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by torium 1y ago
Seconded. Few people alive have contributed as much to society.
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by torium 1y ago
Funny, because last time I said I thought it highly suspicious that GrapheneOS supports only hardware built by a surveillance corporation, I was told tinfoil hat.
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by torium 1y ago
I am also one of those people who "don’t usually do a lot of networking stuff", so here's a question. The article contains this: #replace eth0 with the interface open to the internet (e.g might be wlan0 if wifi) Pos
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by torium 1y ago
Yes, and why is it always furry garbage? Never seen quality stuff made by furries.
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by torium 1y ago
Linus Torvalds, best living programmer. Change my mind.
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by torium 1y ago
Powerful entities getting a pass, bad. Individuals getting a pass, good. See, it just depends on how you slice the Venn diagram. With a bit of imagination you'll be able to start connecting the dots by yourself in no time.
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by torium 1y ago
If you don't see why this is oppressive, that's really a _you_ problem.
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by torium 1y ago
Torrents are also a good thing on the internet.
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by torium 1y ago
Would you share with us what kind of job you do? I keep seeing people saying how amazing it is to code with these things, and I keep failing at it. I suspect that they're better at some kinds of codebases than others.
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by torium 1y ago
I think that technical people tend to see their area of expertise the most fundamental one, from which everything else derives. This guy specialized in security and so he thinks that the concepts that he learned underlying everything, and e
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by torium 1y ago
I use Obsidian every day, though I'm not a "poweruser" - I don't think I've ever installed an extension (presumably there'll be some default ones that are installed). Yes, I know Obsidian.
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by torium 1y ago
Spoken like someone who's never been inside an assembly line.
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by torium 1y ago
> Anki’s fatal flaw is that you think you are learning content, but you’re actually just memorizing rectangles. I totally believe this. It's 100% in line with my observations about Duolingo. I know people who put in a lot of time in
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by torium 1y ago
> The first sentence of the documentation already says it: "turn any set of notes into a powerful database No, horrible job at explaining. What does it mean to turn any set of notes into a powerful database? What does it mean to &qu
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by torium 1y ago
Could you expand? How does using tor makes you stick out like a sore thumb?
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by torium 1y ago
Sounds like the same argument that Russia uses to invades its neighbors. "There's Russians there, therefore..."
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by torium 1y ago
Disgusting. If I access 4chan only through tor, will I be safe from these tirants?
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by torium 1y ago
> Beyond that, Elon has a history of making claims and promises which don't pan out Unbelievably generous take, to the point of naivity. When describing his cars abilities, he said they can go from car park in New York to car park i
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by torium 1y ago
> If you download software packages from the internet, you may have noticed that some of them are signed with a GPG key. This is done to ensure that the software package has not been tampered with during the download process. I wonder if
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by torium 1y ago
No one would contribute such an idiotic thing. This was obviously AI generated.
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by torium 1y ago
> Is there any reason to run Debian as a user, as opposed to a sysadmin? I love running Debian on my servers, it's boring and rock-solid. Boring and rock-solid is also how I like my desktop.
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by torium 1y ago
Funny that we know the same obscure youtuber.
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by torium 1y ago
Since you're old enough, here's a question for you. Do you remember if at the time the first spellcheckers were invented, people were negative on spellcheckers, because that would mean that soon people would stop learning how to s
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by torium 1y ago
Wouldn't typoglycemia be lack of typos in your blood? Don't you mean the opposite?
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by torium 1y ago
Didn't work for Chrome, so it's self-evident that it's a stupid idea. People don't learn.
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by torium 1y ago
Like I said above, people just don't learn!
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by torium 1y ago
Oh really? I completely missed that. I thought what they were offering was an e-ink display with a latency that's low enough to use as computer screen. It's possible I just can't read.
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by torium 1y ago
My point was that if the people who control X have interest that X be Y, then X will become Y over time, even if it's not Y currently. Sure maybe the people with Google phone X but over time we should expect that Google will find a way
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by torium 1y ago
> Just a month ago lots of you on this site were telling me that 51% attacks on blockchains were almost entirely theoretical. Here's another one (and changing subject): point out that GrapheneOS, which is a privacy focused mobile OS
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by torium 1y ago
You don't see the glare on the left hand side? Are you trolling me? https://imgur.com/AsMMNmi https://imgur.com/a/kHBiPmu

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