ndiddy

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by ndiddy 1y ago
> Wick started his talk by saying that it looks like everything is great with the Flatpak project, but if one looks deeper, ""you will notice that it's not being actively developed anymore"". There are people who
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Agreed, you can see this from how consumer-facing AI is advertised. It's never something like "I wanted to do X, now I can thanks to AI". It's always "I used AI to generate a cute image to send my son" or &quot
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Not sure which provider you're using, but from what little information is public, most providers that offer an "all you can use for a flat fee" subscription are losing money on every user. When the money dries up and the LLM
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I suppose favoring "state's rights" over federal regulation is only a concern for the GOP when they're not getting big tech lobbyist money.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
What's the point of commenting that it's slow if you don't care about using the program and switched to something else? Also, how is whether the project is volunteer-run relevant? Would you file a support ticket for commercia
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Sudo is permissively licensed. https://www.sudo.ws/about/license/
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The title for this submission is somewhat misleading. The judge didn't make any sort of ruling, this is just reporting on a pretrial hearing. He also doesn't seem convinced as to how relevant downloading books from LibGen is to th
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The difference is how compliance is handled for cloud providers. Complying with the AGPL requires releasing the source code for the program you're hosting as a service. Complying with the SSPL requires releasing the source code for &qu
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but publicly announcing that you found out that you were using a library largely consisting of decompiled Nintendo SDK code, then continued to use it and distribute binaries with the library compiled into them seems i
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by ndiddy 2y ago
That does look cool, I'm assuming they stored a lot of the graphics as a series of drawing and flood fill commands as a way to save ROM space, similar to how the old Sierra DOS adventure games did their graphics.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Here's a pretty good Linus Tech Tips video where he installs stock AOSP on a Pixel phone and goes over how it's virtually unusable. Just like you say, while the Pixel UI may be Google's vision for how the Android platform sho
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> How much code actually uses unions this way? I see this change caused Mbed-TLS to start failing its test suite when compiled with GCC 15: https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/9814 (kinda scary sinc
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The C/C++ extension isn't open source though, and that's where the "doesn't work on forks" DRM is implemented. At least the clangd extension is open source and is a viable alternative.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
For federal returns, there's a site called Free File Fillable Forms, which has digitized versions of all the tax forms. Unlike the normal IRS Free File program, there's no restriction on income. If you're comfortable filing p
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Again I see no purpose in doing things this way besides trying to minimize the amount of people who look at your GPL code for some reason. Isn't it more annoying for the company to make someone in customer support read paper letters, b
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Some companies still do this mainly to make the GPL request process more annoying so fewer people do it. If you have to mail a letter with a check to cover shipping/handling and wait for the company to send you a CD-R with the code on
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by ndiddy 2y ago
It is related. The font file contains the text "Copyright 1996 Catapult Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved". I'm not sure where it comes from because the SNES/Genesis/Saturn versions of the service didn't
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by ndiddy 2y ago
In this case it seems like what happened was: 1. Catapult Entertainment made/commissioned XBAND Rough as a clone of Confidential for their use somewhere (promotional materials, PC software, who knows?). The font file contains the text
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I think we’re seeing the effects of Microsoft’s treatment of their users. Windows 11 has been out for years now and we’re a few months away from Windows 10 being unsupported, but 10 is still the most popular version of Windows. I expect tha
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by ndiddy 2y ago
It's not required, but it's generally safer to put a notice saying who owns the copyright and what license the file is released under at the top of each file. Some licenses like MIT, the BSD licenses, Zlib, etc are short enough th
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I would highly recommend reading the decision. The two markets defined were publisher ad servers (i.e. Google's DoubleClick for Publishers) and ad exchanges (i.e. Google's AdX). Google behaved anticompetitively in both of these ma
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> Look at the hundreds of millions wasted on the Windows / IE monopoly trial. That trial found Microsoft guilty of antitrust practices and ordered the company to be broken up. What caused it to be a waste of time was that Microsoft
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The original Google research paper by Brin and Page explicitly points out that a search engine financed by advertising is inherently anti-consumer: > Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Then you're emulating everything that runs in the VM, as opposed to using an ARM vm and only emulating the x86 program you want to run. This makes things a lot slower.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
If more employers gave raises such that an existing employee in a given role was paid the same or more as what they would pay a new hire to fill the same role, I don't think we'd see the level of job hopping that we currently do.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> Why did Atari not just use a signal analyzer to get the key? The 10NES chip was a bit more complicated than that. Basically the way it worked was that there was a chip in every NES, and another chip in every cartridge. On reset, the ch
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by ndiddy 2y ago
You seem to be confused (which is fair, this is a little confusing). In 1984, Warner Communications sold Atari's home and computer game division to Jack Tramiel, which became Atari Corporation. Atari Corporation was the company that ma
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The difference I see is that Autotools is mainly useful for handling differences between various Unix variants, which isn't a concern now that commercial Unix isn't really a thing besides Mac OS X. CMake doesn't have the year
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I don't know about "could be used as a reference for good practices", but here's a CMake file for a game project I've worked on if you're interested looking at how someone might use CMake for a smaller codebase
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by ndiddy 2y ago
CMake gets a lot of hate because a lot of large projects use it poorly and the syntax is strange, but I've found it invaluable for projects I've worked on. The first page of this site has a great list of reasons why someone would

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