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by okanat 3y ago
Bluetooth is an invention of Ericcson a Swedish company. Most of the RFID tokens in use are based on Mifare technology by Phillips (now NXP) a Dutch company. ARM is British. When you pay with Apple / Google Pay you use an European stan
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by okanat 3y ago
> anything more complicated I'd rather do in a proper programming language. Yes you can. Most people cannot or don't want to. Programming is just a skill used to reach an end and if your job description doesn't require it,
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by okanat 3y ago
BSD doesn't allow relicensing. I don't think any license that does either. However, BSD allows the licensees to incorporate the source however they want as long as they keep the notice visible.It doesn't transfer the ownershi
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by okanat 3y ago
Well, it is software. So one can remove such patterns and generate a completely different hash or even train a model to specifically do that. It doesn't scale.
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by okanat 3y ago
For videos that requires pretty significant effort even today to be done by hand. Humans don't scale. AI does. I think anonymity is completely dead now. Not due to social networks but AI will definitely kill it. With enough resources i
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by okanat 3y ago
Well they put their eggs into one Arianne 6 shaped basket, hoping that it won't delay much. It got delayed by a lot.
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by okanat 3y ago
Reddit didn't start to attract the critical mass until they became the top result in Google though nor it was able to keep its servers with its own profit. Until they squash all possible opponents, such social networks has never been p
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by okanat 3y ago
I think the main point is the theft protection and protection from state. The US and the UK's democratic systems are broken. In the US the social structure is slowly collapsing which increases theft and other petty crimes, at the same
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by okanat 3y ago
and for advanced developer tooling you can charge. This is what MS does. Visual Studio (not Code) is not free for businesses. One can still do C# development using only Windows SDK and/or dotnet SDK for "free". You cannot do
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by okanat 3y ago
I think they actually don't use that flag but use this function here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/Dwmapi... The feature is from Windows Vista and it is still the basis of a
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by okanat 3y ago
Um not really.If the application gets stuck, Windows Desktop Window Manager slaps its own titlebar on top of the window, ignoring all client decoration. You can still move it or close it. On GNOME, if the application gets stuck you have to
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by okanat 3y ago
The first WSL was a Linux system call emulator using Windows NT kernel's multi identity features. While it is an impressive feat of engineering showing off NT's strengths, many of the syscalls were missing. The programs had to ope
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by okanat 3y ago
> That being said, I'm still sad about the Amarok 1.4->2 transition and subsequent death. Strawberry Player (the fork of Clementine which is the fork of Amarok 1.4) is still going and it is ported to Qt 6 so it works okay with ma
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by okanat 3y ago
Windows 11 with WSL
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by okanat 3y ago
apt doesn't remove the settings in your home directory. So you need to nuke them and reconfigure the entire desktop and switching DEs definitely break stuff due to file type handling and default apps. With Xorg there were other things
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by okanat 3y ago
Yes availability of technical solutions will dictate what the clients of the software can do here. You can have great connections with the users but if the core libraries you use doesn't help you to deliver the features you promised,
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by okanat 3y ago
> (No wifi killswitch on Framework laptops at this time.) Because it is practically not possible with current hardware. Theoretically it is possible to design PCIe hot-plugging but no WiFi card/driver supports it. Maybe it is possib
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by okanat 3y ago
Imperative dependency (mis)management. Pip resolves what needs to be installed while it installs things depending on the setup script of the package. It requires a full execution and it is neither repeatable nor reproducible. So it is impos
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by okanat 3y ago
I think you're trying to force the init and service manager systemd side to do network things. Well those are more complex than the purely service manager side to handle and that's ultimately why you struggle. All the extra comple
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by okanat 3y ago
And do you know what systemd is? A project that produces multiple orthogonal executables that share a syntax paradigm and communicate over standardized IPC mechanisms. I think the only valid-ish argument these Unix philosophy discussions bo
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by okanat 3y ago
Sorry but this argument really falls flat. All of the other init systems' service files are reminiscent of SysV say OpenRC or runit. Moreover systemd achieves what it does because it provides a unified way of doing system administratio
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by okanat 3y ago
OpenGL was invented at SGI and it was closed source until it was given away. It is very popular in its niche i.e. CAD design because the original closed source SGI APIs were very successful. DirectX was targetted at gaming and was a much m
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by okanat 3y ago
Yes an object oriented language that has meaningful command names that make sense and not require you to be born in 1950s to understand its trivia. An object oriented language that doesn't have weird-ass pitfalls: https://we
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by okanat 3y ago
Well that's because US exceptionalism itself. More or less the rest of the world uses exactly the same tech for mobile so cellular roaming works in every country. It's the US carriers that try carrier proprietary tech to trap thei
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by okanat 3y ago
That's made almost impossible by the bigger players in the SoC world like Qualcomm and Samsung. They created a multi level oligopoly which can only be challenged with nation state support (like Mediatek and Huawei did). The problem is
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by okanat 3y ago
Also many frequency bands that modern phones use are regulated, especially heavily with LTE and later due to mixings with the military and public service frequencies. The baseband chips have modifiable software that can be stored in the sam
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by okanat 3y ago
We would probably live in a better world, if it did.
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by okanat 3y ago
If it is easy, it is not innovation. You're not finding and improving a thing then. True innovation requires novelty and effort. Even smallest innovative projects require many many thoughts and redesigns until they become even an MVP.
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by okanat 3y ago
Hopefully not. However those stuff historically have been written in Ada or a very restricted set of C.
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by okanat 3y ago
React maybe to a point but in general no. Immediate means you get to decide (or even *forced*) how each and every frame gets drawn. Its opposite is retained GUI which means you have a set of data structures that are automagically drawn by t

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