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by cesarb 2y ago
> And so is X11. We are heading for a dual stack desktops. IMO, we're heading for "X11 over Wayland" desktops, in which the only X11 implementation is Xwayland. These expensive applications which target X11 will keep worki
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by cesarb 2y ago
> No one cares about the political purity and ideology behind it. No one cares, until they do. Everything you mentioned depends on a single company, which follows the commands from just a few people, who can one day decide to lead the op
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Judicial fines are paid using a GRU According to the official decision from the judge ( https://noticias-stf-wp-prd.s3.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-co... ), the value was deposited using a DJE (Documento para Depósitos Jud
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by cesarb 2y ago
> But the actual code for YieldProcessor is a NOP on x86:[2] > __asm__ __volatile__( "rep; nop" : : : "memory" ); It might look like a NOP, but "REP NOP" is not a real NOP, it's the PAUSE instruction
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by cesarb 2y ago
> This iteration of the internet is pretty big; it may not die (where you live) but it will likely continue fragmenting into a loosely coupled set of affiliated networks [...] Isn't the Internet already a "loosely coupled set o
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by cesarb 2y ago
The gTLDs are also subject to the whims of a foreign country (usually the USA). The safest option is probably your own country's ccTLD, since any dispute would go solely through your own country's laws and courts (to which you&#x2
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by cesarb 2y ago
More importantly than a git repository, you might have archives (a .tar or equivalent) of these software projects, and might want to unpack them while preserving the timestamps contained within these archives.
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by cesarb 2y ago
It makes sense if you invert your point of view. These are not chargers where you have to pay for parking; these are parking places which have a charger as an extra. IMO, the long-term tendency will be for every parking place to have an ele
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Linux kicked off in the 90s because young people at that time wanted a real OS It's easy to underestimate how inferior MS-DOS was, unless you lived through it. Windows (3.x and later 9x) was slightly better, but still had severe i
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by cesarb 2y ago
> "until recently"? More than 10 years just going by HN. The TCP protocol is from the 1970s (according to Wikipedia, it's from 1974, which is 50 years ago). Something which only happened 10 years ago is recent.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> "We are in a post-Postel world" is a great way to put it. See also RFC 9413 ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9413.html ), originally called "draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong" ( https:/&#x2F
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Windows doesn’t have global library folders that are polluted by a million user scripts. C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 It's called "DLL Hell" for a reason. It used to be very common for every program you installed to dump seve
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Consider the moment of impact when a phone hits a hard floor In my personal experience with cell phones with removable batteries, whenever one of them hit a hard floor, all that happened was that the battery cover and the battery were
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by cesarb 2y ago
> With Intel's patents on emulating x86 on other CPU architectures, AMD released the x86-64 documentation more than 20 years ago; any patents on that (which includes SSE2) would have already expired by now.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Seems pretty dumb considering it still consumes fossil fuels. Internal combustion engines are not limited to fossil fuels. For instance, here in Brazil it's common to use sugarcane ethanol as an alternative fuel, and many cars com
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by cesarb 2y ago
> The Linux ABI is simple enough that a single dev could emulate probably 85% of it in pretty short order. Microsoft tried it (with WSL1), and gave up. The remaining 15% is the hard part, and plenty of software will depend on something w
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by cesarb 2y ago
> you need to plan for the absolute worst case, once in a century, scenario and size your batteries accordingly. For a once-in-a-century situation, you can have alternatives other than batteries. For instance, backup diesel generators; a
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by cesarb 2y ago
> All your users and potential users can access IPv4-only servers. Not all servers are user-accessible. For instance, a database server or a NAS server might only be accessed by other servers within the same organization. Using IPv6 betw
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I swear, man. Until every surface is used to display ads I don’t think advertisers will rest. "[...] We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures." (from a scene in the Ready
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Just go look at the release notes on the App Store for the Google Home app. [...] When I read the same release notes so often I begin to question whether this redesign is really taking more than six months to roll out. Google is terrib
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by cesarb 2y ago
The most interesting part, to me, was that entering SMM pauses all cores at once, instead of doing the work in a single core like normal interrupts. That sounds like a performance killer, and I hope entering SMM is really rare in modern sys
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by cesarb 2y ago
> The power line frequency is very tightly regulated over the long term, and should have an overall better accuracy. It depends on your country. I've heard of this being the case in Europe, but here in Brazil, as far as I could find
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Imagine a government agent buys drugs on the dark web and arrests the courier. The courier protests, "I didn't know it was drugs, I didn't ask what was in the package". Do you think that defense is going to keep the
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by cesarb 2y ago
> "I don't want to give you the papers" and "I can't give you the papers because I burned them so that I couldn't give them to anybody" are equivalent morally; the only difference is that the latter is
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by cesarb 2y ago
You'd need massive networking improvements too. Telling someone "try next to the stairs, the cellular signal's better there" is an example I saw yesterday (it was a basement level), and that's not uncommon in my exp
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Threads now supports the ActivityPub protocol that the fediverse (incl Mastodon) is built upon. Given the recent issues with Twitter, my country's president started posting on an official account on both Bluesky and Threads. Knowi
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by cesarb 2y ago
> The internet is mostly ethernet these days (ISP core/edge), A lot of that ISP edge is CPEs with WiFi, which AFAIK limits the MTU to 2304 bytes.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> At most you need to tell SELinux that some non-default directory should have some label. That's not hard. In my experience, it's not just directory labels ("semanage fcontext -a -e ..." and friends). You also need o
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by cesarb 2y ago
The order of the events in your timeline is not fully correct, the "same monetary umbrella and blocked the accounts of SpaceX" part happened on 24 August, the "X was banned in the country" part happened on 30 August (and
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Musk only owns 40% of SpaceX so he's not the majority shareholder. The judge's order says otherwise ( https://noticias-stf-wp-prd.s3.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-co... page 35): "O grupo econômico de fato l

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