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by reidrac 3y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you run Gnome on your sever?
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by reidrac 3y ago
Some of the stuff is truly fascinating. My favourite: Solar Collector Tubes (cooking using the sun, including baking bread). https://100r.co/site/solar_evacuated_tube_cooking.html
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by reidrac 3y ago
You are supposed to run software packaged by your distribution, and that's trusted. The curl | bash is bad practice and shouldn't be used. You have way more control and security using a Linux distribution. The objectives of that a
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by reidrac 3y ago
My Guix experience wasn't great. IMHO the people that love it will give you a non realistic view of it, so I recommend you listening to those that didn't like it that much but still like it. I installed it on Debian, and there&#x2
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by reidrac 3y ago
I did the same by the time Jessie was released. I realised the XFCE version was good enough, and I could use a few tools from the vendor binaries plus a couple of things I could compile. Yes, it is more work, but since then I've been u
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by reidrac 3y ago
https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/ I wrote a blog before this one for 19 years and I closed it because the archive of posts had too much weight and limited me on what I could write. Or that I thought. Turns out I wr
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A Chronology of First CD-ROM Games(cdrom.ca)
3 points by reidrac 3y ago|0 comments
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by reidrac 3y ago
Avoid karaoke night (really, unless you're certain age and want to sing), and generally sport pubs. Good traditiona oubsl, even the family friendly, are usually quiet.
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by reidrac 3y ago
In fact, that's how you delete your old tweets: rename old account to a new username, register the old username, delete the renamed account. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/delete-tweets See "H
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by reidrac 3y ago
When did that happen in your opinion? It was like this at least 20 years ago.
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by reidrac 3y ago
That's spot on. That was what I meant initially: in HN there's a strong opinion against copyleft, not necessarily free software.
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by reidrac 3y ago
Well, go and check: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Then see how many of those are OSI approved licences (thus open source).
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by reidrac 3y ago
Besides it isn't true they don't contribute. As you say, they are filling the gap left by CentOS, and that helps sustaining an ecosystem that benefits RHEL.
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by reidrac 3y ago
I think you mean anti-copyleft. Free Software and Open Source are essentially the same, despite the philosophical differences. The issue here is against the copyleft (GPL and AGPL).
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by reidrac 3y ago
I experience it exactly like you. I need some time to recover to get my brain functioning again. When I finish my 8 to 4 work day of average intensity (as in not exceptionally stressful or busy), WFH I'm with my kids, there are a lot o
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by reidrac 3y ago
The package index only hosts the packages, but doesn't release them. The dev releasing the package is who signs it. Without an easy way to verify the keys, the signatures are useless. Which is why PiPy is removing the GPG keys all toge
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by reidrac 3y ago
I have been thinking about this in the context of Java libraries (really using Scala, but bear with me). If the repo requires a GPG signature, they could also ask for the public key of the developer making the releases (e.g. when they make
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by reidrac 4y ago
> Codeium doesn’t regurgitate non-permissive code What is that? The problem is when GH Copilot it emits the code without the licence, not the licence.
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by reidrac 4y ago
My experience has been quite the opposite: after a while working on a game I think "is this any fun?", and turns out people likes them (even if sometimes I don't really get it).
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by reidrac 4y ago
I experimented with similar ideas 11 years ago with the OpenStack counterpart of S3, and basically an object storage is not a real filesystem. You can get away with a FTP/SFTP interface (for example), but that's it. Everybody want
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by reidrac 4y ago
I miss going fishing, I should go back to it. Thank you for sharing this!
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by reidrac 4y ago
I got a refurbished ThinkPad T470 for £200 and it is like new. May need to add more RAM (came with 8GB), but that's it. I don't really need to upgrade my hw often, only when it breaks and it is clear it was so outdated is not wort
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by reidrac 4y ago
They included virtual envs in Python 3, perhaps they should have done the same with some of the packaging solutions.
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by reidrac 4y ago
pygame isn't that slow if you use pygame 2 that depends on SDL2 (2D hardware acceleration, yay!) or go with OpenGL directly. I used to do a lot of amateur gamedev with Python (pygame and pyglet). If most of the work happens on the GPU
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by reidrac 4y ago
There are a few, but you are right that they could be more accessible: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/tree/main/examples (I had the same problem)
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by reidrac 4y ago
I haven't looked at the graphs, but they updated netty to 4.1.85.Final on 2022-11-10. https://netty.io/news/2022/11/09/4-1-85-Final.html mentions that a potential memory leak was fixed. In includes
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by reidrac 4y ago
> The language doesn't completely run, but it was just a two-hour experiment. Do you mean?
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FreeBSD: From Bare Metal to Bhyve(wu.e-shell.org)
9 points by reidrac 4y ago|0 comments
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by reidrac 4y ago
I disagree. I work with Scala and I can see myself in that post 100%. If things compile and your test pass you might be OK (sure), but the part where "those ecosystems tend to have a lot less need for new versions to fix things or chan
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by reidrac 4y ago
When I read this in the what's new page: > Also, private windows have been redesigned to increase the feeling of privacy. What does it mean? It doesn't make me feel very confident that Mozilla know what are they doing any more.

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