mavrc

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by mavrc 3y ago
> Unions are forced participation. They quite literally are not, at least not in the US; half the states have right-to-work laws that prohibit this explicitly, and there are likely some protections even in the states that don't have
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by mavrc 3y ago
I was there too. People always say this, but just because a thing changed once does not mean it will happen again. In this case, the population scale alone has changed by over an order of magnitude. Just doing some quick searching - the fir
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by mavrc 5y ago
> Or how JKR on Harry Potter went from being vilified by conservative voices to the modern "She who will not be named" of Lefty HBO. well, that's for one very specific and notable reason alone, not because of some shifting
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by mavrc 5y ago
> Seems like a Microsoft issue to me. except that any app could do this, and it just happens to be Teams that did.
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by mavrc 5y ago
i'd like to be able to store a phone on the shelf with a properly conditioned battery, to be able to disable the radios during flight, or frankly anywhere else I don't want to be located. Interesting how different people have diff
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by mavrc 7y ago
> Why are people so down on DNS over HTTPS? It added yet another thing I have to implement, test and maintain through whatever changes they decide to make. Nothing like adding extra work for every enterprise IT team to make new friends.
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by mavrc 7y ago
> Greed and morality can't mix. I personally support morals. Hold up, your position is that users that prefer something 'easy to use' as opposed to something 'powerful' are immoral ? What am I missing here?
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by mavrc 7y ago
> Regardless of our views on encryption, we need to have a conversation about that shift. Not trying to be snarky here: I don't understand what this conversation looks like. What does it look like? What purpose does it serve, what
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by mavrc 7y ago
I'm also a huge FOSS nerd and it makes my personal AND professional life a lot easier, and I totally agree with you. If the problem is that the ruthless winner-take-all nature of professional environments is destroying open source, the
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by mavrc 7y ago
Walled gardens and exclusives are mutually exclusive. Perhaps you're thinking of CD Projekt Red, who have actually been fighting exclusives and walled gardens for quite some time.
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by mavrc 8y ago
> Anyone who can connect a device to their wireless network, run a program, and forward a port can get equivalent functionality I am very capable of all of those things and I don't agree. To install a camera on my porch somewhere, I
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by mavrc 9y ago
Having done this myself, in my case, a quick email to the Humble support team got the order cancelled and I was able to re-order at the correct price. I agree that it would be nice if the price required active confirmation; it's too ea
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by mavrc 9y ago
I've had a few friends volunteer for this already; in my limited experience they are typically used only for a period of time (weeks not years) and are typically marketed as "use our tracking device and get a safety discount.&quot
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by mavrc 9y ago
While you're right in theory, in practice, the OP is right. Pai is chair because Trump was elected, the balance of the FCC board was skewed because of this as well, and so the only thing between us and a non-neutral internet is now gon
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by mavrc 9y ago
I am too. In particular, the idea of AI-driven ads to improve targeting to near-as-makes-no-difference perfect levels is rather unnerving. We're at a moment when the influence of companies or governments in social media is still somewh
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by mavrc 9y ago
The session management piece is my big sticking point. I've come to rely on Session Manager, but the developer has already stated it will not be ported because necessary APIs are not available through WebExtensions. Since Chrome has be
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by mavrc 9y ago
Ok, fine. The oldest pair of headphones that I own that work is older than my usage of the Internet. The oldest pair of headphones I own that I still use regularly I bought for college - and that was a long time ago. Assuming that everyone
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by mavrc 9y ago
> These are not useful applications, we just like them because of nostalgia. On the contrary; I have Paint.net and GIMP installed, I've experimented with both of them, and I still don't have a tool as quick and easy for marking
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by mavrc 9y ago
> And if they did and the industry said no, what should they have done? Distribute industry content with DRM, distribute their own content without, and see what the results are. Somebody's going to have to perform the experiment to
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by mavrc 10y ago
Koenigsegg has, according to their Wikipedia page, sold on the order of a couple hundred cars total. Tesla sold 76,000 cars in 2016.[1] By comparison, in 2016, Mercedes S-class sedans sold about 18,000 in the US [2] and another 15,000 in Eu
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by mavrc 10y ago
> The 'say' you have in government is much smaller than the 'say' you have in using Uber. I can choose not to use Uber any time I please. True. I have effectively no choice in ISP, and no choice in power company. At w
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by mavrc 10y ago
> So... a tech would just show up at your office, ready to fix the machine? Yes. They are expensive and deviously good at it. Or, at least they used to be many years ago. Many years back I worked in a tiny town (1000 people?) four hours
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by mavrc 10y ago
I upgraded to the latest version of the LastPass plugin direct from the LastPass site and it seems to work fine. For whatever reason, the one they have listed on AMO is a whole major version behind. https://lastpass.com/last
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by mavrc 10y ago
I know others have recommended this already, but I would also say that your best bet is to buy some Ubiquiti hardware. An EdgeRouter X + UniFI Pro dual-band AP is on the order of $200 from Amazon and has way, way better functionality than S
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by mavrc 10y ago
| "We don't support x feature, and therefore you can't distribute through our store." Of course, for iOS, this also means "you can't write apps for our platform."
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by mavrc 10y ago
On average, probably four out of five work days a week for me. My phone already indexes all of my podcasts and audiobooks, why wouldn't I want it to play them everywhere?
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by mavrc 10y ago
> Wrong. Facebook is for making money. I know you're not wrong here, but at what point does social responsibility trump profit? Should it?
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by mavrc 10y ago
> As a former therapist turned software engineer, herein lies the problem. 87% antidepressants? How are we defining "treatment?" Depression is a complex beast, and does it always require "treatment"? This is, admitted
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by mavrc 10y ago
...uses Google Analytics, and has a variety of social networking and ad trackers...
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by mavrc 10y ago
> How we got to the point where utility-style regulation is seen as the key to ensuring a free and open internet is a true puzzle. We can break it down quite simply. - Being an ISP is not a high margin business. - ISPs, like any other bu

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