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by ndiddy 1y ago
For at least the past 20 years, Usenet has been so full of spam that it’s been made virtually unusable. If de-peering is an option, then why haven’t the providers that allow spammers to operate gotten de-peered?
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> The Famicom didn't have any kind of protection scheme, so unlicensed and bootleg games were commonplace Unlicensed/bootleg Famicom games weren't very common in Japan due to the control Nintendo had over game distribution
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Those region converters were used in the initial production runs of every NES launch title from when the system was test marketed in New York in 1985. Presumably, Nintendo didn't yet have tooling set up for manufacturing NES cartridge
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Doesn't the AGPL from nearly 20 years ago address SaaS? Given that basically every big tech company bans AGPL licensed software, it seems like it provides adequate protection.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The 1985 GNU Manifesto explicitly brings up the possibility of third-party companies whose sole business is charging for setting up, running, and managing free software: > Meanwhile, the users who know nothing about computers need handh
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by ndiddy 1y ago
He's done the same series of tests on basically every mainstream phone from at least the past 10 years. Here's him doing the same bend test on the Samsung Fold 7 for example. Unlike the Pixel 10 Fold, it doesn't break open fr
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Especially when they advertise it with an IP68 dustproof rating.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/20/us/pentagon-p... The most draconian new rule is that it bars the press from reporting any information unless they get it approved for public rele
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Google recently changed their security policy regarding Android, where there's now a 3-4 month delay between when OEMs get access to security patches and when they're posted to AOSP (it was previously 1 month). The patches are bro
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Doing shady stuff to juice KPIs seems like standard operating procedure at Microsoft. My favorite example of this is a few years after Windows Phone came out (when it was already clear it was going to be a failure), Microsoft announced they
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> MacOS 8. Not the Linux thing, but Copeland. This was a modernized version of the original MacOS, continuing the tradition of no command line. Not having a command line forces everyone to get their act together about how to install and
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The "OS" on the drive stands for "off-spec". As far as I understand, here's where they come from: 1. A large company (think cloud storage provider or something) wanting to build out storage infrastructure buys a lar
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I think the demographic situation is one difference. The population was younger in 1998-2001 than today, so less of the population was on Social Security/Medicare than now. The article mentions that the increase in spending today is ma
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> I expect outages. With Github's service record, that means there should be no observable difference between them doing the migration and them operating as usual.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
From that support article: > Last but not least, you need to comply with article 4.d of the LGPL license which has specific and very technical requirements. Complying with such requirements, which derive from the LGPL being used in the A
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> You can make a low volume product by buying a bunch of Arduinos as your controller. You just stick them in the device. There's no license issue. Note that the Arduino libraries are LGPL licensed. Unless you have a commercial agree
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by ndiddy 1y ago
One fundamental difference is that Sega Channel was mostly comprised of games that were years old and often out of print entirely. New games were only available on the service as either time or content limited demos or as pay-per-view games
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Microsoft's whole plan with Game Pass was that by buying up half the industry they'd get enough subscribers to justify the massive expense of buying and funding all those studios, but subscriber growth went flat far sooner than th
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Their OS was fairly unique in that it was a POSIX OS that could scale up to being used on desktop/servers, was extremely stable, and could handle real-time control. From a desktop perspective, the real-time aspect also meant that using
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Agreed. If you look at what's in the S&P 500, 7.49% is nVidia, 6.33% is Microsoft, 4.88% is Google, 3.86% is Amazon, and 2.95% is Meta. That's over 25% of the S&P 500 in companies that will see their share prices fall heav
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China's jobless youth aren't happy with a plan to attract foreign professionals(cnn.com)
1 points by ndiddy 1y ago|0 comments
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If that was true, wouldn’t the best course of action be to let as much aid as possible into Gaza to flood the market rather than restricting the flow (therefore increasing prices) like Israel has been doing?
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Microsoft listed the Windows 10 end-of-life date on their site when the OS was released in 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151220135519/http://windows.mi... I think it's more likely that the dev
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I remember when 7 came out and people complained about how the UI was less responsive than XP! Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM I guess Windows UI responsiveness has just been steadily declining since th
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> Looks like Google wants to force people to use the WebUI instead of email clients (no google ads on IMAP/POP). I think that’s a valid criticism, but Protonmail also doesn’t allow people to use a standard email client. I agree with
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ADP report: Private employers unexpectedly shed 32,000 jobs(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by ndiddy 1y ago|3 comments
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The blog post is an advertisement for an AI powered employee stack ranking company, so it makes sense that they're shoehorning in AI even when it doesn't add to the piece.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
If you zoom out ( https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-f... ), the size of the federal workforce has been at around 2.7-3 million people since the late 1960s, while the US population has gone from ~
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by ndiddy 1y ago
At the start of the year, the OPM announced that federal workers could either take a voluntary resignation and go on paid leave until Sept. 30 (today), or be subject to return-to-office orders (including forced relocation if necessary), hig
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Fun fact: Bob Colwell (chief architect of the Pentium Pro through Pentium 4) recently revealed that the Pentium 4 had its own 64-bit extension to x86 that would have beaten AMD64 to market by several years, but management forced him to disa

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