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by zrm 5y ago
A major practical advantage is that Tor exit nodes regularly have their IP addresses marked as abusive and then you have to do a million captchas to sign in, and the onion service doesn't do that.
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YouTube deleted Ukraine On Fire film. Director asks everyone to distribute it.(twitter.com)
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Shortwave is neat and everything, but isn't this also the bailiwick of Tor and pluggable transports and the whole internet anti-censorship ecosystem?
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If they have lower costs, some companies will exist that otherwise couldn't. Then you get options that wouldn't exist and more competition drives down prices.
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Don't you still need the same amount of space at the warehouse? Tesla Powerwall 2 appears to be <5 cubic feet. That doesn't seem like a lot.
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Aren't some significant fraction of grid fees the grid itself? The land, paying linemen to repair storm damage, the administrative apparatus to negotiate with everyone and collect payments. You still need all of that if you put all the
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The interesting question is what happens if battery prices continue to decline so that $XY,000 becomes $X000 and thereby less than grid fees. Low generation can be solved with an inexpensive gas generator for use in emergencies the likes of
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by zrm 5y ago
> Consumer SSDs don't have much room to offer a different abstraction from emulating the semantics of hard drives and older technology. From what I understand the abstraction works a lot like virtual memory. The drive shows up as a
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> Perhaps depositing a VM with everything ready to run. The danger then is that the VM has so much undocumented complexity that if anything goes wrong, or goes "well" when it shouldn't, no one can explain why. Which also r
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> The counter point is that the rise of quality search engines has reduced the value of "well organized". I wonder how much of this is still true. Google results from a few years ago were much better than they are now. That&#x2
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Is it sarcasm because you can't point to anyone who isn't selling out? There is clearly more demand than there is supply. This is the weirdest position to stake out. That nobody wants this because everybody who makes one has a l
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by zrm 5y ago
People vent about getting asked to do free tech support because it's time consuming unpaid labor. The premise of asking for a recommendation is that the tech has already done the research (e.g. for themselves) and can provide a two wor
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by zrm 5y ago
> nowhere near "iPhone prices" for Pinephones iPhone SE is $399. PinePhone Pro is $399. Samsung is averaging ~$250. > ...for almost certainly tiny numbers of sales in both cases They're doing preorders and are regularly
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People still regularly ask me what kind of phone to get. I start by excluding the ones with literal malware and after that the primary determinant is price, because if it's going to be rapidly disposable anyway then there's no poi
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by zrm 5y ago
When is a hardware maker going to figure out that selling something that works like a PC in terms of third party system updates will immediately become the thing that techs buy and recommend? People are willingly paying iPhone prices for Pu
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by zrm 5y ago
Are you sure you want to permanently reduce the value of your CPU in exchange for no benefit of any kind?
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Customers often want to upgrade the processors in their servers. Someone bought some Dell servers with 32-core processors. They upgrade to 64-core processors and have the old 32-core processors. You'd like to buy them to upgrade your s
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by zrm 5y ago
> The motivation from Lenovo's customer perspective is theoretically the customer knows this was the processor intended for the machine by Lenovo and nobody swapped it out in between the Lenovo factory and the customer's hands.
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We can kind of see how this happened. There are multiple platforms and nobody wants to write a separate app for each one. So now you need a framework to make apps multi-platform. Microsoft has resources but no incentive to do this. They hav
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It would be nice if there was some way to know that, but the browser is developed by Mozilla Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation and not a public company so as far as I can tell it has no published budget. Meanwhile, th
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> None of the "alternative" browser companies today built upon Gecko or forked Firefox itself, because _it's really hard to maintain a browser engine_. What we really need isn't a fork. It's for someone to do the
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by zrm 5y ago
> It would be more privacy preserving to prevent that user from ever knowing the answer until I send them a message. Someone has to send the first message. To have end to end encryption, that someone needs to be able to retrieve the othe
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by zrm 5y ago
> That sounds even worse. It preserves the privacy of your contacts (no one learns that you have them as a contact) and people have a choice about whether to receive the notifications (it isn't spam). That's not worse. > Is
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by zrm 5y ago
It doesn't do that. There is a setting in Signal to alert you when one of your contacts joins Signal. Only other people who have Signal receive this notification and they can turn it off. They also don't receive the alert because
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by zrm 5y ago
> So don't post state secrets on SMS. I hardly think that encryption is a major issue, unless you actually have something to hide. "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is
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> The vast majority of people don't want to, and indeed, most nerds also don't want to, even if you know some counterexamples. The point is that things are best designed in such a way that people may run their own servers but
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There is a reason to not like the green bubbles. They imply that it's SMS, which is unencrypted . That is actually bad. Of course, people can avoid this by not using iMessage in favor of e.g. Signal, which runs on both Android and iOS
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> centralization is a feature, not a bug This is not what the original article says. Here's the first conclusion: > We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute
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> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will. This depends on what you mean by servers. Nobody wants to pay money for dedicated hardware and experience service interruption if they fail to constantly provide it with power
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> If you want to run apps like Microsoft Office, Wine is probably a far better bet. I'd be surprised if Darling runs complex Cocoa apps anytime soon. The advantage of Wine is that it's more mature. The disadvantage is that Wind

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