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by loudmax 7y ago
If your concern is privacy, why are you using Skype and MS Teams? If you don't want a third party getting your contact information, then use a private solution that's actually private. Jitsi and Matrix are open source solutions t
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by loudmax 7y ago
Not only are businesses open in Taiwan, it is one of the few countries where the schools are still open. Taiwan immediately began targeted testing, then contact tracing and quarantining suspected cases. The government distributed disposab
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by loudmax 7y ago
The trouble with an article like this is that it mixes well reasoned arguments with nonsense. The economic cost of closing schools and shutting borders is real, especially as the epidemic continues for months. The trouble is that the artic
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by loudmax 7y ago
Much of the hate is that the touchbar wasn't optional, at least not unless you wanted to opt out of an Apple laptop. If the touchbar had been something users could choose, Apple users wouldn't have minded so much. Supporting more
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by loudmax 7y ago
For most businesses, Microsoft still holds a monopoly position on desktop OSs. For a lot of smaller IT departments, this bleeds into back-end servers as well. Microsoft has the Windows Subsystem for Linux, allowing Linux binaries to run on
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by loudmax 7y ago
Many of us grew up with no top down surveillance in the 80s and 90s. In that world, no top down surveillance is easy to imagine. In a world where network connected cameras are so cheap they're disposable, no top down surveillance beco
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by loudmax 7y ago
Did Compiz on X11 not have hardware acceleration? The wobbly windows and other effects on my old Atom powered Acer Aspire One were buttery smooth. If that dinky processor was pulling that off without help from the GPU, that's really
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by loudmax 7y ago
> I always thought the only way forward with IoT was if it a big tech player offered an SDK / IoT platform Yes, well hopefully not _a_ provider who will lock their customers into a proprietary platform. Hopefully many providers so
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by loudmax 7y ago
Yeah, we're missing some details here. Could be tips or hours worked as sibling comments suggested. Life is messy.
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by loudmax 7y ago
A lot of welfare and food stamp recipients are the working poor. This was a single mom with three children. She needs to arrange for child care while she's working and it's a good idea to set aside money for medical emergencies.
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by loudmax 7y ago
IMHO, Matrix currently has the best shot at becoming the standard for the open internet. Those who value the freedom of choice should push for Matrix before Signal becomes the de-facto standard and is acquired by one of the tech giants look
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by loudmax 7y ago
MS has absolutely been using their stranglehold on the Office suite from preventing meaningful competition from emerging. This has an effect on the desktop as well as it's a huge barrier to deploying alternative desktops. Multiple ven
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by loudmax 7y ago
For a PC to use at home, I agree 100%. If you're the kind of person that's likely to upgrade RAM or components I wouldn't recommend this for personal use. This is geared toward enterprise use. Think, corporate IT department
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by loudmax 7y ago
I wonder if this isn't in response to a single large customer. Maybe some film studio has ordered a large number of these and they want official support for the OS of their choice. Since Lenovo is already supporting this configuratio
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by loudmax 7y ago
Ships with Windows or Ubuntu. RHEL 7.3 officially supported. Well, this is a positive development. I'd really like to see official support for something in the ThinkPad line, but after jumping through some hoops during installation,
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by loudmax 7y ago
By tying themselves to a single proprietary platform owned by a potential competitor, Epic is giving up control over their own product. This will certainly save them some money in the short term. In the long term, this may not turn out to
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by loudmax 7y ago
I think the Economist had a good take: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/01/25/huawei-is-a-cyb... There is a real risk in using Huawei equipment, but the risk can be mitigated. If the Chinese govern
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by loudmax 7y ago
Sun's motivation for choosing the CDDL is beside the point. Unless ZFS is released under a license that allows it to be redistributed under the GPL, ZFS cannot be legally built into Linux as a filesystem. If you have reason to believe
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by loudmax 7y ago
> I think its much more NIMBY then a license issue How do you propose that ZFS be brought into Linux? When Sun released ZFS as open source, they made a deliberate decision to use a license that prevented it from being integrated into th
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by loudmax 7y ago
These are good points. The DoD should settle on Matrix. So should everyone else.
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by loudmax 7y ago
> but remember it was much worse to integrate products and services among different vendors back in 1980s and 1990s when you had dozens of medium and large companies. Precisely because of the lack of standards. A monopoly is a standard
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by loudmax 7y ago
Ironic, since their monopoly on the enterprise desktop is the oldest and most deeply entrenched. 20 years on and it's still commonplace for documents to be distributed as Word or PowerPoint files that will only display properly in MS
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by loudmax 7y ago
But one wouldn't have been surprised to find out that the Microsoft's KHTML based browser doesn't run on any open source operating system.
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by loudmax 7y ago
Indeed I was. The post renders legibly with javascript enabled. Thanks for the pointer.
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by loudmax 7y ago
Unfortunately, equations like this are hard to read if you aren't a fluent reader of LaTeX: $$\left.\frac{\partial L}{\partial q} \right|_{\tilde{q} = \dot{q}} = \frac{dp}{dt}$$ Perhaps there's a tumblr theme or extension that can
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by loudmax 7y ago
My father built a picture frame display out of a Raspberry Pi and and old LCD monitor. It shows collections of photos in random order (that is, photos are grouped into directories and it pics a directory at random and displays those in seq
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by loudmax 7y ago
If you're in good health, your watch may actually be doing a good job measuring your heart rate. When you go cycling, it just takes that long for your heart rate to increase significantly enough to trigger the watch's activity de
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by loudmax 7y ago
Our new Bosch is a huge improvement over the Whirlpool it replaced. It runs quieter and the dishes are far cleaner. The one aspect the old Whirlpool did better in was speed, running in about half the time as the new one. But considering
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by loudmax 7y ago
On the Google Play page, it explains that the lines have to occupy a number of squares equal to the number. I didn't see that stated anywhere in the tutorial (on Android). Looks like fun.
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by loudmax 7y ago
Also the bane of many a DBA trying to update permissions.

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