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by ndiddy 2y ago
One of the KDE devs replied to this getting posted on Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1facwbt/kde_operated... ): "It was intended to run at a loss this year. We had loads of money fro
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by ndiddy 2y ago
If you read the decision ( https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/797361df-8d... ), it almost entirely focuses on CDL not being legal in general rather than bringing up IA's "National Emergency L
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The decision covers that point: "IA maintains that it delivers each Work “only to one already entitled to view [it]”―i.e., the one person who would be entitled to check out the physical copy of each Work. But this characterization conf
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Ladybird is getting migrated to Swift, not Rust. Andreas Kling goes over why he chose Swift here: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031 and his views on Rust here: https://x.com/awe
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Horses caused a huge pollution problem in urban areas. By the 1890s, New York City had over 100,000 horses, which produced over 2.5 million pounds of manure per day. The streets were covered with manure and dead horse carcuses. Cars were se
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by ndiddy 2y ago
From page 11 of the decision: "We reach this conclusion specifically because TikTok’s promotion of a Blackout Challenge video on Nylah’s FYP was not contingent upon any specific user input. Had Nylah viewed a Blackout Challenge video t
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by ndiddy 2y ago
DUMB is essentially BSD, clause 8 says that clauses 4, 5, and 6 are null and void.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
If anyone here's familiar with how these decisions are made, I'm curious about why NASA says they need another week to choose their path forward. Given that we're already over two months into a week-long mission, what informa
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by ndiddy 2y ago
They're bringing up customization because a contributing factor to System76 deciding to make their own DE rather than continuing to work with the GNOME developers was a difference of opinions on the amount of customization/brandin
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Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy(icode4.coffee)
731 points by ndiddy 2y ago|97 comments
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Microsoft still offers VB6 CD images as part of an MSDN subscription.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The AlphaSmart Dana has a similar form factor to the TRS-80 Model 100. It runs Palm OS and can easily be converted to run off of standard rechargeable AA batteries. The downside is that the batteries only last for 20-25 hours of screen on t
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Before the 32-bit era, game development tooling was very nonstandard, and a lot of studios rolled their own. For example, Sunsoft's NES graphics/animation software ran on the Famicom Disk System (Japanese-exclusive NES add-on that
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The author disclosed his sales revenues here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41124971 . He sold 467 copies of the software after 10 years, for a total revenue of around $2000. He never exceeded 200 API calls per day.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Given Logitech's current mice start double-clicking after about a year, I'm curious what they'd change about their designs to extend that lifetime to forever.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Something like a USB rubber ducky ( https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky ) would probably work great for this use case. They market it towards pentesting but it's useful for automating general system admi
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by ndiddy 2y ago
That’s easily solvable by seating wheelchair-bound passengers in the back of the plane so they have to wait to get off.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The Democrat obsession with Trump implementing Project 2025 strikes me as similar to the Republican obsession with Biden implementing the Green New Deal a few years ago. It's the president's radical legislation that isn't end
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Someone got access to the full tape backups for two warez BBSes (The WaREZ HouZE and Piper's Pit) and uploaded the tape images to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ibm-wgam-wbiz-collection . The collection s
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39478551
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The same developer ported PPC NT 4 to the Wii last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8BpUpr1h9U
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I don't use vanilla xeyes but I use the Window Maker dockapp version ( https://bstern.org/wmeyes/ ) to make it easier to find my cursor on the screen.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
If you run xeyes and the eyes follow your cursor when it's above the application you want to test, it's running under xwayland. If they don't follow your cursor, the application is running under native Wayland.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The GRUB_DEFAULT and GRUB_SAVE_DEFAULT settings don't affect the UEFI settings, they only affect the default boot option in GRUB's boot menu. From the UEFI configuration perspective, the boot option never changes and it's alw
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Helium drives are basically standard for enterprise hard drives now. The reduced drag force allows for using thinner drive platters (helium drives can hold up to 10 platters, while air-filled drives can only hold up to 6 platters) which boo
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I have this working on a UEFI system. You select your Linux drive in the UEFI configuration (so the computer always boots into GRUB) and then GRUB will boot into Linux or Windows depending on the last saved option.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Wayland happened so badly compared to e.g. the Systemd transition or the Pipewire transition because it was developed by Xorg developers who had spent years dealing with its complexity and countless regressions caused by bugfixes breaking o
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by ndiddy 2y ago
X11 supports mixed DPI with the RANDR extension. Applications can use the per-monitor information provided by RANDR to get the DPI information for each output, and use this to calculate font and widget sizes. Everything looks nice as long a
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Note that the knock-offs are clones of the original ~10 year old Salae Logic design, which also used the CY7C68013 without an FPGA (and had smaller margins than their current design, it only cost ~$100). They added the FPGA as a way of diff
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Note that AMD APUs prior to the 5000 series only supported ECC on the "PRO" models. For example, the Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G supports ECC, but the Ryzen 3 3200G doesn't.

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