toomanyducks

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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Reading this, I feel less offended (really, I don't understand the use of that word in politics) and more scared and threatened. I'm a :sparkles: gender minority :sparkles: so politics can get really directly influential really qu
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
As an addition to your request, I'd recommend reading some philosophy. If you want left-leaning, you can jump straight in with Marx, Foucault, and Judith Butler (some of my favorites), but you don't really need to. I'd just r
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
So... it's a GUI package manager with extra steps?
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
The above x100. Technology isn't a cheat code for a hard problem, it's just another tool. When we assume that tech fixes everything with no further research, everyone gets a lot worse off.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I can see how somebody would go down this line of reasoning, but I wouldn't. It requires too many steps when compared with my personal alternative: literally just some paper, an email inbox, and a semi-structured directory of notes ava
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Are there any more differences with qute? I've found the best solution to the web being broken is to use as little of the web as possible, but qute was the closest I think I came to tolerating it. Would I prefer Vieb?
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I'd go one step further in that analysis. Why does it feel that large companies are the most representative to the people (like me) claiming that consumption under capitalism is unethical? Well, I'm a bit of an anarchist, so I&#x2
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Are the produced mechanisms really the same when the incentives change? That's not really something I can quite get myself to believe. The incentives in free software, in my limited experience, are to grow a productively maintained sys
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Honestly I think this opens up a really interesting discussion in open source. I know this is satire, but bear with me. If I see a project, and I get curious about its test results, I can just look at the logs of the tests running and the
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Came here to say this. I also want to add that there are no solutions with the West's current consumption habits. If we all switch to electric cars today, oil might be doing okay, but we'll still be exploiting workers and raiding
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Ah, I see how I communicated that poorly - it's not that the meetings aren't there, it's that they're oriented towards production.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I do not expect this to be a popular opinion, but I am slightly entertained reading this from more of a Marxist perspective. > We used to make things. Now we have meetings. Well, of course. This is what happens when the purpose of a co
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
It might not be fair to assume that OSHA, etc, and the NSA, etc, operate under the same agenda. Some industries do have standards for tech. HIPAA, for instance, sets some minimum expectations for cyber security with regard to private heal
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I personally tried this for a few weeks: I set my clocks to GMT, and converted everyone else's silly little timezones into one unambiguous number. All I accomplished was memorizing the offset between GMT and local time and getting marg
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
We can't keep pretending that our justice system is utilitarian. It's so very clearly not about helping those that commit crimes improve themselves. If it was, we wouldn't be punishing people with literal torture methods such
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
If nothing else, that README is fantastic!
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Ask HN: How) should data be incrementally reclaimed from the cloud?
2 points by toomanyducks 5y ago|2 comments
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Bernard Friot(en.wikipedia.org)
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Some of the examples given wouldn't even run, as far as I know. Copilot writing Haskell/Rust/<insert your intricate type system lang here> would probably just fail to compile. I know very, very little about AI, but, l
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
But if a human isn't messing with the code, the code doesn't matter - what the bot does to the code matters. And if the bot can handle bad code in a way humans can't, that means something . Code quality will become less impo
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
This seems like a false equivalency between a given individual and the state: I can ask what weapons I'm allowed to have without asking what weapons the state is allowed to have.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
What's your argument here? That working towards something perfect is inherently a waste of effort? It should not need to be pointed out that trying to change things for the better does not have to create a utopia to be beneficial. Redu
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Why is the police department the one working to make the police department obsolete? That seems like mistake number one if we're going to try to demilitarize the police.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
The Liberal state has a monopoly on violence: whatever their violence is, like throwing someone into prison, is by nature justified in the eyes of the state.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
First off: no, that is not the abolish the police argument. The argument for police abolition is as part of a massive restructuring of how we think about crime, not how we think about police. It's about taking our focus away from pol
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
"The free marketplace of ideas" (and also classical liberalism) is hugely reliant on the idea of humans as rational agents (both the people selling and the people consuming). But when we're not, everything opens up to tons
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
to be fair, it's on the anarchist library, which is very much leftist in and of itself - this looks to be, largely, and exploration of the role of natural hierarchy in anarchism. so saying it's compatible with modern leftism as an
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BSA: The Dual Power Map(blacksocialists.us)
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Hm, I know pulse audio has a CLI that allows muting, you could probably hack something up in Bash, maybe with netcat to get messages from a keyboard daemon to the script.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
If you're talking about depth over breadth in some particular technology, that's not too hard: regardless of what project you're working on, you can shove the new technology into it. I'm learning some LISPs, and I'm

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