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by ndiddy 2y ago
I think it depends on what distro you're talking about. Corporate distros like RHEL and SLES are absolutely going that way. It takes a lot of effort to backport fixes, and the money's not there in desktop Linux to make it worth th
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I have never seen anyone use auto in code newer than the mid-70s, apart from C++ programmers accidentally using it in a case where it happens to work.
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From the announcement page: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/ > RPM packages and unbranded (or customly branded) versions are available if you contact me and purchase commercial support. Otherwise your
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by ndiddy 2y ago
This is yet another great example of the innovation that the AI industry is delivering. Why just limit your scraper bots to GET requests when there might be some juicy data to train on hidden behind that form? There's a reason why the
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by ndiddy 2y ago
AFAIK this is because it's not really an email client. If your company uses an email server instead of hosted Office 365 email, setting up New Outlook with it will send your server's IMAP details and login information to Microsoft
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> But even scene groups heavily release in 265 instead of AV1. I believe this is because scene groups don't really care about patent licensing, and there's around 5-6 years of computers with hardware H.265 decoding and no hardw
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GCC and Clang support asan/ubsan, which lets you trade performance for nicer behavior related to memory access and undefined behavior. Whenever I do C development for a platform that supports asan/ubsan, I always develop and test
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Welcome to Hacker News, I'm glad my comment encouraged you to join the site :) RHEL's EULA has a similar sentence, "This Agreement establishes the rights and obligations associated with Subscription Services and is not intend
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Some further context: - Greg Kurtzer, CIQ's founder and CEO, is the creator of Rocky Linux and the president & owner of the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation. - Many of the Rocky Linux maintainers are CIQ employees. - The EULA f
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Here’s a good overview of what happened: https://lwn.net/Articles/997559/
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One thing to note is that you have to set up codecs/video acceleration stuff manually on Fedora because of legal reasons. Here's a pretty good guide for that, it also has some suggested configuration tweaks for GNOME that make it
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Fedora KDE is probably the best KDE experience I've had, so I'm glad that it's going to get equal billing with the GNOME version going forward. Shoutout to the Fedora KDE maintainers for doing such a good job.
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From the comments of that post: > Hopefully this can put closure to the speculation. Our organization is a databank and is a big user of mdisc for archiving. We reached out to Verbatim last week about this Media Identification Code (MID)
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux supported running off the CD as far back as 1993, but you needed a boot floppy because computers couldn't boot from CD at that point. When you installed it to your hard drive, most of the included software
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The main reasons were that Swift supports OOP and Rust doesn't (useful because web standards are object-oriented and it's easier to follow the specs when you can model them in your code), and that Swift supports C++ interoperabili
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I think this interview with the uutils project lead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qTyyMyU2hQ is fairly telling about the motivation behind the project. He mentions that he's not motivated by memory safety and that t
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Space Invaders was written by hand, as professional development tools cost way too much at that point. This interview contains a picture of a couple of the pages from the Space Invaders source code notebook. https://shmuplations.
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The Nokia N900 was a production mobile phone that ran Linux (Debian-based) with a GNU userland, Xorg, and a GTK+ based graphical environment. It was very responsive, had a ton of features, and got great reviews (even outside the Linux enthu
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Brother laser printers are cheap and extremely reliable if you only need to print in black and white. Because they use toner, there's no ink to dry up so they can go months without printing and not clog. The catch is that Brother start
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Read/write permissions are necessary to effectively block ads. There's a lot of sites that will throw up a screen saying "please turn off your adblocker" and refuse to let you view the page if they detect ads aren't
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It's from the Windows 95 launch video. https://youtu.be/_JzfROUDsK0?t=263
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The problem I see is that all the current AI leaders are spending way more than their revenue in training costs to stay ahead of the open source models. As an example, in 2024 Anthropic made $908 million in revenue, but spent $5.6 billion o
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Finder is fast until you need to use a network share. Your choices are NFS (wait on a loading screen for 10-30 seconds every time you change directories) and SMB (changing directories is fast, but Finder does a bunch of blocking calls or so
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That documentary was fantastic. Another good resource is this paper from 2016 on what all the equipment/computing systems on Voyager do and what the team had done to keep the mission going as of that point. https://csclub.uw
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Given you decided to outsource your response to this article to AI, you may have missed that this is a HEALTH ETHICS professor who's seeing medical students decide to have AI write all their papers so they don't have to engage wit
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I own a Framework 13, my biggest problem with it is the poor build quality. After only a few months of carrying it in a laptop bag (not in a backpack), it stopped being able to sit flat on a table. I have never had this problem before, incl
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Where do they go? Apart from random Chinese vendors like Unihertz who sell low-spec devices and you're lucky if you get one version update, the smallest Android phones I've seen are Samsung Galaxy phones, which are about the same
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> The tone was horrible, very cringe. Full of superlatives, adjectives and cliches. I wonder how much of this is caused by the AI companies using Reddit as a major training source.
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The whole point of Apple's pricing strategy over the past few years is that since they have a monopoly on storage/RAM upgrades, they can price base model computers at margins below what they'd normally be comfortable with, an
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After Compaq decided they wouldn't support Windows on Alpha, Microsoft continued using the hardware for developing 64-bit Windows (the previous Alpha releases were all 32-bit) until Itanium hardware became available. Here's a blog

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