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by megous 2y ago
I have this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006205368963.html heavy copper heatsink on my favorite RK3588 board and it's still ~50 °C idling (with fan off) in open air setting with convective and radiative coo
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by megous 2y ago
Pinetab2 as a tablet, or some x86_64 tablet of which there are many. For TV, use it as a dumb display for some FOSS TV box, running something like libreelec. As for DRM attestation, that's not the responsibility of anyone but the DRM v
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by megous 2y ago
Community based FOSS OSes/distros stop all this and avoiding the corporate SW/services.
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by megous 2y ago
But the "community"!!! :D
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by megous 2y ago
A bunch of other SoC manufacturers have working system sleep implementation, either manufacturer supported or community supported. Never mind much faster boot options (like hundreds of ms to kernel). So you just need to pick one that also h
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by megous 2y ago
Usually. There are no hard rules though. Upstream stable kernel certainly does not care about compatibility with your particular thirdparty module. You'll just have to add another KERNEL_VERSION #if. Maybe if you're nvidia, or som
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by megous 2y ago
Not in the kernel land. Stable branches feature tens of thousands of patches.
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by megous 2y ago
Well somewhere in Czech Republic, some public servants are receiving well formed digital XML messages, and transcribing values from them manually to an information system. Sometimes they make a mistake and swap some values, which is how we
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by megous 2y ago
Not sure what society's problems are you hinting at, but private communication is just a technical problem and has technical soultions. Even if it turns out to be a bit of a cat/mouse game in practice. Technical solutions often wo
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by megous 2y ago
Currently they are somewhat hidden. When GDPR came out in force, I tried removing my name, phone number and address from all kinds of public places, and I also found some local company that collects personal and behavioral information on pe
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by megous 2y ago
Vouching doesn't unflag reasonable comments.
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by megous 2y ago
I will maybe believe him maybe when they unban student groups like SJP Columbia. https://x.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1828099828301107294
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by megous 2y ago
Israel state as it is doesn't have a right to exist. No state does. Neither does Germany. State is just some temporary (in the grand scheme of things) form of often violent organization some group of people form at a time to organize
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by megous 2y ago
Or just analyze it in a lot more detail, like this: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur01/8199/2024/en/ > "A detailed questionnaire was designed by the research team, working with
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by megous 2y ago
You can't assume there's free speech in the western countries either. Eg. Germany's banning political speach, left and right, even physically attacking and shutting down unconvenient conferences. There's such a thing as
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by megous 2y ago
"Signal enables crime and hinders police work in much more clever ways than Telegram." Great argument. :)
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by megous 2y ago
France requires authorization for import/export of confidentiality providing cryptology SW (depending on the other country). https://www.at-ica.com/encryption-in-france/ Anyway, with Telegram, what is the outher c
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by megous 2y ago
In other words, Signal is in the clear, because it's E2EE for all purposes and the operators wouldn't have the ability (via reasonable means) to access the data in the first place? > - Provision of cryptology services to ensure
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by megous 2y ago
Coincidentally or not, yesterday there was another sweeping ban of various Palestine related channels on Telegram across EU: https://x.com/SamidounPP/status/1827062901364208099 So not sure what's the non-coop
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by megous 2y ago
eg.?
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by megous 2y ago
Your argument fails completely, because "FOSS != made by unpaid work". Pretty much all FOSS SW that I use daily and consider high quality is heavily supported by developers working on it for some commercial company. I don't c
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by megous 2y ago
Some person on the Internet documented and shared a way they're using/configuring pmOS/SXMO (i3wm lookalike based mobile UI controlled by a bunch of shell scripts) for several personal use cases. It looks just like SXMO for a
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by megous 2y ago
> "the sheer amount of skills and professionalism" Just comes off as ignorant, and mildly insulting. I'm pretty sure the original iPhone devs would not create original iPhone if none of them were paid.
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by megous 2y ago
Why would "people having different preferences from you" be a parody? What kind of thinking this even is?
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by megous 2y ago
A also "Never understood why people go grocery shopping to make their own food for $25 when they can go to a restaurant for a $200 meal, or go through the gabage behind the restaurant to pick up some throwaway scraps for nearly free.&q
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by megous 2y ago
There's some interesting bug in HN. I can flag this but I can't hide this story. Hide works for anything else.
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by megous 2y ago
> ... as they also gave me my personal information to prove they are real and it was accurate and kept saying look we aren’t asking you for information we are telling you yours so you see we are Google Security! Yeah, anytime someone giv
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by megous 2y ago
Systemd is sometimes very slow or unusable, compared to a very direct approach of just executing eactly what you need to initialize the system and then watching kobj events or netlink events yourself instead of using udev. On one of my syst
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by megous 2y ago
Busybox init is a binary. It can run anything (based on /etc/inittab) incl. other binaries. There's no need for it to run shell scripts (other than /etc/inittab lines which are executed under `sh -c "..."`
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by megous 2y ago
> It also makes it possible to trust a used computer. Thankfully all this complexity is not the only thing that allows to trust a used computer. There are other options, like not having a modifiable SW (that is SW not stored in non-repla

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