cobra89

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[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

There have been several studies showing we don't have the raw resources to meet those demands. I hate the auto industry as much as the next person but this doesn't seem to address that at all.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

You can try WhoBird. It's open source (available on fDroid) and runs completely locally on the phone. I've had decent success with it even in noisy environments.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're talking about packages you install, not the ISOs.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you want open source adoption to continue to be low, please, keep making comments like this.

If you want people to switch, the apps need to be appealing not a chore. And relearning a workflow you've fine tuned over decades is a serious chore and may even be detrimental to your job.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised the great firewall doesn't block known blocks of VPN IP addresses.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah actually it was a Belarusian journalist, Roman Protasevich.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

While contributing is great, the BSDs are kinda dying and it's probably better to spend that effort elsewhere. Even TrueNAS is leaving the BSD space. The fact that most applications are shipping via docker/Flatpak/snap etc. and that BSD does not have a good solution for those does not bode well for BSD.

There just really isn't that much development for BSD anymore. Everyone who wasn't on Linux is moving over to it.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

How does that work when all of the production happens in other countries now? Is there some scenario where we have a socialist white collar economy? All the rhetoric surrounding Communism fits a blue collar economy where production is still the key driver of the economy. Most "1st world" economies these days are service economies not production economies. Is there some literature on how Communism fits in with a service economy?

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago

The issue is every competitor will use the same targeted ads. No advertiser who is not using targeted ads by utilizing tracking data will never be as competitive because their ads won't be as effective.

Until we can kill these types of advertising by making laws against it or make tools that counteract them widespread enough that it makes the business unprofitable we will continue to have our data used against us.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

These people care more about their "principles" and lack of fundamental understanding of the realities of a first past the post system, than the very real reality of people like us losing our rights.

Everyone who thinks voting 3rd party or staying home is an option is rooted in privilege.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 9 points 4 months ago (8 children)

No, it's because people like you don't vote in primaries. I vote in every primary for better candidates meanwhile people like you scream how the candidates are awful while staying home during the primaries.

The candidates won't get better until we grass roots organize and start actually making good candidates popular.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (19 children)

Also I guess losing the majority on SCOTUS and losing abortion rights was just a "hypothetical scenario" when people like you refused to vote for Hillary in 2016?

When will you people learn that, yes, elections have consequences.

Trying to pretend like they might not and Trump might somehow not be worse is being deliberately obtuse and sticking your head in the sand. Wake up and smell the reality.

Please tell me about your hypothetical future where you don't vote for Biden. Please explain to me what your best case scenario and outcome look like in that situation? Please tell me, what are you working towards?

 
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