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by colemickens 7y ago
Such great advice, had never thought of that. Thanks!
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by colemickens 7y ago
I mean, "my card information being stolen" is literally only an issue because credit card companies won't force US retailers to accept proper chip and pin. It just is not an issue everywhere I've been in Europe because
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by colemickens 7y ago
What the hell? I get downvoted for linking an authoritative answer to the question I was asked? I'm so god damn sick of participating here in good faith and getting wordlessly crapped on for it. The answer supports exactly what I sai
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by colemickens 7y ago
It's almost like my own comment said I wasn't making excuses and pointed out it was a preview release. I don't know why I bother. Also, I don't understand what Google being in trouble for anti-trust has to do with a bunc
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by colemickens 7y ago
How does this argument come up every time? If I can't have absolute privacy, I should just give up? The same way I'd love to give up every last bit of dependence on Google, I'd love to get decentralized fintech. But the popul
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by colemickens 7y ago
"Currently the owner of the project must be online in order to receive any proposed RSM updates from a contributor. Once received and processed, these updates will be written to IPFS by the project owner, and made available to all user
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by colemickens 7y ago
Please understand I'm not excusing anything, it's horrendous it took this long to have user controls. That having been said, in the Android Q preview, Android occasionally lets me know that an app has access to my location at all
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by colemickens 7y ago
I thought Radicle was cool too, but as I understand it (in its current state), it has a much "larger" SPOF in that changes can only be submitted when the single authoritative repo is online.
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by colemickens 7y ago
`nix-env` can be coerced into pinning a package at a specific revision, effectively ignoring channel updates. However, yes, I do all of my nixos package management in my system configuration and try to avoid `nix-env` at all costs as it lea
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by colemickens 7y ago
Fortunately, `builtins.fetchTarball` makes this easier. I do this in my `nixcfg` repo so that I can build my entire machine config (patches and enabling Iris in Mesa, and all) on a stupidly-cheap Packet.net VM: https://github.com
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by colemickens 7y ago
And yet, I would (will?) likely be derided if I complained about every forced show of heterosexuality, in virtually every piece of media produced in the last many decades. I immediately think of the scene in the second Matrix movie, but tha
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by colemickens 7y ago
I'm curious to understand what you're describing. Can you give an example of a Netflix show, the season and political trope, and how it detracted from the show's quality? And I'm definitely curious what you're ima
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by colemickens 7y ago
There was a time where every login was followed by auto-playing trailers for a show about suicide, during a time that I really just didn't need to be seeing that. With no way to prevent it... other than canceling and ceasing usage. I d
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by colemickens 7y ago
See also: SAP's Gardener. Their website reminds me of a spam landing page more than a valuable, robust project, so I'll link an official Kubernetes blog post about it: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05&#
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by colemickens 7y ago
My understanding is that bad/poor gateways are penalized. In my own experience, I've only ever needed to change circuits manually once (but I'm primarily using Tor to NAT punch to hidden services, not sure if that matters )
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by colemickens 7y ago
While I said less than 30 seconds, it really was about 10 seconds but I didn't want to sound like I was exaggerating. And that was of course including switching apps, the initial Tor connection, switching apps back, waiting for my fe
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by colemickens 7y ago
Why is this downvoted? It took less than 30 seconds to fire up Orbot, connect, open YouTube and start streaming a video without any issue or fuss. Sometimes when people talk about Tor, it reminds me of how people talked about Linux up until
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by colemickens 7y ago
How does a company pandering to a consumer group have anything to do with the civil rights struggle of that group? How am I, as a gay man, responsible for the fact that companies see Pride as a valuable advertising angle? I don't know
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by colemickens 7y ago
How does the percentage of LGBT folks change whether I should have equal rights? How does the percentage of LGBT folks change whether I could be fired because my boss hates gay people? "more relaxed"? What does that even mean? Wha
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by colemickens 7y ago
I don't understand what imgur has to do with Twitter deciding to stop serving content to browsers with JS disabled? I was just trying to explain why some of us were confused -- until I tweaked NoScript, the first tweet is shown by itse
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by colemickens 7y ago
Love clicking on twitter links and being completely confused. They've just stopped showing threads and replies on the non-JS page anymore. This is what we see, and this does appear to be a recent change: https://imgur.com&#x
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by colemickens 7y ago
Have you tried hitting Ctrl+Shift+N to restore the previously closed windows? These will behave differently: (1) "Quitting" Firefox will multiple windows open. (2) Using your WM to close both Firefox windows. The latter will cause
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by colemickens 7y ago
That's exactly my point. I knew enough to be "destructive" in middle school with the school computers, but I chose not to, because of how I was raised. It wasn't that the school group policy was effective, but rather tha
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by colemickens 7y ago
I get that this is HN, and "tech" is the solution to everything, but an android app or consumer router setting are not going to protect your kids from: predatory YouTube content (we all remember the epidemic of Spiderman humping E
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by colemickens 7y ago
Thanks for the constructive feedback as always.
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by colemickens 7y ago
Of course they are. Google is better at cloud and better at Linux, and Steam/Proton are already turning the tide for big games being available on Linux. If Stadia forces all triple-A titles to be Vulkan compatible, and more likely, Lin
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by colemickens 7y ago
I'm sorry, I tend not to view replies on HN. Here's my repo: https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/ Start in {configurations,machines}/chimera.nix and explore outward from there ;). EDIT: I forgot,
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by colemickens 7y ago
Thank you for writing this up Raph. I've been following CRDT usage in Xray/Xi and am curious to see where collaborative editing goes. I appreciate you thinking about it upfront.
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by colemickens 7y ago
Just for context to the GP, Nix channels work basically the exact same way. Or, you can do as I do, and not use channels and always specify the exact nixpkgs revision as part of your Nix file. Anyone can `nix-build chimera.nix` and get a (n
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by colemickens 7y ago
I'm trying to learn more about IPFS for long term file storage. Do you know if these services are using "IPFS Cluster" or something like it to manage pins?

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