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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It may be a health improvement: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Off the coast of Switzerland? O_o
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Conscription is not as effective as a regular volunteer force. Switzerland's terrain wouldn't see regular war but guerilla warfare (including mined bridges and everything). Having trained marksmen in almost every household he
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
In this case Switzerland seems to be a pretty good choice: compulsory military service, difficult terrain, nuclear power plants (and with them the infrastructure to build the bomb)
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> He wrote in his post that he does it for his benefit He benefits from the software existing. He benefits from deriving a paper or two from running the platform. Neither has to do with it being open source. The open source aspect benefi
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The open source definition talks a lot about how source code is available. It doesn't talk about being able to contact the author. The one aspect I'd change as the author is to not host the project on github because that platform
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I might be able to work on it (and indeed, I sometimes do), but your argument was in favor of implementing a spec. Any change that modifies the resulting binary might have my copy deviate from the spec and I have little way of knowing. How
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> any action we take or decision we make or conclusion we reach rests on assumptions, norms, and values not everyone would affirm. That is, everything we do is rooted in a contestable point of origin; and since the realm of the contestab
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Showing non-sexual images of breasts on facebook may or may not work out well: https://www.facebook.com/the.ban.on.breastfeeding/ The sensibilities are different but they exist.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Their approach to moderation is unusual in that they don't even pretend to be a neutral platform and as such it's a powerful differentiator to businesses that are rooted in a "free speech" culture. Shadow-banning individ
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Whatever happened to good old CUPS? Why did they have to introduce so many layers including Google's servers between the user and the printer? As the support document states, as far as Chrome OS goes, the removal was made possible
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I understand the ubiquity of Intel-based hardware, but I don't full get why not even an option of an AMD-based system is available. Because it's hard enough to deal with a single silicon vendor, so they're looking for th
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Its basically instant boot the same way as uboot is We regularly run into issues where coreboot boots so fast that the peripherals can't catch up and we're the first to notice. So yes, our boot process is pretty quick compare
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> The point being that the low level init code could conform to the PE spec The spec that is available under "read only, but don't implement" terms[0] unless you manage to join a club that may or may not let you in[1] and
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Indeed. And if somebody brings old code up to current standards, we're happy to put it in again. Haven't seen that happen yet though.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It depends on maintainers though. We now kick devices out of coreboot where we suspect that the code wouldn't even boot anymore and there's nobody able to prove otherwise. We'd certainly welcome them moving to coreboot. They
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
You can record as much as you want, it's redistribution that might be a problem (before copyright on the piece ran out)
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I know that open-source BIOSes, e.g., coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS), exist, but I got the impression that even at this late stage in the BIOS game, only a minority of machines ship with them. coreboot is not an open source BIO
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
https://www.bafin.de/EN/Verbraucher/Bank/Produkte/Basiskonto... is in English.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The law in question was established in 2016 and it calls for a special type of bank account ("Basiskonto") to be made available to all[0]. So the story could predate the law or (which is quite likely) the account might be a regula
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I would have thought the same about Walmart, and yet: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/jul/28/retail.mone...
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
There are multiple factors at work: There's ongoing maintenance as with everything, and you can probably accumulate its costs into it meaning "you're paying for a new one every 40 years through maintenance alone". Yield
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Looks like a project to build a stenotype machine (chorded keyboard entry), not to promote stenography which more commonly means various techniques of shorthand writing.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Since half of the money come from automotive, they were involved in making that arrangement, too. It's quite possible that some VW managers delayed the process for a few weeks to get it all lined up.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I think that has more to do with Projekt Opal by the Bundespost (see https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-Glasfaser-in-ihrem-Lauf... from 2001): An early fiber network project that tanked and cut off entire villag
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> German politics and any kind of tech innovation I came to believe that German politics still associates "high tech" with the cog wheel: more cog wheels, more tech. Since that doesn't apply to IT, it completely falls by t
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
>> on the same day automobile giant Volkswagen began production of a new all-electric vehicle. > The way that company fucks Germany over and over is truly remarkable. Their political reach certainly is remarkable. I quipped that th
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I bet their solution won't be compatible with Tesla. It's a standard charger system that I've seen all kinds of cars (incl. Teslas) connected to. Also: Renaults, VWs, BMWs, Mitsubishis.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I'm not in the US, I also don't have children. The bit about the car (which might change soon, but that would be a small EV, so still not oil-bound), within the context of all the other disclosures, was mostly to say that I'm
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Good! Employees should have a say in how their labor is used. The demand is "no business with them", not "no oil supporting business with them". If Big Oil (and they're all looking into how to survive in a &quo

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