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> - firewall? […] Wherever I looked, people said "it's complicated." After a lot of tinkering and learning I finally got a setup that was pretty safe. (I think.) I felt this way abou…

The System rewards the business model that also covertly enables the most surveillance.

> "Northern Virginia was really at the centre for the growth of the internet, [it was] where AOL was headquartered, and so naturally they have the talent, they have the people already there, i…

We could have had atomic energy generated right here in the Bay Area (Sonoma). You can actually go visit the “hole in Bodega Head” where PG&E started digging the reactor pit before being made to s…

I don't really care if the power stays on for five-nines as long as I'm still paying 61¢/kW-h for it :/ https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account&#…

I don't think I did, but please explain :) The last example in my list of four file sizes is them in a folder. Filesystem compression works at the file level, so you have to turn many-almost-id…

Getting my daily dose of Kensington Ave, Philadelphia or Skid Row, Los Angeles every time I come back from the restroom: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8mIPhfrMug - https:/&…

Needs moar BBEdit. It's my daily driver on my M3 MBP at work and it and its `bbedit` shell helper (which I alias to `bb` for brevity) are never something I have to wait on: https://www…

> I am always surprised that rich text is the default. It's because RTF support was an early headline feature for NeXTSTEP, and TextEdit was meant to be as much of an API demo for the NS/…

> Apple explicitly designed in support for booting other operating systems into the M-series chips Is it possible to buy a compatible M-whatever Mac and install Linux on it without network access, …

I bought my Framework 12 just because I like the hardware. It's so cute! And purple! The repairability is bonus.

You don't seem to understand what fascism actually is. None of these things are that. Even though I disagree with DHH on all of these topics I don't see how it's relevant to Free Softwa…

Fascism is when Arch BTW

> the primary cause of gun violence in the first place: the ubiquity of guns in our society I would have gone with “a normalized sense of hopelessness and indignity which causes people to feel like…

The landing page and FAQ heavily imply that HP's cloud service is the only way to control the thing. Spec sheet shows the robot as having “Connectivity: Bluetooth, 4G, WiFi”, so it can connect to…

One should be able to exist without being in The System's database. In previous eras this need for The System to minimize existential threats to itself by knowing about every single human that mi…

> you could say they were unhinged > GPU makers have all abandoned this practice, which is a shame as it provided something different through box art alone. Now, we're drowning in bland box…

> A Japanese audience was probably even less inclined to learn yet another loanword to preserve that technical distinction. That's what I mean, though, is that my internalized idea of cassette…

I 'member scouring flea markets for one of these back in the 2000s by bringing a non-adapter copy of Gyromite with me and weighing them by hand until I found one that was ~25% heavier: https:&#x…

It would make a lot more sense if it were keys or an electrical plug's blades or other objects likely to be found in a pocket/bag alongside my phone.

It's for when you have a very large number of mostly-identical files, like web pages with consistent header and footer. If 408MiB versus 3.8GiB is a meaningless difference to you then sure don&#x…

> there's no straightforward way to support "solid" compression. I do it by ignoring ZIP's native compression entirely, using store-only ZIP files and then compressing the whole…

That makes no sense because the original issue is everyone living so far from work that they never make time to gather near work with coworkers because that time is spent commuting. How they get to …

> That question took me into the guts of the ZIP format, where I learned there’s a tiny index at the end that points to everything else. Tangential, but any Free Software that uses `shared-mime-inf…

I strongly disagree, because that argument just becomes an attack on people's freedom of movement rather than an attack on the structural issues which led to long commutes being the least-worst o…

Caused by commute sure is a funny way to say caused by lack of housing near jobs, like it's the roads' and rails' fault? :p

My REDMAGIC Android phone is like this too and I love not having a stupid notch cut out of the screen. I've hated them since the very first time I saw a iPhone X. Can't believe such a ridicu…