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by mac-attack 1y ago
I had a similar experience with GrapheneOS. There is a balance in act between continuing down the privacy rabbit hole versus being able to communicate effectively with your social circle and it is easy to double down on privacy at the cost
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by mac-attack 1y ago
As a Linux user, I do think there's a bit of an echo chamber which leads to groupthink such as this article. And it's ironic because a lot of the underpinnings of AI use Linux as their underpinning.
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Analysing Seven Years of Music Streaming Data (2024)(osc.garden)
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by mac-attack 1y ago
Good luck! The first thing that comes to mind for me is how will you differentiate yourself from taskwarrior (it is also open source and based off of getting things done) I'm assuming you won't have to understand or use the comman
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by mac-attack 1y ago
It's good to see someone with documentation as most of the post I've seen have just been marketing related.
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by mac-attack 2y ago
This is where I'm struggling. I have Bluesky comments set up but am of the impression that mastodon comments will be completely separate and clunky as a result
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by mac-attack 2y ago
Another good resource is https://searchmysite.net It is great for searching the indieweb with your interests as the keywords
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by mac-attack 2y ago
I agree and would add that people aren't machines either. The concept of 'fire everyone and rehire who is essential' seems to lack comprehension of human psychology. It seems analogous to 'cheat on everyone and marry the
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by mac-attack 2y ago
Please let me know if you know of any options to streamline the process.
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by mac-attack 2y ago
"The new commands, by contrast, aim to clearly separate the responsibilities of git checkout into two narrower categories: operations which change branches and operations which change files." Simple, concise breakdown
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by mac-attack 2y ago
False alarms for the most part appear to be just someone scanning and disregarding an issue like surveillance watching someone to make sure they aren't stealing in the supermarket. There are more intrusive ones, but that appears to be
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by mac-attack 2y ago
Literal survivorship bias. Woof
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by mac-attack 2y ago
Timely as ever
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by mac-attack 2y ago
Because you need to be/stay elected in order to enforce policy. As an aside, one could easily replace 'crypto-currency' with 'fascism' in your comment to accurately describe why Republicans are following a similar t
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by mac-attack 2y ago
I'll bite. How does Spotify benefit from paying $10m to an artist that few people have heard of/listen to?
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by mac-attack 2y ago
Never hurts to read the article first: "It’s small and unobtrusive, and no matter what you do with it (click any button, close it, etc) it’ll go away until next year. It’s implemented as a KDE Daemon (KDED) module, which allows users a
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by mac-attack 2y ago
I'm sticking w/ Claude for the foreseeable future as they seem less slimy than OpenAI/Microsoft/Google so far and care about safety. I'm in the same boat waiting for an Android app btw. One other feature that I&#x27
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by mac-attack 2y ago
> It would be like telling the government that no, in fact they are the ones who are wrong and no, I didn’t break the law it is in fact their laws which are broken. Reminds me of the Wirecard scandal doc on Netflix. Wirecard was so power
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by mac-attack 2y ago
Great read, thanks for sharing
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by mac-attack 2y ago
Last summer, I dual booted Linux for a few weeks and then made the plunge. My reason was that my desktop didn't meet the TPM requirements and I saw the writing on the walls re: subscriptions as a service, Reddit API apocalypse, etc. To
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by mac-attack 2y ago
> One thing I absolutely love about online discourse: shit all over someone, then block them. It is something that you don't see with in-person communications Ummm dating and breakups?
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by mac-attack 2y ago
And I think that the inability to explicitly confirm relationships w/ Stripe et al are ways that users cannot determine whether they are paying w/ their data on top of their monthly costs.
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by mac-attack 3y ago
There's a deep dive into it via the 'Search Engine' podcast (Has PJ Vogt from 'Reply All' fame). The episode is called "Who's behind these spammy texts that I keep getting" https://open.spo
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by mac-attack 3y ago
With all due respect, they are not doing a sleight of hand while selling widgets... they are in the process of reshaping society in a way that may have never been achieved previously. Finding out that their initial motives were a facade doe
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by mac-attack 3y ago
To summarize, eBike users are more likely to use their bikes than regular bike users. Click-bait adjacent title.
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by mac-attack 3y ago
Any links in the self-hosting options? I had some saved but lost them.
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by mac-attack 3y ago
Woof. Flashes of the climate summit week in Saudi.
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by mac-attack 3y ago
Kudos to Casey Newton. Looking forward to his informal breakdown on Hard Fork podcast tomorrow.
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by mac-attack 3y ago
After being a Chromebook user since 2013, last year I transitioned my latest Chromebook to a chrultrabook for privacy purposes and to actively avoid Google. I did install Linux on a Windows laptop initially, but the Chromebook keyboard layo
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by mac-attack 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. Starred it for a rainy day

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