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by vurpo 4y ago
Last time I went to CCC I was greeted with a giant Antifaschistische Aktion banner at the entrance. That made me feel pretty safe about the event (unironically).
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by vurpo 4y ago
Please read the beginning halves of sentences, not just the latter halves. As a European, this whole thread reeks _painfully_ American. I honestly had no idea what the original commenter was even talking about before I started reading repli
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by vurpo 4y ago
Noto Emoji and Noto Color Emoji are two different fonts. Do you somehow already have Noto Emoji (the new one) installed on your system?
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by vurpo 4y ago
TLS or SSL never meant that kind of safety in the first place. Even before LE, there was no guarantee that HTTPS means it's not a scam, and the PKI system has never been meant to guarantee that anyway! Let's Encrypt didn't ch
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by vurpo 4y ago
They didn't need to do that. They simply got their cert into browsers and OSes, and there you go.
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by vurpo 4y ago
That's a lot of text without giving any motivation for your main point. What makes an app package created by the app developer more "commercial" and anti-FOSS than an app package created by a distro-specific packager? What&#x
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by vurpo 4y ago
I don't know what kind of hoops Snap require to access files. Flatpak, however, has a pretty simple system for a fully sandboxed app to open a file or a directory: it just opens a file or directory picker, you pick a file or directory,
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by vurpo 5y ago
The 1541 was slow because the VIC-20 shipped with faulty hardware that couldn't move data on the serial port at full speed, so they patched their software to get it working at a much slower speed. The C64 didn't come with faulty h
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by vurpo 5y ago
Putin said in his recent speech that he thinks Lenin made a mistake in breaking up the Russian Empire into independent nations (that then joined the USSR). I think Putin is more after restoring the old Russian Empire than restoring the USSR
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by vurpo 5y ago
GPT-3 and these kind of natural language generators in general can already present opinions if prompted to do so. Depending on what you mean by "opinion", you might also require some memory to let it be consistent in what opinio
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by vurpo 5y ago
As unintuitive as it may seem, 3D printers are actually way simpler to DIY than 2D paper printers. An almost modern 3D printer could have been put together by a hacker in their basement in the 90s. The only reasons they didn't trend un
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by vurpo 5y ago
Clippy is a linter. You don't use linters by mechanically following its warnings as gospel, you use it by double-checking the code wherever it warns and removing the warning from that function if it's a false positive.
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by vurpo 5y ago
This process requires no requests, no processing, nothing at all. It's literally asking the user "do you want us to make extra requests and data processing, or not do anything at all?", so choosing the "no" option s
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by vurpo 5y ago
Disney+ most likely.
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by vurpo 5y ago
"freely giving away their data" is a misrepresentation. People are either putting up with their data being collected, or unaware that it is happening, because that is the only way many services can be accessed nowadays. I bet
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by vurpo 5y ago
Nothing can prove the negative. But if any shred of evidence comes out that they didn't comply, there will be severe consequences for them, which makes it at least reasonably safe to assume they will comply. It's hard to keep a
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by vurpo 5y ago
The issue is that GDPR isn't fundamentally about online data collection or tracking , it's about all data collection in general. You can't ban everyone from collecting data about anyone in all situations, because there are
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by vurpo 5y ago
Mass produced bread can be produced like that. There's nothing about the concept of mass production that forbids products from taking a long time to produce. Maybe in the US, nobody mass produces bread like that.
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by vurpo 5y ago
You'll appreciate a good font after having to read text printed in a bad one.
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by vurpo 5y ago
I live in Finland, and simply by Googling in Finnish I can find several companies reselling used company laptops, and there's at least one local one that I can physically go to (I've bought a used monitor from there, and they alwa
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by vurpo 5y ago
The differences between the two are extremely minimal, basically only relating to patent rights relating to the software. Go read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html - the FSF's Free Software definition
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by vurpo 5y ago
Did I miss something, or does the page not say what WX86 actually is?
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by vurpo 5y ago
Arduino is one of those projects that I think makes for an excellent place to start, but then you should move on from there once you understand how Arduino works. Arduino introduced uncountable amounts of people to microcontroller programmi
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by vurpo 5y ago
Tabbed browsing just has full-window tabs though. Was the ability to resize, move, and stack these windows within windows ever wanted by any significant amount of people, or is tabbed browsing just a better implementation of the same conc
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by vurpo 5y ago
"Guide" and "stop" are not only English words, but present in lots of European languages. "Shop" is a common loanword from English in lots of these European languages.
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by vurpo 5y ago
I think it's actually that human cultures are infinitely nested, with every group containing subgroups with some level of disdain towards each other. Conflicts on a higher level often seem to "override" conflicts on the lower
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by vurpo 5y ago
Natural selection only pushes towards the removal of things that harm reproduction, not things that harm survival at all ages. If appendicitis mostly happens after the average age of reproduction, then there's not really a big evolutio
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by vurpo 5y ago
It's a reference to an old HN comment back when the creation of Dropbox was announced here. Someone commented something along the lines of "you could just" do that whole thing with the FTP server etc. It's lived on as an
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by vurpo 5y ago
It's not known that there was a single point in time that was the start of our universe. Our current models can pretty reliably calculate the history of the universe back to a specific point, which would be 10^-32 seconds after this
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by vurpo 5y ago
It was a tool to remove a site from your own results. If you searched and saw a site you didn't like, you could click to no longer get the results from that site. It wouldn't affect what anyone else saw anywhere.

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