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by piperswe 7mo ago
Considering my name's on a software patent submitted just last year, I don't think software patents have gone anywhere...
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by piperswe 7mo ago
Those clauses exclude those licenses from some very important definitions of free/open-source software. For example they would fail the Desert Island Test for the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
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by piperswe 7mo ago
The iPhone 17 (with the A19) notoriously doesn't have USB 3 - only the iPhone 17 Pro (with the A19 Pro) does
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by piperswe 7mo ago
The A19 doesn't have USB 3, does it? I suspect Apple didn't want to release a laptop where its only I/O ports are 480Mbps USB 2.
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by piperswe 7mo ago
`pip install` either doesn’t work out of the box or has the chance to clobber system files though
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by piperswe 7mo ago
I developed Node.js applications 10 years ago on a 2009 MacBook Pro with 5GB of RAM, and it was only a little tight on memory. 8GB _should_ be enough for moderate complexity development, but everything has become more and more memory-hungry
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by piperswe 7mo ago
I suspect Asahi Linux would appreciate work to support A18 Macs as well!
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by piperswe 7mo ago
Cmd+` is also a useful shortcut for switching between windows of the same application
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by piperswe 7mo ago
Not only that, but we have currently functioning distribution networks for pox vaccines. AIUI, the MPox vaccine is just a smallpox vaccine that happens to also work for MPox.
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by piperswe 7mo ago
Ultimately it shouldn’t be too surprising that the machine that works by generating the most statistically likely text, generates text that’s statistically identical to human-generated text
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by piperswe 8mo ago
Does Google even let you create an account without Gmail anymore?
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by piperswe 8mo ago
Young people's brains have always been mush, according to the older generation. Your brain is mush according to those older than you. The term for this is juvenoia, and it's as old as humanity.
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by piperswe 8mo ago
> - The community can fill in the gaps in multiple ways. Translation layers are available to connect to newer servers with older clients (ViaVersion), as well as with Bedrock clients (GeyserMC). Mods will almost certainly be released to
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by piperswe 8mo ago
Exciting! VulkanMod gives such drastic performance improvements, but it isn't compatible with most other mods. It'll be great to be using Vulkan with a full modpack in the future
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by piperswe 8mo ago
I mean, yeah. All businesses are misaligned, unless a fluke aligns the profit motive with the consumers for a brief period.
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by piperswe 8mo ago
The UK has common law: the outcomes of previous court cases and the arguments therein determine what the law is. It’s important that court records be public then, because otherwise there’s no way to tell what the law is.
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by piperswe 8mo ago
I’ll comply with a police officer because of their threat of violence. I will not comply with online bullshit, because Discord can’t shoot me.
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by piperswe 8mo ago
IMO it’s definitely piracy, but piracy is morally neutral
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by piperswe 8mo ago
The NSA definitely has easier ways to steal your identity and savings if they wanted to anyways
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by piperswe 8mo ago
Presumably the fingerprint data is stored in the Mac's Secure Enclave, and the external keyboard is just a reader
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by piperswe 8mo ago
Mapped but unused memory is imaginary (at least, on modern UNIX systems). It's not actually using any physical RAM.
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by piperswe 8mo ago
Is it actually resident or is it just mapped but unused?
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by piperswe 8mo ago
I hope to visit the ICM on my next trip to Seattle, though I suspect that won't be as grand as the original Living Computer Museum
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by piperswe 8mo ago
A similar experience for me was the Connections Museum in Seattle: I came just after opening, and time flew by such that I was surprised when they told me they were closing up
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by piperswe 8mo ago
Once the rich own machines that do everything for them, they have no need for us and we have no leverage over them. What's left for us then?
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by piperswe 8mo ago
That's what they said about GenX, Millennials, and probably every other generation before them. Something something, "OK boomer."
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by piperswe 9mo ago
Apparently the Mastodon server sitting in my Texas laundry room is 100% independent from the US! I guess my laundry room must've seceded from the US...
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by piperswe 9mo ago
Conveniently enough, neither Zurich nor London are in the EU anyways!
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by piperswe 9mo ago
I had a backpack stolen from me at Zurich HB. The police sent a car out on the freeway to chase the train the thieves were on, and nabbed them at the next station. The thieves tossed the clothes I had in the bag, but I got my laptop back
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by piperswe 9mo ago
I also know from experience that Zurich police will chase an AirTag location with vigor.

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