KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Moose This used MrMacHook, IIRC.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Specifically, most of the billionaires. They’re all deranged lunatics now, between COVID, social media, and being told they couldn’t say the n-word with impunity for two weeks back in 2020.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Just ‘cause I’m totally ignorant about this stuff: why is that?
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Proof of concept: the best blog commenting system I’ve seen uses ActivityPub (to integrate with Mastodon). It’s utterly easy to use, and pretty seamless. I don’t know what it’s called or if there’s more than one implementation, but you can
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
it's not complimentary about them, FWIW
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Maybe you want to rethink that? You're literally responding to a testimonial that it likely saved someone's life. Seconds do matter in some medical emergencies. Also, you may not be aware of Car Crash Detection https://
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
It doesn't really claim that though, does it? I thought it was clear it was a follow on from PA-RISC, though I may be filtering it through my own brain.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
> it’s just human nature It's not, though. The universal avarice of the current era may not be unprecedented in history, but it wasn't the norm through most of the 20th century. There was a time when layoffs were considered pai
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Because it costs money to open source something as large as an OS, because you need to vet the source base to ensure that you own the rights to publish all of the source code under whichever license. To execs, it looks like throwing money i
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Musk would just hog it for himself
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
We don’t actually do that, at least not in the USA. America’s industrial policy — until Trump — has been (politicians from certain areas of the country excepted) a gradual phaseout of coal and other fossil fuels. It’s taking time because We
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
NeXTstep was also UTF-16 through OpenStep 4.0, IIRC. Apple was later able to fix this because the string abstraction in the standard library was complete enough no one actually needed to care about the internal representation, but the API
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I tried Bazzite and it was absurdly, perceivably slower than Garuda on the same hardware. Either the immutable distro thing has way too much unavoidable overhead, or their Nvidia image is not tuned for desktop use.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Grapple with what, though? Abstract Whitey loves Coltrane and Satchmo and hates every Black person born since? It's not a coherent theory to begin with. Also, if the current regime is in a position to fully eradicate all the blacks and
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I wonder if this is an introvert vs extrovert thing. Chatting with the AI seems like at least as much work as coding to me (introvert). The folks who don't may be extroverts?
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
It's not logical; this is why "deranged" has become a necessary prefix to "billionaire" in most cases.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
This is total, unadulterated nonsense. Violent crime is down since 1970. There's no "who is to know" on this one. Look it up!
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Ted Turner sold off CNN decades ago. I think it's now owned by whatever became of Time Warner, which is now in the hands of right-wing billionaires with ideologies similar to Bezos and Murdoch.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
The US government can, for example, discourage using Chinese chips using various policy levers without taking direct corporate ownership. That sort of thing is not that unusual.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
My one experience with this recently is that UPS will charge you anyway for the duty and if you don't pay they will threaten to turn you over to debt collectors even if they don't deliver the package. So I'm not sure why they
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Linux development is mostly funded by corporations working on the server side. The desktop is an afterthought, and it very much shows. They haven’t even managed to fully expunge X yet. NeXT showed people how to put a proper UI on top of Uni
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
That’s controlled entirely by software, and you can lower it or raise it if you so desire.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I’ll wager you have not listened to high-quality music or movies on a recent MacBook Pro. I’ve never heard a BT speaker of any size sound that good. (The HomePod Mini sounds quality really sucks by comparison, FWIW.)
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I think Intel is partially at fault. On Apple’s Intel hardware, suspend and resume worked, but it was very slow due to the weirdly baroque power management. The M1 MacBooks were a revelation; the screen woke instantly when you opened it.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
It wasn't possible for them to be well managed at the time it mattered. Sears was loaded with debt by private equity ghouls; same story for almost all defunct brick and mortar businesses; Amazon was a factor, but private equity is what
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
It does, though, because it means you don't have the freedom to pivot to other industries, or to fork for use in industry, which is a thing that can happen. It's definitely a reason to consider avoiding Unity.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Governments generally use special procedures for securing secret information, which makes this a non-issue for government use, assuming government employees follow the procedures, which apparently the Trump administration doesn’t.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
JFC, get off Twitter. It's a Nazi propaganda site and you are going to be affected by that even if you think you're somehow immune.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Other transit cards are available in Apple Wallet!

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