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by Qub3d 6y ago
This comes down to where Alphabet/Google/YouTube's "Nexus" is. They are a U.S. based company, and therefore the U.S. Government has a stronger claim to taxation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Ars has posted an article sourcing the parent, and expanding on some of the context: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/frys-...
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Maybe its a reference to Maxwell's Demon[0], a thermodynamics thought experiment? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
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by Qub3d 6y ago
I found this thread when the Xorg Foundation twitter re-tweeted it: https://twitter.com/XorgFoundation
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X and Wayland Are Like Petrol Cars vs. EVs(threadreaderapp.com)
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> In my experience, Google provides stellar support. This is anecdotal. Here is a high-profile counter-experience to yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935 When dealing with large companies we must consider
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by Qub3d 6y ago
> Linux desktop applications are all very fragmented and broken (GNOME, KDE, 100 different tiling window managers, 100 different music players that all suck), but that's not Linux, that's userspace. See, I get where you are com
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by Qub3d 6y ago
For people who use Arch, Artix is a fork that offers a choice of init systems. You still get the AUR and rolling release, but you can use runit (void's init system) instead of systemd. Worth a shot! https://distrowatch.com&#
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by Qub3d 6y ago
For others who didn't know (like myself), HFC in this case does not refer to Henry Ford College, nor to Hydroflorocarbons, but to Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fiber-coaxial
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Here's the thread unrolled: https://threader.app/conversation/1355926433646972933/UcAWDz...
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by Qub3d 6y ago
The "ape" thing came out of a thread where WSB users were trying to figure out how to explain the GME situation to casual observers. The most popular explanation that came out of it used snakes as the shorts, shorting bananas, and
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Oh, don't worry, they also managed to get the nginx default page up on their api domain: https://api.speak-free.com/ Really great technical work all around.
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Specifically, a Merkle tree[0], which is the hash tree root of both Git and most blockchains. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
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by Qub3d 6y ago
From an academic paper titled "Do you Need a Blockchain"[0] comes the following flowchart, which I think is a great explanation for business failures in this area: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/DdXkPEPGlfox5LZL
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Tom Scott made an excellent summary of why electronic voting is a bad idea, and explicitly covers both open source and blockchain as proposed solutions (hint: they don't solve the problems that make e-voting bad) https://www
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Here's a summary of the issue as noted by Twitter user @IanColdwaller: "Heap-based buffer overflow in sudo exploitable by any local user. Can be used to elevate privileges to root, even if user not listed in sudoers file. User aut
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Good info, thanks for sharing. I can only be as accurate as the info I was provided. I did read JWZ's post -- I have his blog in my RSS feed and actually saw the post there before I saw it being linked here. Mr. Lefebvre said "c
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by Qub3d 6y ago
> Why is it his responsibility to fix your code? The distro extended his program, the extension broke. cinnamon-screensaver (the repo this discussion is pertinent to) is written from scratch. The commenter's intent here is to sugges
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by Qub3d 6y ago
For everyone linking the JWZ "I Told You So" post, the devs are aware of it and posted a response in the GitHub issue. I encourage everyone to read their side of the issue: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamo
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I would like to point out to anyone else perusing these comments the issue a lot of people are raising in the comments can be summed up in the two responses to the parent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25782849 http
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Ben Thompson wrote an interesting analysis of this issue, that boils down to this: Trump finally got booted from these platforms not really because of his TOS violations. Rather, he was removed because it became clear that the structures us
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by Qub3d 6y ago
The part of pg's comments that relates to your comments is this part: "Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem—and a particularly useless sort, because good ideas often come from
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I find it such a shame that such amazing mathematical research was pumped into ultimately producing such a backward-minded result. At the very least I suppose we will be able to glean more knowledge out of it in the end.
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Yeah, its a known limit of the Intel CPU. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that any external monitor essentially requires pushing through the dGPU and therefore your system will be consuming ~100W minimum, no matter the load.
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I'm definitely watching the space. Similar to how auto manufacturers are now all pivoting hard to electric following the insane tear of Tesla, I hope that this lights a fire under other computer hardware manufacturers. And the signs
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Given that we've seen multiple examples in both TFA and other comments in the discussion here pointing to simple bugs that have A) been open for 10+ years and/or B) locked and closed as WONTFIX, I don't know if that "plu
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Well, this sounds like a monopoly problem, not a free speech problem. If Apple were forced to allow alternative app stores this wouldn't be an issue. Note that they don't have to advertise or host these stores, merely not actively
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Likewise, private companies are not required to host any speech, as long as they aren't discriminatory against a protected class. Cory Doctrow put it best: Let these companies ban whomever, for whatever (legal) reason. Then, push for
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Okay, putting the ideals of the two events aside, the fact is the police (and national guard) presence was great enough during the BLM protest to make breaching the perimeter essentially impossible, as opposed to the much lighter presence o
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Vice did a very interesting look into this question following the deplatforming of Alex Jones[1]. As is evident from their article title -- "Deplatforming Works" -- the data seem to say it works. As for the specific concern you me

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