ValdikSS

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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
You're biased. AI was trained on a well-written professional texts which used these phrases and speech patterns, it was very common before the AI-generated texts. These speech patterns especially common for Russian speakers.
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
I can't understand why people defend improper typography. If you're writing a proper, professional-looking blog post, they think you now should use double-minus -- instead of em-dash to make it look non-AI like, only for that reas
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
Any airprint/mopria certified devices don't need drivers to work on Linux, Windows, Android or macOS. https://mfi.apple.com/account/airprint-search https://mopria.org/certified-products
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
See above, that's my mistake.
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
Sorry, it's me who needs a reading comprehension lessons. I've read back in printervention website and now again that you didn't open the code that you HAVE to. Because you're apologizing for that, I assumed that you&#x2
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
It's a great concept, but you haven't open-sourced the previous code, as the license requires, and you're yet again apologizing in this project as well, without any code. Pretty sure you have my code in both projects. I contr
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
Linux kernel contribution policy required sending patches under real name, but that policy have been lifted about 2 years ago. Now they allow pseudonym contributions. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kerne
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
It's a part of PDF, so if there's a PDF renderer which makes preview, it supports G4 and JBIG2.
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
That's why LLM will eventually be used only for initial interaction between the user in their language, to prepare the data to a specialized model. Imagine face recognition to work like a text chat, where the PC gets the frame from the
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
Denuvo is owned by Irdeto, a digital rights management company in a broad sense. They not only do software and hardware DRM, but also work as a watchdog for movie and music companies to claim DMCA violations for BitTorrent, among all other
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
>there are only a few licenses approved by OSI that are not also considered Free Software This is what I'm trying to conterpoint: you're thinking of "Free software" as in legal definition of GNU (4 freedoms), and &quo
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
The only instance of social contract I know is Debian's, initially from 1997. https://www.debian.org/social_contract >I wonder if this always used to be the case As written in the article of discussion, it used to b
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
The article recalls people that open-source software is not necessary created for the community, but rather by the author, for the author oftentimes. The "support" is not only the maintenance burden which (sometimes) could be
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
- FOSS applications don't have to be distributed publicly — that's only the common social expectation - FOSS does not imply that the code should be available for non-customers. The developer decides who is the customer. -
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
And what puzzles me all the time is why the programmer chooses the licenses which permit this exact behavior, and become pissed when this happens? You explicitly told everyone that you can do that, and when others do that, you become sad.
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
> Sometimes I wonder if FOSS projects should start as paid Why only start? Moreover, you're encouraged to sell other's people free (as in beer) software, if you want to. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selli
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
These are my thoughts on this aspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988108
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
Allow me to auto-translate my comment which initially was a response to "How can an ordinary developer get involved in the open source community, and is it worth it?" article (in Russian), because it describes how these different
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by ValdikSS 5mo ago
The document is about the social aspect of the _most common_ open-source code model, and social pressure of the _most common, unspoken expectations_ of the developers and the users. Could we maybe invent the exact definition of this model?
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
>Those tickets would not be "unreliable" but simply "broken" with a "Won't fix" status. Check the Wi-Fi tickets, they are sitting without any replies from the RPi team since 2025. It is broken in thes
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
>software support is fantastic. Unreliable USB: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3259 Unreliable Wi-Fi: * https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/7092 * http
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
Unfortunately the firmware supports only Orange Pi Zero3. It's a hardware+software solution, because to make reliable print server, you have to control both and fix SoC/board specific bugs. For example, USB 1.1 OHCI has too high l
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
Huh? I don't have any PDF files larger than 150 MB (2500+ pages long). It won't be a problem. 512 MB is more than enough. The previous revision had 256 MB (that's a bit tight), and the newer PCB does not have RAM less than 1
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
>Perhaps I could set them up a Raspberry Pi as a print server? But that would make it not so cheap. And anyway, I’m not convinced they’d go for the extra plugs and wires. $35 and it's yours, with tech support and CUPS/SANE deve
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
You might think that such an important and long-standing feature as printing would undoubtedly be backed up by a large company. This was true until 2019, when it was backed by Apple. Currently, however, CUPS and all related projects are sup
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
It does: https://openprinting.github.io/wsl-printer-app/
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
Xerox just removed all the Linux drivers first for the majority of older models (even actual ones, which you can still buy), Windows and macOS drivers second for selected models (yet). https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t&
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
That's definitely possible for simpler drivers (CUPS filters) which accept CUPS-raster data for input. That's a majority of drivers for old printers.
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
>but it's one of those projects that feels like it's going to end up being a rabbit hole. I know your feelings. I've started https://printserver.ink because I wanted to buy a retail print server and could not f
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by ValdikSS 6mo ago
It's a Samsung SPL device, it's supported by SpliX: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/splix

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