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by wvh 9d ago
Fascinating... I have a thing with maps. Does the information come from a central server that runs some open-source protocol for public transport, or is this gathered from different endpoints in different formats?
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by wvh 20d ago
This is interesting, I didn't know about Nebula. Anything to support less intrusive platforms and stop being followed for months by horrible content because you clicked on the wrong video.
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by wvh 20d ago
My aunt died of this last year. It took all of three months. That has given some food for thought in my family over what the most humane and merciful way to die is; 5 minutes and a heart attack, three months and this, or several years in ot
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by wvh 1mo ago
Please don't let it become acceptable to be yelled in the face every few minutes of the day by ads, commercials, notifications and other attacks on our perpetually overstimulated brains, most of which we have no control over at all. To
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by wvh 1mo ago
It's insane to think how much brain power, computing power, electricity and component lifecycle wear have been wasted through the years, yelling random stuff at me; or even worse than random; often stuff that is directly harmful to me.
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by wvh 2mo ago
We need a powerful non-profit / semi-governmental organisation that regularly tests all these things and tells it like it is. Something like Stiftung Warentest in Germany. People can make up their own mind about going for cheaper elect
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by wvh 2mo ago
It's not racism at all to be weary of (any) political system, its overreach and the incentives of the people living in it, be it China or America or Russia. The word racism is vastly overused these days.
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by wvh 2mo ago
This. If any country won't treat you like a guest, avoid travelling to it. If it's your own, that's harder to do – time to fight and change the system before it gets worse and will swallow you whole.
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by wvh 2mo ago
I've been digitising my music collection since 2000 and still buy CDs or, if available, lossless FLACs. I really wonder how many people still bother "owning" the music they like instead of "renting" it. It might be
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by wvh 2mo ago
This. I generally much rather watch a live video of the band performing the song interspersed with some behind the scene footage than some random badly acted (non-AI) slop video on top of the song. If you like the music, you probably want t
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by wvh 2mo ago
A lot of iconic scenes were at the discretion of the actors in those scenes. One wonders how much personality and complexity you can really get without the skills and idiosyncrasies of everybody in front of and behind the cameras on a real
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by wvh 2mo ago
Because the software industry doesn't pay anymore for constraints or doing things "the hard way". Everything is high-level language and by tomorrow. The day after it doesn't exist anymore anyway. I'd wish to get a p
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by wvh 2mo ago
If the US would truly try to raze Iran, they would do so at immense cost, both financially and reputationally. I have to wonder what your definition of "winning" is.
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by wvh 2mo ago
> In this situation I just don’t understand what people expect Russia to do?? To stay within its borders. And that counts for the others on this planet, too.
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by wvh 3mo ago
Perhaps darker than the initial mild optimism of the early internet.
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by wvh 3mo ago
It would hurt, for a while. Then people would wake up and slowly better solutions would appear. Not unlike post-Trump NATO. But the US would have lost its leader position and a large market. I think the EU needs a kick under the ass to stop
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by wvh 3mo ago
That's not how democracy works. You have responsibility and accountability. These people can and do real harm.
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by wvh 3mo ago
But do these intermediary commits run? I wouldn't mind making smaller commits, but usually wait until the changes result in a bunch of code that compiles and does what it should. It sounds as if you do checkpoints that don't neces
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by wvh 3mo ago
PGP had the right idea, but the system is too hard for the average person. With "system" I refer to building a web (or multiple!) of trust, based on parameters that you decide upon.
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by wvh 3mo ago
It is a slippery slope. I'm just hoping that a more surgical drone strike against a weapons factory will create less victims than the blunt force of a ballistic missile aimed "in the general direction of". In a way, technolog
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by wvh 3mo ago
The moral question is if you've unknowingly contributed to war, death and destruction, or if you are actually helping drones to accurately find real targets – which hopefully are not innocent civilians but legitimate military targets.
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by wvh 3mo ago
I guess one can only optimise the system for the majority following the beaten path. Some folks just have to find a way both through the world and through their own head.
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by wvh 3mo ago
I'd say there's at least a third reason: intellectual (or rather technical) curiosity of photography itself. Often, when I take a picture, it is just to see how a particular shot turns out, much less so for any sentimental value t
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by wvh 4mo ago
I've been telling less computer literate folks not to install random stuff since the nineties, and I can't understand how many devs are doing just that these days. I used to work in security auditing, and it makes me feel pretty j
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by wvh 4mo ago
I've been playing guitar since I was a little kid. I wonder how learning "two-handed" skills such as playing music impacts how "handy" or "polydextrous" one is. There are left-handed guitar players that pl
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by wvh 4mo ago
The alternative is/was of course to be stuck in a small space for several days with smokers showing withdrawal symptoms. Not sure I'd want to experience that in something like a submarine...
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by wvh 4mo ago
I've never owned anything from Apple, but this model has me interested in having something that can run commercial software (I'm a long-time Linux user). But I really think 8GB is going to be a major limit for running a DAW or any
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by wvh 4mo ago
Sometimes you've got to protect people against themselves...
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by wvh 4mo ago
It used to be so local (regional) brands had sizes adapted to their demographics. There used to be a thing like Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, etc sizing. I guess for global brands like Patagonia it's going to be challenging to
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by wvh 4mo ago
One could argue it was not given away for free, but with a silent expectation of reciprocity. Using open-source is a gentleman's agreement to be respectful towards the project, a good citizen, not to abuse and potentially contribute. B

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