datenarsch

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by datenarsch 5y ago
> If I pay someone $100 to come clean my house and they take my money and don't clean my house, its no different than if they came into my house and stole $100. It is not OP's house though. He is just another employee, so it&#x
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> And unless you were writing drivers, that major OS version wasn't going to break anything. Just a minor nitpick, but the NT device driver API has in fact stayed largely the same since Windows 2000 and in comparison to the various
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Well other package managers don't automatically update packages like NPM does though but pin the exact version that you installed.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
It's his project. It's your fault if you blindly trust random 3rd-party code on the internet and have your mission-critical software depend on it.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
The fundamental problem is that the interests of Google do not align with the interests of it's users. Google is not interested in serving us the "best" search results possible, they are interested in serving us their custome
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by datenarsch 5y ago
That whole story is debatable at best. Here's just some of the things that make you scratch your head and wonder how much of it is really true: - Author of the fork claiming that he recieved 70+ calls on his pinephone and jokingly said
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Say "I support the AfD." (which is a bit like the German equivalent of saying "I support Trump") in Germany though and you are villified beyond belief and declared an Unperson, so while I may agree with your point in gen
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Unless you get 95% of people to use such an extension, it will be mostly useless. And if somebody succeeded in getting 95% of people to use their extension, they would sell it to the highest bidder in a heartbeat, as has happened many times
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> We want 'order' first, which can enable a bit of prosperity, and then the slow grind to basic freedoms, it's generally the only path. Why did you invade Iraq then plunging it into total chaos and support ISIS in Syria ag
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> Otherwise I see a very dark future where super large companies kill people's livelihoods and nothing can be done. What do you mean future ? This is already the reality. I recall reading multiple threads here on HN in the last cou
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by datenarsch 5y ago
It's still actively being developed, the author just created a new project page for it for some reason. You can find it at https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc
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by datenarsch 5y ago
MPC-HC is just as good as VLC and maybe a little less cluttered. It's Windows only of course, but if that isn't a limiting factor, then it's a very good alternative to VLC in my opinion.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Sorry, but no. Electron is the absolute worst piece of technology that I have come across in at least the last 20 years. It's not only that it is bloated, ridiculously resource hungry and terribly inconsistent because every program has
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by datenarsch 5y ago
I wish I could agree but from my experience, DDG's search results aren't really that great. Often even worse than Google's. And another private company is not the answer I believe. We need something more drastic, an open-sour
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Because Google is not interested in serving the best possible search results but rather in serving those that will make them the most money.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
That's what it's still somewhat good for. I mostly use it to read about random history stuff I'm interested like medieval Europe etc. but avoid it completely for anything contemporary because it always has incredibly left-lea
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> I mean, I assume that for some reason the platforms just buy the rights for the dubbed version, but don't the subbed original versions also have a ton of demand (maybe more than the dubbed version)? Why would it have a ton of dema
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by datenarsch 5y ago
On that note, Catherine the Great had her own husband and several other people brutally murdered to illegitimately usurp the Russian throne and was a terribly repressive and authoritarian despot, even if she liked to claim otherwise.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Oh yea let's build an OS where we can just import our kernel-mode drivers from the repository of quality code that is NPM. I mean what could possibly go wrong, right? I'm sorry but we need less NodeJS and JavaScript in this worl
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Well I can still develop like this in ASP.NET if I wanted to and probably and many other languages/frameworks too, so it's not exactly unique.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> XMPP is fundamentally flawed how is it fundamentally flawed, can you elaborate?
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Don't try to put the blame for the absolute mess that is NPM on Microsoft.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> Some subgroups -- motivated groups who seem to have endless free time and a lot of passion to click little arrows and leave comments -- brigade and basically remove any functional utility of likes, dislikes and often even ratings. Hate
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by datenarsch 5y ago
Their comment system will bury or shadow ban your comment because it has the word dislike in it. That's why you only ever see positive, happy high-five comments under videos anymore. The dystopian crackdown started sometime after the
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> The problem with Youtube as I see it is that these comments never rise to the top. It's always compliments and ass-kissing and high-fives that make it there. That's because they have engineered their comment system in a way t
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by datenarsch 5y ago
That service does not get said exclusives until many years later, if ever.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
It's just as credible as any of the mainstream US networks like CNN, MSNBC et al.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> I had the impression that RT is a propaganda tool[1] for the Russian government not an independent news organization. Surely then you will likewise acknowledge that Euronews is a propaganda tool for the European Union not an independen
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by datenarsch 5y ago
But that is only true for the consumer product line, isn't it? I have a Thinkpad T series and you can replace virtually everything and you can buy replacement parts super cheap on eBay because Thinkpads are so common.
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by datenarsch 5y ago
> The Linux way of installing the apps is merely a convenient tradition. You can still put the app files anywhere and run. It will put its configuration files wherever the developer wanted them (conventionally the app dir is meant to be

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