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by liotier 4y ago
Qualcomm accusing someone of greedy anti-competitive use of intellectual property is quite amusing !
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by liotier 4y ago
Apple and Google are excellent at moderating against malware, and that is a serious barrier to entry. But a bunch of publishers fed up with paying Apple and Google might be motivated enough to invest in an equivalent community infrastructur
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by liotier 4y ago
Should developers come together with a foundation for software distribution ? An appstore, members are individual or corporations, governance through election of a board by the members (see Debian and Openstreetmap)... And a little help fro
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by liotier 4y ago
Bus factor. I had a very nice home setup (three 24 ports switches and a 6-port router) with multiple VLAN, GPON terminated on my own device (emulating the ISP's hardware), bonded Ethernet links, fully routed IPv6, sane firewalling, ad-
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by liotier 4y ago
In spite of my entire satisfaction with it, I had to ditch my OPNsense router... Its unbound ad filtering DNS is among the features I miss most from it.
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by liotier 4y ago
Plastic bags to vomit in.
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by liotier 4y ago
When a poor country takes off, emigration doesn't decrease: it increases, as people become more educated, better informed and can afford travel.
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by liotier 4y ago
In spite of all the hate against formal models, most of the problems I have encountered in the last twenty years are much easier to solve when the problem-solving conversation uses a model as common object. Conceptual data model (I love Mer
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by liotier 4y ago
Another free software fan reincarnation is Beyond All Reason, spiritual successor to Total Annihilation... It is everything we ever wished Total Annihilation to be ! https://www.beyondallreason.info/
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by liotier 4y ago
When you find no one paying for maintainance, then congratulations: you are the maintainer !
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by liotier 4y ago
3614 RTEL2 - with a custom serial cable to connect the HP48 to the Minitel !
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by liotier 4y ago
Free markets indeed is an extreme position: efficiency in trade requires regulation.
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by liotier 4y ago
That is 50% of the world record on rollerskates, on Le Man's circuit and 75% of my own 24 hours records on the same... This is beyond my understanding.
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by liotier 4y ago
> it's impossible to make a modern one that supports all sites without those human resources. Then let's not - death to irregular HTML and let the era of lean browsers begin ! Yes, I know, Martian Headsets ( https://w
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by liotier 4y ago
Should the creation of prepared statement be shifted down from that code to adaptation layer between it and each database's library ?
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by liotier 4y ago
I feel lured towards Supabase's immediacy. Is it much more opaque to debug than an equivalent assembly of suitable components ?
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by liotier 4y ago
Forever memories of high school around 1990, passing around backpacks fulls of floppies in front of our uncomprehending classmates... And of course a lot of time spent copying - that second floppy drive made my life so much easier !
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by liotier 4y ago
That is pretty much the state of the bicycling world - the ship of Theseus has pedals !
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by liotier 4y ago
I would even settle for a wiki with state-of-the-art outlining shortcuts and dates as a first-class dimension.
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by liotier 4y ago
More expensive than a small dump truck, bigger and less useful... Therefore the status symbol is the point.
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by liotier 4y ago
Your imagination and abstractive abilities let you see a screen capture and put it in context of your device usage. Others can't - they need the device scenery to make it real to them.
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by liotier 4y ago
A basic Bluetooth interface to the car amplifier and microphone, a sturdy tablet stand that takes multiple sizes... And that's it - cheap and future proofed. ... But no way to keep the commercial relationship going after the sale - hug
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by liotier 4y ago
> the only qualification to be a professional is whether you make money with your work Which, on top of the aforementioned resources limitation, means client agency and a lots of time spent marketing and selling... Many amateurs are expe
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by liotier 4y ago
You down with OPW (Yeah you know me), you down with OPW (Yeah you know me) !
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by liotier 4y ago
Someone liked it https://developer.run/31 - and expresses preference over Dolphin, which I don't understand because I find that Dolphin does all that but with the benefits of KDE integration.
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by liotier 4y ago
Actually it is BellSouth - this was of course about the RBOC !
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by liotier 4y ago
> using Ariana launch vehicles to mollify Europeans) "Ariane". I would rather have you mollify us with proper spelling.
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by liotier 4y ago
> things like the x11/Wayland rift, the Snap/Flatpak vs Native Packaging battle, and all of the new abstractions do not lend themselves well to usability Which is why opiniated distributions exist, so that users get a coherent
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by liotier 4y ago
I'll be the last !
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by liotier 4y ago
Amundsen's dogs were not only the transportation plan for the Norwegian South Pole expedition, they were also part of the meal plan.

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