphics designers (GNOME) wants to do something completely different than what most end users want. I&#x
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Who said speculation is making everyone money? Some people are going to lose money, specially those who buy at the top. And the fact that millions of people are willing to pay 60000 USD for one of these coins proves that they aren't re
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by young_unixer 5y ago
If a company is doing tons of R&D, and everything suggests that that R&D will give huge dividends in the future, then it seems perfectly normal for such a company to have a high market-cap/revenue ratio. If having too big of a
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by young_unixer 5y ago
It's more like: the website is blocked, but you can go to about:config, set some obscure boolean flag, and then you can access the website.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
I don't know, I see plenty of users unironically defending ideologies like communism in Mastodon. They seem to tolerate some specific kinds of intolerance.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> Millennials are the first to be born with unleaded gas. Nope. Many developing countries still had it by 2001, and only started banning after international campaign from the UN [1]. [1] https://news.un.org/en/story&
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by young_unixer 5y ago
It was a joke referencing another comment in this thread, but it got flagged, so it was probably coinsidered bad taste.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
And at rank 0: Monero.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Robbing a bank is immoral, selling information about how a piece of software works, in my humble opinion, is not. Or if it is, then it's not even close to the level of "wrong" that is robbing a bank.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
If I was them I would've just sold the company to Microsoft a long time ago. I suspect that everyone, including users, would be better off that way.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
You wouldn't go to a PETA meeting and complain that there's no meat. In that same vein, if you join Coinbase, you should know what you're getting into, maybe it's political, but it's a kind of political that you kne
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by young_unixer 5y ago
If you define things by their "worst" use, then knives are weapons and Bitcoin is ponzi. If you define them by their "best" use, then knives are tools and Bitcoin is a currency.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
And knives are weapons.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Another way to protect your money from being stolen, yes. Having money is not violent, so I don't know why you bring up executions. The violent ones here are the governments.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
For reference: 30 mph ≈ 48.2 km/h
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Why do all open source desktop environments have to be so ugly?
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Please, do the stroop test and tell me you don't get confused by the incongruence.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
As a user, I'll always prefer a permissively licensed piece of software over a GPL one, ceteris paribus. I hate the whole idea of intellectual property, so the less time I (and everyone, really) have to spend caring about it, the bette
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> At best, you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations. At worst, it's a government agency honeypot or someone like Facebook. My ISP is required by law to be an informant
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by young_unixer 5y ago
If private companies spying on you is "surveillance capitalism", then the NSA spying on you is surveillance socialism?
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by young_unixer 5y ago
This just highlights how deeply flawed the utilitarian moral perspective is. Any form of totalitarianism can be eventually justified with "it's for the public good"
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by young_unixer 5y ago
With Monero you can still let the government see your transactions, by sharing a view key with them. And you also have the possibility to avoid taxes if you want. So, it's a superior system because it allows both use cases ;)
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by young_unixer 5y ago
This article summarizes the issues: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/monero-and-other-privacy-coin...
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> What nastiness are we subjecting ourselves to today? We should be ashamed at the number of people that die everyday in car "accidents". Specially pedestrians and cyclists. If you looked at our reaction to Covid, you'd th
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by young_unixer 5y ago
What should I read if I want to learn what a number is?
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by young_unixer 5y ago
But in the case of OP's problem, starting to sum from the first item is an arbitrary choice that "just happens" to need only one change for the sum to be exact. Where "just happens" means that it was artificially in
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by young_unixer 5y ago
The main thing I dislike about it assumption that all software should go through the distribution's package manager, instead of application developers distributing their software directly to users. This assumption has the important con
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by young_unixer 5y ago
The real culprits here are these public sector agencies. They shouldn't use inaccessible mediums like Twitter as their primary channel of information.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> circumventing sovereign governments and regulations was always a fool's errand in my opinion. For big companies that have to respect laws anyway, yes, but it still brings lots of opportunities for regular people and small organiza
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Not if you use Monero. https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/what-is-monero/

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