“We think that the internet is real.”

• Peter Sunde

There’s no legal solution to a technological problem. Laws are always temporary, for better or worse.

people have stories how the dev is an ass

If an opensource project has an author who’s not a jerk, that’s when you get suspicious!

If they are training on historical dubs, just be thankful you’re not Polish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YSEI7ugaKo

I once put my homelab rack outside of my apartment, in the hall. Then used it to catch a bastard who kept stealing my bike light, and later tried to snatch the whole bike.

I love these weird micro-cult stories, thank you for posting this!

What made it extra weird for me was the fact that I grew up among people obsessed with tolkien and larping, ocasionally being labeled as a cult by the general public, except they actually pulled off the fantasy/scifi convention part. And they are still going strong for more than a decade. It was a humbling experience for me as a young adult to see my peers exhibit such dedication, discipline and organization skills just for the sake of building something together.

Seeing how the same drive can backfire under different conditions was quite a ride!

edit: To whoever it may concern, this story had almost frighteningly simmilar vibes as the story about the Zizians:

https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-zizians-how-harry-potter-fanfic-inspi

The last time I watched the “Don’t date a robot” episode of Futurama, it was a fiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrADTN-dvg

Can only say a person who has never used meshtastic.

Source: The struggle.

The more shocking is that one guy who KNOWS it’s sqlite, but ain’t afraid to admit it!

You should apply for a marketing position in broadcom. The people responsible for the vmware software suite just love to do stunts like this.

Piping scripts directly to bash is a security risk

Nobody has ever explained why. What is the difference between executing a script directly from curl, and adding a repository which downloads a package which contains a script.

This might also be the beginning of android.

So far, people have been OK with modifying the existing phones to fit their needs. We’re slowly approaching the critical inconvenience point beyond which it might be easier to buy OEM parts and start assembling un-googled phones.

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I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.

Let me help.

This post has less upvotes in the politics community, where it belongs, than here. Why?

What I really don’t get is people delivering with someone else (also an adult) in the vehicle

If you could spend the boring part of your job chatting with friends, would you decline?

A favor is just a form of debt, and debt is money. It does not matter whether it’s written down on paper, or just remembered.

Wait. Bitpay is still around? That was the company Valve has used before. It was the de-facto standard for every eshop accepting bitcoin. Until they decided to implement identity checks, and only support payment from wallets implementing certain protobuf-based payment protocol. Which made them slide into obscurity pretty fast.

It was the support cost as far as I remember. Way too many people were too confused about how Bitcoin works.

Volatility was not the concern, at least for Valve. They’ve utilized a payment gateway that just swapped the BTC to USD right away. Which was still a single point of failure, but in case of bitcoin, the company switching a payment gateway does not affect the UX for the customer as much.