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by decasteve 14d ago
Is it any less a myth or illusion to romanticize aspects of the past than to romanticize a technocratic utopian future? Culture is built on picking and choosing what to adopt and what not to adopt in one's own life. It's not an ei
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by decasteve 3mo ago
I read to my two kids every day until they were 13-14 years old. They loved books. Every car ride was an opportunity to listen to an audiobook. The kids loved to write and make arts and crafts as well. During the pandemic I took my kids out
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by decasteve 5mo ago
Your comment is spot on. The support of a teacher and a group are essential to go along with the practice. They are called The Three Jewels for a reason.
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by decasteve 5mo ago
Reviewing code becomes more arduous. Not only are the pull requests more bloated, the developer who pushed them doesn't always understand the implications of their changes. It's harder to maintain and track down bugs. I spend way
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by decasteve 7mo ago
If you block Google, as much of it as possible anyway, on your firewall, does the device work/install? I tried /e/ and Lineage about a year ago, but neither of them worked when Google was blocked completely. The only one that
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by decasteve 4y ago
Add Akamai to that list of ASNs and you cover everything. I did that experiment a couple of years ago and my Apple devices went unresponsive unless I disconnected them from the Internet entirely. The rabbit hole goes as far as locking yours
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by decasteve 4y ago
That would be a hard one. A book of appetizers without a main course. I read it when I was an undergrad wanting to get a broad sense of different areas in Math I could pursue. If I had to pick one math book it would have to be a classic wit
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by decasteve 4y ago
4 of those 5 books are some of my all-time favourites. Ones that I enjoy rereading but I’d be hard pressed to pick just one.
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by decasteve 4y ago
Last time I used macOS, 2-3 years ago, it was in constant communication with Akamai servers. Blocking some of those hosts to prevent it from doing so would render the system unresponsive when trying to launch an application. Note: this anec
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by decasteve 4y ago
> including switching away from polyester clothing to cotton, linen and wool where possible. I’ve been going through the same thing lately. My daughter had offered to show me how to naturally dye and sew my own clothes if I get the undye
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by decasteve 4y ago
Clothing is mostly plastic fibre nowadays. Upholstery fibres too. Walls are painted with acrylic paint. Flooring is often made of various plastics. I assume the dust in our homes that we breathe in contains relatively a lot of plastic. Cont
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by decasteve 5y ago
Bradbury covered the spectrum of from literal book burning to idea burning through his characters. In my opinion it's through Faber he hit the nail on the head. It's not just books, but the quality and "texture" of the i
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by decasteve 5y ago
Add The Road to Wigan Pier for the Orwell trifecta.
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by decasteve 5y ago
It depends on the scale. I still like the idea of harvesting bog iron and smelting in a homemade bloomery.
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by decasteve 5y ago
Social media have become Bradbury’s parlour walls.
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by decasteve 5y ago
Research Math is an inside joke between friends. The jokes fall flat unless you know the same people and attend the same parties.
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by decasteve 5y ago
I’ve been pro-nuclear for the past 20+ years and have echoed the same arguments and sentiments expressed here. However, I’ve started to waver. Is it naive idealism to expect a future where nuclear technology won’t be weaponized? We have to
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by decasteve 5y ago
I mentioned this on another post: The Tor Browser without Tor. It’s Firefox with all the “extras” stripped away. The instructions on how to do so are easy to find on the web. It also supports all the same add-ons/plugins.
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by decasteve 5y ago
The best version of Firefox is the Tor Browser with Tor disabled. Avoids the “features” Mozilla insists on.
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by decasteve 5y ago
It’s not just trust in media (or government). It’s most societal institutions that have lost trust. I’d argue even trusting one’s own neighbours is probably at an all-time low. Trust should be something we think about in our interactions an
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by decasteve 5y ago
The warning from Huxley is regarding what happens when the choice of child rearing (and bearing) are removed by both government and social pressures. He explores this to the extreme but many aspects of his thought experiment in Brave New Wo
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by decasteve 5y ago
> Cambridge Analytica was a good example of this as well. The press fell over themselves to characterise their technology as some sort of election tipping, mind controlling super tool. They probably loved it. In reality there's not
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by decasteve 5y ago
I think of that too. I also think about how some of the really great works have stood the test of time — like Plato’s. Then there are really great works that were once common and popular but have fallen out of contemporary thought. Given th
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by decasteve 5y ago
The absence of physical labour, of meaningful work, and learning to work with your hands, are aspects of childhood development completely abandoned over the past half-century. Kids are now confined in comparison, where primarily-seated qui
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by decasteve 5y ago
Find something to do with your hands: knitting, carving, whatever. bring it with you. if you’re sitting around bored, reach for that instead of your phone.
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by decasteve 5y ago
The Sun’s ability to function like an Earth-wide Eprom eraser might cause some catastrophic disruption given our reliance on the Internet and computing devices. A large enough geomagnetic/solar storm is not unprecedented. See: https:&
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by decasteve 5y ago
It's one of those books I think are more relevant than when it was written. The basic concepts and quotes don't do it justice. Read it fully. The "parlor walls" as social media give the book chilling metaphors for our cu
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by decasteve 5y ago
Poundbury by Prince Charles [1][2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury [2]: https://robskinner.net/2020/09/03/poundbury-prince-charles-m...
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by decasteve 5y ago
The Groklaw farewell post: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 Given the circumstances of the Snowden revelations, I was struggling to articulate how I felt about privacy, the chilling effects of surv
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by decasteve 5y ago
That definition of Spyware Engine has existed for a while. Every browser checks sites and downloads using Google's Safe Browsing [1]. Firefox constantly phones home to googleusercontent and AWS. Apple sends hashes of every application

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