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swebs··on We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements
How about something like PeerTube that can be self hosted?
swebs··on We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements
>important racial justice terms—including Black Lives Matter, Black power, and Black Muslim

>“White lives matter,” “White power,” “White nationalists,” and other retorts and hate phrases.

Am I the only one who thinks modern identity politics is completely fucked up?

swebs··on Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site
Thanks, that's an awesome site. Or as the young people say these days: based.
swebs··on Ask HN: How to sell apps on Linux?
The usually come with the Gnome Software app store, which only provides free software.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software

swebs··on Ask HN: How to sell apps on Linux?
Even games on Steam?
swebs··on Ask HN: How to sell apps on Linux?
The Humble Bundle used to release actual numbers. For sales that offered games on Linux, Linux users accounted for around 20% of revenue, often beating out Mac. Interestingly enough, for sales that only offer Windows-only games, Linux revenue still reaches 1-5%.

https://cheesetalks.net/humble/

swebs··on Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent
It sounds like both of you want Fair Tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax

swebs··on China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)
You sure those weren't actually Manji? They mark where temples are.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35349619

swebs··on List of Proposed Etymologies of OK
>Initials of Omnis Korrecta ("all correct")

The fact that half of the rest of the entries are saying "oll korrect" makes me believe that this is the one. Especially with this example too.

>A contemporary news report of the 1866 transatlantic telegraph cable says "The following telegram has been received from Mr. R. A. Glass, Managing Director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Limited) :— 'O.K.,' (all correct)."

swebs··on US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we...
swebs··on US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults
The USA is actually in the top 10 welfare states in terms of spending per capita, behind only some northern European countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we...

swebs··on Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
>Are you doing programming on your smartphone?

No, mostly because it lacks a physical keyboard.

swebs··on Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
>The Desktop-Firefox-for-PinePhone hack doesn’t get updated often (or possibly at all).

I still have no idea what you're referring to. It's the same build of Firefox on your desktop. It was just updated from version 86 to 87 this week. Same as the desktop. There is no "mobile Linux ecosystem". Just 1 Linux ecosystem, with some apps supporting a 360px screen width, and some not. It is simply desktop Linux, on a phone.

swebs··on Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
Well it can make calls, transfer data over cellular networks, and access a web browser. For some people, that's all they need. For maps, I use Nextcloud Maps through Firefox. You can also use Google Maps that way or whatever OSM provider. It comes with a Telegram client and Matrix client.

>no powerful browser beyond the clunky Desktop-Firefox-for-Postmarket-OS hack, etc.

I don't really know what you mean by this. It's the exact same Firefox that's in desktop Linux. You can install all the add-ons and such. Do note that Manjaro is not PostmarketOS.

The biggest problems are the weak CPU as you've mentioned, and the fact that the entire OS is in a very alpha (or even pre-alpha) state right now.

swebs··on Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
Manjaro Phosh edition on the Pinephone is pretty good these days. There's still a lot of work to be done, but it works just fine as a phone.
swebs··on How to Criticize Computer Scientists (2001)
Nice comment, but you should rewrite it in Rust.
swebs··on Body-editing apps on TikTok ‘trigger eating disorders’
1200 calories per day is very reasonable for a woman on days with no exercise. You generally want to be on a 500 calorie deficit when losing weight.
swebs··on How U.S. media lost the trust of the public
>Can't pass by some articles without hearing the phrase "radical left media" or "liberal media" or whatever.

Do you have some examples? I don't remember reading that in the WSJ.

swebs··on I made an eInk newspaper
>now I email myself wikipedia current events

Same (except the email part). Its also useful to check the page history for each day too since it can often be a political battleground.

swebs··on “I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board”
That's a real stretch. "Voluntarily" and "authoritarianism" are opposites.

But that's beside the point. I'm not saying anyone is unwelcome or should leave. In fact, I think it would be best if people could coexist in the same organization while agreeing to disagree.

But the fact of the matter is that these people already resigning. So instead of just doing nothing after they resign or working for some company, they should create their own group that's more in line with their ideals.

swebs··on “I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board”
Is this the card you're describing?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEWlJXRWsAASHJw?format=jpg&name=...

swebs··on “I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board”
The idea of free software is a very libertarian one. You have freedom. Its the same ideology that drives concepts such as freedom of speech. It is not compatible at all with the authoritarianism that drives cancel culture.

Maybe these people should get together and form their own authoritarian-left software foundation. Call it the People's Software Foundation or something. No Dang, I'm not being snarky. This is a legitimate suggestion.

swebs··on Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud
I've had good experience with Linode for my personal projects. They have a lot of cloud products nowadays like S3 buckets, so its no longer just VPSs.
swebs··on Cargo Cult Science (1974)
Here's a great example for anyone who hasn't heard about it yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

swebs··on Cargo Cult Science (1974)
I think most people familiar with the field would rather classify Computer Science as a branch of mathematics instead. Its really an unfortunate name.
swebs··on AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Peru trials
I seriously doubt most countries are just blindly following Denmark. The much more likely reason is that this specific vaccine offers very little protection against the rapidly spreading South African variant.
swebs··on Godot Engine Web Editor
It was probably easier to do this than port the editor to iPad/Android.
swebs··on Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users
>The importance of keeping apps and OSes up to date and avoiding suspicious websites still stands. Unfortunately, neither of those things would have helped the victims hacked by this unknown group.

Disabling Javascript would have helped. You can even use tools like uMatrix to set exceptions per site so you're not exposing yourself to every single site on the internet by default. Though you won't see online news sites suggest this since their revenue is so tied to Javascript being enabled.

swebs··on Encountering Thomas Sowell
I highly recommend Basic Economics. It's an excellent overview of the field of economics for the common citizen.
swebs··on Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
There's already F-Droid and the Amazon App store.
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