redmajor12

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by redmajor12 11mo ago
With ICE cars, typically manufacturer warranties only are valid for the original purchaser.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
They traded user experience for developer egos. Ego is the equivalent of wealth in the OSS world, just as it is in academia. KDE 4 developers had some grand ideas to push on the world, such as the semantic web, regardless of whether or not
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by redmajor12 2y ago
That was a bad time for KDE. They pushed 4 out with a lot of fanfare and it turned out that GUI wise it was a bad windows vista clone that broke every great established KDE 3.5 application. Definite enshitification. They took something grea
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by redmajor12 2y ago
It's not strange. Mozilla Foundation is a non profit and Google is not.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Taiwan is composed of the refugee losers of the Chinese civil war. That gives them zero legitimacy to continue as anything but a breakaway state occupying a formerly Chinese province.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Supporting peace?! That's a right wing cause now?
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Ukraine is not a formal ally of the United States.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
When did Zelensky's presidential term expired again?
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by redmajor12 2y ago
How is the Jones Act responsible for the failure of domestic ship building? Seems like the Jones Act didn't go far enough if we really cared about a strong domestic ship building industry.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
It's still basically another mac address or unique identifier for the system, regardless of which local network it happens to be on. Great for being tracked by FAANG, I guess, but I'd rather for my devices use a generic local IP a
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by redmajor12 2y ago
I don't want all my devices to have their own unique address. The internet dream that created ipv6 is dead. It's malware, spyware, surveillance capitalism now, and the more obscurity through layers of addresses, the better.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
The problem with trebuchets though is that the trebuchet makers are less well connected politically, so there's less opportunities for graft along the way.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
It depends if the plane is pressurized or not. There's no xray or other security theater for turbo prop flights.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Same in Germany. Graffiti everywhere; walls, buildings, fences, signs, historic monuments. It's awful and I don't know why they can't manage to do anything about it, but it also seems like no one cares about it as a problem t
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by redmajor12 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the...
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by redmajor12 2y ago
For someone who has only used offline, local password vaults, what is the advantage of a cloud-based solution (for personal use, not enterprise)? I'm interested in their self hosted option, but not sure what the advantages would be ove
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Or later, seeing how long it took to load /usr/bin in a filemanager.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Wayland as a just protocol... Isn't that the same argument they used when it shipped without copy/paste or a screensaver?
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Removing support for Radeon VII is a bonehead move that smacks of stupidity or greed. The cards were targeted for enthusiast gamers but have enterprise level hardware, like HBM2 memory and 1 TB/s bandwidth.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Twitter was never slim or lightweight. At the time, I remember checking its page weight only to find the website loaded over 100k of scripts and other cargo. With a 140 character limit, one can only conclude that the other 99.9% was malware
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by redmajor12 2y ago
The IDF has been entirely dependent on US and European armaments and funds for all of its battles, with the only exception being the '47 independence war. Since then, Israel has been a Western military-industrial client state. The curr
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by redmajor12 2y ago
True, but Israel could be seen as just the latest Crusade.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Western Europe went through ~200 years of brutal religious wars from the advent of Protestantism. The same is going on in the Mideast, it just started only 100 years ago with the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Is PTC the first step in getting rid of human engineers, billed as a safety system?
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Maintaining NATO also ensures American hegemony over Europe and potentially the most disruptive global competitor. It may be expensive, but we know that left to their own devices the Europeans are wont to start a war amongst themselves, ove
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by redmajor12 2y ago
This whole thread reads like two chatgpt bots talking to each other. HN needs a flag for obvious LLM content.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
But this chaos fits Big Tech's claim that there are not enough American workers, so they can then turn around and onshore H1Bs from the hiring manager's hometown back in the old country.
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by redmajor12 2y ago
Why should the individual end user be concerned about CO2 emissions? Or are we letting corporations in China outsource that guilt back to us?
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by redmajor12 2y ago
What about the chicken hawks?
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by redmajor12 2y ago
What I liked about this in Blade Runner, was that if replicants are "people" (more the topic of the first movie), then it's not much of a stretch to consider software-AI as people, too. It would have been great if this questi

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