jkepler

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by jkepler 3y ago
I still don't understand though why people do delivery pizza when decent-quality frozen pizza is often far cheaper than delivery, and it comes out of one's oven piping hot. Unless we're considering folks without ovens.
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by jkepler 3y ago
The language of addiction is psychological language that may leave people feeling hopeless, particularly if they view themselves as biologically-chemically determinative beings. Perhaps the language of idolatry as used in the Bible (reflect
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by jkepler 3y ago
And this in spite of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US strongly recommending against using SMS as a 2nd factor authentication since 2016!
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by jkepler 3y ago
This is why I run Open Street Maps on my smartphone: OsmAnd~ gets free maps updates anytime, for life. I'm pretty sure there was a simple OSM app for GerdaOS -- the rooted privacy a friendly version of KaiOS for the Nokia 8110 4G.
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by jkepler 3y ago
I'm pretty sure you can deal with 2fa on Kai OS feature phones. They also include Gmail, Google maps, and WhatsApp access... on a tiny screen where you won't get sucked in for hours. However, they also come with a ton of tracking,
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by jkepler 3y ago
So is this basiclly a fully peer-to-peer application, like bittorrent clients? Or something like bisq ( https://bisq.network ) when the program runs locally peer to peer and hosts all user data locally, but still pings oracle serv
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by jkepler 3y ago
Sure, but if they reach that level or have some business acumen, they may just pay other people to deal with the video production and files.
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by jkepler 3y ago
Back in 2010, these two stop-motion shorts were each shot on the Nokia N8: Dot [1] Gulp [2] Then in 2011, a short film and a feature-length were shot on the Nokia N8: Splitscreen: A Love Story [3] Olive [4] Oh, and back when
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by jkepler 3y ago
Are you ruling our hardcover books that still get written and published? I'm on email mailing lists of two small/Independent publishers, and they still make books. And where I live, there's a book binders workshop on my stre
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by jkepler 3y ago
Maybe revolut.com.
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by jkepler 3y ago
And my memory of Florida law (when I was signing an apartment rental contract 4 years ago) was that any electronic signature agreed to by the contracting parties was valid. So I simply typed my name in the contract, emailed it to my landlor
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by jkepler 3y ago
Such as the politicization of everything, or the abandoning of teaching basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in favor of woke political agendas, or perhaps due to the hollowing out of cultural/religious consensus and the corre
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by jkepler 3y ago
Sources for you data claims, please?
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by jkepler 3y ago
Probem is, at least in terms of the climate debate, climate alarmism and mainstream media says that there's scientific consensus, but at least when I read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 5th report in 2015, they di
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by jkepler 3y ago
> * Software needs maintenance. You can't just build an app an call it a day, you need to employ a team to maintain it continuously. You can build a massive, gargantuan bridge and maintain it maybe every few years/half a decade
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by jkepler 3y ago
Cash is king for privacy. Pay with cash as often as possible. Walk or bicycle. Write paper letters, mail them with cash-purchased stamps. Looks tuff up at the library. Use an analog film camera, physical maps and a compass to navigate. If y
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by jkepler 3y ago
In the US 2020 elections, there are plenty of convincing explanations of the mishaps[1], yet Trump's base couldn't be bothered to take time to read the explanations. I say that based on my conversations with friends who still beli
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by jkepler 3y ago
Much of it is public record. And if you don't have time to wade through the data, the court cases Trump's campaign litigated provide a wealth of one the record, sworn testimony and evidence.[1] I was amazed to read, for example, i
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by jkepler 3y ago
I agree things have become far more contentious since 2020. Trump's campaign used that controversy to fund-raise for "legal defense" but the small print in his campaign emails I received also said the funds could be used to p
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by jkepler 3y ago
Forgot to link the Michigan Senate report: https://misenategopcdn.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/99/doccume...
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by jkepler 3y ago
This isn't the first time spreadsheet errors have messed with election results. It was a column error in tabulated election results that cause all the conflict in 2020 in Antrim county, Michigan. Any computer folks who took the time to
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by jkepler 3y ago
The QR scan/generate app I use always presents me the scanned data in text form and asks me to verify if I want to visit the URL or not. I don't know why anyone would chois an app that doesn't afford the user that basic level
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by jkepler 3y ago
Use a better QR scanner app. I use Privacy Friendly Apps' "Privacy Friendly QR Scanner", which always presents you with the scanned URL or text in the app before doing anything, and asks you to verify that you want to visit t
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by jkepler 3y ago
Why don't they use IRC with public logs? Or a stack exchange style support wiki, so that it becomes documentation over time.
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by jkepler 3y ago
BlockTris
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by jkepler 3y ago
I'm not sure how you can say that an owner-operated family farm is socialist. The family owns the capital in the farm, and profits from its use. That's pretty capitalistic. What seems far more socialist is the crony capitalism of
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by jkepler 3y ago
No! Creating more money doesn't create wealth. We need to cap the money supply, let working people save in money that isn't being stolen from them by design (central banks target rates of inflation), and trust that with the deflat
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by jkepler 3y ago
Low-wage industries wouldn't necessarily be a problem of the currency's purchasing power was rising rather than falling. But in most "developed" economies, we're institutional used theft via central banks targeting
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by jkepler 3y ago
I'm not sure US agro-business would survive at scale without the massive federal subsidies it receives. The little guys in the US don't get the benefit of the government money on anywhere near the scale of the big firms. Large agr
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by jkepler 3y ago
> Workers are being squeezed on one end and small farmers are being squeezed on the other, and the gains go somewhere else entirely while small communities fall into despair and die out. This seems to have all started when we turned the

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