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by fierarul 6y ago
I did make loads of bread. Can probably find somewhere a picture of the 1st one.
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by fierarul 6y ago
While the drama that happened there can't be denied, it is tiresome to see Romania in 2020 still presented in this light. I've been browsing hn.algolia.com for articles posted in the past year about various countries and I think R
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by fierarul 6y ago
It's always been a general purpose computer, Apple just disallowed people to use it as such.
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by fierarul 6y ago
> Every app I could find had some dark pattern or an overflow of ads or both. Apple's ecosystem evolved towards a 'market for lemons'.
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by fierarul 6y ago
> To say that “many developers do not want to speak out for fear of falling afoul of Apple” is an understatement. Almost none do. And one thing I’ve learned this week — mostly via private communication, because, again, they fear speaking
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by fierarul 6y ago
Some country was thinking about declaring Internet Access a human right. I think computing should come before that. The scale of any company should invite extra scrutiny from the state. Apple is at a scale where it has massive societal impa
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by fierarul 6y ago
You are trying hard not to understand the message. The laws change to fit what people consider right. What Apple is doing might be almost legal but it is not right and laws can be written to spell this out for them and others. Computing sho
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by fierarul 6y ago
But 50% of the smarphone market users might want to install software on they own property which Apple has clearly shown to be quite possible, if only Apple wouldn't stand in the way as the sole gatekeeper. It might not be specifically
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by fierarul 6y ago
Maybe the pandemic finally offers enough motivation for EU and US to make a strong decision about this. The (smart)phone market, for many people the only computing device they own, is utterly dominated by 2 monopolies under Apple and Google
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by fierarul 6y ago
I can confirm the only phone call I got from Apple was to explain why they can't accept my app. It was a small display test app / game which apparently is not allowed as the users might start thinking they have a defective product
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by fierarul 6y ago
I don't think deduplication can do much of a job on media files which are heavily compressed anyhow. As for Windows, that's a new one! When I think ZFS I think NAS although I did briefly had it on a laptop with FreeBSD I think.
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by fierarul 6y ago
> I worry for the future if more companies take this approach. That future is here. All macOS desktop apps must be signed with an $99 developer certificate from Apple. All Windows apps must be signed with a $300-ish developer certificate
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by fierarul 6y ago
The reason is the growing data people save and experiencing bit rot. Why not use ZFS?
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by fierarul 6y ago
He's betting on himself towards having an investor career.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Note that software is not an abstract idea, it's an idea manifested. And, really, people can still have a business selling cookies. But open source is unique in providing projects with many users, including commercial entities, that st
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by fierarul 6y ago
Sadly, so true. Making money from open source is somewhere between the Hollywood aspiring actress and the fool's gold level of wishful thinking.
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by fierarul 6y ago
People very rarely donate to open-source projects or buy open-source products. Money has to come into open source from somewhere and in the end it has to be via taxes or commercial interests. Maybe BitCoin will save us? Haha. No.
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by fierarul 6y ago
We pay 10% of our pre-tax salary for "health care"; which you pray to God not to need and most good companies offer private healthcare subscription to compensate/entice. We pay 25% for a pension that may never come. The state
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by fierarul 6y ago
> healthcare is free, but kind of missing Reading this part made me think "which other country is like Romania?" Sure enough, the author is from Bucharest, Romania.
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by fierarul 6y ago
> Engaging with the question itself is assuming responsibility. This explains why at any major software company looking up for similar patents is actively discouraged.
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by fierarul 6y ago
OVH / Scaleway?
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by fierarul 6y ago
I find the Ubuntu hardware certification a bit dubious specifically since they list all the hardware details. See, eg. https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201906-27127 (copied from another thread, as a reference)
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by fierarul 6y ago
Yes! I bet there are numerous ways this could be implemented to make things easier for developers and end users. With the current setup GitHub has more control on the resulting bits than I do. Also, current Microsoft signature rules that a
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by fierarul 6y ago
Dear GitHub CEO reading this message on HN: a cool feature would be a GitHub action to sign binaries for free . It's ridiculous that my open source code is hosted on GitHub, the binary is created with an action but I have to pay for a
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by fierarul 6y ago
Yes, they like to do these kind of things in the name of loving open source nowadays. Also open sourced a 40 year old BASIC implementation which can only be good for a Computer Museum display. MSDOS 6.0 might be interesting. Windows 3.1 too
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by fierarul 6y ago
I agree. It's a token gesture. Even if you do have SD card slots android offers to extends storage to that, which I think means it formats the card as EXT4 or something. Maybe TV manufacturers care about this, but in mobile it's a
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by fierarul 6y ago
Oh, this paragraph is good, especially in light of the Corona impact on OSS too: > Money, enthusiasm, motivation and responsibility: I predicted years ago that FOSS developers would start drifting away from the platform as FOSS is no lon
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by fierarul 6y ago
> - "Resume after suspend in Linux is unstable and oftentimes doesn't work." - Bollox. Resume from Hybernate - maybe. But suspend works perfectly most of the time. Seems like you are agreeing. "Most of the time"
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by fierarul 6y ago
I've been trying to wrap my head around the 'viral load' theory too. This goes against the mainstream notion of what getting a virus means. I've never heard before of people getting a worse case of flu because somebody e
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by fierarul 6y ago
The ASUS TUF Gaming A15. It's a bit flashy but for home office it works.

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