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by vga42 7mo ago
Great question. Force of habit that I really should get better from. USA used to be cool (or so I thought) back when I started participating in this place. They have sunk very low in the last 15 years. Let's make this actionable. This
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by vga42 7mo ago
I think you're absolutely on point and right that you shouldn't be listening to me, a potential internet nobody. There's no way you could tell me or anyone here apart from an AI at this point. You should be listening to actua
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by vga42 7mo ago
Non-paywalled article here: https://archive.is/Maalh
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by vga42 7mo ago
Gabe is pretty cool and Valve is an amazing company that has done great things for both PC and Linux gaming. But this is not enough to counter the absolute shitshow that is USA right now. But hey, they have midterms coming up this year. Tha
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by vga42 7mo ago
"Fascist" is not a buzzword. It's your political reality. Are you culpable of letting that reality be?
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by vga42 7mo ago
That's kind of an odd thing to point out. If my buds are stronger, I use less of them. It's like having a bottle of beer vs bottle of whiskey. I don't exactly imbibe them in the same way, do I?
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by vga42 7mo ago
If only it was legal, I'd happily replace my alcohol use with cannabis, and I don't think I'm alone in my age group. Not a big surprise that that yields improved brain health.
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by vga42 8mo ago
I thought it was utterly interesting, like I was reading a sci-fi novel that was actually happening right now.
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by vga42 8mo ago
Sure, but how many people/companies are perfectly served by serverless functions + queues + gateway + database + file service? I'd guess >90%. How much of that remaining 10% can be adequately patched by lauching virtual servers
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by vga42 8mo ago
>OpenStack by Huawei If you mean to say that OpenStack is made by Huawei, that is not true. They are a major contributor and a platinum member of that open source project, though.
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by vga42 8mo ago
>and it most likely works that way in your country as well. Wow. It absolutely does not. What the fuck?
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Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War(hntrbrk.com)
5 points by vga42 8mo ago|1 comments
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by vga42 8mo ago
I have used this for a few hours now, and it's pretty great! I'm quite thirsty for replacing American tech with European tech, so it's pretty cool that Mistral is this good now. It has broken editor integration (Zed) though a
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by vga42 8mo ago
>If the officers believed the armed man they were scuffling with fired a shot then it wouldn't be murder. Is that really how it works in USA? A belief that an incapacitated person fired an accidental shot is grounds for murder and e
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by vga42 8mo ago
Didn't the execution of Pretti get videoed? Wouldn't it be trivial to find out from the audio whether his gun fired accidentally before ICE murdered him? And to be clear: they murdered him and as far as I can tell, none of them ar
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by vga42 8mo ago
Helium Browser's existence finally probably weaned me off of Firefox. RIP, was nice using you for 20 years. But don't worry guys, given my selection strategies' success lately, this will mean that Firefox's user count wi
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by vga42 8mo ago
I was vacationing in New York, and we went to some pretty standard-looking mall bookshop somewhere near Poughkeepsie some time in mid 90s. And I bought an interesting looking comic book, something I had never seen before. I liked Dilbert fo
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by vga42 8mo ago
> Sorry but there's no way #BEGIN_xxx is better than ``` Ok, I can give you that as a subjective thing you might have. > or 4-space indent. Ok, you saying this practically invalidates every single opinion you have on everything.
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by vga42 8mo ago
>Can anyone tell me an actual reason to use Org mode over Markdown? I think the reason in general is simply that org-mode is better, i.e. more carefully defined. I'll mention the things I like more specifically: - Link syntax in mar
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by vga42 8mo ago
> hiding emergency door That's a horrible mistake from their part, but has nothing to do with UX. >Curious how did you consider a car forcing a giant tablet interactions ... opening a "top of the line" ux, compared, say
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by vga42 8mo ago
>1. Why Musk made such a hard-right turn politically, alienating most of his customers. People on the left were always far more likely to buy an EV than those on the right. Yeah, makes no sense. Also anecdotally, I bought their EV out of
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by vga42 8mo ago
Yeah, I was also utterly disappointed at Volkswagen early last year. After Musk's nazi moment, we started looking for a replacement, and after months of reading about how Tesla is the worst car that has ever existed, I thought this wou
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by vga42 9mo ago
This one is probably also -- if not completely invented by -- at least seriously boosted by russotrolls. And weaponized for several pro-Russia talking points, such as campaigning against Kamala Harris ("she is not against Israel so don
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by vga42 9mo ago
I testdrove a BYD Sealion early last year. A presumptuous piece of junk with a lot of style over substance was my verdict. China seems to be really interested in over-doing americans in this sense.
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by vga42 9mo ago
Some scams are pretty great.
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by vga42 9mo ago
I'm always baffled by the language used for acquisitions. More correct would be, "ManusAI gets bought off by Meta".
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by vga42 9mo ago
I think software outsourcing will die with AI, since there's less and less reason to not just do everything in-house. So the companies themselves that used to outsource before will capture the gains.
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by vga42 9mo ago
This would be awesome. However, EU declaring this is a bit like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy.
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by vga42 9mo ago
How to say that you don't understand taxation without saying you don't understand taxation.
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by vga42 9mo ago
I'm just guessing here: Because the "discussion" is either direct propaganda, or people affected by the propaganda spreading the propaganda.

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