colemickens
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lol, this place.
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Comment · 7 years ago
Such great advice, had never thought of that. Thanks!
Comment · 7 years ago
I mean, "my card information being stolen" is literally only an issue because credit card companies won't force US retailers to accept proper chip and pin. It just is not an issue everywhere I've been in Europe because it is categorically impossible for them to steal my card information with contactless payments.
As for the magnitude of privacy invasion regarding financial transactions, I feel very safe in saying the data Google has about/from me is far more revealing than relatively opaque transaction logs.
Comment · 7 years ago
What the hell? I get downvoted for linking an authoritative answer to the question I was asked? I'm so god damn sick of participating here in good faith and getting wordlessly crapped on for it. The answer supports exactly what I said, and I provided a link.
Pretty obvious someone didn't like one of my other comments and then proceeded to downvote the others they could since I commented in multiple threads at the same time. Why is this nonsense allowed? It would be easy to detect.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's almost like my own comment said I wasn't making excuses and pointed out it was a preview release. I don't know why I bother.
Also, I don't understand what Google being in trouble for anti-trust has to do with a bunch of third-party apps and third-party SDKs accessing and selling my information.
Comment · 7 years ago
How does this argument come up every time? If I can't have absolute privacy, I should just give up? The same way I'd love to give up every last bit of dependence on Google, I'd love to get decentralized fintech. But the popular one is a bad word that starts with B and I fear has spoiled the well. (Though it's been interesting traveling through Europe and seeing Bitcoin signs all over Prague, the ticket machine offering bitcoin top up at the Bern train station, and a tradesman/construction worker wearing a Bitcoin advocacy shirt while walking to the beach in Bern today. And don't get me started on how much time I've spent triple-re-verifying my identity with Mastercard or waiting 5+ days for critical ACH transactions.)
Comment · 7 years ago
"Currently the owner of the project must be online in order to receive any proposed RSM updates from a contributor. Once received and processed, these updates will be written to IPFS by the project owner, and made available to all users who follow that project." -- http://radicle.xyz/docs/#faq
Comment · 7 years ago
Please understand I'm not excusing anything, it's horrendous it took this long to have user controls. That having been said, in the Android Q preview, Android occasionally lets me know that an app has access to my location at all times and makes it easy for me to immediately revoke that access, or limit it to ONLY when the application is open.
For example, this is what I can see by searching "Location" in settings and choosing one of the first results: https://i.imgur.com/jDF9vq6.png. It was shocking what this list looked like when I first upgraded to Q.
Comment · 7 years ago
I thought Radicle was cool too, but as I understand it (in its current state), it has a much "larger" SPOF in that changes can only be submitted when the single authoritative repo is online.
Comment · 7 years ago
`nix-env` can be coerced into pinning a package at a specific revision, effectively ignoring channel updates. However, yes, I do all of my nixos package management in my system configuration and try to avoid `nix-env` at all costs as it leads to drift. However, in at least one case, this is largely un-avoidable (in the case of OBS Plugins, there's no NixOS infra to make sure that 'wlrobs' is available at a well-known spot for OBS to pick-up. We'd need to make a plugin-aware wrapper, or `programs.obs` module probably. This is because nix-env does some additional symlinking that isn't done for system-installed packages).
Comment · 7 years ago
Fortunately, `builtins.fetchTarball` makes this easier. I do this in my `nixcfg` repo so that I can build my entire machine config (patches and enabling Iris in Mesa, and all) on a stupidly-cheap Packet.net VM: https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/blob/master/default.ni....
If you follow the rabbit-hole: `default.nix` -> `lib.nix`, etc, you can see that I pin nixpkgs, have an update script that updates the nixpkgs revs I build against, it supports building against a custom, local `~/code/nixpkgs` if it exists, and I have my machine config abstracted out to where I can build a "GNOME instance of my machine" or by default, my machine with Sway and sway related packages installed. Much of this should be easier with flakes, as I understand it.
It's not the cleanest config, the README needs love, but maybe it can be inspiration in the meantime. :) My latest trick was figuring out how to get the new Mesa Intel Iris Gallium driver enabled without rebuilding the world, and I extracted it to what I call a "mixin" that anyone can copy and just use: https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/blob/master/modules/mi...
(And technically I still use mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla to pull the latest Firefox Nightly which is impure and thus not always perfectly, perfectly reproducable. I do however pin the overlays themselves also - like my nixpkgs-wayland overlay that packages HEAD versions of Sway and other Wayland related tools!)
Comment · 7 years ago
And yet, I would (will?) likely be derided if I complained about every forced show of heterosexuality, in virtually every piece of media produced in the last many decades. I immediately think of the scene in the second Matrix movie, but that stuff is absolutely everywhere.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm curious to understand what you're describing. Can you give an example of a Netflix show, the season and political trope, and how it detracted from the show's quality? And I'm definitely curious what you're imagining as you write out "repulsive".