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by _lqaf 3y ago
> the killer Kagi feature is being able to uprank/downrank/pin/block domains Yes! This alone is worth the subscription to me. And I despise and avoid software subscriptions, Kagi is my third.
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by _lqaf 3y ago
To save time: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
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by _lqaf 3y ago
Configuring browsers to mirror each other across machines makes a big soupy mess. I understand why surveillance capitalists like the idea, makes their lives a little easier. But I really don't get why I'm supposed to want it. I us
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by _lqaf 3y ago
...assumes that people's complaint with paywalls is about paying money, and does not answer the question.
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by _lqaf 3y ago
> There were all these utopian ideas getting floated Funny how the sales pitch and reality collide, eh? The sad part is that stupid sales pitches like that are required to get movement. Internet access is 21st century dial tone, the vast
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by _lqaf 3y ago
So who paid for the truck? You must agree that getting more of these good and useful tools in play would be positive, right? So who was it?
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by _lqaf 3y ago
When your car crashes, do you really want it selling the livestream? Because it seems like the agreement would allow that. If contrarians really wanted to be helpful, they'd not downplay risks inherent in the utter lack of basic privac
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by _lqaf 3y ago
I run FreeBSD for my home storage server, have for almost a decade now. I've also used it for various other things here and there, but that's my major personal use. The best thing about it is that it is boring, completely predicta
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by _lqaf 3y ago
Furthermore, preemptively reacting to expected third-party behaviors is doomed. Journalists are going to write nonsense, hype-filled science articles. PR flacks are going to hype puff newswire blurbs. Why? Because that's what they&#x27
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by _lqaf 4y ago
> Why not a series of blog posts? It seems pretty self-evident that they wish to exchange something of value for something else of value. This is a pretty common activity among humans. Unfortunately, as we see here, "instead, why do
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by _lqaf 4y ago
Ugh. Note taking apps need to be instant. I care far less about the feature set than I do getting the whatever written down and out of my head. If you make we wait while you load a website's worth of js or phone home with surveillance
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by _lqaf 4y ago
They are attacking museums that have nothing to do with climate change, instrumentally damaging them for publicity. I can think of all sorts of ways to do more of this. Protest meat by disrupting homeless shelters. Or protest racism by atta
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by _lqaf 4y ago
Hah, my internet in San Francisco is worse that it was... in San Francisco in the 90s. My symmetric DSL then was faster than downstream-DOCSIS is now. I also have to keep a backup line, because Comcast here (SOMA) goes out about every other
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by _lqaf 4y ago
I would say proper attribution and credit is even more important in open source development than elsewhere. My day job takes credit for my work, but compensates me in money. Pretty much the only "pay" for the vast majority of open
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by _lqaf 4y ago
It isn't just the left. The revolutionary rightwingers are endlessly fragmentary - the militia, white supremacy and various theocratic movements each have a ton of complicated history of fragmentation and infighting. I suspect the phen
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by _lqaf 4y ago
These things become substantially easier when approached correctly. In this case, never run Oracle software. Not only will it vastly improve your mood during budget season; your developers will be less likely to stab you in your sleep and y
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by _lqaf 4y ago
> I'm detecting very little genuine authentic empathy Welcome to Microsoft!
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by _lqaf 4y ago
This seems to get closer to the "is it insurance, or is it gambling?" line than many things.
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by _lqaf 4y ago
> IBM... Oracle... Palantir much more so Sure. But the discussion was about "rich people self funding", with him as an example. I have a couple ideas I would happily self-fund with the state's mid-10 digit assistance. >
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by _lqaf 4y ago
> "rich people" self funding [...] Elon Musk Who took ~$5 billion and counting from the government...
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by _lqaf 4y ago
I'm trying to understand: you would prefer that Facebook be complicit and turning a profit on genocide than not taking part?
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by _lqaf 5y ago
Millennials are spoiled by the attention. The Committee for Generational Distinctions is still trying to erase the existence of GenXers. But it all gets better in your 40s. That's when you and your peers start to have enough power and
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by _lqaf 5y ago
The Linux monoculture in internet services does reduce the value of POSIX-compliance. I got in the habit of at least gesturing towards POSIX back when it was more common to run a bunch of different unixes. And I still run both FreeBSD and L
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by _lqaf 5y ago
> It also confuses the hell out of American liberals Only the ones who don't travel enough to understand how weird US culture is. > is impossible in principle Not in principle. I suspect it is impossible in the US without a signi
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by _lqaf 5y ago
Bitching about 'the elites' is garbage. It is a contentless description unless you identify who you're bitching about, primarily used as a way to get others to agree with you by substituting their own conception of 'elit
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by _lqaf 5y ago
Extrapolating from an employee's feelings to the behavior of a huge public company is a terrible way to model reality.
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by _lqaf 5y ago
> what has been proved is that Marx’s theories don’t limit the effects of the machinations of assholes What a weird test. No system of government does, and Marx was not writing a system of government. I guess it is time to throw out all
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by _lqaf 5y ago
This is an oft-repeated nonsense line to dismiss some really interesting philosophy. Marx was not writing a plan of action, and all that has been proved is that authoritarian assholes are assholes. (I take if you also think Adam Smith shoul
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by _lqaf 5y ago
> You should own the fact that your free time is yours and that you shouldn't open Slack to read those late messages It sounds like that works for you at your company. Congrats! But if you're lucky enough never to have had an o
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by _lqaf 5y ago
In a past life, we were consulting with a startup that offered a subscription data service. They were very sensitive about scrapers, especially on the time limited try-before-you-buy accounts, which competitors were abusing. At their reques

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