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beansniffer

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  • What does a society do with people that are homeless by choice?

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  • The people in San Francisco who are complaining about homelessness and its ill effects aren’t complaining about the effects of 3 homeless people throughout the entire city. They’re complaining about 20,000 homeless.

    Your comment was helpful for providing insight, particularly the line I quoted above. Thanks.

    What would you say is a potential solution for those 20,000 homeless for example?

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    What are easy to present criticisms of mainstream outlets like BBC and CNN?

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  • Take a topic that you know. Something related to your field of work, or your special interest, whatever. Now watch a news video about that topic and notice how laughably wrong they get even basic details. Most people can relate to how wrong the media gets on a topic they're intimately familiar with but then also think they get topics right when talking about other things like world affairs.

  • Choose your browser carefully

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  • I’m not a corporate toy

    Thats great. Mind if I use this?

  • Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon

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  • We need some kind of resource that has a categorized list of companies that don't advertise and vote with out wallet by purchasing goods and services directly from these companies.

  • How can we have Libre Culture without email?

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  • I know this isn't super helpful in answering your question, but it would be nice if we didn't need to rely on technology like email for account creation at all. The domain name provider njalla allows for account creation using an XMPP address, and the VPN provider mullvad generates a random string of numbers as your username. If only the rest of the web followed suit.

  • The real MVP

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  • Absolute Gigachad

  • What does a society do with people that are homeless by choice?

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  • Public restrooms and safe injection rooms are a good start; here it seems to work.

    I am happy to hear that it those solutions work in your area, but I have also have vivid memories of seeing a homeless man shitting 15ft away from a public restroom that was clean and accessible. Not to mention how filthy restrooms visited by the homeless are. Obviously not saying that more public restrooms aren't worth building, just saying that sometimes solutions are unfortunately more nuanced than just throwing more money for public services.

    Also, do people who are homeless by choice have the same behaviors or needs as the other two groups, statistically? That would be interesting to research

    That would be very interesting to research. From my experience talking with them directly, they seem to be more nomadic whereas people that are homeless through no fault of their own will tend to stay in the city they grew up it, or became homeless in.

    Thank you for your comment.

  • Is there a piracy solution as boomer friendly as Stremio?

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  • Stremio is essentially a glorified torrent client with a nice UI. It runs locally on a device connected to the tv you want to stream to. It behind the scenes searches trackers and downloads from torrents of the content someone wants to watch in a netflix like UI. Someone that wasn't technology literate wouldn't know they were pirating content from torrents if you didn't tell them.

    A solution is that you manage the server and jellyfin and your friends/family connect to it.

    While a self hosted solution like this would be nice, I would get messages everyday from friends and family frequently asking, "Can you add this movie to the server? Can you add this TV show to the server?" and they would eventually stop asking me and just pay for a streaming service if I forgot to fulfill every request. I would like to avoid having to manually add content to the server if my friends and family can just choose the content their wanting to watch themselves.

  • Carbon Footprint of The Most Popular Social Media Platforms

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  • Is the data suggesting that having a video call to replace a flight going from New York to Paris and back would result in more Co2 than just actually flying? Am I reading that correctly?

  • Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each time a PDF is downloaded.

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  • Reminds me of the watermarking RedStarOS does to files

  • Hyperbola OS release first release candidate for v0.4

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  • I meant to say that its strange that you guys decided to fork the OpenBSD kernel instead of just using Linux-libre. I've quietly followed Hyperbola and HyperbolaBSD for a while now and I must say that I don't fully understand the reasoning for hard forking the OpenBSD kernel despite reading the explanations on the website as to why. In your eyes, are the rest of the Linux distros that are endorsed by the free software foundation somewhat "tainted" now for the same reasons you announced why you're hard forking the Openbsd kernel? Is Stallman himself wrong for using the Linux kernel?

    This shows progress in a bit more detail. We’re not rewriting a majority of bsd kernel.

    Also, HyperbolaBSD was announced in Dec 2019, almost a year and 2 months ago, and most of what seems to be done has been reusing existing code from LibertyBSD. Progress on HyperbolaBSD seems so very very slow to the point of me questioning if it would be best to focus efforts on just contributing to existing software projects like the software on the fsf high priority list

    Not trying to attack the legitimacy of the project, just writing down some thoughts that I had.

  • Hyperbola OS release first release candidate for v0.4

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  • Interesting project and I wish them the best of luck but they're a little crazy for trying to rewrite a lot of the openbsd kernel. I'm happy open source licenses exist to allow for greater advances of human creativity, even if I think it might be a little strange lmao

  • Dino 0.3 Release: video calls and conferences - encrypted and peer-to-peer

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  • Does anybody have experience with Dino? What do you guys think?

    How often do people use XMPP with talking with regular people who don't know what XMPP even is?

    How does XMPP compare to Matrix from a regular end user perspective?

  • What's your opinion about Discord?

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  • gitlab is not federated

    I was mistaken for thinking that it was federated. I wonder why gitlab isn't federated, it seems like it would be beneficial for code contributions for open source projects if it had federation.

  • What's your opinion about Discord?

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  • I agree. I understand why, I just don't like it :P

  • What's your opinion about Discord?

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  • Just install an beginner distro in a VM or portable SSD like Mint or something lmao.

  • What's your opinion about Discord?

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  • I don't like the wording that people use when discussing Discord. Things like, "I'm going to start a Discord server" when in fact they are not self-hosting the server. This makes Discord sound more decentralized than it actually is and it it give the users more of an illusion of control when in fact the creators of Discord have all the control. Stallman was right when he described people as being used and not users.

  • What's your opinion about Discord?

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  • Why couldn't an Open source project use self-hosted Matrix and Self-hosted GitLab?

  • Senate introduces bill to allow farmers to fix their own equipment

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  • Fuck man that's dirty. Sounds exactly like what they would do.