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by josteink 6y ago
> exploiting their search monopoly to promote chrome at zero cost And gmail, and YouTube, and gsuite, and google meet, and blogger, and in the past bundled in other installers as a drive-by installation (Flash for instance), and ... the
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by josteink 6y ago
And with Firefox on iOS it’s not even managing to obtain camera access.
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by josteink 6y ago
> First, it was the first solid (in relative terms) consumer operating system from MS. That was actually Windows 2000, based on the NT 4 code base. It was near perfect, given the era it was made in. The only reason I upgraded from Window
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by josteink 6y ago
> The other worldview is that certain kinds of discourse are inherently against freedom. ... Under this worldview, the question of what the discourse is, is the whole analysis. You will mostly find this worldview on the political left of
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by josteink 6y ago
> What is .NET framework really? At its core: It’s what Microsoft made to compete with Java back in 2002. It’s a development platform, with associated tooling, compilers and a runtime. It has a common standard-library independent of lang
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by josteink 6y ago
> The storage is OK but the way most systems work there is no perceptible difference between an NVM m.2 drive and Sata for most regular use cases As a developer I would just have to disagree. After using NVMe SSDs for a while, using SATA
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by josteink 6y ago
> Secure boot is nice optional protection, but real security comes from ability of the platform to reliably boot from known good media Which is exactly what (UEFI) Secure Boot usually aims to assist. I mean... One can complain how it t
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by josteink 6y ago
In other words: It's dead. And to be clear, IMO that is absolutely fair. At this stage WebThings seemed more like a conceptual thought, rather than actual marketable products, protocols or even code. If Mozilla need to cut for real, th
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by josteink 6y ago
> To get those same issues “back”, a fork developer would have to: 1. Agree with the original author that a fork/take-over is the right thing to do. 2. Create a GitHub organisation for the project, where rights and repos and everyth
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by josteink 6y ago
> Any SBC, Phone, Notebook will be easier to sell if it can run a mainline kernel. I’m pretty sure that’s only a convincing argument to a very small market segment. And I say that as someone who has bought a PinePhone.
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by josteink 6y ago
From the very same wiki you linked, and just like I claimed, you can do this directly: > fs0: > \vmlinuz-linux root=PARTUUID=3518bb68-d01e-45c9-b973-0b5d918aae96 rw initrd=\initramfs-linux.img Again: how is this hard?
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> Does that make kernel updates a more manual process? Are you building your own? In Debian/Ubuntu it should be on by default, and has been for almost a decade : https://askubuntu.com/questions/510009/does
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by josteink 6y ago
Is it really? You can just boot into the UEFI Interaractive Shell (think of it as a BIOS terminal/cmd.exe), which most BIOSes have, and launch your kernel with those parameters, as regular arguments to a regular command, right? What&#x
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by josteink 6y ago
> For example: optimize PNGs, it's easy and a one time procedure. And then that PNG is loaded by a webpage, which contains no HTML, but loads 28 megabytes of JS, which your browser has to parse, JIT and run, and then that triggers l
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> Great developers like this should stay in google forever. Not to promote snark as a primary means of comment here on HN, but this sarcastic little nugget of a sentence really had me chuckling for quite some time.
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by josteink 6y ago
Im getting it here in Norway, but I had the previous betas installed. Not sure if that is a factor or not.
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by josteink 6y ago
Not getting bent, but if what you’re selling isn’t a computer, don’t market it as one. If some told you you were getting a car, and in the end you are delivered a bicycle, you’d be unhappy. Obviously that bicycle may be great for a lot of p
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by josteink 6y ago
> iPad Air does more than a computer in simpler, more magical ways. They keep claiming this, but it’s still not true, and this is why I’m still on the lookout for a new laptop, and not another tablet. Tablets, no matter how fancy the har
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by josteink 6y ago
> I don't know if Google can compete with them on this. I subscribe to Google One (excellent live customer service), YouTube Premium Oh come on. There’s nothing unique on Apple Music. Apple TV+ is a joke with absolutely zero content
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by josteink 6y ago
> I still don't really understand Linux audio layers and how all this stuff works together My simple understanding is that in the Linux audio stack you have the following layers: - kernel-driver for local sound devices (provides exc
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by josteink 6y ago
> Seems to have been originally spawned from this discussion: "Youtube-dl is dying?" https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462 citing many PRs are not getting merged. As someone who has
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by josteink 6y ago
Post is flagged ?!? Why, oh, why?
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Most common for you. I’ve never even heard of that thing. But yeah, if the title can be more specific, that can’t possibly hurt anyone.
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by josteink 6y ago
That’s too bad. Once I discovered helm, that was a complete game changer for how I used Emacs. Guess I’ll still hang on as a user, and see how it pans out over time.
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by josteink 6y ago
> I am an admin, should I drop everything and fix this? > Probably not. Raccoon is a complex timing attack and it is very hard to exploit. Nice of them to put this up as one of the first non-technical bulletins. No need to feed hyster
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by josteink 6y ago
> It needs some smarter focusing. Each page normally has a few screens of garbled menus etc. to scroll past before getting to the content. Maybe filtering out some html tags would be enough. There’s (of course) an Elisp command for this.
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It’s also good for documentation and stuff like Stack overflow. You don’t need JS for all web-content.
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> The IP stack has the concept of layers, which function as abstractions that hide the implementation of lower layers from the upper layers Correction: the network stack has layers, where IP is one of them, near the top. Which is why m
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> Their title on HN and website is "A native macOS email client for Gmail," and that's exactly what it is, especially if you were trying to be technical. "Email client" used to mean something before everyone star
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> Mimestream differs from other email clients because it uses the Gmail API rather than IMAP Technically speaking that make Mimestream not an email-client, but only a Gmail-client. It's only an email-client if it works with general

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