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by robert_foss 4y ago
I do believe hate speech is illegal already. Certainly online harassment leading to someone committing suicide is. KF is a platform that facilitates these activities.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
These devices are hardly low emissions if you compare them to walking or biking which are the modes of transit they are most likely to replace. I had a conversation with an ex C-level employee of one of these companies, and there is no way
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by robert_foss 4y ago
I'm genuinely sorry you had a bad time. People of every background feeling welcome and being able to contribute is what it is all about. RMS being reinstated was simply not a smart move, I think it does great harm to FSF. For example,
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by robert_foss 4y ago
I'm not American in any way, not that it should matter. But I am an active maintainer of several open source projects.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
I work in open source and care deeply about it. Which is why having an organization that disregards reports of misconduct and at the same time frames itself to represent open source software is repugnant to me. There's no doubt Stallma
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Mainly harassing women. But maybe that isn't such a big deal to some. If it is, you can read about it here. https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix
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by robert_foss 4y ago
The list of voting members need to be public. As it stands the self-selecting voting members make the FSF a non-democratic organization. Being non-democratic is in itself isn't necessarily an issue, but the FSF has demonstrated a compl
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by robert_foss 4y ago
lol
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by robert_foss 4y ago
If built using a 'plasma cutters oriented in a fibonacci spiral' this thing will only be able to cut through conductive materials. Additionally it will only be able to cut tunnels through material that don't require supportin
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Not exactly a video of a drill rig.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Konrad is an amazing hacker <3
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Freeing up gas from gas based electricity plants would surely mean that it can be used for something else.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Kernel development is not a panacea. I'm a maintainer and you should set you expectations (if you end up upstreaming code) to: - a lot of bikeshedding - a mailing list driven workflow - poor continuous integration
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by robert_foss 4y ago
I think it is to the extent these boards can be booted without TZ, which probably depends on which SOC vendor is used.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
I'm not sure why being reminded of the horrors of the past would make you feel guilty.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
As a Swede who lived in NA, it definitely seemed like an Americanism.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Speaking of paying taxes, that's much harder than it needs to be too. I did my corporate Swedish taxes between sets at the gym (no exaggeration). Would reply below, but reached thread max depth. That tax advisor I got was really scummy
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Doing the notary/banking/incorporation/tax-agency dance took a while. But that's only one part of the process. The continuous level of bureaucracy is really high too, and during the years I ran my corporation it never se
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by robert_foss 4y ago
I've started a UG in Germany. It is one of the worst professional experiences I've ever had. It's extremely cumbersome, bureaucracy heavy, slow and expensive. In addition I've never encountered as many scummy companies (
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Seeing how Apple licensed the full PowerVR hardware before, they probably currently have a license for the whatever hardware they based their design on.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
But being a Tiling rendering architecture which is normal for mobile applications and not how desktop GPUs are architectured, it would be fair to call it a mobile GPU.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Separate from this, prices have been increased.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
Get a RockPi 4. They've got good upstream Linux support, and are relatively feature packed + performant + cheap.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
This is wonderfully perverse.
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by robert_foss 4y ago
American laws around unions are very weak compared to other countries. Sympathy / Support strikes by neighboring unions are not legal for example. This was what allowed unions to prevail at McDonalds in Denmark. Yes, flipping burgers a
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by robert_foss 5y ago
Well, no. The parent point was that Snap is a way out of this software packaging quagmire, but I am saying that Snap will never unify the linux distros.
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by robert_foss 5y ago
Snap is not a standard, and never will be (RedHat will always ship flatpak for example). So Snap is no universal solution. At the same time snap packages have serious downsides for end users.
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by robert_foss 5y ago
There are gas reserves in Germany that would last for months (I've seen 6-9month figures). Maybe cut gas purchase rate to 50%. That would give >1 year of runway.
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by robert_foss 5y ago
Wayland is just a protocol. The desktop environment or application is likely your actual problem.
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by robert_foss 5y ago
Graphcore is just in the AI space, and Imagination is a company that ARM outcompeted to the extent that they barely exist anymore. SiFive is a real competitor, but they are much smaller and offer only a fraction of the IP portfolio of ARM.

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