Roark66

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by Roark66 4y ago
haha, very funny. I think you are 100% correct if we invert every statement you made. Out of curiosity, how would you implemnt this "policy" that it wouldn't be "implemented poorly"? As for being corrupt and anti-EU
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by Roark66 4y ago
Yes, you're right, they are stored on the card itself and nowhere else so in theory it allows authenticating the person to the document via a fingerprint. I didn't know that. Still I think having them there doesn't provide su
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by Roark66 4y ago
The main difference between guix and nix(other than ideology) is the language used to define the packages. Nix uses its own language, guix uses guile(compatible with scheme). Many people will find the nix language a lot more readable and ea
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by Roark66 4y ago
Indeed alternative "channels" exist. I mentioned them in my post. However, their authors don't question the ideological side of things. As I mentioned they even include statements how this software is "evil" etc. Wh
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by Roark66 4y ago
If you're an adult you already have an ID card...I'm talking about renewing one, not applying for the first time. One applies for one in person when one turns 18 (with a birth certificate, a passport if a citizen of another countr
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by Roark66 4y ago
I'm not complaining they don't store the fingerprints. I'm complaining they broke a perfectly good system pretending it improves security by getting fingerprints, while it does nothing. The fact they collect the fingerprints
907.
by Roark66 4y ago
How can one write an article like this and fail to mention guix? It solves _a_lot_ of the problems mentioned. Guix (and all its channels) is a great piece of software, but unfortunately its potential for populartity is severely diminished b
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by Roark66 4y ago
Good luck getting low latency video into the board. The best previous jetson did I was told was 40ms. This is still 3~4 times better than any alternative, but nothing to write home about. Most delay happens in the isp path (image processing
909.
by Roark66 4y ago
Seriously... I really wanted to like this project, but it seems everything EU touches as of recently gets worse. From the webpafe that half of the time shows "Resource Limit exceeded" to a technology stack diagram on the bottom of
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by Roark66 4y ago
One more reason to use an ad blocker for YouTube. I even use on my (android) "smart" TV. The open source app I use is smartyoutubetv. Occasionally it gets broken, but then a fix is usually an update away. It skips not just ads, b
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by Roark66 4y ago
You consider python full of vodoo magic? Go learn guile for a week and let me know what you think then :-)
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by Roark66 4y ago
Well, I stopped reading here, because it is complete bull** "Nearly 40% of Europe’s so-called renewable energy is currently obtained by combusting wood, much of it coming from forests in the US." I live in Poland and my (self buil
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by Roark66 4y ago
"Expected" - is the keyword here. No one should (and I belive will) agree for any kind of "geo-climate-engineering experiments" unless our science is actually capable of predicting/simulating exactly what's goi
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by Roark66 4y ago
It seems that in EU customer protection revolves around making sure one doesn't get scammed out of their money, warranties are honored in time, things delivered actually match what was described at time of purchase etc. All of this fal
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by Roark66 4y ago
I start to think these days one has to write like this and fill the page with 2k words of fluff before getting to the point if one hopes the website to show up in Google. I recently struggled a lot with a technical problem. I searched and s
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by Roark66 4y ago
Exactly. Software patents are idiocy of the worst kind. I wonder what has to happen for US to throw them out of their legal system.
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by Roark66 4y ago
Not everywhere in Europe. In Poland, despite the drought that caused various local problems as as a whole this season's harvest was a good one (I even heard it described as _very_ good in comparison with recent years). PL is a big expo
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by Roark66 4y ago
Perhaps we should spent more money trying to mitigate the outcomes rather than have those few regions that do limit their co2 output become entirely dependent for industrial goods(steel, concrete etc) on those that don't? It seems so o
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by Roark66 4y ago
In Europe credit cards are less popular. Most people I know use debit cards with a special "virtual" debit card for Internet purchases. In this situation blocking a certain amount on your card is almost functionally equivalent to
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by Roark66 4y ago
This is indeed very nice if it is implemented. As for T-mobile, how about they commit to ipv6 on all of their LTE networks? Here in Poland they have a network sharing agreement with Orange which means they use the same infrastructure, but w
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by Roark66 4y ago
Seriously, at which point this starts affecting the choice founders make in which legal jurisdiction to base their startup? Personally, despite many advantages I would avoid doing any new technology startup in US.
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by Roark66 4y ago
Every single time I see an article about a new AI model that has a section called "societal impact" I know immediately they are not releasing the model, the training set, nothing... It seems to be the kind of bullshit statement th
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by Roark66 4y ago
The problem with personal encryption for long term storage is that it is easy to loose private keys and passwords.
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by Roark66 4y ago
It is up to Pine64 to decide if, and who, they choose to support with cash for OS development. Is what they did a good choice? Probably not. Are they still the only modern hardware vendor that published (almost) all the driver's source
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by Roark66 5y ago
Exactly. Also, they didn't seem to mention the speed difference between typical diesel ship and their proposed "Eco" ship. If it takes a week more that might be fine, but if it takes 5 times as long no one will use it for lar
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by Roark66 5y ago
Bookmarked. For the time when Dutch politicians start lecturing other countries in EU about "solidarity" again. The most interesting part of the article for me is not that Uber dodged $6bln of taxes, but in which countries it deci
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by Roark66 6y ago
>FWIW, my current favored hypothesis is that the closure of schools, and possibly travel, significantly affected the spread of flu. Unlike Covid, kids are a significant vector of spread for influenza. It's one of those little facts
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by Roark66 6y ago
You forgot Poland. It never had colonies. It was destroyed completely in WW2. Then exploited by the communists until there was no almost no economy left in 1989. By today's standard Poland of 1989 can definitely be described as an unde
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by Roark66 6y ago
This is pretty cool. Personally, I would love a multiplatform app like this. My wish list for it would be to: - Run on Android, Windows and Linux - Have a self hosted Web front end (this is already here) - Use encrypted flat files for stora
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by Roark66 6y ago
>The story has now also been picked up by RT and the Sunday Herald. Seriously quoting RT (or Sputnik) in a serious article is giving them legitimacy they don't deserve. As for the substance of the article. Based on the edits they sh

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