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by jech 5mo ago
>> You could have messaged an entire organization or department > This is a mailing list. The way I understand it, the layering is different. In X.400, multicasting was a feature of the protocol. An SMTP mailing list, on the othe
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by jech 5mo ago
> IETF wants a working open source implementation before standardising. I don't think that's IETF policy. Individual IETF working groups decide whether to request publication of an RFC, and the availability of open source impl
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To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain(arstechnica.com)
5 points by jech 6mo ago|2 comments
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by jech 6mo ago
One datapoint: at least in practice, it used to be impossible to delete an entry in the French INPI database (trademarks and company names) without eIDAS. It forced me to unearth an old unmodified Android phone (I run LineageOS on my main
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by jech 6mo ago
The ecosystem. The language is lovely, but dune/opam is not up to the standard of the Go or Rust build systems, and the set of useful libraries is somewhat skewed. Whenever I write a program in Caml, I gain an hour thanks to the nice
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by jech 7mo ago
There's nothing more humiliating than a Warsaw taxi driver who looks at you as you try to work out how to operate the door handle and says "Panie!" with a left-bank accent.
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by jech 7mo ago
> You left out most of the interesting things. For example the vocative case is partially dissapearing. The grammar is changing in many ways (for example, the inanimate masculine is being replaced with the animated, kroić kotleta ), bu
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by jech 7mo ago
>> Poland has honorifics that are probably on par to those in Japan > I'm interested in learning more about this! It's very simple, actually. For strangers, you use the third person and the title « Pan » or « Pani » (Sir
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by jech 7mo ago
« I've been pulling public records on the wave of "age verification" bills moving through US state legislatures. IRS 990 filings, Senate lobbying disclosures, state ethics databases, campaign finance records, corporate regist
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Who's behind the age verification bills?(web.archive.org)
11 points by jech 7mo ago|1 comments
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by jech 7mo ago
> cursive is the norm for Russians of all ages. I know. I always feel utterly embarrassed when Russian-speaking friends write down a movie title for me, and I have to ask them to rewrite it in block capitals.
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by jech 7mo ago
> I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/%D0%9B%D... Understandable.
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by jech 7mo ago
> GNOME uses gjs I don't think gjs is a webview. It uses JavaScript, granted, but binds to a native toolkit, not to DOM and CSS.
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by jech 7mo ago
As far as I know, it's implemented in the proprietary part of Android (Google Mobile Services, GMS), so it won't affect LineageOS users as long as they don't install the GMS.
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by jech 8mo ago
> So far [Galene is] much better than I expected, both in terms of latency and the overall video/audio quality Latency is better, since Galene uses an unordered buffer instead of a jitter buffer. Lipsynch should also be slightly be
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by jech 9mo ago
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but UPnP requires my ESP32 to initiate communication. Not quite. Using UPnP, any host on your internal network can open a port for any other host. You may be thinking of NAT-PMP. Additionally, by default
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by jech 9mo ago
> I don't have a shortage of IPv4. Maybe my ISP or my VPN host do, I don't know. Your ISP has paid 40€ for your IPv4 address. That's a cost they're most probably passing on to you. > Every host routable from anywh
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by jech 9mo ago
Oh, fully agreed. What would be more useful, however, would be the ability to selectively block network connections: for example, to allow the public transportation app to access its API endpoint, but not the advertising and tracking endpoi
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by jech 9mo ago
It's also possible in LineageOS and its derivatives. But it's not very useful in practice: if an application doesn't need networking for its core functionality, then there usually is an open-source equivalent that does not us
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by jech 9mo ago
There's certainly a number of Russian words in older Warsaw slang ( barachło , ustrojstwo , wierchuszka , etc.), but the videos were not using slang, especially not older slang, and they had no reason to use prawilny except by acci
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by jech 9mo ago
> But on the other hand, we also don't know if this is a foreign misinformation campaign or just a politically disgruntled Pole The videos contain at least one mistake that indicates that they were written by a native speaker of Rus
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by jech 9mo ago
> Someone (Russia) One of the videos uses the non-existent word prawilny , which is Russian (правильный). The Polish equivalent would be prawidłowy or właściwy .
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by jech 9mo ago
> in a foreign country [...] If he had an eSIM it would have quickly solved the problem for him. Instead he had to wait until he got home to pop in a new SIM card. Are you sure that his carrier allows activating an eSIM while roaming? M
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by jech 10mo ago
> Give an example of UB code that you have committed in real life struct foo { ... atomic_int v; ... }; struct foo x; memset(&x, 0, sizeof(x));
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German conservatives block Chat Control(bsky.app)
5 points by jech 1y ago|2 comments
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by jech 1y ago
“We, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, are opposed to the unwarranted monitoring of chats. That would be like opening all letters as a precautionary measure to see if there is anything illegal in them. That is not accep
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by jech 1y ago
The EU is not a single person. There are some people among the EU elites who fight for an open Internet, and some who want to control the Internet. They are not the same people.
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by jech 1y ago
I only know of one project which is reserved for free software, it's NGI0 < https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/ >, which is going to be cut in 2027 < https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-cut
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by jech 1y ago
> The big ecosystem of SBCs confuses me a bit. Who is buying these? They make decent home servers, unless you need fast storage.
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by jech 1y ago
> LineageOS, iodé and /e/ are in a much different space than GrapheneOS. They have different priorities, granted. > They greatly reduce the privacy and security of the Android Open Source Project That's going to depend

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