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by josteink 5y ago
You can always just “opkg upgrade” if that’s your cup of tea. That won’t necessarily update the kernel-image though which is often stored directly on some MTD-partitions, so flashing the sysupgrade image is the recommended approach if you w
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by josteink 5y ago
Yeah. Get Fiber to the home package. I’m not sure if simply jumping on the right VLAN is enough though. So I’m pedantic and in true HN spirit I’ve bought a secondary Get box (second-hand, with original Get firmware). It arrived today, and
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by josteink 5y ago
What are you talking about? There’s literally a sysupgrade-image you can use to update in place without losing your config. Has it been a while since you used OpenWRT last time?
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by josteink 5y ago
> Being able to use Arch Linux or Debian, and the latest mainline kernel and have replaceable storage is just so much more flexible in what you can do. To be fair, my current OpenWRT devices are running more up to date kernels (5.4) tha
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by josteink 5y ago
> You don't even log into the router directly, you manage it on xfinity.com. That's absolutely the worst thing I can imagine. My current ISP (Telia) tried to replace their at-home FTTH box with one which can only be managed thr
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by josteink 5y ago
DDR3 supposedly. It’s not packed as densely.
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by josteink 5y ago
> But the latest and greatest Windows and Linux releases are installable on older devices. This was certainly true until recently when Microsoft went all Windows 11, which only works on a small, whitelisted subset of X86-compatible CPUs
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by josteink 5y ago
Also verbal disagreement is presented as equal to physical violence. It’s been going on for quite a while and getting increasingly absurd. Surely the pendulum must start turning soon?
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by josteink 5y ago
Welcome to monetised platforms with a “infinite” global reach. People are going to game it. They are going to cheat. Especially when the platform itself allows it. But hey! “Small creators!”, right?
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by josteink 5y ago
> When I just tried it out now, it seems to be about 200 before the page has fully loaded. Gmail was ready long before that. Most of those requests are just pre-loading the immediately visible email threads in the background. Disclaimer:
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by josteink 5y ago
> it's been astounding the number of bugs that have appeared over the years triggered by spaces and other unusual characters in file names If you consider spaces “unusual” I would say you haven’t encountered a single average user in
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by josteink 5y ago
> As always, I’ll be monitoring questions and feedback in the comments below. -Meaghan, TeamYouTube Let me guess… Except for dissenting or disliking comments? This move is all about removing users ability to voice disapproval in a sim
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by josteink 5y ago
To be clear I’m completely oblivious to what Unicode identifiers are. As such I’m not talking about them, and they are out of scope wrt to my point. What I am advocating is that identifiers used for symbols in the programming language (vari
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by josteink 5y ago
> But there is probably already too much code out there with π=3.14 in it to be feasible to do this. So for JS let it break in new, module based strict-mode code. That’s going to be processed by tooling prior to shipping anyway, so that’
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by josteink 5y ago
We seem to be talking past one another. What Id like to see banned is non-ascii in identifiers, variables- names and nothing else. While you respond as if I want to banish anything non-ASCII from all parts of all code-files except from HTM
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by josteink 5y ago
> The relevant Unicode specification [1] even provides a guideline to limit ZWJ and ZWNJ strictly to the context where they do affect the rendering. Which is exactly what I am suggesting by saying non-ASCII characters should be banned fr
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by josteink 5y ago
> The problem is not so much that humans can't see this but that they are not looking very hard to begin with (otherwise, they'd be using the appropriate tools) and that we should rely less on them actively looking. And simply
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by josteink 5y ago
> I think the recommendation to disallow any non-ASCII character is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Not throwing out all non-ASCII characters from code-files. Just throwing them out as being invalid identifiers in your code (
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by josteink 5y ago
Listen guys, don't get me wrong. As someone with Ø in my name, and both Å and Ø in my address, don't get me started on poorly written systems which cannot handle unicode properly. I've seen my name and address mangled in ship
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by josteink 5y ago
To be fair you have some virtualisation stacks (like QEMU/KVM) which goes in the opposite direction: It provides VMs with drivers for purely virtual “virtio” devices (storage, network, etc) with no effort or overhead put into mimicking
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by josteink 5y ago
> Remember, you run Linux on modern hardware only because Microsoft allows you to. Factually wrong. Any regular PC owner can run Linux on modern x86 hardware in at least three ways: - Legacy BIOS MBR boot - UEFI boot - UEFI secure boot O
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by josteink 5y ago
And don’t get me started on silently hijacking my clean ES-promises and turning them into Angular’s own ZoneAwarePromise, managed by its own terrible, undebuggable microqueue. It’s literally impossible to write clean code which compiles t
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by josteink 5y ago
> Angular development is reliable. You know what you're getting You get a product built on top of a framework which does 200+ things you never asked for, can’t disable, and whose the complexity of is reliably causing your simple c
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by josteink 5y ago
> But there's literally nothing I don't have with Emacs that other editors provide. I like Emacs, have an extensive personalised config and use it as my primary editor across OSes. That said, I wish its debugging-support was be
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by josteink 5y ago
I’m happy to see improvements in Angular (since I’m forced to work with it). I still don’t like it though. Too much frameworky stuff. Too much magic. Too much stuff which is impossible to debug when things go wrong. Fucking zones and over
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by josteink 5y ago
Oh yes please.
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by josteink 5y ago
> It's amazing to me that Roku has the plurality of the US streaming market (37%), yet its development ecosystem is so terrible. Step 1: be a cheap (the cheapest?) option in the early phase of a market. This way you build up a sizea
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by josteink 5y ago
Nah. You can pair it up to an real WhatsApp-account using your phone and from there on, it’s go-code only.
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by josteink 5y ago
WA works with a pure go-based bridge. No Android required. The rest of your comment is true though. Keeping these bridges up 24/7 is quite a bit of work. Most people (even technical ones) probably won’t bother with that.
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by josteink 5y ago
> Back in the day before the rise of Facebook, there was an open source service that combined all the popular messaging protocols It was not a not a service which was always on and synced between units. It was a client you had to run on

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