gcbw3

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by gcbw3 6y ago
Where exactly is the disk image? can't find it on the repo (also, github redesign removed file size?!?!)
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by gcbw3 6y ago
> Netflix. In this one case they are right. it was game-over to your opinion when you purchased their product and use a proprietary client to connect to the their proprietary servers. If they want to break every single feature, while als
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by gcbw3 6y ago
> more of a Universal Operating System. not to say more trusted.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
you joke but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
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by gcbw3 6y ago
trust surveys over anecdotes anytime
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by gcbw3 6y ago
Lol. did it fall too close to home? Read my comment again and you will notice there's not a single comment against or in favour of tech. Not even an adjective next to tech, only to people. The comment is exactly that some people can&#x
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by gcbw3 6y ago
Google is the new IBM. Saying to your boss that the VP of something is incompetent and made a crappy site will get you fired. Saying there's this new Tech at google coded by god himself will get you a new cost-center and a promotion. F
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by gcbw3 6y ago
> "megacorporations" are the faceless evil enemy There are some irony on the text, but to understand this is very naive. The critic is at malicious/dumb people who latch to technologies without understanding them. For argu
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by gcbw3 6y ago
describe the steps to release the simplest ever code in javascript to production: write a js file, host it, done. The same thing in TS adds at least one step (not to mention the rest of the tooling you will want) So while a prefer it over J
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by gcbw3 6y ago
Your company running on it (and not flatcar, heh) is what shows a massive misunderstanding of the market. Just because people buy snake oil, it doesn't make it a good product.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
You client is politely sending items your peers are requesting, to try to find peers for them in your peer network, without having to flood everyone with irrelevant peer lists. And this site (which i guess is just a couple lines of python c
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by gcbw3 6y ago
you should forget whatever you read and start over :) The purpose of it is exactly to help you find other peers with the same content. It's a bunch of peer finding protocols on top of each other. Trackers, DHT, peer xchange, etc, etc I
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by gcbw3 6y ago
I'd bet that was a bouncer/client set address, for the joke. Sigh, people probably trust things like this today because FB(whatsapp)/Google/slack/discord forces you to sign up with valid phone numbers and probably e
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by gcbw3 6y ago
With encryption, if anyone join as a peer NOT to join the torrent distribution, is that considered computer hacking under the DMCA?
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by gcbw3 6y ago
when conservative means conservation of the oligopoly, then yes.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
to me it seems the suggestion is to allow aliases (nicknames, images, utf, qr-code, text) and stick with numerical ids (or whatever you use as the true primary key, which can be email or phone number i guess, but hope not). Even hints that
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by gcbw3 6y ago
The university i'm associated with, because of the pandemic, not only all the international students are having online classes, but the international grad students teaching the classes are giving them online too. And all those grad stu
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by gcbw3 6y ago
You are being downvoted by the sacarms, but it is a very clear and concise description of unintended consequences of this. Advanced users get root on their phones, and use linux on their computers. And as a consequence, they must fight uphi
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by gcbw3 6y ago
those things were sold in Rio with the excuse that it would make it faster to respond to floods and landslides. Turn out landslides take the cameras/cables first thing. In the end, this is only used for policing, tracking individuals,
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by gcbw3 6y ago
i've seem the same comments here. only difference is that here it would have a source link pointing to a TEDx video. Slashdot also allows you to mark the few people that make those (and political) comments that are often upvoted as fri
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by gcbw3 6y ago
I call it the "EAR 'N I.T." act. works much better.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
slashdot has gotten a lot better. Still have it's troll, but sometimes they are even upvoted for saying what everyone is thinking but would regardless get you modded down or hellbanned here on HN. Also the moderation model for slashdot
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by gcbw3 6y ago
Considering the close relationship with Google and Wikimedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_and_Wikipedia and the considerable money Google gives them, how can one not see this project as "crowdsourcing bett
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by gcbw3 6y ago
Not acquihire. Employees are not moving to alphabet. North was a scam, and was about to be bought by patent trolls. This was a legal move by alphabet. They pretty much paid ransom to the North (Thalmic labs) founders to not be harassed by t
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by gcbw3 6y ago
maybe i do not know how clipboard works, but the message "<active app> pasted from <inactive app>" is the worst possible label. Also funny how every app shows it. Guess IOS14 will be known by non technical users as &qu
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by gcbw3 6y ago
> we did all that work on the OS but kept the GoogleService thing that is a sytemapp+kernelmodule+backdoor on top so we can continue to serve our users as they want, with more relevant ads.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
That comparison is silly. I've never seen anything built with LEGOs on production.
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by gcbw3 6y ago
> iPhone > no copy paste (ignoring everyone young enough to not remember that iphone first many years didn't have copy paste) The iphone NEVER replaced a computer. It replaced the television. No need for copy paste there. The ipa
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by gcbw3 6y ago
What's the alternative? leave facebook do exactly it instead of the government? You speak like the free-for-all tax tools didn't work for you. Do you rather the US model? where you have to pay $100~300 every year for exactly the s
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by gcbw3 6y ago
farm sim is the most broken game ever. Even with the more realistic mods, which brings the most basic things like seasons(!!!), it is a futile fight against the bugs and bad UI. farm sim is nothing but an advert for tractor brands. Watch a

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