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by billyjobob 5y ago
It’s because they know Linus doesn’t care about software freedom[1] and it’s difficult to find kernel devs willing to sue when they know the boss doesn’t want them to. [1] e.g. when TiVo violated the GPL he let them, because apparently th
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by billyjobob 5y ago
I don't have time to re-read this, so I may be misremembering the details, but my impression as I recall at the time was that this guy was depressed and wrote this book to justify his suicide - to 'prove' it was the correct c
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by billyjobob 5y ago
I put my Pinephone back in its box about 6 months ago. Have they fixed the massive lag between touching the screen and it responding yet? That was the main reason it wasn’t usable for me.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Especially since a 40 year old on Facebook today will have been using it since he was 26, or possibly 24 if he was at college at the time. So he’s going to be well aware that Facebook isn’t a new hip thing. (Although he might have seen the
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Many people seem to mistake Stewart for a great actor due to his diction, accent, projection, etc. I find this early video of him fascinating because it compares him directly to another talented actor, both performing the same role, and yo
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by billyjobob 5y ago
My issue with this is the price. Not because it’s not worth it, but because it means no one outside of hardcore enthusiasts will buy one, that means very little software will ever be developed for it. Also I find the presence of the floppy
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by billyjobob 5y ago
There were legal Linux distros that had similiar repair tools (e.g. Damn Small Linux) and fit on a 50mb business card sized CD-R. Useful to keep in your wallet before the days of USB sticks.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Why is the web browser allowing the Javascript program to access a different server than the one it was loaded from? They call this a "DNS rebinding attack", and it seems it could compromise any router that doesn't have a pa
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Strange quote from the article: > Rest in peace, Mr. Wiggles. (1980-2003) #bettertohavelovedandlost Mr. Wiggles was lost due to an unfortunate adult circumcision. Can anybody explain who is Mr. Wiggles and the relevance of his death &#
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by billyjobob 5y ago
As I recall, when this was registered, didn't they censor or force a name change? Not because their systems couldn't handle it, but because many third parties scrape the data and they feared it would break other people's syst
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by billyjobob 5y ago
That makes sense if he was a convert to Buddhism, because Buddhism in the West is marketed as a treatment for anxious people.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
The killer feature of Bitbucket over GitHub was that they hosted Mercurial repositories. Since they stopped doing that and deleted all my Mercurial repos I haven’t seen any reason to use them.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
In HAM mode it could do 4096 simultaneously but that was mostly limited to static images. For games it was 32 or 64 colors. But this was in 1985. VGA didn’t exist until 1987 and didn’t become ubiquitous until 1990. And was much more expensi
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Kotlin data classes can use Java records as their implementation if running on JVM, so it’s not like you have to choose one or the other. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/jvm-records.html#declare-records...
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by billyjobob 5y ago
I don't want to dig up old grievances but I think most people who have had the misfortune to interact with Kovid on a personal level would agree he is not the sort of person who deserves a penny of your money.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Linspire was after they were forced rename. So many good memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSdRTOh2jeA
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Same with Apple Pencil. No log kept of where it was last seen.
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by billyjobob 6y ago
IntelliJ is not native, it’s Java, which ironically used to be considered a slow VM unsuitable for desktop apps, until Electron came along and was like “you think that’s slow? Hold my beer!” Now I much prefer Java desktop apps over Electron
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Not sure how useful it is given Apple’s restrictions, but it does exist: https://www.mobiussync.com/
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Possibly if you were writing in Latin. I think you would also have to Latinize the names. But et tu is a foreign phrase that has been adopted into English from Shakespeare, so you can use it in an English sentence without translating the
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by billyjobob 6y ago
That’s French, not Latin.
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by billyjobob 6y ago
That is a photo of Jeremy Keith [ https://adactio.com ] who was part of the team involved in this effort: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/colophon/ [Copied from mxuribe at https://news.ycombinator.com
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Unfortunately Guix also want Stallman out: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr... The entire free software community seems to have turned on their own founder - I don't think there&#x
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Last time it was featured on HN the top comment accused it of being another crypto currency scam. Unfortunately there didn’t seem to be any consensus one way or the other on the technical merit, but clearly some people are not fond of it.
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Wasn't all this supposed to be solved in the 90s with "web of trust"? Rather than trusting every review, you only trust those from your personal circle of friends, and then from their friends but with less weight, etc.
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Is Samba not FOSS? Also the PC can probably run entirely free software while the Pi will require non-free binary blobs due to its proprietary Broadcom hardware design, so I would say the PC is preferable from a freedom perspective.
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Could someone post a version of this article that doesn’t cause iOS safari to crash?
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by billyjobob 6y ago
I will if I get time, which is unlikely. Intel is not a volunteer-run organization nor even a small company so I'm sure they could afford a test-bed containing one of each of their GPUs to test their drivers before release if they car
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by billyjobob 6y ago
It hangs when trying to load the i915 module. CPU goes up to 100% and display goes black. Obviously it works with some, probably most intel GPUs but seems they aren’t bothering to test it with the older ones anymore. There’s a bunch of bug
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by billyjobob 6y ago
I’ve tried several distros and every updated kernel up to 5.9. No distro works if it has a kernel newer than 5.6.

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