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by zanny 7y ago
It seems totally ridiculous to put pie in the sky faith and trust in one trillion dollar globalist publicly traded corporation over another.
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by zanny 7y ago
Its more abjectly a moral failing of society that institutions have not aligned to enable free software proliferation. Software, and information in general, have been a prisoners dilemma for time immemorial. The optimization of utility is t
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by zanny 7y ago
This is such a close minded view of the world that the only way to monetize software is to violate software freedoms to do so. The valuable good in exchange is the developers time, not the code itself - nation states have constructed a goli
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by zanny 7y ago
Just use Riot. I actively seek to contribute to projects nowadays that actively use Matrix as its communication platform. Rust was mentioned in another comment - Mozilla might move to a proprietary data-insecure privacy violating walled gar
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by zanny 7y ago
With ipfs anyone can operate an http relay to access the network from any arbitrary IP and/or distribute endpoint IPs to populate the daemons dht if run locally.
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by zanny 7y ago
Probably the greatest lie of the boomer generation was the presumption that quarter acre single family stick homes were ever going to be, in the long run, "inexpensive". The externalities have come back to bite society at large in
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by zanny 7y ago
In both the phone and PC space I do not understand the need to do this at all. There is commoditization of the market on the low end, but high end products that compete with iphones and macbooks are definitely not commodity and there is amp
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by zanny 7y ago
Epic isn't putting RL on their store because Fortnite is there, they are building the store to milk consumers, use anti-competitive consumer-hostile business practices, and try to put others out of business because they have effectivel
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by zanny 7y ago
I'd hope a metro area of 13 million people could drive transit construction in the 21st century in the general case, but cities all over the US continue to impress on their total failure to do so.
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by zanny 7y ago
The alternative was back in the day when clickjackers could install Actionscript malware without a prompt that rootkitted the whole computer. Sandboxing and prompts are a definite win.
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by zanny 7y ago
> busing homeless out of main areas Something is really wrong with the world when a city throwing around billions of dollars for a sports competition thinks just moving homeless people out of the way is an ethical answer to the problem.
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by zanny 7y ago
While I as much as anyone else would love to promote Mumble, the project is certainly languishing nowadays. Last stable release was two years ago and its not like they have nothing to improve on - the stable release is still Qt4 based and t
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by zanny 7y ago
Thats exactly the trap, though. You are renting and owning at the same time, which is the worst of both worlds - you are more stuck than any average renter because you have this depreciating house on top of land you don't own that is i
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by zanny 8y ago
Housing is a basic necessity, using it as an investment allocates scarce finite resources to you when you don't need it while consuming limited supply thus reducing the available stock for those that do. The business of buying and sell
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not that annoying because you can go into the Search settings page of system settings (or just search for "search" in any of the various launchers) and turn it off with a checkbox.
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by zanny 8y ago
When it came out it was a substantial UX regression from Gnome 2 and it took a few releases to even reach feature parity. The same thing has been seen with KDE 4 and 5, Gnome 3, and how long LXQT has taken. Users hate experience regressio
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by zanny 8y ago
Housing demand, despite what NIMBYs might think in the Bay Area, is not infinite at any price point. Eventually all the people that want to live in an area do live in that area and equilibrium is reached. For much of human history, that is
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by zanny 8y ago
People are going to treat housing as an investment so long as government institutions artificially constrain it to such a preposterous degree that you can exploit unmet demand in perpetuity. Even in China precincts with more recognized prop
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by zanny 8y ago
There is tremendous housing scarcity where housing is scarce and in demand, such as with transit access to major metro areas. The depreciating housing is in places people don't want to live. In general modern societies are centralizing
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by zanny 8y ago
Increasing density is optimal for everyone and the environment. The more spread out we are, the more inefficiencies there are in our infrastructure, in our environmental footprint, and in the inconvenience of getting places when they are fu
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by zanny 8y ago
I'd massively prefer to live on the 25th floor of block apartments with public transit access for $100 a month than to have no such option and be forced to toil a quarter of my adult life to have way more space than I want or need.
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by zanny 8y ago
This is what honestly terrifies me more than anything - being in a dire enough financial situation to need to do bullshit work and waste my short time on this Earth for food and shelter. In my experience meaningful jobs are in insanely hi
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by zanny 8y ago
> or you could help them. What you call help is not what I would call help - using a wealth of scientific literature to design information that when conveyed can optimally take advantage of statistically likely emotional or physiological
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by zanny 8y ago
The only solution is fiber optics. To the home everywhere its not cost prohibitive, and then via 5G everywhere it is (ie, anywhere there is insufficient development to congest wireless networks). To make that happen will require substantial
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by zanny 8y ago
Apparently some company called Pencor has gigabit symmetrical fiber where I live, but I can't find any reference they even provide ISP services, and the mentioned subsidiary only advertises DSL. Considering I live in a rural town of 3k
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by zanny 8y ago
In rural areas at least it is not going to cost 40k a mile to run coax. Those kinds of areas are almost always serviced by overhead utility lines that already exist, and just running a new line on those poles just requires township permit.
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by zanny 8y ago
Somehow my 6 year old second gen Nexus 7's battery still works reasonably well and I have no idea how. I've been through dozens of batteries on Galaxy phones in that time.
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by zanny 8y ago
More relevantly its also largely out of the power of citizens to make the transition. Especially in the US where you often have no choice in ISP, if they don't provide static IPv6 addresses theres nothing you can do.
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by zanny 8y ago
Which is why providers all added those click through links. They write articles for ad money, and RSS readers don't get the ads.
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by zanny 8y ago
Theres even a page on the KDE wiki about making Plasma look and act like Unity: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/How_to_create_a_Unity-like_l...

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