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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> In Berlin many clubs have elevated snobbism to an art form. Berlin has elevated snobbism to an art form.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Robot Operating System started out in 2007, ReactOS in 1998 (under the name).
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Latest commit in CVS. I'm not sure what the Last Update date is about, but I think Sourceforge did some larger data shuffle in 2013, at least there are many orphaned projects where the site claims an update in 2013 even though nothing
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
By this metric, folks should go for sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnome-napster/code/ has last seen activity 23 years ago, while https://sourceforge.net/p/primal/code/c
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
There's also codeberg.org for git-shaped artifacts, or archive.org for everything else.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
(Some in) the Greifswald team seem to estimate that it takes ~€20bn for a commercial deployment based on Wendelstein 7-X (according to a blogger who went there to ask: https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9a9561ab )
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Symmetrical except for gravity that always points downwards. I wonder if it's easier to pull off fusion in a (close to) zero gravity environment because the plasma doesn't budge by other effects than the container's.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
1. Regulators can't do sweeping statements, so it's individual assessments (that can inform "similar" cases). 2. Facebook and Instagram are household names, so the media picks up on that. 3. The DPA/Meta situation i
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The difference is that in the 70s, it was "civilization as we know it survives if only a few people at key points of power manage to keep themselves together" (i.e. not pull the trigger to MAD), while today "civilization as w
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
https://devowl.io/wordpress-real-cookie-banner/ has an option described as: "Users can set the "Do not track" HTTP header in their browser to indicate that they do not want to be tracked. If you enable t
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It typically gets me some remorseful response and they actually manage to honor the signage for a year or two. I also send nasty letters to parties who consider themselves exempt from that before elections (they're not).
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> You didn't read the article, it's in the subtitle and the article itself... it's also in the domain name (.ac.). > These are academic accounts on Google that are granted to students only whilst they are students of t
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> There must be an upcoming hard deadline for all Google Workspace for Education admins to reduce storage usage. https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/my-tools/googlechange... explains: "Recent chang
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Not a single word about the proliferation of official services recently that makes it harder to access content because unless you're signed on with all of them (which gets expensive fast) you're missing out on _something_ while st
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
NOx, the type of stuff that sparked Dieselgate? Great idea...
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
I read that novel... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Method_(novel)
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Worse: Nearly 100% of that open source firmware is running on proprietary hardware! (and the really tiny epsilon that isn't - doesn't matter)
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The relevant firmware project to answer here is coreboot: My contributions range from technical contributions (see git log, ~3.5% of commits are mine, as poor a benchmark as that is) to support in our forums to documentation to behind-the-s
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
I've been dealing with silicon vendors (Intel, AMD, some ARM implementers, a couple of other folks) on the subject of open source firmware (as in: GPLv2) for 15 years (as in: tirelessly). I've been arguing against locked boot proc
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
No disrespect intended, but somehow you seem to expect others to solve your problems. If you want to see talks about that "critical topic right now for" you, or even work done in that area, the surest way to get that is to put in
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The OSFC is a direct outgrowth of the coreboot hackathons/conferences between 2014-2017, opening up to wider open source firmware topics. All the fun "how to open things up" subjects* have been talked to death in that communi
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Indeed: Pentium 75 is P54C and from 1995, while PAE (Address Extension to get beyond 4GB) was only introduced in the Pentium Pro (P6) series in 1995.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It also frees them to significantly modify the kernel or even replace it outright without breaking anybody, too.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Note that as of 1917, the year of the Balfour declaration, Palestine looked approximately like in https://www.edmaps.com/assets/images/autogen/British_Mandate...
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
There's https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/tree/master/contrib/pyzfs , which is as official as it gets.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
There are already companies collecting such information and making them available for their customers (who supposedly provide some collated data set to them in exchange). That's what all the "paying top of market rate" talk i
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Perhaps. Thing is, https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/670bc0a46c4ca03b75f1e72f73... is using https://github.com/mistifyio/go-zfs which features code like `out, err := zfsOutput("get&
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> The performance and reliability of the ZFS driver leaves lots to be desired. No wonder: it calls the zfs(1) tool and parses its output to do its work. Again. and again. and again.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> but they for sure don't share it as freely available standards. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8891 (GOST Magma) is a russian standard block cipher. https://www.gsma.com/aboutus/wp-con
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
It's pretty simple to not be on Twitter. It's comparably hard to evade governments.

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