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sobchak

@ sobchak @programming.dev

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  • The GrapheneOS developers are giving me concerns about the future of GrapheneOS

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  • I could be wrong, but I think Linux would be horrible for the kind of security you'd want in a smartphone. At least that's what I read from the GrapheneOS folks...

  • Wisconsin VPN bill is 'going to be a disaster for everyone,' says online privacy nonprofit

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  • It seems like a "great firewall" is where all this will lead. Projects like xray-core may become important to a lot more people in the future.

  • Nearly a quarter of U.S. households live paycheck to paycheck, report finds

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  • I think you may have a misconception of what the bottom 25% of earners do. Or, maybe I do. I don't know anyone that does that stuff regularly, not even the high earners I know.

  • Gov. Greg Abbott plans to gut public school funding as he sends $1 billion to private schools

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  • "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat” Freeman [an advisor to Reagan] said. “That's dynamite! We nave to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.'

  • Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears

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  • Not really. TSMC has a near monopoly on the advanced fabrication, and ASML has a near monopoly on the lithographic machines TSMC uses. Nvidia is a fab-less designer. Google has its TPUs, and Amazon has some kind of custom chip too.

  • I discovered Resident Alien recently and I'm loving it

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  • It's ok. It's like a sillier, less philosophical Northern Exposure.

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    Paul Krugman. He is the author of 27 books. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • I don't like chargebacks being impossible. I think countries being able to manipulate their currency to balance inflation and unemployment has advantages too; if we're going to keep doing this capitalism thing at least.

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    Paul Krugman. He is the author of 27 books. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • I think Krugman is a legit intellectual and doesn't intentionally cherry pick numbers. I followed his blog and such starting when I was a teenager (during the 2008 crisis), and I think he helped me understand what was going on, using fairly rigorous math and data (for a "science" communicator). Few other economic communicators made sense to me at the time. The Austrian school was being pushed heavily by the right and tech-bros, and didn't seem based on anything but vibes.

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    Opening the door: Making self-hosting friendly for newcomers

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  • I've seen many projects like this over the years, they never seem to take off for some reason. Freedombox seemed pretty interesting to me back in the day, but I already had some old hardware and didn't mind learning how to set things up myself. I think Sandstorm is/was another option. And I think Nextcloud is also a framework of sorts (idk, I don't use it). To an extent TrueNAS is also a kind of an all-in-one solution that has one-click installs of most of these apps.

  • Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not?

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  • The weasel humping a ball logo (IceWeasel).

  • Trump scraps tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit in a push to lower grocery store prices

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  • I'm guessing he got his bribes.

  • Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.

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  • I think the laws are just meant as a soft-ban. There may be legal complications with outright banning strip clubs. The no physical contact takes away what I think make up stripper's largest income source, and no nipples and alcohol makes it a less attractive place to go. I had a few hours to waste in a city once, waiting on a flight, and walked into one of these strip clubs. There was only one stripper there, one bartender, and I was the only customer; so I'm guessing it really did hurt the market.

  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • I'm not sure I'm following. The owners of the code can re-license anytime they want, and even dual-license or license on a case-by-case basis. Would require a contributor license agreement to be practical though, and it looks like ffmpeg may not have one.

  • Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.

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  • I think that's changed a bit. Hooters went bankrupt, and many local governments have heavy restrictions on strip clubs, such as no nipples can be shown, no physical contact, no license to serve liquor, etc.

  • 'No point making a high-spec Steam Machine,' Larian publishing boss says, because anyone who wants a powerful PC is going to look elsewhere anyway

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  • PC gaming is an expensive hobby. I've bought vehicles for less than a lot of people's gaming PCs cost.

  • Tinderule

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  • My grandparent's neighbor and friend was a murderer. Really nice guy. Us kids used to call him Santa because of his long grey beard. I mean, he likely wasn't nice when he committed murder, but I'm guessing he aged-out of his violent tendencies.

  • 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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  • I think Rust applications requires lower developer effort than C. C is a simpler language, but that means more work for developers to build their applications on it. The "rewrite everything in Rust" thing does seem weird though. I personally like the more elegant languages like Haskell, but I guess those aren't really systems programming languages.

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    Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan

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  • You can boot Pis off an USB HDD or SSD. I think there are specific hats for that as well. But yeah, backups, at least of configs, are nice.

  • Compression!

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  • Yeah, I found zst recently as well. Quite a bit faster than xz/7z which is what I previously used (or gz when I just needed something fast).