kiryin

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by kiryin 5y ago
You'd think the "think of the children" gag has already more than served it's purpose in this world, but then stuff like this pops up...
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by kiryin 5y ago
Oh the irony of fate...
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by kiryin 5y ago
I can't recommend PIA anymore after the acquisition. It used to be my choice ever since using a VPN became a necessity, but these it's Mullvad for me. They're relatively transparent, allow me to pay anonymously in cash, and a
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by kiryin 5y ago
A commenter below us put it rather nicely: "Advertising is a huge business predicated entirely on manipulating people to make purchases they otherwise wouldn't, surgically exploiting weaknesses in our psyche."
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by kiryin 5y ago
I strongly believe that advertising by definition is unethical in all of it's forms and "block" ads to the best of my ability, in real life as well. I do not view ads that reach me by mail, and as for billboards and posters I
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by kiryin 5y ago
I agree with everything but the latex part. Something like HTML 3.2 is a better fit for hypertext documents. There's no need to re-invent anything, only remove the feature creep and cancerous bullshit. That's easier said than done
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by kiryin 5y ago
For those who may not know, this is a front-end to LibGen. I like the search feature more and use it now and then, but for me the 5-downloads-per-24h limitation is usually quite limiting.
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by kiryin 5y ago
I dunno. I had my doubts for the longest time but recently I've started, little by little, placing my bets on Flatpak. Snap can go to hell, for reasons exhaustively discussed here and elsewhere, but Flatpak is reasonably solid, open an
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by kiryin 5y ago
A good refresher as to why a netflix subscription isn't worth my time or money. Gonna add these to my seedbox for that sweet sweet ratio though.
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by kiryin 5y ago
I've read about this so much, I wonder if B/W printers have anything similar? Is there a secret yellow cartridge somewhere in my printer that I don't know about?
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by kiryin 5y ago
I used to use scanners, until I bought a new Brother laser printer and discovered that the scanner feature requires a proprietary driver on the computer end. It's sad as Brother printers tend to work really well with linux, for printin
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by kiryin 5y ago
It's pretty cool. When you think about it, the backslash is kind of a useless character, apart from windows paths and escapes I can't think of much use for it, both of which are rather arbitrary. As far as I know it has no real us
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by kiryin 5y ago
First off, do yourself a favor and avoid snap like plague. It's vendor lock-in and horrible. I use flatpak precisely as you describe. It's for graphical desktop applications, "apps", basically stuff like Firefox, Libreof
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by kiryin 5y ago
I wonder what likes and dislikes are even for. They don't generate income for channel owners afaik, nor do they affect the recommendation algorithm for users, also afaik. Only views "matter." Especially if the other half gets
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by kiryin 5y ago
This is the right way to go. Teach, don't block. You fuck up your relationship to your kids if you force them to keep secrets from you and constantly "fight" against you. Because trust me, that's how it'll end up.
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by kiryin 5y ago
What do you think should be done? What methods are there, besides harsh economic sanctions, to control entities which break regulations and detriment free society? Clearly something needs to happen, something with impact. Pray to the invisi
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by kiryin 5y ago
This is inexcusably disgusting. Reminds me of the bullshit Amazon feeds their employees about unions.
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by kiryin 5y ago
I belong to the camp that believes in using the defaults when it comes to ciphers. I am not an expert in cryptography, nor do I like copypasting stuff I don't fully understand. The openssh guys know this stuff better than I do and I th
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by kiryin 5y ago
The way to fix this, along with most issues I see in modern web search, is for search engines to penalize SEO swindling heavily instead of rewarding it. I dare say it's one of the most destructive and terrible aspects of ad tech.
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by kiryin 5y ago
I don't personally keep in touch with people so I can't really say how it's like, but I do know that it's popular around my neck of the woods. On par with whatsapp, it feels like.
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by kiryin 5y ago
I sincerely hope this does not work and they continue to carry the stigma they've rightfully earned.
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by kiryin 5y ago
A little bit off-topic perhaps but I have to take the opportunity to mention how much I love James Grime and his videos on numberphile. In my opinion, he has the most entertaining and compelling way of explaining and teaching the subject at
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by kiryin 5y ago
As a Japanese learner, this has been a massive disappointment in unicode for me, and a pain in my ass. It has sort of formed into a challenge for me, trying to get the characters to display consistently on all of my devices. Believe it or n
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by kiryin 5y ago
I, for one, do not like this. Software that doesn't exist on your computer, but instead gets ephemerally downloaded from a server somewhere when you wish to use it, is about as anti-user-freedom as I can possibly imagine. I can ony hop
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by kiryin 5y ago
This has largely been my experience as well, also using Fedora but I doubt that matters much. I rarely have issues, in comparison to the endless stream of ACPI and other hurdles other people seem to be going through with their laptops. Also
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by kiryin 5y ago
The lack of analytics is a good thing. It's none of your business what I read, you already have it in your server logs that I've added your feed to my reader. I do not wish to feel like a tool and an asset of some company simply b
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by kiryin 5y ago
Yes, they amount to absolutely nothing in this context. When you use Firefox, your bookmarks bar gets covered up while you're typing an URL. When using chrom(e|ium) or its plethora of derivatives, you're actively contributing to
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by kiryin 5y ago
The criticism that people in these communities come up with is limited to button placement and pixel-to-pixel tab bar height, I wouldn't take any of it seriously. Especially in the current web browser climate, it's laughable. It&#
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by kiryin 5y ago
People saying that the laws are only there to ruin your business are mainly non-Europeans who have at most read a shallow blog posts on the topic, also written by non-Europeans. The EU laws and regulations are quite simple to follow, and I
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by kiryin 5y ago
Is that somehow at odds with what I want? If I search for "can you trust the police," I want both sides of the story. I want information and opinions from varied sources in order to get a comprehensive picture of the topic, upon w

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