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by mook 1y ago
While true, it's really hard to shop for devices that have access to WiFi without internet. It's too easy for the manufacturer to slip in the internet requirement and not put it on the box. Using other protocols makes the expectat
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by mook 1y ago
Unfortunately their new backup support forces encryption; that makes sense for cloud-based backups but not for local (NAS etc.) ones. Requests for that just get replies to do it with manual backups the old way.
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by mook 1y ago
I've seen it useful for things like logs of long running build jobs. But the API should have been done so that notifications can only be registered upon user action, like how pop-up window detection works. But to a first approximation,
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by mook 1y ago
Three fact that it's not a product anymore doesn't mean it's unused; a quick search says they at a minimum used it in 2021: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/0
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by mook 1y ago
Fedora had their own OBS Flatpak that had known-buggy (but newer and "supported") dependencies. https://lwn.net/Articles/1011511/
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by mook 1y ago
IzzyOnDroid is basically this already; it's a third-party repository that's maintained by some person that does updates.
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by mook 1y ago
The article claims that they had to manually cause the widget to crash so that the result doesn't get cached, right? So that's at least one line to trigger the reboot, one line (likely more) to register as a widget, and one to cra
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by mook 1y ago
No, the _single line_ part forces a single reboot. The never-ending loop requires setting up a widget, so that's more than one line.
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by mook 1y ago
More importantly, the single line only forces a reboot; even if we consider needing external fixes to be a brick, the title is still incorrect.
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by mook 1y ago
Pretty sure Chamberlain/MyQ was because they made their API go through the cloud for no reason (that garage door opener isn't going to get out of WiFi range), so the only way to make the app reliably work was to hit their servers.
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by mook 1y ago
I worked on a project that used Bazel for a bit (but ended up not being a great fit). I think the part I hated most about Bazel was the fact that there were in fact two dialects; one for BUILD files and one for .bzl files. The things you do
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by mook 2y ago
That's why tech support has moved on to "unplug the thing, wait a minute, then plug it back in". It gives the capacitors to discharge; but more importantly, it gives an excuse to actually force the person to plug the thing in
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by mook 2y ago
I suspect part of it is also that Nvidia actually does a lot of things in firmware that can be upgraded. The new Nvidia Linux drivers (the "open" ones) support Turing cards from 2018. That means chips that old already do much of t
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by mook 2y ago
I think I'm more interested to know if the fluoride also helps keeps bacteria down in the water. That is, if it's doing anything useful other than dealing with teeth. A quick search didn't seem to turn up anything related, so
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by mook 2y ago
The best part is YouTube has a bug that would sometimes force a dubbed language; as in, a video originally with an English audio track would get stuck between French and Italian even when you try to manually change the language back to Engl
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by mook 2y ago
In Chinese Windows, Desktop has been officially translated as literal table top since at least Windows 95. I don't see the issue here XD
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by mook 2y ago
As far as I know AliExpress doesn't do commingling; so on AliExpress at least you get products from the correct seller. That is to say, Amazon under that coat of paint is probably worse.
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by mook 2y ago
They already ignore copyright. The open source licenses are based on copyright, so changing the licenses wouldn't do squat, they'd still ignore it. See also: Meta being sued for torrenting. Since this is an Ars Technica article, h
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by mook 2y ago
I like to prefix it with `echo` so I can see what it's trying to run, especially when wildcards are involved. Or things like `find`.
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by mook 2y ago
It also mentions Corbet of LWN but missed the article about it: https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/
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by mook 2y ago
That actually seemed reasonable when I hit it, because you can easily accidentally have an action triggered on commit that makes a new commit, ending up in an infinite loop. The workaround is to use a token tied to you instead of GitHub Act
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by mook 2y ago
At least it's still Latin. In places like Korea, the roads are often only in transliterated Latin alphabet, so if you read the local language (and know places in that language) you'd need to transliterate it back to know what it&#
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by mook 2y ago
By that point wouldn't it start to make sense to have people across time zones so that it will be working hours somewhere?
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by mook 2y ago
NFC tags are pretty cheap these days, so tape one on the back of the notice and drop it into a box with a sensor at the bottom? (This is probably overkill)
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by mook 2y ago
It's IEEE Spectrum; it's certainly been subpar for a few years. It seemed more interesting a decade ago, but I can't be sure if it's because the quality was higher or if was because I didn't know better…
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by mook 2y ago
Maybe they realized the bug early in Shenmue II's planning and decided to just move the game to where the bugged value was correct, not knowing that it was fixed in code in the mean time. (This has an approximately zero chance of being
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by mook 2y ago
My understanding is that Windows PowerShell is the version that shipped with Windows, i.e. PowerShell up to 5.4. The new PowerShell is just the newer versions (6.x/7.x), which doesn't ship with Windows and is meant to be cross-pla
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by mook 2y ago
Mozilla XULRunner, which was the thing that happened before Electron, wasn't too bad though. It had way more traction than Positron. It died because Mozilla didn't care about it.
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by mook 2y ago
And Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/study-hot-vesuvian-a...
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by mook 2y ago
Quite a few gaming laptops these days have slightly more subdued aesthetics. Unfortunately they're still huge due to cooling requirements (or rather, because that's a dimension that can be sacrificed without too much trouble) thou

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