jamesbelchamber

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Marp now supports Mermaid diagrams(github.com)
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by jamesbelchamber 2mo ago
Reproductive control undermines most right-wing ideologies; outlawing it patches up the cracks.
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by jamesbelchamber 2mo ago
Trust the Finns to invent communal night storage heaters :D great stuff.
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by jamesbelchamber 2mo ago
IP on everything :D
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by jamesbelchamber 3mo ago
> Not at all. In fact, American sunscreens may be less safe. Are they less safe, or _may_ they be less safe? The distinction is important, and I'm wary of overexcited editors "upgrading" titles for clicks. (This is a comme
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by jamesbelchamber 6mo ago
This is yet another negative article with LiberOffice/TDF at the centre of it (this time with Collabora freely dragging themselves into the muck). This after attacks on OnlyOffice and OpenOffice for, from a relatively external perspect
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by jamesbelchamber 6mo ago
The tech community has had pretty much free reign over the last few decades, and has always chosen adult convenience over child safety (and mostly profit over both). The "middle ground" probably involves a bigger transfer than thi
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by jamesbelchamber 6mo ago
Could Project Managers start talking to me like the suggestion in Scenario 1 too please, that's clearly better.
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by jamesbelchamber 7mo ago
It should be acknowledged that this was at least significantly about lobbying, and shouldn't be considered a cut-and-dry "failed experiment" (though clearly there are lessons that can be learned): > [Munich Mayor] Reiter w
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by jamesbelchamber 7mo ago
I used to use Curve but they became really unreliable, especially when paying for public transport, so I just switched back to a normal card. Shame because you can get some nice watch straps with curve integration, which would neatly solve
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by jamesbelchamber 7mo ago
It does, doesn't it! This is basically the reason scepticism in screening has risen (amongst scientists and medics, not the general population) - research seems to show that screening catches much more cancer but doesn't save many
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by jamesbelchamber 7mo ago
One important point is that many people die WITH cancer but not OF cancer. So even for the 1.8%, only a fraction of those people were going to die of the disease (or even suffer significant symptoms) - the rest were just going to die of nat
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by jamesbelchamber 7mo ago
This is incredibly cool tech built on an idea of participatory, consensus-building democracy that I want to believe is possible and sustainable.
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by jamesbelchamber 7mo ago
Basic Income and UBI are colloquially synonyms, people use them interchangeably, and the Irish government are almost certainly using it to endear themselves to supporters of UBI and to get more coverage for their policy than media would giv
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by jamesbelchamber 7mo ago
If they think this is good/important then fine but what they've created is a grant programme, not a UBI. Personally I would have thought this money would have been better spent getting people on the margins the stability to retrai
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by jamesbelchamber 7mo ago
Marxists don't like Basic Income and it's incompatible with Marxist ideology. "Marxism" has just become thought-terminating shorthand for "thing I don't like".
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
OpenStack was created by NASA and Rackspace, both very American..
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
The whole post is a gish gallop of half truths and nonsense.
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
By the powerful oat lobby?
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
The wanker licensing board defected to Reform last week
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
I think the wisdom of "just fork it" is that in a project the power lies with the people who do the work (yes, that power is often rented out in exchange for a pay cheque), and in an open source project you have the right to do th
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
Are competing search indexes (Bing, Ecosia/Qwant, etc) objectively worse in significant ways, or is Google just so entrenched that people don't want to "risk it" with another provider (and/or preferences and/or
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
You might be thinking of the second "Hangouts", whereas what I'm referring to was apparently "Google+ Hangouts" and was the original. You could get 25 people on there, and for a bigger audience you could go "on
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
> At one point Zoom was the only one that could figure out how to video conference well. I may be misremembering but wasn't it _Google_ who worked it out first (Hangouts was free and easy to use) and then fumbled it so badly that Zo
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
I used to teach with it - at classroom-scale it was really good. Unfortunately they shut all that down a little while back, and there wasn't really a good replacement. Which was a shame. Seems to have worked out for them, mind!
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by jamesbelchamber 8mo ago
It's a shame this isn't open source, since Linux users are disproportionately likely to scratch their own itches. Regardless, great to see this come to Linux.
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by jamesbelchamber 9mo ago
They could call it a banana but then everyone would be expecting a curved yellow thing. Words and phrases have shared meanings, BSL doesn't conform to the meaning we've attached to open source.
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by jamesbelchamber 9mo ago
Good practical explanation of something I felt but couldn't put a name to.
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by jamesbelchamber 9mo ago
While FAANG undoubtedly have chosen profit over safety I'm not yet convinced non-FAANG social media is significantly safer, in terms of mental health, antisocial behaviour or predation.
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by jamesbelchamber 9mo ago
> Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when microcassette voice recorders were a fad, and pretty much everyone found they just weren't worth it. They really were worth it if you had a secretary to transcribe the voice recordings.

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