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by mindcrash 9mo ago
The UN Charter isn't real? "Article 1 (2) establishes that one of the main purposes of the United Nations, and thus the Security Council, is to develop friendly international relations based on respect for the “principle of equal
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
Just like outright stealing Greenland from Denmark "for national security" in his crazy narrative likely is. And now I wonder what fucking insane manufactured casus belli he will create to invade and annex Canada. So many people t
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
As a European: His voters thought Trump would be different, he would bring the troops home, put the homeland first, and that he would fight the Deep State. In reality, he's building out Imperium Americanum, he is fighting wars without
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
No software is perfect, and if we really want to discuss flawed then IMO we should talk about systemd instead, which took one of UNIX' (and later on GNU/Linux) most famous core architecture principles - namely "do one thing
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Maybe because Google and it's products have little respect for user privacy? That's incorrect. Querying installed apps has been severely restricted (and thus mostly useless) and also requires a special nuclear-scale permission s
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Not without reason: Stardew Valley, which has been sold to millions of gamers, has been created using the free MonoGame engine. So ConcernedApe is giving back to the open source software which made his commercial success possible, like comm
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
I'm heavily interested into things like UX, natural language interfaces and open source / libre computing environments. One of the things I am currently experimenting with is building out my own agentic/assisted computing env
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
From a intrigue POV: After Skool: https://www.youtube.com/afterskool | https://open.spotify.com/show/36mIOrFwTKIDER8KF0aGrx | https://www.afterskool.net/ Academy of Ideas: https:&#x2F
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
You don't need a "big computer" for local LLMs. Every model with ~4B parameters runs perfectly fine on even a Geforce 1070 Mobile GPU with 8Gb of memory. If you have some patience you can probably go a little crazy and run a
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
"You are licensed to use compiled versions of the Mattermost platform produced by Mattermost, Inc. under an MIT LICENSE[...]You may be licensed to use source code to create compiled versions not produced by Mattermost, Inc. in one of t
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
PC Magazine thinks otherwise: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/framework-laptop-16-2025 I quote: "A DIY Desktop Replacement Dream Machine" It also outperformed the Asus Zenbook S 16 in their benchmarks, which al
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Do note that you can't cluster those 6 A64's as kubesolo runs... solo. As in: No clustering capabilities. If you do want a controller/node setup you're better off deploying something lightweight like k0s, k3s or sidero&#
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Also note that in the end Quadlet spits out systemd unit definitions to run containers, which can pretty easily be turned into OpenRC scripts if you happen to run distros like Gentoo or Alpine.
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
People really should stop pretending that you're getting a Macbook out of a Framework. You're not. You're getting a PC laptop with all the advantages of a self-build PC desktop. When you compare apples to apples (lol) - PCs
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
First: Yeah, it pretty much sucks to hear something like this. But realistically, isn't 100 hours of gaming a month like... a lot ? I mean, if you have a friend who studies (or studied) psychology just for fun and kicks jokingly tell
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Proton is mainly a co-effort between in-house developers at Valve (with support on specific parts from contractors like Igalia), developers at CodeWeavers and the wider community. For contextual, super specific, super specialized work (e.g.
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
If you are mainly looking for a phone with user replaceable parts: Fairphone: https://shop.fairphone.com/home Widely available in the EU, in the US (and elsewhere) only through: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Framework Laptop 16 already supports desktop GPUs through its USB 4.0 ports. Tests in the wild have shown that the best performance can be gained in combination with the currently wildly popular enclosures with the ASM2464PD chip from ASMed
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
I am old enough to remember that when Windows 95 was released Microsoft tried to take over the Internet with Microsoft Network (MSN, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Dial-Up_Internet_Access ). They never changed.
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
The solution for the (as of yet) small group of people who cares about these things is very simple: community driven forks. With the bonus that you also get a set of great (and per fork different yet handy) features. These include: Waterfox
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
In case all of this sounds interesting: After skimming the article I noticed a large chunk of this article (specifically the bits on deattaching/attaching drivers, qemu and vfio) applies more or less to general GPU virtualization und
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
They are not "wanting" to introduce AI, they already did. And now we have: - A extra toolbar nobody asked for at the side. And while it contains some extra features now, I'm pretty much sure they added it just to have some pr
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Sounds familiar! Everybody now is like "Hey, we can take something like Kubernetes which is open source and is backed by a worldwide community, and you know like OpenStack which is open source and is backed by a worldwide community and
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Re: Google Maps - I really like Organic Maps as a open source privacy friendly Google Maps replacement. They use geographical data from OpenStreetMaps so "pretty good" is a understatement. They have developed a Android app (availa
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
iOS apps can not create a network connection without explicit consent from the user. And given all the privacy breaches Meta's engineers did manage to succesfully execute on iOS until now, given the sandbox restrictions, they are in fa
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Representatives from the Dutch government recently had a chat with representatives from Forgejo because they are quite interested in migrating their SCM infrastructure from Github to Forgejo. And trust me, they are running a lot of public
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
A 2025 Linux kernel with all recent features is able to boot on a system from 2006. Likewise the Windows 11 (which is just a rebranded Windows 10, just look at the full build number which should start with 10.x) kernel could boot systems fr
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
She left when Altman got reinstated as CEO, after she and her fellow board member Helen Toner played a pivotal role in getting him fired. According to a interview she did later she told that she believes "the company (= with Altman as
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Big Tech never had to. In fact, they can pretty much make their own: "Terms and conditions may apply" (also the name of a great classic documentary on the subject by the way). Also the fact that they have millions to bribe (or in
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by mindcrash 10mo ago
Microsoft "suddenly" does not seem to want you to run your own CI, which is a key part of running your own SCM. And this decision miraculously happens the moment a lot of big orgs are looking at self-hosting a cost effective (beca

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