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by pferde 1mo ago
Are you sure, I got one and I'm in Central Europe.
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by pferde 1mo ago
I don't want to reason with my hardware, I want my hardware to do what I tell it to do.
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by pferde 2mo ago
My point was that in big corporations, things are stacked against people wanting to act morally.
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by pferde 2mo ago
can be the backstop. The word "can" is doing some extremely heavy lifting here, against corporate practices which dilute and spread guilt and responsibility for immoral decisions so thin, nobody in the decision chain even realiz
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by pferde 2mo ago
AI will mutate the knowledge and eventually produce some mangled version of it, mixed in with ramblings from a random reddit post and half a paragraph from a copyrighted book that its fascist creators stole.
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by pferde 2mo ago
Maybe I'm just making silly misspellings like this on purpose, to prevent someone from fingerprinting me based on my writing style. :-)
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by pferde 2mo ago
Your thinking too narrowly about the reward. Sometimes, it's just about the getting the knowledge out there that's motivating the creator, not anything tangible for themselves.
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by pferde 2mo ago
In Debian, even nvidia drivers are part of the OS repositories, albeit in the non-free category which is not enabled by default. I would be surprised if Ubuntu did not have them too.
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by pferde 2mo ago
Oh yes. I remember first playing Quake on a 486 and not liking it, because it felt like I was moving in a heavy sluggish tank, and later playing it on a Pentium, and loving it for the agile movement. The difference was huge!
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by pferde 2mo ago
Indeed, it kills our planet, our culture and our economy extremely well. Oh yes, and some code monkeys enjoy that it can make computer code on the side.
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by pferde 2mo ago
You're right, of course. The point I was trying to make (badly) is that people have hatred for Microsoft for a lot more than just BSODs of decades ago. There has been bad engineering upon bad engineering for many decades, manifesting i
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by pferde 2mo ago
Didn't you hear? Buying is not owning, according to these corporate criminals.
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by pferde 2mo ago
Well, the classic BSODs were not all Microsoft's fault, many of them were on 3rd party driver developers. I think the worse thing here is all the subtle breakages and inconsistencies in Windows, as well as in the MS Office suite of pro
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by pferde 2mo ago
Where are you people getting your money if you can blow it at harebrained experiments like this? This is mind-staggeringly expensive for what it does!
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by pferde 2mo ago
Yes, that's exactly it. Now please go back to your githubs and leave us nerds who do not matter alone. We'll be fine, we promise!
46.
by pferde 2mo ago
The illusion of progress and advancement, to appease shareholders, and slightly postpone the looming bubble pop.
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by pferde 2mo ago
No, they do not feel about their users one way or another. As soon as they have their monopoly, they no longer need to.
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by pferde 2mo ago
No, you don't get to play the "everybody does that" card. These companies started out claiming to care about openness, and to have moral high ground.
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by pferde 2mo ago
Because while exploring derelic ships (the major part of the game), you control your drones remotely, via commands that you type into the console.
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by pferde 2mo ago
I'd rather live through my 80s without much struggling. Longevity and quality of life until the end. And I try to live in the way that lends itself towards that.
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by pferde 2mo ago
But of course there is, it's part of POSIX, implemented in libc. And if you're using a higher level language, they all have their own wrappers around libc/POSIX APIs. Here is golang's: https://pkg.go.dev/
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by pferde 2mo ago
If it used one of the standard system APIs for looking up user accounts (e.g. getpwnam(3)), there's no way it can happen. This is incredibly bad engineering, on level of a SQL injection, in 21st century. Something a highschool student
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by pferde 2mo ago
The proper fix would be to not use getent CLI tool in their logic, but instead use proper system APIs for looking up user account entries, like one of earlier comments here already mentions. This is shocking amateur hour! My guess is they h
54.
by pferde 3mo ago
Wow, this is almost Dilbertesque level of absurdity.
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by pferde 3mo ago
Unless you're trying to do something like high frequency stock trading, this does not really matter. Most of the added latency is added in the hops themselves, as packets are being classified and routed. Your generic Internet user won&
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by pferde 3mo ago
I guess my (badly conveyed) point was that Anki is already so efficient for me that I don't feel the need anything more. Well, not for vocabulary, anyway. There is more to learning a language than vocabulary. :)
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by pferde 3mo ago
I have the exact opposite experience with Anki. I use it to memorize vocabulary of a language I'm learning, a language completely different to other languages I know, and my retention before and after I started using Anki is night and
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by pferde 3mo ago
I mean, I poisoned and then deleted my GH account the day Microsoft acquisition was confirmed, because it was obvious where it's heading.
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by pferde 3mo ago
Yeah, that's a whole different kettle of waspnests. :)
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by pferde 3mo ago
That's because Unified Attestation is unsalvageable. It's basically the same scam as Google's, with different owners doing (or wanting to do) the extortion.

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