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by infodroid 9y ago
"Earthquakes tend to have the biggest effect on the surface, like waves on water. That's why LA can have a (lame, but getting better) subway." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/824300186834898945
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by infodroid 9y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14315446
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by infodroid 9y ago
To put this in perspective, The Merkle estimates that Dogetipbot's creator cashed out between $140,000 and $1.4 million worth of Doge from account holders. Not exactly loose change. [1] https://themerkle.com/whats-going
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by infodroid 9y ago
Not necessarily. The clause only seems to apply to the binaries provided on the iTunes or Google Play store, and not to the actual source code, which is BSD licensed [1], or any binaries you might build yourself. I am speculating that the c
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by infodroid 9y ago
The linking policy is something I can overlook, because the linked Phoronix article is often a good summary of the original source, and it would actually be hard to find that linked Phoronix article unless the link was given to it, and the
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by infodroid 9y ago
LWN is a fine resource for original articles about Linux technology, and I am happy to recommend it on that basis. But as a news provider, it is seriously lacking compared to the alternatives, which have at least half a dozen stories per da
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by infodroid 9y ago
You're just repeating yourself without addressing the points I made. The value in a news site is in summarizing new developments, putting them in context, explaining their impact, performing fact checking. Phoronix does all of this fai
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by infodroid 9y ago
> often basically just repeat source information and add unwanted opinion I don't think this is fair or accurate criticism. There aren't any Phoronix stories that just republish the whole of the source verbatim. And even when q
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by infodroid 9y ago
> A decent amount of Phoronix' content is basically blogspam. This has not been true for a long time. Phoronix may have started as an amateur site with dubious content but it has now become a serious resource. These days, it does a
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by infodroid 9y ago
> Chrome is basically crippling Chromium's features The article doesn't even rule out the obvious possibility that the problems are just due to a bug in Chromium, and not some malicious behaviour on the part of Chrome. After al
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Bram Cohen Lashes Out Against BitTorrent’s Former CEOs(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by infodroid 9y ago|0 comments
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by infodroid 9y ago
Why are they poor names? Both Yahoo! and Google are easy to pronounce and easy to remember.
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by infodroid 9y ago
Yesterday there was a discussion [1] about a similar app named Status, which calls itself a "Mobile Ethereum OS" [2]. And between "browser" and "OS", I'm not even sure which is the worse way to describe th
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by infodroid 9y ago
Swatting is not the moral equivalent of a prank call. The psychological effects on the victim put it closer to terrorism, and the very real risk of injury, even to competent emergency responders, put it closer to assault. There isn't a
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by infodroid 9y ago
The article does a good job of deflecting blame away from the British hoaxer, which seems to be its goal. So I'm not surprised if anybody initially feels a sense of injustice here, but in this case I think it's misplaced.
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by infodroid 10y ago
> Very large projects don't have simple, easy-to-fix, outstanding issues. This isn't generally true. Large and well-established open source projects usually have dedicated schemes to match new contributors with simple tasks. Fo
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by infodroid 10y ago
Such portals are great for transient volunteer opportunities. But there are also open source projects with a more constant need for contributors in these different areas, and I don't think you will find them listed there. For example t
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by infodroid 10y ago
It's great to see more Haskell code being used in production.
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by infodroid 10y ago
There's no way to avoid giving away clues to "secret sauce" when releasing a driver, and keeping the source code closed doesn't change that. I don't see how the degree of accessibility is relevant. The fact is that
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by infodroid 10y ago
That might be true, but the general point is that most drivers in the Linux kernel don't need blobs, and they are in many cases written by manufacturers of the hardware. Competing manufacturers have not suffered as a result of releasin
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by infodroid 10y ago
Tell that to Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, Qualcomm Atheros, and Realtek. All of them released open source Linux drivers for their wireless network products and they're still doing good business. So I don't buy this line of argument.
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by infodroid 10y ago
I don't buy it... You can easily ship a "plain vanilla" open source GPU driver separate from the proprietary "game optimizer" code, because the former doesn't block the availability of the latter. And if you su
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by infodroid 10y ago
It is discussing this post from Alexandre Courbot: https://plus.google.com/+AlexandreCourbot/posts/BdWyfgsfp5J
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Nvidia's “Open-Source Guy” Has Left the Company(phoronix.com)
110 points by infodroid 10y ago|80 comments
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by infodroid 10y ago
As far as I know, there's nothing to stop employers from exchanging salary information directly with previous employers under quid-pro-quo agreements. And there's nothing to stop employers from buying/renting this information
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by infodroid 10y ago
> You make it sounds like it's a bad thing. Being able to focus your energies on healthy communities in a feature. No, it's definitely a bug. Walking away from personal conflicts weakens projects and communities through fragmen
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by infodroid 10y ago
The chilling effect seems only true for toxic environments. Yet most workplaces are not toxic in the way that you might imagine Uber to be. There are many tech companies (large and small) that are pro-active about creating a good environmen
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by infodroid 10y ago
Yes, there's something about the workplace that creates the sort of bonds that make you think twice before doing or saying something stupid.
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by infodroid 10y ago
If the false accusation was true then there would be a lawsuit by now. Trial by social media can never provide true justice, only an ugly exchange of accusations that harms all parties involved. That's why we should keep personal matte
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by infodroid 10y ago
The problem here isn't the politics, it's the mission creep. Libreboot has clear techno-political goals, to free our hardware from the shackles of BIOS and UEFI. It wasn't created to serve as a vehicle to protest a case of al

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