gkoz

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by gkoz 10d ago
Can the Linux kernel be included in the OS?
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by gkoz 4mo ago
You're describing a crank. Avoiding cranks is a good strategy even if technically biased.
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by gkoz 4mo ago
Non-religious people are also susceptible to the FUD about supposedly or genuinely new things. Whatever innate ick there clearly is, it gets co-opted to demonize much wider ranges of things, and conversely can be suppressed like in the Epst
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by gkoz 4mo ago
Could it be all the conservative propaganda that gets people prejudiced against things they're ignorant about and aren't impacted by?
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by gkoz 4mo ago
If you believe salt has to be kept secret, yeah, don't write your own auth.
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by gkoz 6mo ago
Are you pairing computers by copying certificates to visit this site?
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by gkoz 6mo ago
What a blast from the past, this word. Exactly right. It was a spectrum from a sort of mutual aid to regular corruption to outright mafia.
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by gkoz 6mo ago
This passionate apologia of nihilism is not consistent with not caring what other people do or want. If "virtue signalling" elicits such reaction, perhaps it's actually working. Besides, voting with your wallet, an actual tan
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by gkoz 7mo ago
The only people who thrive in a dictatorship are its enforcers. And by the way a dictatorship needs quite a lot of them. That's how, decades after its fall, you get voices saying it wasn't all that bad, there were some nice things
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by gkoz 7mo ago
Are we still talking about massive companies with power to arbitrarily decide how billions of people use the personal computers they bought? Who's doing the feeling? Why would we presume all of their conduct to be moral?
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by gkoz 8mo ago
After an album ends Spotify keeps playing some related music. It's expected to include some tracks that are new to you. Then suddenly you notice "artists" you've never heard of with empty descriptions and "albums&qu
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by gkoz 8mo ago
A person praising Vance and Musk obviously doesn't value due process, judicial oversight and ultimately decency.
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by gkoz 9mo ago
There's no indication of any failures of the industrial layer in this story. The train was working, it didn't crash into anything, everyone was safe.
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by gkoz 9mo ago
Wishing a national identity and sovereignty did not exist just for your convenience is what this thread is about. > I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions There weren't meaningful restrictions. A large number o
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by gkoz 9mo ago
It's plain to see that it's the racists who aren't integrated and properly socialized, not the people "with a background".
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by gkoz 10mo ago
I sometimes feel we'd be better off without all the paternalistic kitchensink features. The solid, properly engineered features used intentionally aren't causing these outages.
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by gkoz 10mo ago
Isn't the purpose of many regulations to stop people who are wrong from harming themselves and others? That is, the experience of being wrong also teaches respect for rules one doesn't understand.
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by gkoz 10mo ago
Given this was triggered by an old school configuration change across multiple servers, there's too little discussion of that particular process. It sounds like the change could've been rolled out more slowly, halted when the inci
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by gkoz 10mo ago
When you get dedicated servers from them that's exactly what you get: you're renting physical servers, which you manage yourself. And they've been in this business for decades. The VMs offering is much more recent.
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by gkoz 10mo ago
> What happens if I lose my smartphone or tablet? > If you have already checked-in online and your smartphone or tablet is lost, you will receive a free of charge boarding pass at the airport. Seems pretty clear what we need to do to
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by gkoz 11mo ago
How your friend enjoys coffee does not predict how you'll enjoy music? Getting wider ranges of experiences often is fun and worthwhile. Avoiding that to save a couple hundred bucks doesn't seem rational.
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by gkoz 1y ago
How are the economics supposed to work here? Is the data so cheap they can get everyone's location several times a day despite having no need for it? What's in it for the carrier then?
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by gkoz 1y ago
An upstream search index is not exactly a source and boy is that one politically biased. Given Russia's efforts towards destruction of civic society everywhere and replacing it with post-truth one, you very much risk compromising integ
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by gkoz 1y ago
A leader who on principle legitimizes and pays companies that are literal tools of oppression will inevitably burn his customers. And isn't it funny how as a paying customer one still has as much say in this as with Google?
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by gkoz 1y ago
It's all managed by the car's computers, the complications are already there. You just don't get to control them how you like, for no good reason.
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by gkoz 2y ago
So the society should pay attention and stamp out whatever new fad the students got up to? Never mind the concerted well-financed efforts to smear and destroy truth, reason, democracy, pretty much any values there are? At the dawn of Projec
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by gkoz 2y ago
You appreciate "calm, clean nature" from the perspective of a technological civilization with most of the basic needs met. On its own it can just be a lot of boring nothingness with or without back-breaking labor. Perhaps "op
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by gkoz 3y ago
The number for just Mariupol alone very likely remains higher but there's no one to count the deaths there.
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by gkoz 5y ago
Some of the "grievances" include military invasions and ongoing occupation. So... why did you decide to be a hypocrite too, what's the point?
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by gkoz 10y ago
The notion that speaking Ukrainian is pertinent to the opinion on Putin, the very existence of two sides and a certain annexed region, all indicate that yes the western opinion is quite correct.

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