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by StillBored 10mo ago
Ok, so instead of a couple UAC style prompts for screen readers, macro recording, desktop sharing, etc, and some tweaks to GDK, we got what? An entire new backend GDK windowing system, and a pile of broken applications? And its been decades
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by StillBored 10mo ago
https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xextproto/security.ht... Is the security extension from 1996, which has a section on keyboard security and its crazy to me that this anyone can claim X11 can't
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by StillBored 10mo ago
https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xextproto/security.ht... Notice the date.. 1996 (for those that didn't click the link, that is the X11 security extension which address all that, and it was pu
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by StillBored 10mo ago
The KDE blog entry reads like a modern political platform denying climate change, or claiming renewable energy can replace traditional energy sources on the grid. One head strictly stuck in the ground and ignoring the cases that make many o
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by StillBored 10mo ago
> In case I wasn't clear enough, there was never a screenshot feature. Any X11 client could read any pixel written by any other X11 client. Which is a load of FUD, the X11 security extensions from (checks google) 1996, restrict this
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by StillBored 10mo ago
ECC! I don't care what BS people say about ZFS/Btrfs/whatever, if a bit flips on your router hopefully the checksum fails and nothing bad happens. If you flip a bit in memory, on the way to the disk, then its corrupt at rest,
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by StillBored 10mo ago
Asahi is also still a platform with a huge pile of out of tree patches on top because the platform itself is pretty unusual, requiring for example, a 16K page size kernel which is unlike pretty much every other arm Linux platform.
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by StillBored 10mo ago
I was going to write a snarky comment, but in the "if any of Qualcomm leadership is listening" I'm going ask a question: Why is any of this needed when the kernel is full of platforms that are forward compatible with the Linu
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by StillBored 11mo ago
And generally considered unconstitutional, until suddenly it wasn't, just like GWB nationalizing the TSA itself thereby creating the single largest case of the federal government pilfering through everyday Americans persons and propert
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by StillBored 11mo ago
Right, and the reason this has been going on for nearly a quarter century in the USA is because it was widely considered an unconstitutional national passport until 9-11, and got bipartisan push-back from a number of states following its pa
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by StillBored 11mo ago
Sure, but i suspect for basically all of us (maybe Elon is surfing HN today), that literally means nothing. Few of us have the 100's of millions required to design and fab a competitive SoC, and for those that do, the arm licenses are
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by StillBored 11mo ago
Or they just got one of the 'good' models and tuned linux a bit. I have a couple lenovo's and its hit/miss, but my 'good' machine has an AMD which after a bit of tuning idles with the screen on at 2-3W, and wit
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by StillBored 11mo ago
While each of the comments here describe individual failings, on a well supported laptop it is possible to get better power efficiency than windows if your willing to spend the time manually tuning linux, the powertop/etc suggestions a
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by StillBored 11mo ago
I have a couple generation back amd laptop that can 'standby' for months.. its called S4 hibernate. Although at the same time its set for S3 and can sit in S3 for a few days at least and recover in less time than it takes to open
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by StillBored 11mo ago
I would re-frame "is it really worth breaking half the web" as those sites are not compliant to begin with. Nothing in the web standards stack mandates javascript, its an optional feature! Web developers of yore understood that a
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by StillBored 11mo ago
Yes, I was thinking he needs an attorney to file suit against them for intentionally damaging his property, and then charge them for the 'repair' which would be the months he probably spent fixing it at a top grade engineering sal
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by StillBored 11mo ago
While thats a sweet upgrade for people with an older desktop that can support a motherboard swap, its worthwhile to point out the ram is probably insufficient. RAM usage for a lot of workloads scales with core/thread count, and my gene
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by StillBored 1y ago
A lot has changed in the 25 years since gbit wired ethernet was rolled out. While wired ethernet stagnated due to greed. Got powerlines? Well then you can get gbit+ to a few outlets in your house. Got old CATV cables? Then you can use them
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by StillBored 1y ago
I don't know the details of the warnings either, but from the original articles it sounds like they had moved to a QVL list that didn't include 3rd party devices, only their rebranded ones. Which is possibly because they got seaga
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by StillBored 1y ago
This is a mixed bag. As someone who worked in the storage industry for ~10 years, there are a lot of poorly defined behaviors that are vendor/model specific and I can see how its easier to just pick a particular model, test it and dec
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by StillBored 1y ago
Which because they have gotten away with it for so long, everyone else has been copying (or well I guess this has been going on for decades in various forms) them. Ex, netflix, which has decided to pop up a 'we noticed there are people
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by StillBored 1y ago
Which goes to the GP's point, which is that security and robustness are not on the radar. And my point in providing a concrete example, where a decision was made to prioritize unsafe behavior in a known problematic area, when they coul
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by StillBored 1y ago
Its worse. The day I discovered that std::array is explicitly not range/bounds checked by default I really wanted to write some angry letters to the committee members. Why go through all the trouble to make a better array, and require
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by StillBored 1y ago
I think the prevalence of the format vs something more widely used should be part of that metric. On those grounds, the lack of pre-tokenization in html/css/js ranks at this point as a planet killing level of poor choices.
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by StillBored 1y ago
Which is probably exactly why this was added. The cheap way to usually tell if someone is using a 3rd party UI toolkit, is to start tweaking the system theming and see if the application follows some scaling/color changes correctly. In
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by StillBored 1y ago
Austerity has repeatably been shown to kill economic growth and trigger recessions/depressions. Yet for whatever reason there is one party in congress who's entire economic policy is basically austerity measures. Repeatedly, the a
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by StillBored 1y ago
Gonna shill Venstar's colortouch line despite not having any financial relationship with them. Only because I don't see anyone else mentioning them, and I've had good luck with them for the past ~10(?) years in multiple house
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by StillBored 1y ago
Batteries are just an extension of the thinking that PV or Wind are 'cheap'. There is slight U shape in the price where an initial fraction lowers the cost, but then it just additional cost overhead. Cost shifting some of the exce
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by StillBored 1y ago
And there is _NOTHING_ worse than being locked out of an account because without asking they reverse the password and second factor authentication while your traveling and don't have access to a phone/etc. Nevermind. that pretty m
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by StillBored 1y ago
The US needs another Orville Freeman, someone who understands the intricacies of both economics and food production. Pretty much no-one in a position to affect subsidies and the legal system has a clue. And this isn't unique to the USA

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