antibarbarus

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by antibarbarus 3d ago
I’m seeing that the old mantra is alive and kicking: "If the product is cheap/free, you are the product! Pay for the product!" Turns out that now both is true—they’ll charge you a steep price comparative to other brands, and
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by antibarbarus 4d ago
In my neck of the woods Google actually disabled some of that routing infra, breaking RCS, I guess wanting to force the carriers to build out parts of it? Needless to say the carriers wouldn’t have any of it, so as it stands RCS is fully br
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by antibarbarus 17d ago
Forget about global trends, forget "unprecedented events", this isn’t rocket science, I’ve seen the climate shift myself, in my lifetime, and I’m not even that old. It’s difficult to imagine how people elsewhere aren’t seeing the
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by antibarbarus 21d ago
I've been using XCancel to retrieve posts of an account via RSS, only posting vintage photos from my hometown. It was a small convenience, but I guess that's over. I'll never get what keeps people tethered to it.
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by antibarbarus 1mo ago
Meanwhile I’m running Waydroid with Android 13 – _an entire operating system, with apps, running services, etc_ – on my laptop, in roughly that same memory footprint. Where did it all go wrong? To think I really liked Windows 10 when it fir
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by antibarbarus 1mo ago
Brave sort of created that themselves, it’s called Brave Origin and allows you to have a browser without all the cruft compiled in. Believe it or not, it’s meant to be a paid product, but it’s (intentionally) free on Linux. Now, on Linux th
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by antibarbarus 1mo ago
Just before coming to read this article and thread, I read how Hyatt got rid of something like 30% of their call centre staff, and how the industry is gearing for replacing human work with AI. There is sadly ample fiscal headroom in mundane
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by antibarbarus 2mo ago
Ever since the first wave of attacks it was clear this wasn’t a passing thing, and would return unless the AUR fundamentally changed. They introduced... email verification, then hoped for the best. In a sense it’s good that this has happene
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by antibarbarus 2mo ago
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