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by corty 6y ago
Even if you had to agree to the EULA before buying the product, it might still be invalid. There are laws in the EU limiting terms of service and similar non-negotiable pre-purchase contracts to unsurprising, expected-by-the-consumer, fair
872.
by corty 6y ago
Not in the rest of the world, but it still looks similar. I guess it is just incompetent politicians and bureaucrats being overwhelmed by things.
873.
by corty 6y ago
The wayland protocol (with the very few standard common extensions) does far less than the X11 protocol. There are extensions to Wayland that add missing functionality, but those are compositor-specific. Meaning effectively that each compos
874.
by corty 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
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by corty 6y ago
The major X11 implementations always had phases of stalling development and disagreement. The last big phase lead to X.org taking over. Maybe this new big stall is the end, maybe it is just a signal for another change of direction. But ther
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by corty 6y ago
The design overview slides are their own critique: Wayland does almost nothing besides render buffer handling. Input? Applications job. Window decorations? Compositors job. Application talking to the Compositor? Somebody elses job. Clipboar
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by corty 6y ago
You are probably only using Gnome and GTK3 applications. Everything else lags behind (because in Wayland you need to reinvent everything for each WM and toolkit). Everything is also incompatible because of all those reimplementations, so if
878.
by corty 6y ago
Waylands design is even more broken and leads to common functionality being duplicated and broken all over the place. Each app has to do input handling on its own? Comeon, a 5yearold could tell you that that is a huge design flaw. There are
879.
by corty 6y ago
Lack of an alternative does not make Wayland any better unfortunately.
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by corty 6y ago
Where is that supposed Wayland progress after a decade? Input is broken and inconsistent, screenshots don't work, remoting is broken, every WM has to be rewritten or abandoned, trivialities like c&p handling are not yet there. Wayl
881.
by corty 6y ago
I fear you are right. While there might be commits in the Wayland repos, featurewise progress has ceased. Waylands broken architecture has made progress hard to impossible. Porting of popular window managers is extremely slow since there is
882.
by corty 6y ago
Nope. Load following is something different from a planned shutdown. You can order your reactor to support load following, most reactors in Europe are built with that capability. This means that for a boiling water reactor, the reactor will
883.
by corty 6y ago
There are times when Germany exports energy to France, and those are hugely popularized due to the reasons you stated. However, the far more frequent cases are: Germany has excess transient wind or solar energy, even making energy prices n
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by corty 6y ago
overcharging the remaining customers and government or similar work: If you are in an old peoples' home, refugee camp, etc, no public transport available and you need to see the dentist, government or health insurance will pay for the
885.
by corty 6y ago
Most people who are happy with WoL are webdevs who do not really use anything beyond npm and git. So most people do not notice how bad things really are on Windows
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by corty 6y ago
Galileo is a European "me too"-system. As long as it seems to the general public to be running and problems do not make headlines, it is fulfilling its purpose. That the service is actually degraded and only working because of klu
887.
by corty 6y ago
So everyone should roll their own crypto after all, because of a few isolated examples? In most cases, on average, you are wrong.
888.
by corty 6y ago
The track record of single-developer-implemented cryptography is even poorer...
889.
by corty 6y ago
Usually this grace period for new cars only applies to the liability insurance, i.e. damages to others, not to the insurance against damages to your own car ('kasko' insurance). Meaning you are out of luck regarding your own new t
890.
by corty 6y ago
I especially liked the section on DDR memory PCB routing and how it is less complicated than people make it out to be. At least for this application. Makes one want to try something like this
891.
by corty 6y ago
You usually build a chain of hashes of messages, not of the messages themselves. Meaning that you can delete the message, leaving evidence of the deletion in the form of a lonely hash in the chain.
892.
by corty 6y ago
Especially since the article contains lots of cluelessnes about the meaning of their reported facts: Clay that is radioactive at three times the normal background is called: normal clay. Your living room might be three times above backgroun
893.
by corty 6y ago
Problem is, you will be forced by courts to remove some reviews for the usual reasons, making you instantly untrustworthy
894.
by corty 6y ago
because if you contribute during work hours, the contribution is legally owned by your employer. If you contribute after work, some jurisdictions also might give the employer rights to that contribution. So the answer is: because the code m
895.
by corty 6y ago
I agree. Picking too open a license is a danger for OSS-based corporations, which the original article explains nicely. Glad they recognized the problem and fixed it, instead of succumbing to the Scylla and Charybdis of BSD-style openness a
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by corty 6y ago
No, all calories are not the same. The basic process for measurements is "burn it, measure the energy output". " Burning" as in "gas flame, high heat, oxygenated atmosphere". This is something your body doesn&#
897.
by corty 6y ago
Even if intercontinental interbreeding is still rare, societies and therefore breeding patterns have become far more connected on a local, national and intracontinental scale. Where there used to be the proverbial inbred populations in remo
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by corty 6y ago
Hotels and restaurants do indeed have thicker and more robust plates and utensils. Rough handling by guests and staff as well as the aforementioned pressure cleaning with aggressive cleaning agents make it necessary. Catalogues (picked rand
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by corty 6y ago
CMS, serve the content over http and the admin page over https. And for sites with noncritical static content https is superfluous to dangerous. ESNI isn't implemented yet, IP addresses are still visible to the eyes. And content sizes
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by corty 6y ago
All it does is assume that a https site serves the same content and audience as the corresponding http site. That is a broken assumption. The consequences of such a broken assumption are very much the fault of the extension.

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