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by pmontra 8mo ago
I'm not so sure that Nouveau is slower than the proprietary Nvidia driver. I didn't run benchmarks on my personal use case but my subjective experience is that Nouveau might be faster. It's a Debian 11, X11, NVIDIA driver vs
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by pmontra 8mo ago
It's been my present for about 10 years. It's wonderful. Social media damage mental health. Messages with friends don't. Group chats are borderline but I can silence them for a few hours when people start quarreling and I don
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by pmontra 8mo ago
This seems to be a better post about what happened, from the same site https://www.sambent.com/i2p-2-11-0-ships-post-quantum-crypto...
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I'm using NewPipe and PipePipe. Both are better than the browser app.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Yes, that's the endgame, an Android device in a drawer at home. But what do I have to carry on my pocket to use the minimum amount of apps? Firefox, WhatsApp with video and audio calls, Telegram no video no audio, a mail client, a YouT
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by pmontra 8mo ago
You are lucky. It's often light gray on thin fonts.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
This is a common answer but it does not apply to at least most of Europe. Because of regulations most banks require to install their app either on iOS or Android to act as a 2FA device. One of my banks gave me a hardware device 20 years ago
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Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design(irregular.com)
3 points by pmontra 8mo ago|0 comments
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I don't think it was luck. I think it was inevitable. They positioned the company on high performance computing, even if maybe they didn't think they were a HPC company, and something was bound to happen in that market because eve
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by pmontra 8mo ago
> Creation used to be the scarce thing, the filter. Now attention is. Most of us are on the wrong side of that trade. "Wrong side" means that people on that side have to work harder to reach us. The terms of the trade did not c
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I saw one last week. I can't comment about the stylus (but I'm swiping with my thumb to write this message). I held it in my hands and it's a brick but most phones of the last years are bricks so I expect that they will deliv
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Also remember that programs were much smaller, code had to be typed in full and read accurately because compilers were slow and you didn't want to waste time for a syntax error. Anyway it's common even today to work half a day thi
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by pmontra 8mo ago
In my case * meeting with people, yes, on calls, on chats, sometimes even on phone * “aligning expectations”, yes, because of the next point * getting consensus, yes, inevitably or how else do we decide what to do and how to do it? * making
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by pmontra 8mo ago
> I can use my bank on some linux distro, Yes, I've been doing that since 2009 on Ubuntu and Debian but there are several caveats. One of those banks has its own TOTP device and they won't replace it when the battery dies. It&#
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Some conditions depend strictly on inputs and the compiler can't reason much about them, and the developers can't be sure about what their users will do. So that pattern is common. It's a sibling of assertions. There are even
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Scapegoats are scapegoats but in every organization the problems are ultimately caused by their leaders. It's what they request or what they fail to request and what they lack to control.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I knew first hand about a couple of news in my life. Both were reported quite incorrectly. That was well before LLMs. I assume that every news is quite inaccurate, so I read/hear them to get the general gist of what happened, then I re
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by pmontra 8mo ago
This is correct. Everybody has green bubbles in Europe even on iOS, because everybody is using WhatsApp. But mean people are still mean.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I think that the only windows hotkey I know is Windows key to open the start menu. But I've been using Windows only 1994-2008, then Linux. I still connect to some Windows 10 / 11 machines of a customer to check processes and log f
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Proposed commitments from Apple and Google: app certainty and interoperability(gov.uk)
2 points by pmontra 8mo ago|0 comments
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I believe that we consume 100 W on average no matter what we do, except intense physical activities, which consume more.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
If a business like that doesn't get its emails delivered, it will slowly go out of business. Merchants will find another processor that is able to deliver emails to every inbox. That is, Google could be less picky, but the company with
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Resource consumption often goes up. It's a time vs energy tradeoff and it's not free. Your question is a variant of what do we do with all those humans now that they don't have to walk miles to the well every day because we i
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by pmontra 8mo ago
100 W is only the start. Let's say that I consume 100 W all along the day. I use an LLM for coding assistance in the old way of asking questions and copy pasting code. It's much faster than me at writing that code. I don't th
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Cash flow and fraud, yes. Credit, not much in most of Europe. AFAIK nobody has had something close to real credit cards until recently. They were called credit cards but it was a debit card with payment and deferred to the end of the month
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Capitalism or consumerism, a never ending offer and demand for goods, material or immaterial?
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I don't know how Signal works and I never used it, but could I signup with a phone number and keep using it with another number, on the same phone?
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by pmontra 9mo ago
The bit about the clothoid finally made me understand the odd shape of highway junctions. I always wondered why they want me to enter turns fast and then slow down progressively until the turn becomes a new straight. Unfortunately sometimes
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I visited the site on my Android phone with Firefox. It loads and the UI fits the screen, however it seems slow. Words appear at 3 or 4 characters at a time, then there is a pause, then another 3 or 4 characters. Some music when characters
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by pmontra 9mo ago
There is a fourth reason to use a framework: onboarding. It does not work much for Django, as every project I saw using it has a different shape, but it works very well for Rails, as all projects share the same structure. However, even for

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