swebs

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>These considerations show that atmospheric O2 stores energy originating from the sun, and that the heat of combustion in air can be regarded as fossil solar energy

Neat

swebs··on GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report

We use to call that a data center.

swebs··on Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub

If a direct popular vote was held promising voters $100,000, it would also pass by a huge margin. Probably every year.

swebs··on Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

Is that supposed to be a dig against MySQL, or did you just miss that in the list?

swebs··on NSA UFO Documents Index

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos

There's more in better info in the original USS Nimitz UFO Incident page. But Wikipedia authors scrubbed it when they merged the pages for whatever reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Nimitz_UFO_in...

swebs··on NSA UFO Documents Index

If its that open-and-shut, why hasn't he been arrested?

swebs··on FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing

You can revive a dead comment if you feel it was unjustly killed. Just click the timestamp then click "vouch".

swebs··on BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

The Rasperry Pi 4 can power an 2.5 HDD just fine.

swebs··on Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide

Unity is available for Linux. The beta has been available sincle like 2015, but UnityHub for Linux is an official release nowadays.

swebs··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support

No, I meant almost the entirety of reddit nowadays is attempting to radicalize people to the left. Just look at the vitriol you see toward conservatives in the average /r/politics thread.

swebs··on Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc

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

https://www.voanews.com/usa/race-america/antifa-protester-im...

swebs··on Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc

I'd count burning down a police station as domestic terrorism.

swebs··on Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc

I'm not familiar enough with Twitter's UI to navigate it properly. Could you link the refutation?

swebs··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support

>Parler is not a "social network" in the same way Twitter, Facebook or Reddit are. It is a radicalisation platform hiding behind a Silicon Valley style startup veneer.

Actually, that's exactly how I'd describe modern reddit, and I guess Twitter too.

swebs··on Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking?

4chan also does the same with a $20 (paid in bitcoin) 4chan pass. Without it, people have to go through an awful captcha each time they post.

swebs··on Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking?

>Someone who uses the platform for anything other than political speech has little reason to jump platforms to something that has significantly fewer people and an underdeveloped interface.

I just want to keep up with my real life friends without everything having to be snooped and datamined by Zuckerburg, Dorsey, Bezos, et al. The fact that they're now trying to control how people think is just an extra reason.

swebs··on Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking?

Now you know why Google wanted to kill off Reader.

swebs··on Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking?

The internet itself is a decentralized network where anyone can just throw up their own server. How did we handle the policing of illegal content for the past 30 years? Simple, we just let the feds deal with it.

swebs··on Parler Databases Disclosed

At least we can agree that a two dimensional spectrum is infinitely better than a one dimensional spectrum. Especially when terms such as "left" and "right" are incredibly vaguely defined and differ greatly based on who you're talking to.

swebs··on Parler Databases Disclosed

You're talking about authoritarians on both sides. There are still libertarians on both sides (and even independent) who care more about civil liberties like freedom of speech (the ideal, not just the first amendment).

swebs··on Parler Databases Disclosed

If any competitors pop up, they can just get AWS or VISA to pull the plug. We're now officially living in a totalitarian state and Silicon Valley is the secret police.

swebs··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

I just don't even use the picker. Most sites support just dragging the image from Nautilus.

swebs··on Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations

Whoops, thanks

swebs··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

Someone created a fix for this 3 years ago. The Gnome maintainers refuse to add it for whatever reason.

https://github.com/Dudemanguy/gtk

swebs··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

At least enough people care that its become a meme in some tech communities.

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/File_Picker_meme

swebs··on Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations

Edit: Whoops, wrong thread

swebs··on Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations

They rebranded it back in July, after the deadly violence by BLM.

swebs··on The Earth has been spinning faster lately

By then, hopefully civilization won't be bound to just the Earth.

swebs··on Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

The police shot and killed an unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55581206

swebs··on Wikipedia frequently-encountered sources, color-coded by perceived reliability

That's one of the biggest problems with Wikipedia. "Reliability" is based on perception and PR rather than any objective metrics. Which is due to the bigger problem that there really is no objective way to measure it. I don't know if there's any better way to do it, but right now the opinions of the most active users are the opinions that get accepted as facts.

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