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by gioele 6y ago
> I'm not sure this is going to work fast enough for that. From reading the SIMD Everywhere description, it seems to me that SIMDe is a way to allow code that targets only a platform to work on other platforms as well. As a nice b
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by gioele 6y ago
> What’s the alternative. Are you going to mandate what features Apple, or any manufacturer of devices with embedded software, can or cannot implement? Are you going to mandate by law specific features for side loading that all manufactu
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by gioele 6y ago
For those that enjoy a bit of historical perspective, it is interesting to note that similar schema repositories existed also for XML (for both DTD and XML Schema). They were, however, all behind paywalls or registration forms. It is impres
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by gioele 6y ago
> > It is likely that people don't have OpenSSL in mind when they suggest moving away from GnuTLS > No, OpenSSL is exactly what we have in mind, including Filippo: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status&#x
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Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates(obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com)
121 points by gioele 6y ago|45 comments
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The Law Is Ruled to Be a Public Resource(blog.archive.org)
2 points by gioele 6y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 7y ago
Another sad +1: Italy is already using phone location data to track people and measure the effectiveness of the quarantine: https://archive.is/6xXNu (archived from https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_m
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by gioele 7y ago
> It is possible than one hospital may be overwhelmed, but surely it cannot be representative of hospitals across Italy or even a region. Sadly, it is representative of hospitals across all northern Italy: https://www.ilpost.i
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by gioele 7y ago
Ubuntu also tried mixing GUI and CLI in its Unity HUD [1] as part of their "intent-driven interface". The HUD retrofitted all existing menus of an application into hierarchical, searchable and "autocompletable" actions.
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KPN shut down historic ISP XS4ALL(facebook.com)
1 points by gioele 7y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 7y ago
> Here's the thing with Italy. They're the first Western country to get a major outbreak. Here is the other thing with Italy: differently from other neighbor countries, they have been testing people without symptoms. Numbers: u
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by gioele 7y ago
> Very limited with TLS. With webhosts, the PTR record means little. TLS+SNI sends the `Host` you are connecting to in plain text. eSNI is not yet widely deployed. Centralizing DNS without centralizing HTTP (e.g. domain fronting) does no
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by gioele 7y ago
> font file across websites with an extremely long TTL. Caches are no longer shared across domains because doing so leads to privacy leaks: https://www.jefftk.com/p/shared-cache-is-going-away
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by gioele 7y ago
Once we are done talking about country borders, let's talk about flags. Red Hat/Fedora "no flags" policy: https://lwn.net/Articles/333623/ Resignation of an important Debian kernel maintainer b
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by gioele 7y ago
While on the topic, I always hope that HW manufacturers could start being explicit about what is _supported_ and what is "supported". We have this problem with CPU manufacturers stating that something is supported, when it is inst
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by gioele 7y ago
Or just Flash running under a FLOSS implementation of Flash in the browser? Between GNU Gnash [1] and Lightspark [2] one should be able to run quite a few of those (non v10) Flash programs. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software&#
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by gioele 7y ago
GNOME went for proper CORBA (in the form of Bonobo [1]), KDE preferred something non-standard but easier to work with and much more performant (what is now KParts [2] + DCOP [3]). Bonobo has been abandoned around GNOME 2.4. KParts are still
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by gioele 7y ago
> I guess it’s enough that I’m surprised that there’s no hardware support for the memory system to support a way to handle it by itself on command, without taking up bus bandwidth or CPU cycles. Kind of like old-fashioned REP STOS but ha
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by gioele 7y ago
> > Every household has to pay a monthly fee even if they dont want to > Even if you don't own any screen or audio devices they still make you pay for it. I always fail to see how this isn't pure theft. The rationales is
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by gioele 7y ago
> Summarizing the article, `cat /dev/random` will still work but will never block `cat /dev/random` may still block, but only once per reboot. It may block if it is called so early that not enough entropy has been gat
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by gioele 7y ago
A couple of details for those who did not follow the discussion and are not familiar with Debian's voting system: * Proposal E "Support for multiple init systems is Required" has been firmly rejected. (In the Debian voting sy
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by gioele 7y ago
> In other words, a surcharge built into the cost of e.g. a flatscreen monitor for recycling is held in escrow during the device's lifetime. When it's end of life, the company that recycles it can claim that charge as part of i
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by gioele 7y ago
In medieval Italy (and probably most of southern Europe) sharecroppers whose "rental contract" expired were expected to move from one allotted housing/field to another on the 11th of November. https://it.wikipedia.
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by gioele 7y ago
And yet, among the alternatives, there is no mention of `unicode`, a standard-ish command line tool that does more or less the same thing and is available in common Linux distros since ~2005. Example output (the CLI's output is colored
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by gioele 7y ago
> The recycling of everything else is mostly a combination of virtue signaling and a jobs program. The truthiness of this statement depends a lot on the region of the world you are looking at. In Europe there is a consolidated and expand
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by gioele 7y ago
> LLVM also has a stable IR named LLVM itself, LLVM's IR is not stable by design. [1, 2] [1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-February/09487... [2] http://llvm.org/docs&#x
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by gioele 7y ago
> "...the iPhones that distract us from our environment also distract us from how strangely old and unchanging our environment is, how you're riding a subway that's 100 years old." We need a smartphone-age/post-T
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A Mystery of Unix History(changelog.complete.org)
64 points by gioele 7y ago|53 comments
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Pessimists Archive(pessimists.co)
2 points by gioele 7y ago|0 comments
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3D printer modified to print with Perler beads(reddit.com)
1 points by gioele 7y ago|0 comments

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