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by josteink 4y ago
> Why participate in an ecosystem where the biggest corporate overlord is trying to reduce your ability to _do things_. For free. If you pay, they’ll help you do more things. That’s unfortunately the motivation a for-profit corporation
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by josteink 4y ago
> There is open source debugger from Samsung ( https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg/ ), but it does not see much use. If you want to debug C# from Emacs, it’s the only choice AFAIK.
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by josteink 4y ago
> Plus, while the concept behind Snaps is interesting, in practice they seem to be nearly universally reviled. It might be worth mentioning that a more open, community driven and decentralized option offering mostly the same concepts exi
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by josteink 4y ago
At this point all my from-scratch installs are usually Debian-based where they used to be Ubuntu-based. Canonical seems to completely have lost touch with what the community wants, and with the non-free installer, I find Debian working equa
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by josteink 4y ago
Maybe I have unrealistic expectations, but I was surprised not to see the PinePhone Pro on the list of supported devices. Was that a mistake or does it get lumped together with the OG PunePhone?
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by josteink 4y ago
So can a debugger, except when you find something unusual, a real debugger will allow you to inspect things you didn't consider instrumenting, change variable-values, re-run code and validate assumptions. I just don’t see where this
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by josteink 4y ago
X509 cert retrievals is predominantly done over HTTP, because otherwise you’d need X509 to implement X509. It may sound “insecure”, but if you can’t trust X509 without HTTPS, you effectively can’t trust either X509 or HTTPS. This is why we
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by josteink 4y ago
Modern OSes (and not just Windows) are getting overly bloated and complicated. Talking to all those hosts and IPs is just a symptome of that nobody seems to care about such things anymore. My main work-laptop, my server and work workstation
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by josteink 4y ago
I thought the common denominator for this was (and has been, for decades) ETL? Extract, Transform, Load and in that order, because what other order would make sense? Getting such basic things wrong doesn’t exactly give the reader the impre
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by josteink 4y ago
> Almost like spending lots of time making a documentation page is a rite of passage for python devs. To be fair Python doesn’t have a good story for declaring static types, IDEs which can guide you as a library-consumer, nor for storing
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by josteink 4y ago
I’ve had a P4 and I didn’t consider it “awful”. It was without a doubt the fastest CPU I had ever had at the time, but boy did it generate heat and need cooling. That machine sounded like a always on vacuum-cleaner.
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by josteink 4y ago
Finding an instance where RMS has gaffed up really isn’t hard. That he is to create controversies is pretty much expected of him nowadays. Kinda like “Oh it’s nothing. It’s just RMS being RMS”. That said, that petition was an unsubstantiate
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by josteink 4y ago
And you never once considered going premium to remove the ads? Surely someone must have been able to help you out with that if you couldn’t do it yourself? The answer exists, it’s right there with buttons for clicking given to you by Google
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by josteink 4y ago
My biggest issue with electric razors is that they never gave me as smooth a shave as using a razor-blade (or cartridge). That annoyed me enough to stop using it. But sure, they do last forever.
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by josteink 4y ago
> but doesn't that mean that there is nothing particular secure about this operation ? Not at all. The trusted signing-certificates don’t need to be stored securely since they only contain public keys. This is typically stored in NV
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by josteink 4y ago
I’m no expert, but to me it sounds like you are describing UEFI Secure Boot, not TPM. Case in point: TPM is not required to implement UEFI Secure Boot. You can test yourself in a QEMU VM, if you don’t believe me. From my understanding, TPM
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by josteink 4y ago
I can tell you don’t have kids ;)
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by josteink 4y ago
That’s a whole lot of text saying “things will be simpler” on repeat, without specifying how things are going to be and why that is simpler. Anyone got a link to something less hand-wavey and more concrete?
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by josteink 4y ago
That’s a whole lot of text saying “things will be simpler” on repeat, without specifying how things are going to be and why that is simpler. Anyone got a link to something less hand-wavey and more concrete?
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by josteink 4y ago
What part of it is paranoid? It's true that Microsoft which was once "the sworn enemy of Linux and open-source" now holds great power over where Linux may be going (or not). Is that a problem? Is it OK? It's clearly a ch
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Dirty Secrets of the Linux and Open Source Industry(lunduke.substack.com)
6 points by josteink 5y ago|4 comments
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by josteink 5y ago
> there's an open source driver for Nvidia, called "nouveau", but it doesn't come from the manufacturer and isn't that good Define good? I’m not gaming and nouveau works seamlessly OOB and get updated via apt. IM
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by josteink 5y ago
I see OpenWRT not listed as an available distro. That’s going to quite significantly limit the amount of available HW, no? Is that intentional? If so, why?
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Unsnap – Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks(github.com)
5 points by josteink 5y ago|0 comments
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by josteink 5y ago
> If people wanted to fight for it, stop using NVIDIA products, but do you see that happening? Not bloody likely. Why would I ever buy Nvidia? Asking as a non-AI developer who doesn’t play PC-games. I’m perfectly happy with Intel graphic
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by josteink 5y ago
> The fact that this seems to be inspired by the people backing the very obvious hatchet job done on Richard Stallman only makes me more suspicious that its motives are anything but pure. From the outside looking in, it looks like anothe
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by josteink 5y ago
That’s a bit above my head, but if you could contribute with a “from scratch” ARM64 cross-build recipe for tree-sitter, in the official repo, that would be great!
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by josteink 5y ago
> No one has tackled this yet, though, because in practice it has worked well enough to FFI in the C parser implementations. The only issue I’ve come up with so far is a very distinct lack of ARM(64) support in precompiled binaries for F
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by josteink 5y ago
> The allowable space for proprietary software has shrunk significantly. Not really. It has just shifted. All the proprietary software we use today are through various SaaS offerings. And that these are built on an OSS base and freeloadi
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The first RISC-V portable computer is now available(lunduke.substack.com)
369 points by josteink 5y ago|176 comments

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