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by foresto 5y ago
I would expect it to scale pretty well, at least until you reach the limits of your disk and buffer RAM. The build process supports the -j option just like make. You can use -j N+1 if you want to keep all your cores busy, or -j N-1 to keep
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by foresto 5y ago
From memory, I think LineageOS 17 took roughly 8-12 hours for an initial build and 3.5 hours for subsequent (ccache) builds on an Intel i5-3570K and spinning hard drive. That's not including the initial git clone. The idea might seem d
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by foresto 5y ago
> That's why it's gated in most distros by default. Debian used to gate them behind a sysctl, but that's changing in the upcoming Bullseye release: "The previous Debian default was to restrict this feature to processe
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by foresto 5y ago
My experience mirrors yours almost exactly. Quitting Blizzard meant giving up my primary source of entertainment at the time, and having a lot less contact with some dear friends since then. It wasn't easy, but the right choice for me
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by foresto 5y ago
Your PR claims to resolve issue 1618, but an open question in that issue is not addressed anywhere that I can see: "tell more about VyOS and how it is a privacy tool and secure and how we won't regret listing it [...] remember cit
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by foresto 5y ago
Unless something has recently changed, XMPP also failed on the server side for normal users: - Finding a practical provider is nearly impossible, because all of the major ones closed their public XMPP service years ago, and most people don&
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by foresto 5y ago
> time-based deletion of messages? That is on their public roadmap, How can deletion of a sent message be enforced? I realize that some messaging services offer this feature, but aren't they all misleading at best? Even on a central
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by foresto 5y ago
About a year ago was in many places just after the start of the pandemic, which brought a large influx of users to the default public server. It got overloaded, and slowed down. I experienced it, too. They have made several rounds of signif
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by foresto 5y ago
Furthermore, those thousands of open issues hint to me that a lot of people are actively contributing, and that the dev team takes responsibility for legitimate problems. Compare this to other projects with the illusion of quality because m
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by foresto 5y ago
I've been reading the Nheko updates in This Week in Matrix with enthusiasm. How are E2EE and cross-signing coming along? Once those parts are fully implemented, stable, and trustworthy, it will look pretty attractive as a replacement f
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by foresto 5y ago
I don't see a field for this in the Connection Settings dialog. Where do you type the socket name/path?
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by foresto 5y ago
This makes me wonder how you installed KDE. If it was by installing a single top-level package (e.g. kde-standard or maybe kde-plasma-desktop), then I would expect apt autoremove on that package to just work. (Unless you later manually inst
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by foresto 5y ago
> Number two is, in order to do package management, you have to create a fake python installation and bend PYTHONPATH. If I understand what you mean by package management in this context, I wonder if editable installs will help you. htt
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by foresto 5y ago
> A few people can complain loudly for 24 hours, and then everyone's practically forgotten what the old UX was even like. How do you know how many have forgotten the old UX vs. simply given up after being dismissed or ignored? How d
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by foresto 5y ago
> This is the face of your company, if you can’t handle the increased load on your blog why should I trust your other systems. https://xkcd.com/932/
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by foresto 5y ago
> you don’t seem to realize that it’s a problem that most of the content we are exposed comes from a single culture. I don't think GP's desire to minimise language barriers among 27 co-operating governments implies that they ar
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by foresto 5y ago
I once pondered how I might generate IDs that were as compact as a machine word, without a value (or small set of values) revealing the size of the data set. One application might be user-visible customer numbers that don't easily reve
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by foresto 5y ago
Yes, the desktop version is an Electron app. It's a bit of a pig, but an understandable choice for a small team delivering a truly open e2ee protocol and cross-platform software suite as quickly as they have. I'm willing to tolera
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by foresto 5y ago
> Matrix is simply not accessible to anyone who isn't highly computer literate I would have agreed about a year ago, but the reference implementations have been slowly and steadily improving, as have alternative Matrix clients. If I
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by foresto 5y ago
Also, enabling the subtitles helped me understand the terrible audio.
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by foresto 5y ago
I bought an MX 5000 (aka Ergo Plus) back when I had no idea who Cherry was or what the phrase "mechanical keyboard" meant. I just wanted an adjustable split keyboard that wasn't too exotic. Decades later, it's still serv
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by foresto 6y ago
ix: command line pastebin http://ix.io/
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by foresto 6y ago
Agreed, although I wish that animated gif was instead real text, using something like playterm[1] or asciinema[2]. [1] https://playterm.org/ [2] https://asciinema.org/
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by foresto 6y ago
I still occasionally see it in games when a texture is missing or otherwise unable to load.
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by foresto 6y ago
Is there any reason that this wouldn't be solved by spending an hour with a colorimeter? Do these displays not expose any calibration controls?
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by foresto 6y ago
Would that be Old Reddit Redirect? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
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by foresto 6y ago
Or don't reward spyware makers by purchasing appliances that can phone home. Bonus: This way, you don't have to worry about open wifi networks.
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by foresto 6y ago
Doesn't it lock in moisture and promote mold?
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by foresto 6y ago
Perhaps that choice comes from wanting their target platform to be linux, rather than systemd?
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by foresto 6y ago
This is a neat trick; thanks for pointing it out. Just keep in mind that Google may have a sizable pool of certificates in use across their various servers, and they may rotate them on whatever schedule they like. Keeping up could become a

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