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by __d 6mo ago
I’m not an expert here, but … CRTs needed to be refreshed to keep the phosphors glowing. But all screens are now digital: why is there a refresh rate at all? Can’t we memory-map the actual hardware bits behind each pixel and just draw direc
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by __d 7mo ago
> What will the UK do when 4chan tells its online regulator to go suck a d**, send in James Bond? Let's say they did. Would you be saying "So what?" then too?
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by __d 7mo ago
The people living there might struggle to identify the difference?
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by __d 7mo ago
I've been hearing that since the 1990's when it first started to become apparent that their economy was on track to overtake the rest of the world within a few decades. It hasn't happened yet. Is there something you perceive
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by __d 7mo ago
From one perspective, the XLibre folks seem to be taking the Perl5 path, and hoping Wayland is Raku.
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by __d 7mo ago
I wouldn't say "mentally unstable", but zealous is probably fair. To create something like the GNU project, or OpenBSD, or Linux, takes serious levels of commitment. You really have to believe in it, and to a degree, you hav
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by __d 7mo ago
Disclosure: I'm not intimately familiar with all this. I think Perl5 was originally planned to be replaced by Perl6. Then Perl6 took much longer than anyone expected, and kinda ended up in a different place. Perl5 was re-anointed as
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by __d 7mo ago
So, compare this with say the Python2 to Python3 migration. Similar motivations: the developers had some legacy decisions that were unfixable without breakage. But they were sick of it, and decided to just go for it. Most end users didn’t
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by __d 7mo ago
It would be nice to have a server that supported arbitrary domains. Perhaps https://jointakahe.org/ would suit? OTOH, eg. (not an advertisement, just the first search result) masto.host offers managed Mastodon hosting for
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by __d 7mo ago
Unless I'm missing something, that's exactly the same. If you're using someone else's email domain (like, eg. gmail.com), you cannot migrate to another provider. If you use your own domain, you can change who is hosting
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by __d 7mo ago
How is ActivityPub instance migration worse than switching email providers?
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by __d 7mo ago
So run your own instance. Using someone else’s instance is just outsourcing your decisions. Other people might be ok with or even enthusiastic about that, but that shouldn’t be your problem.
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by __d 7mo ago
I’ve seen the Internet from the 1980’s until today. It has always had people exploring gender identities and public sharing of neuroses. Mostly nerds, though.
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by __d 8mo ago
Yes, but. When you’re broke and hungry, those differences become immaterial compared to the protein-bar/no-protein-bar tradeoff.
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by __d 8mo ago
Egacs
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by __d 8mo ago
IIRC, the Inmos Transputer shipped without a C compiler, and while third party products (including a port of GCC) did come later, it was Occam-only for quite some time.
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by __d 8mo ago
Yes. And totally no. Some humans will very likely survive. Millions, possibly hundreds of millions, will die. Life as it has been known for hundreds of years will change dramatically. An unwillingness or inability to conceive of this possi
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by __d 8mo ago
Yes
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by __d 9mo ago
Agreed. Companies could “outsource” their recycling obligations to local (national, regional, whatever) providers.
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by __d 10mo ago
If ChatGPT deserves credit for things it is used to write, then every good thing ever done in Go accrues partly to Rob.
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by __d 10mo ago
So … does xterm work? emacs? xfig? ghostview? xload? xev? oclock? xmodmap? xpilot?
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by __d 10mo ago
Is there anything you can share yet? It sounds interesting
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by __d 10mo ago
This is equally an issue migrating from Windows 10 to Windows 11, or desktop Word to Office 365 Word, or in fact basically any major software update. Yes, there is a cost to changing software. But it’s not unique to an Open Source migratio
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by __d 10mo ago
At a certain size (and government departments are absolutely large enough) it makes sense to manage software deployment centrally, from an internal package repository/cache. Once that’s in place, the process for populating that reposit
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by __d 10mo ago
So I saw the headline and for a moment I was very confused: aren’t sand worms fictional? Pre-coffee, apparently.
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by __d 11mo ago
So … is this MallowOS?
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by __d 11mo ago
It appears they’ve actually made that decision: making FreeBSD Mach-O is too much, so XNU is the new plan …
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by __d 11mo ago
FWIW, semaglutide is available in Australia via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (part of the socialized healthcare system), when prescribed for treatment of type 2 diabetes. Which means it is cheap, because the government bulk-buys it at
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by __d 11mo ago
Why “get rid of it”, instead of fixing it?
90.
by __d 1y ago
Or you could just end the war by declaring drugs as legal? Encourage farmers to grow the source plants, and the pharmaceutical companies to make the end products. Sell them in pharmacies, and maybe licensed dealers (as is done with alcohol

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