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by foresto 6mo ago
Storage accessible only to the user is usually not what we mean when we say data collection.
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by foresto 6mo ago
> what is cloudflare exactly? Man-in-the-middle and gatekeeper of (large parts of) the web. It's getting harder and harder to participate online without being subject to their surveillance and/or approval.
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by foresto 6mo ago
Apparently kits are now available for those who don't want to shop around for parts. Here's a photo: https://www.kegoutlet.com/prod_images/xlarge/2/0/SP202T-SS.a...
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by foresto 6mo ago
Hmm... Those steel growlers look appealing, if a little pricey, but their 45 psi relief valves would prevent carbonating with as much fizz as I like. I wonder if the PRV could be swapped with a different one that holds more like 75 psi. Tha
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by foresto 6mo ago
I paid about 20-25 USD for my last 5 lb refill. That was a few years ago, and it's still providing. My prior fill lasted more than 5 years (maybe 6 or 7) serving one fizzy water fan and occasional guests.
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by foresto 6mo ago
> I found it cheaper and much, much more convenient Cheaper? I don't see how. We're filling from the same CO2 cylinders, and my total hardware cost was less than that of a midrange SodaStream without the adapter you describe.
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by foresto 6mo ago
If you want to carbonate water but don't want to buy a countertop carbonator or its overpriced CO2 refills, you can get a ball lock valve cap that screws onto 1L or 2L soda bottles for around $8-16. That valve will attach to a standard
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by foresto 6mo ago
That's a fair criticism for some workflows, and I like the lightweight model, but we should keep in mind the context of the time: When these DVCS appeared, Git's branch design departed from what "branch" meant practicall
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by foresto 6mo ago
> bazaar... Not sure what they were trying to solve there with git and forges already existing. You are mistaken here. Bazaar, Mercurial, and Git appeared at about the same time, and I think Bazaar was released first. IIRC, Bazaar tried
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by foresto 6mo ago
Looks like there are examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIRDOcSQGe8
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by foresto 6mo ago
> It only needs to be "an app" if it is using hardware to do it's main job. Even then, there's a good chance that web a API exists for the required hardware, so it still doesn't need to be an app.
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by foresto 6mo ago
Are you sure? Bluetooth dongles these days can be smaller than most low-profile USB drives, barely protruding from a laptop's exterior. It might be worth browsing the available models.
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by foresto 6mo ago
> This is true, but you may be missing out on performance and compatibility improvements from recent ("bleeding edge") drivers. No, not missing out. Just waiting a few weeks longer than I would on a rolling distro, until the im
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by foresto 6mo ago
> I will click the green "Play" button, it will change to a blue "Stop" button, as if the application was running, then shortly after silently switches back to the green Play button again, without any visible error an
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by foresto 6mo ago
Debian Stable gamer here. > Honestly, don't use debian for gaming, as it is too far behind. Gaming stuff needs a bit more bleeding edge packages. Please stop spreading this misconception. There are only a tiny handful of packages th
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by foresto 6mo ago
Your computer's bluetooth module could be the source of the trouble. Some people have found that using a different dongle fixed their wireless controller problems.
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by foresto 6mo ago
> The "Nvidia on Linux compatibility" issues are something I wonder if I have side-stepped somehow either by lucky choice of GPUs, or lucky choice of Linux distros. It could also be lucky consequence of what games you play and
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by foresto 6mo ago
Neat. I wish the sample text included _underscores_, since I have occasionally found that they disappear with certain combinations of font + size + renderer. And a run of all the numeric digits 0123456789, to show how their heights align. A
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by foresto 7mo ago
> quickie comments on HN should be taken more as mental stimulation and kickoff points for further discussion Agreed, and my comment was aimed at exactly that. :) An example of my concern: What would happen to GPL-licensed software if th
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by foresto 7mo ago
I think I like the idea, but I can't help wondering if it would have unforeseen consequences. Could this approach undermine the protections afforded by open-source licenses? (IANAL.)
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by foresto 7mo ago
> I would assume most of them? I'd be surprised if distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. would ship non-mainline kernel features like that. It's best not to assume with these things. With my stock Debian Stable kernel, Prot
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by foresto 7mo ago
> if Valve didn’t enable that on their build then I don’t have it. The Proton build is Valve's build. It supports both fsync and esync, the latter of which does not require a kernel patch. If you're gaming on Linux with Steam
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by foresto 7mo ago
The common gaming-focused Wine/Proton builds can also use esync (eventfd-based synchronization). IIRC, it doesn't need a patched kernel. The point being that these massive speed gains will probably not be seen by most people as yo
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by foresto 7mo ago
Most people? What mainstream Linux distros ship without fsync or esync support?
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by foresto 7mo ago
xcancel.com seems to work at least as well as any other still-maintained nitter instance. Here's a list: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
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by foresto 7mo ago
See also: F3 https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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by foresto 7mo ago
> Also, the LGPL text doesn't say "work based on the library". It does, about a dozen times. Are you perhaps referring to LGPL3? I think the license under discussion here is LGPL2.1. https://github.com/char
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by foresto 7mo ago
That's interesting, but it misses my point: The library's test suite and interfaces were apparently used directly, not transformed. If either of those are considered part of the library's source code, as the license's wo
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by foresto 7mo ago
> It's transformative, so no. I'm not following your logic there, and I don't see any mention of "transformative" in the license. Can you explain what you mean?
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by foresto 7mo ago
From the article: > He fed only the API and the test suite to Claude and asked it to reimplement the library from scratch. From GPL2: > The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. Fo

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