ColdStream

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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Looking back over any code older than 12 months is always like archaeology, at least if it is my poorly documented tech-debt ridden nonsense.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Yep, here in Australia you almost never hear anyone mention it. The silence is deafening, especially with how quickly people just rolled over on this stuff "For the children". That said it was funny, yesterday Microsoft said I ha
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Most tasty actions in this world always hide behind a claim to virtue.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
If D&D didn't lead you to Satan, you were playing it wrong. ;)
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
While what you say seem intuitive, it is missing one point. Those locations probably are not recording exactly who is coming and going and what they are saying/doing. That is where this become more than just gate keeping and becomes fu
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Pretty much. As soon as kids start going to school, there is a large amount of time where they are out of the supervision of the parents. This is when they end up being dragged to the general flow of society for better and worse.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
This is something where I agree and disagree with both sides. Parents should have the tools to protect their children, the providers should have those tools in place. But those that are dealing the goods as also heavily invested in trying t
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Another great one, at least the earlier stuff was 'Do the Math' by Tom Murphy. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/ Was all about just doing the math on energy transitions. He wasn't anti renewable technology but did
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I completely agree. The end results is they are two sides of the same coin but with very different mechanics. Neither should be accepted.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Pretty much. It is a narrow path between, pushing back and ensuring safety. It can be done but you have to be careful.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I will update an old Yakov Smirnoff joke. You see, China and the US aren't that different you know. In the US, I can go up to Donald Trump and say "I don't like Donald Trump. The policies of the republican government are rubb
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
No problem at all, thanks for asking! Two from this year both from the UK. I really wish I had kept all the others from the US, Europe, Aus/NZ etc. It is a very common theme but they are largely kept quiet and only typically (partially
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Not that it makes it any better, those people were treated as just externalities to doing business. Government violence is a lot more targeted. Yes, it has the same result but the intention is very different. One is just careless, the other
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Nowadays that seems to be almost by design. This is something I have noted with Trump, he seems to be one of the last names that made it really big in pre-social media era and had a somewhat unified presence in peoples minds. Making it to t
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I suspect the crisis isn't a short term economic shock but a long term decline from resource decline, possible water/food shortages amplified by climate blow back. Something that will not end in your lifetime or the next generatio
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I will go back to DOS before I hand over this information. I already have my setup for it when this comes down the line. Can also just lie about your age, "I am as old as the fjords, as young as a newborn lamb" - Thor - GTA Vice C
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It is a great example of how difficult it is to anticipate the N-th order effects of things. 79 years ago the transistor was invented, in less than a century it ended up being the back back of a global surveillance system. Not many people c
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
My issue with the whole move out of country X is that, where would you move to? It seems like everyone is moving in lock-step globally.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It is imbalance of power at play. They can keep floating this stuff and we have to put in a thousand times as much energy to shoot it down. We get worn down quicker than they can. It only has to work once for them, we have to keep pushing b
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Someone I used to associate with was always really switched on with these things. Many things he said in the past that sounded a bit extreme or conspiratorial, turned out to be the real deal years later. Always interesting in retrospect. Th
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
This is the flow back from the idea of 'information wants to be free'. In letting things flow to easily the opposition is to have heavy lock down on information. A lot of the time, the opposite of one bad idea is another bad idea.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Comes down to something I have said for a long while. Anyone that wants power, who is saying it, why are they saying it and why do people believe them. That one can get deep really quick.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I suspect that the blow back from climate change and resource depletion IS why they are much more interested in added surveillance. When things start to get rough, they want to ensure compliance where possible. This is why they tend to come
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I was going to say, even the readme file only mentions N64 and DC.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Yeah fair call. I think it is just the vision looking back on what it used to be like.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
And one wonders why there is a large amount of rhetoric toward anti-government is being thrown around nowadays. Cannot have the money train being controlled.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
This is something Richard Stallman has pointed out many times before. You need to tell people about these things, most of them simply do not know the extent of the issues but once they do know it, most are at least sympathetic to the cause.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
In a parallel universe Microsoft would have never killed Windows phone and they would have been forced to keep these apps a little more memory/performance friendly.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Yeah it is actually really sad when a company the size of MS still bows down to the great god Advertising! Avert ye eyes for there are no morals in these bad lands of Redmond!
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Here is an example of one built using Real Basic on Mac Os system 7+. Probably uses less than 1MB. https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/snazzy-weather-a-snazzie...

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