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by rlpb 1y ago
> Degrowth frames climate change as a problem of personal overconsumption and extravagance to be curbed by austere self-restraint and government policy, rather than as a technological problem to be overcome by installing green energy The
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by rlpb 1y ago
> The difference is that git rebasing is a destructive operation, you lose track of the old version when you do it. (Yes, there's technically the reflog.. but it's much less friendly to browse, and there's no way to share
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by rlpb 1y ago
This is why need need app sandboxing as the mobile platforms already do. Snaps and Flatpak both suuport this, but their critics resist without providing an alternative.
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by rlpb 1y ago
I've been a big XMPP fan, having deployed it at customer sites more than a decade ago, running my own self-hosted service for friends and family, and so forth. I'm disappointed that the experience is still not at feature parity wi
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by rlpb 1y ago
> Ubuntu still frustratingly defaults to schedutil or powersave governors even on servers... A rather silly default many will argue The carbon footprint of servers sitting idle is important, too.
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by rlpb 1y ago
...and this is perfectly fine as long as one is willing to change one's opinion should the evidence demand it.
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by rlpb 1y ago
Legally, this isn't sufficient. Your subscription contract is independent of your payment method. If you don't pay, that doesn't necessarily mean that your subscription is cancelled, and you could end up in court and lose. Wh
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by rlpb 1y ago
> And if a quorum of mining pools gets together, they can fork the blockchain or do all sorts of other shit. This is a common misunderstanding. Miners do not have power in the system. Anyone can fork Bitcoin, but when people want payment
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by rlpb 1y ago
Semantics make hard assertions about "containers" worthless. It depends on what one means by a container exactly, since Linux has no such concept and our ecosystem doesn't have a strict definition.
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by rlpb 1y ago
> Are git rebase etc smart enough to also copy over the notes to the new commit... This is configurable. By default, amend and rebase operations will copy them forward. See git-config(1) under `notes.rewrite`.
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by rlpb 1y ago
I'm not sure what this "breaks". Unless a site requires attestation and validates that attestation, a bad software FIDO2 implementation will leave users vulnerable should they choose to use one. Didn't we already know th
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by rlpb 1y ago
> You just need to provide a C ABI compatible with the original one. How does this interact with dynamic linking? Doesn't the current Rust toolchain mandate static linking?
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by rlpb 1y ago
Even then there are plenty of legitimate scripts that are useless to an individual in practice. How am I going to read a name out in a waiting room if I cannot read the script? For some scripts I probably couldn't even perform a string
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by rlpb 1y ago
Here in the UK, there is no "legal name" AIUI - just what I am known as that then ends up in my official government documents such as my passport and my driving licence. If I make up a symbol to represent myself, then where are we
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by rlpb 1y ago
> Individualized treatment plans using checkpoint inhibitor combinations, biotech therapies, etc are for few select individuals with A LOT of money. This is the first step in the commoditization of any new treatment, no? Initially expens
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by rlpb 1y ago
Blocking inbound connections using connection tracking is orthogonal to NAT. It's just that NAT implies the former by default due to its nature.
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by rlpb 1y ago
-O1 is defined not to perform "any optimizations that take a great deal of compilation time". See the definitions in the manpage.
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by rlpb 1y ago
> The optimisations in -O3 aren't supposed to give incorrect results. I didn't mean to imply that they result in incorrect results. > they make a more aggressive space/speed tradeoff... Right...so "better" bec
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by rlpb 1y ago
> I mean, the whole point of fast-math is trading off speed with correctness. If fast-math was to give always the correct results, it wouldn’t be fast-math, it would be the standard way of doing math. A similar warning applies to -O3. If
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by rlpb 1y ago
> Since these streams are purely unidirectional, users don't have a way to notice that they're not literally live. This can be a problem, for example when sports fans receive out-of-band notification of a goal before they see i
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by rlpb 1y ago
Ironically, it was Anker chargers with Anker cables that worked the worst (all were new), and a new Ugreen charger with the cable it came with that worked the best. I got the impression that the Ugreen charger was more tolerant somehow - pe
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by rlpb 1y ago
My Anker GaN chargers seem finnicky with cables, resulting in drop-outs and flapping phone charging on my Pixel 6 Pro. Anker customer service were happy to send me replacements but they weren't any better. I tried Ugreen GaN chargers a
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by rlpb 1y ago
A variable amount is what I was missing. That makes sense now, thanks.
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by rlpb 1y ago
Is that actually true here? Satellite constellations move in complicated ways, so a receiver should be able to detect "impossible" configurations if the stream from only one satellite is delayed. If they are all delayed, then woul
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by rlpb 1y ago
Aeronautical navigation also uses nautical miles. And as the article says: "A quarter century ago, the primary use for GPS was aviation and marine navigation".
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by rlpb 1y ago
> Like if one project has a dependency on Ubuntu22 and another is easier with Ubuntu24. You don't have to stress "do I update my OS?" Have you tried lxd? It's far less janky than Docker (IMHO) to achieve what you desc
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by rlpb 1y ago
I don’t see how these principles could lead to people being restricted in the way you suggest.
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by rlpb 1y ago
Ah - we're talking about different things. I was concerned about the implication (or so I thought) that a binary executable should provide the required documentation (eg. via --version or similar). You are thinking about the text bei
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by rlpb 1y ago
I don't see how this claimed issue is valid. https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/llama/llama.cpp/L... says: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be incl
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by rlpb 1y ago
This a decent observation, but I would add that some other Flatpak app that you run might be correctly sandboxed from accessing your financial information, and this is the real benefit of such a system.

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