spencerflem

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by spencerflem 26d ago
Yes if you don’t mind getting arrested by our fascist border police
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by spencerflem 27d ago
Great list!
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
I tried both and found Fastmail vastly easier to use. The encryption part wasn’t that valuable for me and ofc Proton doesn’t encrypt the metadata and unless they’re proton too it’s not E2E so I’m happy sticking with Signal for that sorta st
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
Isn’t it being destroyed because it makes the scanning process easier?
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
ZOHO calls their Microsoft Office suite an OS I think. I feel like if it’s a platform app developers can target to run general purpose user facing software, it can be an OS.
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
In some sense, it is. Sandstorm called itself an OS too. Arcan calls itself an Overlay-OS. I think for any platform for general purpose computing that provides an application model that programs are written to target, it's close enough
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
Is it? I hear about 10xers all the time
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
Or documentation that everyone could read and refer to
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
SVG?
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
I am normally the first to complain that people in hacker news are biased against WMF in a way that seems forced and weird (oh no ! they’re sponsoring some cool open culture stuff in addition to running the website ! they pay for more than
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
We’ll see. Depends on the primaries. Institutional dems have a pitiful track record on holding people accountable. I expect we’ll see a lot of reaching across the isle and ‘moving forwards, not dwelling on the past’.
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Haha I think we have a different idea of which 1% is making life miserable
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Which is why it was a mistake to let Republicans vote
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Who’s saying not to build solar?
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Yeah it’s freaky. I work in tech too, I know I’m a villain lol
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Seems pretty obvious- that datacenters very measurably contribute to rising costs of electricity and climate change , and unlike aluminum processing or farming which makes things people want, is used for AI which a lot of people resent. It’
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes, and they’re using it for technology that disempowers and annoys people. It’s pretty obviously offensive. All for rezoning golf courses too
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
You can have free markets without investments, which imo is the key differentiator between Capitalism and what came before. That’s what ‘capital’ is in capitalism. In fact, capitalism tends to trend towards monopoly which is the opposite of
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
To be fair, if they first vocalize it they could just use Sparse Voxels which is my favorite differentiable rendering technique https://github.com/NVlabs/svraster
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
I didn’t notice there was a secondary link, sorry. For everyone else, consider this comment a recommendation to click through and watch it then :)
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
People Make Games just did a terrific documentary on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ&pp=0gcJCUECo7VqN5t...
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
The core idea of capitalism is that you spend money to make more money. Rich get richer is the basic idea, you invest and those investments make you more. It very necessarily leads to oligarchy when left unchecked.
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
I mean, you Can, but I like my friends and myself. I feel gross about the place I’m at and I don’t want to lose that feeling.
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
I was considering pretty heavily getting a teaching license
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Downvoters are wrong. Everything here is true. As someone who compromised their morals (not Facebook but other big tech) after being laid off, it was a choice
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
As I understand it- you can use free community provided relays, self-host your own, or pay for their managed services with an SLA and monitoring built in
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Having spent a while trying to understand it, I believe the keys are serving a dual purpose as an encryption key and as a stable identifier along the lines of a session cookie that might be used for a WebRTC video call. Here's my summa
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Yeah, the bio in About specifically mentions that they are not the famous one
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
I don’t understand the vision in the blog post, but I’m very excited to try out the Arcan-net as described in http://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2026/01/26/a12web/
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by spencerflem 4mo ago
Haha, good catch- we’re not.

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