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I doubt this. People are willing to reupload videos that they like, so why wouldn't they seed? for example this video has been reuploaded quite a few times because people like it s…

I agree with most of what you've said, but some cryptocurrencies use proof-of-work systems (like RandomX) that truly are ASIC/FPGA/GPU-proof by design.

Yes but so is any asset. Gold, property, etc.

Because (at least originially) the goal of cryptocurrencies were to combat the double spending problem, providing an alternative to fractional-reserve banking.

You could use a rolling-release distro, but it means you are still updating like every year or so (although in more of a ship-of-theseus fashion).

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first world problems come before third world problems

the ultimate solution is to release the source code and compile it against the newer ABI.

I think the new GNOME is pretty comparable to the Windows and MacOSX interfaces. Is there something I'm overlooking?

pine64 and purism are lot smaller than qualcomm and the like. They don't have that type of leverage.

Speaking from experience with the pinephone, the browser situation is actually pretty good on postmarketOS because they have a custom firefox configuration for mobile: https://www.…

I disagree. Fuchsia will eliminate the need for the hardware vendor to supply open-source drivers. In this regard, it is a major step backwards in security and upgradability.

The pine64 position on binary drivers is not as hard as the purism one (perhaps they try to balance more with cost), but there are still projects to reverse-engineer and replace so…

If you are interested in postmarketOS linux, I think there are some faster phones that have been bootstrapped: http://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

There are many standards on linux, but in my experience they are mostly inter-compatable. I have KDE/X11 programs running just fine in my GNOME/Wayland environment. I also have als…

Quite a number of terminal emulators have this feature. Alacritty and xfce4 terminal as well.

bitcoin and related systems are a solution to the double spending problem. Perhaps a flawed solution based on the information we know now, but it is a solution nonetheless. some re…

Yes but you probably would make those optimizations in C code and not assembly. The amd64 compiler is basicially the same C code whether or not it's been bootstrapped on armv8 or a…

care to enlighten us?

I didn't pay for the OS on my pinephone, but for some reason the vendors decide not to use that as an opportunity to create a mass surveilance campaign.

Nothing in the article indicates that it was racially motivated... except the title.

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You can argue that all you like, but it is a ridiculous point. It's not perfect, but most of the time democracy works. This much is self evident. If you are comparing the differenc…

it is regretable that the bitcoin network and related networks are so dependent on modern computer infrastructure which is controlled by a handfull of institutions. But perhaps it …

regulating intellectual "property" will only become increasingly difficult to protect and regulate as the technology for recording, copying, and disseminating information improves.…