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Sorry, but "good people" who are involved with all the evil things Facebook does by working for them aren't good people. I know it's hip to absolve yourself of responsibility by sa…

They should, actually.

It's not just the US at risk here. I feel like nobody here pays attention to what China does. Look at all the tensions between China and... Literally nearly every country around th…

I'm not sure a bunch of techies who have no clue about geopolitics and have zero interest in the welfare of the US or even European or non-Chinese populations to be the arbiter of …

National security issues override your freedom to use a spying app by a country's primary geopolitical opponent. That's just how it is. You paint China as this innocent party and t…

> I wonder why one would chose a phone with Ubuntu Touch over some non-linux phone. This is a false equivalency. If you don't like Ubuntu Touch. Try Mobian (Debian) or Manjaro for …

If you say that, then I don't think you've paid attention to what they did to ROM sites in recent years. No other company has been as aggressive as they've been on this front.

I'd say it's worth it to use JoyCons even if you're emulating the games on PC. When they're not drifting, they're great controllers (if a bit cramped). I sold my Switch but I do mi…

They're right to be paranoid. Nintendo is one of the few game companies that's extremely aggressive about protecting their IP (particularly when it comes to emulation and ROMs). Th…

Look at the comments. He has barely any files on that server. "Yeah, you can use ZFS with barely any RAM ." (if you don't have any files) Doesn't do me much good with my 10TB's of …

Why wouldn't I want deduplication though? "You can use ZFS just fine, just turn off one of its most useful features." Really? And I'm being downvoted for it. Thanks, guys. You real…

I'd love to switch to ZFS, but the RAM requirements are absurd. I don't have a separate storage server, and I'm not really to sacrifice 10GB of RAM (1GB/TB of storage if I'm to bel…

I'm not aware of any neuron that functions differently from other neurons. You have a soma, dendrites, synapses, electrical impulses and glia. Even if there are subtypes, they are …

> there is basically no way for me to properly debug and solve this problem, whereas solving your problem on Linux would be relatively trivial for anyone with a bit of experience, …

Probably Linux. I don't understand how people put up with things like PulseAudio. If I use Windows, the audio sinks behave like I expect them to. They use the device I expect them …

It's too bad people look at proprietary software with such disdain. Yeah, I'd love it too if all the world adhered to open source, but there are too many useful and awesome applica…

rupa/z Being able to type something like "z ab g f" to reach a fairly deeply nested directory is almost akin to magic. I absolutely hate cd'ing everywhere, and often I'm cd'ing bet…

A part of what makes the brain so special and capable is how it's able to structurally and functionally layer regions upon each other with their own specialized functions which all…

This looks incredibly interesting. Going to give it a try.

I have no idea how anybody can look at TikTok with a straight face and not see that they're a threat. Maybe if you've conveniently closed your eyes to the CCP's behavior in the pas…

There's also the question of how open open source programmers might be to some UX/UI designer stepping in and trying to force their vision on the project.

It makes me wonder. Is there enough research and sufficient good data to make evidence-based software engineering? It's not something that comes up much and whenever I do see resea…

I'm still mad about Campo Santo. I couldn't give two shits about Alyx or Half-Life or any other of Valve's games. But they had to consume one of the most promising story-focused in…

> This is wrong, misguided and naive. I'd appreciate it if you didn't jump straight to insults. > International trade when done with effective reciprocity and managing the trade de…