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Knee_Pain··on The WordPress 100 Year Plan
Imagine if we found an ancient monastery hidden deep inside a mountain and containing 100 books. Then we found a note from the copyist saying that most stuff wasn't worth preserving so these are only the 100 books he liked the most out of 10,000

What would you say?

What would any historian say?

Knee_Pain··on The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency
Would it be possible to implement this via USB connection?
Knee_Pain··on Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
Because it's an extremely new feature and honestly only a few channels can afford to make use of it
Knee_Pain··on Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
I don't understand your reply.

Why don't you just take a screenshot at the exact same timestamp? It's that easy and would have taken you less time than writing this up.

Knee_Pain··on Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
Firefox Focus is so poorly thought out.

How can you have a content-blocking browser that only allows one single tab at a time?

It happens so many times that while browsing an ad-heavy page an ad gets opened in a new tab (since Firefox fails to block it), but since it's a mono-tab browser it simply replaces the one I was browsing.

Knee_Pain··on Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security
VPNs are for escaping private adtech firms, not governments. I don't know where you got this impression from.
Knee_Pain··on LCD, Please
>if

I wrote my reply based on what GP wrote, which implied usage of mass produced garbage coming from god knows which hellhole factory in Asia. Adding "ifs" (what if it was produced by a Star Trek replicator using only solar energy?) does not further any argument.

Also, nobody is taking anything away. The market is so oversaturated they would simply switch to a different product line. But still, carelessly contributing to the pile without even thinking about the consequences of your actions is not the best thing in the world

Knee_Pain··on Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
>As long as I can replicate my own results I don't see a problem.

replicating your own results is not science though, it's anectodes

Knee_Pain··on Bye, Gemini
Quite literally: the real Gemini was the friends we made all along
Knee_Pain··on Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
>Replicating other people’s work however is not my responsibility

so you want to do science.... which requires there to be replication.... but somehow it's not your responsibility to replicate anything? last I checked the scientific method has to be followed through all the steps to be valid, not just the ones that you personally like

Knee_Pain··on Request: Re-open JPEG XL issue
Call me back when 1TB smartphones are $150. Until then, these formats are a life saver. Maybe instead of dragging everyone down you could champion for programs to better their support?
Knee_Pain··on Google Maps has become an eyesore
The funniest thing to me is that Google Maps seems to be the "normal person" option and yet only OSM tells me where water fountains are.

Millions of tourists worldwide use GMaps to navigate around in foreign places and yet they have no option to see where the closest place to refill their bottles is? Especially in the summer?

Knee_Pain··on The process of making fake food [video]
As always propaganda makes use of true facts/evidence and mixes them with bullshit to give it credibility
Knee_Pain··on IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
Nobody is taking anything back. If your contract with RH stops you lose access to their servers and cannot download their binaries or their source anymore. You can freely share everything you managed to download.
Knee_Pain··on Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
So you want to be known for original results, which cannot be confirmed to be true? So what kind of results are they?

Also your mentality is exactly part of the problem: you arrogantly believe that replication work is beneath you and that originality is all that matters.

Knee_Pain··on Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
Academia's values are not objective. Why is it that replicating or refuting a study is not seen on par as being a co-author of said study? There is nothing set in stone preventing this, only the current academic culture.
Knee_Pain··on IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
>You distribute binaries you have to distribute its source as well.

binaries are distributed only to those on the active contract, if you lose the contract you lose the binaries and thus the source. Of course, if you made a local backup you can still use everything for your own benefits

Knee_Pain··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
Do you have a diagnosed cognitive condition? This absolute rejection of even the most basic and easy form of food preparation is concerning. Drinking that slop without a decent complementary diet is not healthy for your gut.
Knee_Pain··on Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
lightweight? they are literally the only video chatting service I use that makes my laptop fans spin up.
Knee_Pain··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
>too hard

roughly chopping random vegetables and throwing them in a pot is hard?

>too much time

using a pressure cooker for 45 minutes while you watch youtube videos is too much time?

Knee_Pain··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
This should just be a list of stews, soups and porridges with various cereals and ingredients
Knee_Pain··on Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)
Who knows. Maybe all the old doctors are gone for the meetings and only the young ones with more up to date knowledge are left to treat patients?

To even suggest a causal link we would need soooo much data that nobody has right now

Knee_Pain··on Italy is betting big on train travel
because they are often used by people commuting and there needs to be enough space for everyone?
Knee_Pain··on Italy is betting big on train travel
Regional trains only need 4 things:

- to be on time

- to be clean and well kept

- to be spacious

- to be safe and simple

this is utterly lacking in Italy and in many countries

Knee_Pain··on AI won’t replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI
Policemen literally have computers in their patrol vehicles and a lot of police work is computer work.

Plumbers need to order stuff online, manage invoices, have an online presence to get and communicate with customers, have digital instruments that might feed into their field laptop.

Bakers use digitalized machines and have their recipes down to an almost exact science. They use computers all the time to calibrate stuff.

Knee_Pain··on IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
accusations?
Knee_Pain··on NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2
if the majority of the industry laugh at open source initiatives this is the only future possible
Knee_Pain··on IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
Correct me if I'm wrong, but sharing the source simply cancels the contract or you receive some legal penalties as well?
Knee_Pain··on IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
You are just substituting one for another. Find enough people to chime in a dollar to fund a VPS? Find enough people to form a high bandwidth bittorrent mesh?

Potato potato, good luck serving the global market with a bittorrent version of dnf update

Knee_Pain··on “Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale
Ask hardware manufacturers where their open source device drivers are
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