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by okanat 2y ago
It could be their hope, but legal institutions are not hackable games or static computer programs. Any active contempt will only escalate the punitive fees and acts they will receive.
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by okanat 2y ago
Windows updates has always been free too. Microsoft still made quite a bit money from new sales of Windows and corporate subscriptions until they switched to ad-infested model. Why Apple cannot? They have the biggest margins in hardware sal
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Protect the software from the user? Why are you giving them the software then?
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Windows has nothing equivalent to systemd. Windows "Task Scheduler" is very simplistic and disorganized compared to systemd. systemd is definitely one of the nicer things in the Linux world. I like it a lot and my team uses it ext
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by okanat 2y ago
Rust and Kotlin have much stricter type systems and much saner standard libraries. C++ auto is a ticket to hell of implicit conversions and stupid extra copies that come out of nowhere.
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With the complexity and the performance cost considered, I don't think there is a piece of code that is worth writing in C++ that also don't need to care about types. auto introduces quite a bit complexity to already complex C++ c
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NSA doesn't want the government and critical businesses to get hacked, unless they are doing it themselves. That's why they support many security features in both proprietary and open source world. However, in the US, they don&#x2
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by okanat 2y ago
Tracking stats of your customers using the data they willingly gave you and making marketing decisions isn't the problem. Neither is making sponsorship agreements with content producers who make relevant content. Creation of global mar
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EU didn't go into an uncontrolled spree investing every company that had .com in its name and ruined thousands of lives and wasted billions of dollars. EU usually doesn't let companies to grow uncontrollable sizes that the governm
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Once it gets popular, I think it would happen. The business people and C-suite would request quick dirty solutions like Crowd Strike's offerings to check boxes when entering new markets and go around the red tape. So they'll force
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Windows also has better ways such as filter drivers and hooks. If everybody used Linux, Crowd Strike would still opt for the kernel driver since the software they create is effectively spyware that wants access to stuff as deep as possible.
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This exact blog also complained about EU regulation and selling stuff in EU. I think they basically don't know what they are doing.
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The amount of misinformation on the internet is worryingly high but not unexpected. No such thing as Chinese Export logo exist. It cannot officially exist in the EU since the CE sign is protected. Whatever this website is sharing is FUD and
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That happens a lot in Linux world since people design software in extremely limited way in the name of simplicity and "Unix philosophy" which limits their composability. So only interfaces became limited to what's available a
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This means they are simply overfitting the training dataset which also increases their likelyhood of producing an almost the same output of their training data and violating copyright.
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Simplicity for simplicity's sake almost never works for any software that should work with humans for a long time. It is human to make mistakes and we usually change priorities. Software that relies on simple building structures but ca
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by okanat 2y ago
However, their business goal has always been targeting proprietary software companies. Open source support has always been the marketing part of their business. It basically falls apart whatever view you take: If Github are building a free-
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It really didn't start out as an open-souce tool. Github was founded for selling private repo access for Git and got popular in the FOSS community since they provided free storage.
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and unless some of the shovel shops not have an iron mine, a steel factory and a stamping shop as well. They can sell the stuff 1/5 of the price and you're not getting rich anytime soon.
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I think the bureaucratic cadence of the things also make C++ not a unified entity. C++ is patchwork language. So many of the new features don't work well together or don't fit together or they have conflicting goals. Since the pro
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by okanat 2y ago
There is Heliboard which I currently use. It supports loading the AOSP IME modules for swipe so it is as perfect as AOSP. It also supports multilingual typing.
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I cannot understand purists TBH. Betting on big open source projects that has a broken financing structure and then getting surprised when the original company takes reins is not a good strategy neither for sustained open development of sof
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by okanat 2y ago
Unless you colonize it, you cannot utilize 50% of the Earth's energy. If it proven anything, what the war in Ukraine showed us is how terrible of an idea to outsource energy, especially to nations who don't share interests with us
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by okanat 2y ago
The answer depends on the level of the detail you are asking for. There is a generic explanation, slightly more engineering / scientific one, relying on basic electrical engineering knowledge with not much nuance one and finally full d
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The data they collect for the AI and the advertising opportunities enable more profits and more revenue to keep infinite growth happening. Even with Azure, even with Github and everything else. If you're not using all the profit opport
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by okanat 2y ago
Not this one but there is a logic gate simulator I used in Uni called Logisim whose JARs (compiled ~10 years ago) continue to work in JRE 21 on my PC.
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by okanat 2y ago
Until it isn't. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6051 No glibc will not fix it and the rolling release distros are now patching their libc. Here is the list of ABI breaking changes: https:
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Depending on what you exactly expect from Windows Server, it has longer support due to great software compatibly Microsoft provides. Upgrading Windows Server editions since 2008 is usually way smoother than upgrading Linux distros because b
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It is always a mix of incompetence and malice for corporates. Malice is the part of infinite profit system. The economic system pushes malicious people up who are under the pressure of more malicious ones to increase profits. Most of the ti
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Interferometers are just magical in their accuracy.

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