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by zanny 6y ago
Note that the sandboxing security theater of flatpak and snap etc is largely just that. You can have very secure deb packages by having default-deny apparmor rules. This is basically how Android works, it just asks you to grant the permissi
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by zanny 6y ago
At the same time it isn't Mozilla Corporations obligation to pay people to write a free and open source wiki that doesn't make them any money back. Even if they were a legitimate software charity the money for those developers has
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by zanny 6y ago
Firefox was big because the alternative was dysfunctional. Mozilla cannot really competitively compete with Chrome on features, not for long. Anything new they put out that can pull in a meaningful usershare increase will be replicated by G
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by zanny 6y ago
I've been in the market for a phone all year but pretty much everything is a compromise. Its hard when you want expandable storage, something with a feasibly replaceable battery two years out, a good screen, a good camera, and the ab
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by zanny 6y ago
The Pixel line sees almost ubiquitous Lineageos support.
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by zanny 6y ago
Twitter is ruled by the will of the company and by extensions its shareholders and by extension of that the interests of capital. The Fediverse broadly isn't really ruled, its about who you participate with. It is to the benefit of
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by zanny 6y ago
The joinmastodon.org site curates the instances it recommends to only show ones that don't permit racism, sexism and transphobia. OP seemingly wants those on their instance so they won't find it there, and they also won't fin
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by zanny 6y ago
Offsite offline backups. Redundant ones. This scenario is really no different than if your datacenter had a gas leak and blew up, particularly because you never will ever be able to prove the attacker didn't retain your data somewhere
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by zanny 6y ago
It does happen in Unity and Unreal too when you strictly work in the visual editor without writing much code. It also happens in Qt and similar WYSIWYG visual editors where they often cannot render full dynamic content in the editors. But i
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by zanny 6y ago
Just from the list in my post: > elections being on a non-holiday Tuesday Simple majority legislation > absentee ballots being limited / restricted and operating state-by-state Really easy to correct with conditional budget fundi
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by zanny 6y ago
This is presuming you have democracy now, when studies that show that congressional policy has no correlation to the interests of the people at large but a meaningful correlation to lobbyist money. In a republic, representatives are meant t
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by zanny 6y ago
Note that just because Republicans are wrong (and boy are they) does not make Democrats right. Democratic administrations, even with majorities to pass legislation, have done nothing to correct much of the anti-democratic processes in the U
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by zanny 6y ago
My problem with this is the assertion that failure == not making a profit. For the OP, yes, if your goal is to make money off your code then writing free software is pretty prone to failure on that front. Free software is philanthropy. Even
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by zanny 6y ago
And Godot. You know, the 15 year old totally free engine of 30,000 commits 2.5 million LOCs that also does pretty much everything.
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by zanny 6y ago
Is there a legitimate law on the books that Fedex et al cannot legally deliver letters, or is it just that subsidized postage stamps are so cheap no private company can profit off paper mail delivery? Because letters are paper but so are
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by zanny 6y ago
Importantly its because kids don't want to be a part of the "old" culture. They actively reject entering places with an older established demographic because they want to define their own spaces. Tiktok by its nature cannot
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by zanny 6y ago
Replacing minium wage with UBI is definitely a net good. Don't buy the "companies will start treating you humanely if only they could pay you less". Corporations, particularly publicly traded ones, are in competition for prof
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by zanny 6y ago
I can't imagine the population of any country would be too happy when google.com returns a "Service discontinued due to law blah blah blah" when they want to look up how to beat eggs.
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by zanny 6y ago
This is what happens when you make a string of 10-30 characters someones property.
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by zanny 6y ago
UBI isn't "expensive". Its not a sunk cost. Its wealth redistribution, not destruction. It makes your states books look massive to implement - "wow, the government is taking for trillions to cover its expenses, thats so
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by zanny 6y ago
Except if its just a price shock than the increased profitability of apples will attract investment in apple farming to produce more apples because of unmet demand and fair market conditions. The price would go up, the profitability margin
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by zanny 6y ago
A nice side effect of UBI is that this scenario you describe, plus the hundreds of other undesirable jobs that people are forced to do now to have shelter that thus subsidize their real costs would be hugely pressured to automate them. In a
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by zanny 6y ago
Most proposals don't give UBI to dependents. You get UBI when you are no longer the obligation of someone else because then you are truly on your own. It is important not to inadvertently incentivize those without the financial means t
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by zanny 6y ago
If producers are able to totally game a commodity market and control prices so completely than you have bigger problems than just poverty. And yea, we do. If we had UBI tomorrow and people wanted more apples because they could afford more f
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by zanny 6y ago
Fixing housing policy is not exclusive with UBI. And in most states there are minimum square footage requirements that, when too high for the incomes of the population to sustain them in housing, are going to be ignored by said population.
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If your tax burden is overwhelming to your finances you are going to get more out of UBI than you get taxed into it lest its failed in its primary goal of wealth redistribution.
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Your fellow citizens are not employing you or else the desolate ghettos would be overflowing with capital growth. Traditionally it takes a capitalist to start a business that can feed and house a population and that capitalist is in it to e
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by zanny 6y ago
When those people move from high rent areas to the presently dilapidated small towns that UBI would revive the renters in the cities won't be able to price gouge their units like they are used to. Right now housing is totally out of wa
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by zanny 6y ago
Because the logistics of government bodies trying to guarantee essentials while somehow getting them as efficiently as markets in optimal conditions can is anything but simple. The IRS sent me a $1200 months ago via direct deposit in the ba
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by zanny 6y ago
Depends on the phone. Most 2015-2019 Qualcomm phones use niceness to determine CPU allocation, whereas Android 10 has more complete cgroup support where different groups are assigned to different cores and the APIs categorize tasks / t

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