jalami

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by jalami 10y ago
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dinopark_Tycoon_1993
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by jalami 10y ago
I think people trust too much generally. That's not going to change with any paradigm put forth. However if you're running binaries from vendors you don't trust, you're playing with fire even in a regulated app store. Mo
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by jalami 10y ago
Oops, was writing on my mobile. Can't edit it now, thanks though.
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by jalami 10y ago
You trust Facebook when you log into Facebook.com. Facebook.com/fdroid would be the hypothetical trusted endpoint for Facebook apps. You should not have one gatekeeper that ensures everything is safe. They can sensor content, fail to c
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by jalami 10y ago
Fdroid allows you to run your own repo and up your own builds. MicroG does this, so these are built by them. More devs should do this. Fdroid building everything isn't scalable nor is it a good trust paradigm. I agree with them that th
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by jalami 10y ago
I'd be happy if they just released it DRMfree on GOG or something. It existed long before tying your game to Steam's API was ever a thing. I'd buy it again, especially if it was the original version (before they killed LAN mu
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by jalami 10y ago
I use prosody and it's really slick. Extensions that implement server-side XEPs are really easy to add on as well. Just git pull the community XEP repo and then add a line to the ini and you can add more superpowers. I have it on a che
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by jalami 10y ago
This is good to see. I feel like self-hosting is no longer really a priority for a lot of people, even privacy advocates. As things get more cloudy, people end up trusting these third party services more and more. Even businesses and school
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by jalami 10y ago
SCOTUS seems to disagree with you[0][1]. I try to read or at least skim what I agree to. Some companies have an opt-out of their binding arbitration (eg. Ting), which I try to make use of, but most don't allow you to opt out of the cla
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by jalami 10y ago
IANAL, but it looks like when you agree to the Microsoft TOS you waive your right to bring a Class Action suit against Microsoft >Class action lawsuits, class-wide arbitrations, private attorney-general actions, and any other proceeding
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by jalami 10y ago
The "new" Microsoft was a change in business model, not a sudden thawing of the heart. Windows used to be the product, now Windows users are. This is similar to Google and Facebook's offerings. Very few companies still strict
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by jalami 10y ago
I dual boot on my PC, Ubuntu and Windows. I'm writing this from my Arch laptop. I only drop into Windows if I want to play a Windows-only game, but thankfully that's happening less and less. I've stopped buying games for Wind
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by jalami 10y ago
I agree, they're really late to the game. It seems like a slam dunk business-wise as they can get the android and IOS market on the same app and cultivate a household name. They would have been better doing so before the E2E craze went
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by jalami 10y ago
I'm still putting my money on vector.im and matrix.org. Closed source communication apps are not appealing to me, even if they come with an E2E promise. From a business perspective this makes sense for Google. A big problem with Skype
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by jalami 10y ago
Different strokes. I think maintaining the LAMP Wordpress stack, extensions, admin panel auth security, whatever versionpress is etc. is more hassle than editing a text file and pushing code. To devs, this editing is second nature. Also, I&
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by jalami 10y ago
You could throw Jekyll, Middleman, Pelican or Hugo on the server and run their build command with a git hook. Then you'd get the same result, but a completely static website without the server needing flask to piece together pages when
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by jalami 10y ago
I considered doing this with my hugo blog, but decided I wanted to do the work on my client and keep my server stupid. In order to build my site, I have a lot of minification, pdf generation, syntax highlighting etc, that requires a few pac
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by jalami 10y ago
On one hand, I like that Stallman is opinionated and forward about his politics and how we wants the world to work. So many people are silent or inactive about the things they care about, wishing for people at large to just change. You ruff
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by jalami 10y ago
In the US you can't do research about a product then go out and buy quality product from a quality provider. That's really where I see a lot of the problems with all of this. Yes there's a failure of information somewhere and
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by jalami 10y ago
Fiber will be a dumb pipe company until it serves Alphabet's interests that it not be. Right now market adoption and growth is more important than trying to capitalize on their users in creative ways. Look at Chrome for example, adopti
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by jalami 10y ago
>The complete failure of IT privacy in the US proves that voting with your dollar and voice doesn't work. The very existance of companies like Google, Facebook and thousands of others whose main purpose if data analytics proves that
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by jalami 10y ago
I won't use a Microsoft Windows computer as my daily driver due to dark patterns, privacy issues, new business model etc, but I also wouldn't advocate for strict legislation in this area. The only legislation I think I would back
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by jalami 10y ago
I agree with his points. If I had to prescribe to a political ideology, libertarianism would probably be the closest to how I reason things out. I've always thought, though, that it can only really apply to conscious human adults capab
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by jalami 10y ago
Side note, but it's kind of strange that images on their site require cookies enabled to view. I didn't dig into a reason, I just white-list the sites I want to use cookies and found it odd that there were big white spaces before
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by jalami 10y ago
I hadn't seen your post before I posted, but there's Chromium Inox which tries to remove the Google from Chromium you might want to check out.
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by jalami 10y ago
There's Chromium Inox[0] which is just a patchset on top of the Chromium build to remove much of the mothership home-calling. Inox seems to be much closer to Chromium than many of the other Chrome-privacy spinoffs. Contrary to popular
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by jalami 10y ago
I just use hugo for site generation, isso for self hosted comments, rsync for dumping files on the server and postcss for all the styling. All the scripts are in a package.json so I can download and run everything with an npm run build-init
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by jalami 10y ago
Sandstorm is simple an intuitive which is what a lot of our decentralized projects really need a good helping of. I watched the recent Decentralized Web Summit, and there was so much talk about decentralization, yet so little talk about sel
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by jalami 10y ago
Wow neat, thanks for this. I was just looking for extensions for some reason. It's on F-droid as well if that's preferred. Pretty slick. Source: https://github.com/maxpower47/PinDroid
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by jalami 10y ago
Pinboard provides a simple service with well defined boundaries that you're aware of when signing up. Iterating indefinitely isn't always the solution, especially when your intention is to keep your problem space small, your proje

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