neotek

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by neotek 4mo ago
I saw the mechanism in person recently on a trip to Greece and it was a strangely electric experience. That such a thing could have been made two thousand years ago is hard to believe. It seems almost supernatural, an artefact of time trave
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by neotek 1y ago
Seems to me there are quite a lot of people for whom the cruelty of what they're doing really is the only point, whatever other arguments they might make.
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by neotek 1y ago
That's called the naturalistic fallacy, and there's a clue in the name that should indicate how reliable an argument it is. And re "nutritionally inferior", every dietetics and nutrition peak body on the planet agrees th
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by neotek 1y ago
"Now" as in "all of those things are true now, but they weren't when this project started ten years ago."
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by neotek 2y ago
How do you figure? Is distrust of the CIA anti-Americanism?
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by neotek 2y ago
First thing I used to install on macOS was Binaryage's superb asepsis utility, which intercepts the creation of .ds_store files and redirects them all to a local container folder, until SIP killed its development. It always seemed susp
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by neotek 2y ago
So many fond memories of building eggdrop bots with Tcl scripts in the good old days of IRC. Trivia games, quote dbs, channel management, nick squatting, all sorts of shit.
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by neotek 2y ago
WACUP can!
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by neotek 2y ago
Seconding WLED, it's fantastic. Super easy to install and operate, compatible with HomeAssistant, the built in effects are great, the web app / native mobile apps are powerful but straightforward, and the community offers plenty o
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by neotek 2y ago
You missed the point spectacularly.
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by neotek 2y ago
"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting som
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by neotek 3y ago
I did the same thing, only my program pretended to be a DOS-based Novell Netware login screen. It was just a simple QBASIC program (that's all that was available on the Computer Room machines) running under my own login, which would wr
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by neotek 4y ago
>pman Oh man. I didn't know just how badly I needed this in my life, thank you!
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by neotek 4y ago
Why does it seem like every single crypto company inevitably engages in shady business practices and ends up collapsing in a scandal? How hard can it be to just make a shitload of money taking your skim from trades or lending at appropriate
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by neotek 5y ago
Microsoft puts ads in the file explorer, pre-loads its OS with bloatware and unremovable (other than by using third-party hacks) system tray icons for software nobody wants or cares about, spies on absolutely everything all of the time, and
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by neotek 5y ago
>Apple is one of the world's biggest proliferators of e-waste through indirect means. This seems like a very disingenous way of saying that Apple is one of the largest companies on the planet and sells hundreds of millions of device
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by neotek 5y ago
Some people on HN start their link indexes at 1, some start them at 0. I, an intellectual, start them at -1.
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by neotek 5y ago
Oh man, what a blast from the past. Another great site in the same vein was Acts of Gord[-1], which followed the exploits of a used game store manager. Similarly semi-apocryphal and perhaps a little overstated, but highly enjoyable. [-1] h
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by neotek 5y ago
Blender is truly one of the most incredible pieces of software I’ve ever used in my entire life. The user interface may look daunting at first glance, but it’s actually incredibly intuitive to use and contains a host of amazingly powerful f
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by neotek 6y ago
What’s your use case, if you don’t mind me asking?
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by neotek 6y ago
Parler has (had) ten million accounts, over half of which were considered active, that’s hardly a small number. And the big and obvious difference between Parler and Facebook is that Parler wilfully ignored disgusting and credible calls to
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by neotek 6y ago
Healing requires you to eliminate the disease, you don’t just forgive the cancer and assume it won’t spread.
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by neotek 6y ago
Peacefully knocking together a working set of gallows, complete with noose.
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by neotek 6y ago
You may know this already, but just in case: the iOS camera app has a QR reader built in, just point the camera at a valid code and it’ll automatically display a tooltip containing the URL which will open in Safari if you tap it.
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by neotek 6y ago
>The whole copyright strike system is in addition to the DMCA, and is part of what was negotiated with the labels (in addition to ContentID). That's completely false, and all you need do is click the links I provided to see that it
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by neotek 6y ago
>No, the DMCA allows for counter claiming and it not being an issue. Google's policies go beyond what's required for the DMCA, and stem from the early several billion dollar copyright lawsuit they settled out of court with the
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by neotek 6y ago
As a retailer who has been stung by this bullshit with PayPal many times in the past, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the payment doesn't go through ever, at all. It isn't flagged and reviewed, it's just outright
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by neotek 6y ago
The app is well worth downloading, and given how much time I've wasted just futzing around in it, I was more than happy to pay a few bucks to unlock the additional features. Really superb.
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by neotek 6y ago
If that's the stuff they're willing to openly brag about, it makes me wonder what dirtier things they're doing behind closed doors.
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by neotek 6y ago
The last time I looked, the money Apple earned from the entirety of the MFi program — not just cables, but every single third-party Apple accessory on Earth — made up less than one half of one percent of their annual revenue. It's such

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