Xenmen

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by Xenmen 12y ago
Yes, 'universal within the defined scope'. Everything within that service. Microsoft Windows doesn't have a backdoor to data on your android phone, but its backdoor is still universal within the scope of your your Windows ins
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by Xenmen 12y ago
I think the point is that in writing something like systemd it's more likely to be the norm than if you were, say, writing a Ruby server.
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Thank-you so much for sharing Life in Life! It's the perfect way to convey how complicated transistor-level emulation is to design...
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Preserving dying languages is not unlike basic archaeology, preserving our past so that future generations can understand it, in a way that isn't superficial. The way you put it, "the emotion of the people who feel it's impor
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by Xenmen 12y ago
I have a better idea; municipally subsidized automated agriculture, to be distributed to all citizens. This has the added benefit of removing fear of starvation from starting a business, or from doing charity work. Housing and other costs a
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by Xenmen 12y ago
"Rich Person Acts Like Bigotted Asshole: World Agape in Awe"
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Well, it's funny you mention that, because I think kids are right to question compulsory pedagogy: http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm
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by Xenmen 12y ago
I think your drive to learn is what's really valuable (disclaimer, I'm 23). Looks to me like a lot of people give up on learning anything at some point, and just rot away. The fact you're still learning something radically ne
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Automated food production at the municpal level, tax funded. You solve a whole lot of other problems at the same time. There's a lot of understandable barriers to implementing that, but it's the only reasonable path I see. Guarant
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Isn't this actually fraud? It's identical to giving an ad clicker script to your readers to artificially bump up your ad revenue.
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Certainly; if you can audit the source and reflash the device yourself :] But that's unthinkable until it's possible to build alternative devices locally as cheaply and easily as it is to buy one of these devices, without such com
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Assaulting a person is neither legal nor ethical
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by Xenmen 12y ago
She should be going to the police, not tweeting. As it is, depending on jurisdiction, she seems to be committing the crime of defamation. There's nothing she can accomplish here, except to erode the credibility of the journal, for...?
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by Xenmen 12y ago
I have a raspi with ArkOS as a home server, and it's good. Some minor stability bugs presently, but the user interface is beyond excellent compared to other home-hosting solutions.
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by Xenmen 12y ago
[For a purported breakthrough with such grand plans for reshaping the food industry, I found Soylent to be a punishingly boring, joyless product. From the plain white packaging to the purposefully bland, barely sweet flavor to the motel-car
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by Xenmen 12y ago
The issue is that, given a little more time, we'll see a "one-size-fits-all" captcha breaker, one that needs little to no modification to break the captcha on new sites.
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by Xenmen 12y ago
A lot of ordinary people seem to be barred from doing anything by willful ignorance. It seems to be a rational decision too; if they let themselves fall into Stockholm syndrome, they won't be weeded out for 'fighting the system&#x
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by Xenmen 12y ago
People are working on bringing convenience to self-hosting. Don't assume that freedom precludes comfort: https://arkos.io/
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Net Neutrality, DRM, GNUnet, and your mom
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by Xenmen 12y ago
But... Mozilla IS irrelevent without it's differentiating principles. Microsoft sacrificed backwards compatibility with Vista and look where that got them...
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Funny this happening near the end of the filming of James Rolfe's movie about the E.T. game... http://cinemassacre.com/2012/11/10/avgn-the-movie-trailer/ The more people investigating and reminding
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Relatedly, Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Space as culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxnCzz5oQE I'd agree with the both of you on the value of big space exploration projects as driving our culture.
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Okay, sure. There's R&D for the $40,000 arm. There's R&D for the $50 arm too. They didn't just download the code and print plans from Github. Justifying a fourty grand pricetag based on R&D costs is absurd in the
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by Xenmen 12y ago
Yes. Today. This was not always the case. Consider this; at what point was the first person hired to work on the kernel? At what point were there a majority of patches submitted by paid workers? ^And then consider that up until that point,
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by Xenmen 12y ago
I suspect there was research conducted by public universities to create this pill, IE that it was publically funded. The ethics of "I researched this I made this it's mine so you pay what I demand" is one thing. The ethics of
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by Xenmen 13y ago
There's also http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ ... I'm sure there's room, but you really have to ask yourself; room for what? Running anything server is a constant drain on resources, and surely you could strip
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by Xenmen 13y ago
Blocked in Canada as well; I'm confirming from Vancouver BC