mid-kid

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by mid-kid 9d ago
It looks like it paid off, since the screenshot in the article, the channel has more than doubled in subscribers (now 70k), and it seems to still be climbing.
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by mid-kid 11d ago
LFS is not OS development. You build a distribution by assembling all the components. If you want to develop an OS from scratch, perhaps you're looking for osdev.org.
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by mid-kid 12d ago
Ubuntu started out with a slogan claiming "linux for human beings", and it kept that reputation for well over a decade, with a heavy focus on the desktop. You can split hairs however you want, but this created a legacy, and is why
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by mid-kid 19d ago
What does that mean?
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by mid-kid 29d ago
LLMs aid people in abusing copyright by stripping copyleft software of its freedoms and then making derivatives which the author then copyrights restrictively. It's simply not a level playing field when one party is allowed to restrict
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by mid-kid 29d ago
I understand you were acting in good faith, but are you sure these antics didn't contribute to it? I remember instances in my own childhood where my parents would e.g. turn off the wifi router when they were angry at me, and I'd i
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by mid-kid 29d ago
As long as copyright exists, we need copyleft licenses to ensure that covered software can't be copyrighted. That is to say, being against copyright doesn't mean you want to allow others to abuse it against you.
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by mid-kid 2mo ago
That's the gnome dialer, yeah.
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by mid-kid 2mo ago
Is the source code published anywhere?
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by mid-kid 2mo ago
Except for covid, it seems the decline was already there.
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
I don't really need a tag saying how to reach the place, but better public transport support would go a long way. I also have this issue with places marked as parkings, to determine whether they're public, open or even reachable.
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
Youtube survives on google's massive repertoire of products being vastly more profitable, not because it's the best of its kind.
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
Tbh, the installer was inevitable after systemd integrated a bootloader, crafted a paritioning scheme for autodiscovery, took over user and home directory management, and topped it off with an updater and "system extensions" layer
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
For an article written late last year I hoped for a little more awareness of how massive a security hole granting full, unfiltered access to the X11 server is. Granted, any sandboxing is better than none, but firefox is one of the few app
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
LuaJIT has held back the lua ecosystem for over a decade. There's no reason to not at least try to move the implementation closer to luau or puc lua, not create yet more incompatible syntax
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
It was just an example of the type of shit they say to sell it, and then walk back from. https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/sam-altman-dario-amodei-walki...
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
The snake oil is how the people at the top scream "in x years we won't need programmers" and end up proving themselves wrong time and time again. It's a real technology and it can do a lot, but it's being sold like
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
I came up with this one on my own many many years ago. Exact order and bs=1M and everything. I taught it that :) Though I usually do the individual partitions before the main disk, to make sure fdisk doesn't complain about existing sig
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
This, in part. The swift deprecation of XUL extensions felt like a kick in the gonads and made me switch to Pale Moon for a while, after which I landed on Firefox ESR to avoid the inmediate impact of bad decisions, and accumulated a veritab
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
The Game Boy Color/GBA also had a web browser in the form of the Mobile Trainer GB, although it didn't allow inputting arbitrary URLs (although one can modify the DNS, it wasn't documented) and its limited subset of HTML migh
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
In Terry's case, the attention visibly fueled his delusions, providing clamoring approval for many of the self destructive things he did, eventually leading to his death. I don't think Drew means he should've been fully alone
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
They already are in the same position. See: Android, ChromeOS.
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
It's really jarring to still be pinning this on Microsoft, when Google and Apple have been doing the same for free, for years, in iOS, Android and ChromeOS.
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
Cronie has a mechanism for this, called "anacron", which is called hourly by cron (on my system, /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron), and performs all the /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} tasks, no matter if the ea
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
https://pkgcraft.github.io/
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
It already is, though? I've been using dash as /bin/sh for years, openrc is using that.
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
It's a shame that this article focusses on Omarchy being "just some dotfiles" when I feel it's the weakest of the points it makes against Omarchy (there's many valid reasons to have issues with it!). Omarchy isn&#x2
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
https://archive.is/sAVRF
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by mid-kid 6mo ago
Seeing this article, and how much webextensions manage to mess up the browser, I'm wondering how bad this experiment would've been with the legacy XUL extensions. Maybe they had a point in getting rid of them...
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by mid-kid 6mo ago
I see what happened, I was replying to a different comment, that did mention the GBA audio, when I wrote that, but somehow ended up replying to this one. This comment explains it better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com&

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