buzzert · HackerTrans

4 months agodiscuss

I thought it was amusing that you said Apple was a "stupid American company with American values", even though you're actually complaining about a UK law. You do know this isn't a thing in the US, right? Just your country?

buzzert

5 months agodiscuss

Is there a way to resize windows with this gesture as well?

buzzert

5 months agodiscuss

> we use taxes as a process to crowdsource funding more effectively

Effectively? It doesn't seem to me like most western governments allocate this funding "effectively" at all. How do we increase the accountability?

buzzert

5 months agodiscuss

Actually, the description of that video says the production line was in Hungary.

But there was still a lot of electronics manufacturing and assembly in the US during the early 2000's as well, including iPods and iMacs.

buzzert

8 months agodiscuss

Since when did public (government) schools become run for profit?

buzzert

8 months agodiscuss

$300 USD per month sounds insanely expensive

buzzert

8 months agodiscuss

You don’t need politicians to help you keep your personal data to yourself.

buzzert

8 months agodiscuss

Why do European government websites do the same thing then? They’re also spreading propaganda?

buzzert

10 months agodiscuss

Probably a Swift wrapper for the Chromium Embedded Framework.

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last yeardiscuss

This is the opposite of a steelman.

buzzert

2 years agodiscuss

100% true. Same for video games—an individual has never had more power to compete in the video game market against the megacorps.

I think we'll soon see a suburban mom in middle America with a part-time penchant for storytelling make a blockbuster video game mostly by herself.

buzzert

3 years agodiscuss

I don't understand, why is it not enough to just... use free software? Why must the government be involved at all?

buzzert

4 years agodiscuss

They still exist, and are really fun! I'm part of a community that has a webring and a Mastodon instance: https://webring.xxiivv.com/

buzzert

6 years agodiscuss

I don't think anyone sees them as competitors, in fact that's exactly my point. I think the Vulkan/Mantle/Metal developers all had the same idea.

buzzert

6 years agodiscuss

Metal predates Vulkan by over a year. Vulkan probably wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for Metal.

buzzert

6 years agodiscuss

This seems like something everybody wants but I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet. What are some of the (assumingly non-technical) challenges in such an enterprise?

buzzert

7 years agodiscuss

I'm sure those aren't the only reasons. Quite a lot of people get away with tax fraud. If the IRS really knew everything and filing taxes was just a pointless exercise, why is fraud so prevalent?

buzzert

7 years agodiscuss

Many books on Kobo also have DRM unfortunately.

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