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by robhlt 7mo ago
All that Corporate IT stuff can work on Linux, we just have to start demanding Linux for them to put in the effort. Macs used to be in the same position, Corporate IT only knew how to manage Windows so that's what everyone got. Eventua
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by robhlt 8mo ago
GCC's build process does this. GCC is built 3 separate times, starting with the host compiler, then with the compiler from the previous step. If the output of stage 2 and 3 do not match the build fails.
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Valve Wins 'Patent Troll' Trial(news.bloomberglaw.com)
4 points by robhlt 8mo ago|1 comments
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by robhlt 8mo ago
Waymo can go camera-only in the future too by training a camera-only model alongside their camera+lidar model. They'll probably get there faster too because the decisions the camera+lidar model makes can be used to automatically evalua
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by robhlt 8mo ago
I'm (mostly) a believer too, and I think AI makes using and improving these existing frameworks and libraries even easier. You mentioned matplotlib, why does it make sense to pay for a bunch of AI agents to re-invent what matplotlib do
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by robhlt 8mo ago
It's nice that AI can fix bugs fast, but it's better to not even have bugs in the first place. By using someone else's battle tested code (like a framework) you can at least avoid the bugs they've already encountered and
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by robhlt 8mo ago
Municipal bonds are meant to address this. The city can borrow against that future tax revenue to build infrastructure today.
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by robhlt 9mo ago
Shooting the driver of a car that's driving at you is not self defense. Cars don't instantly stop if the driver is incapacitated. You'll likely make the situation even worse because the incapacitated driver's foot will p
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by robhlt 9mo ago
From the outside, as a user, this last year has been incredible for KDE Plasma, in terms of new features and stability. So whatever they're doing internally is absolutely working from my perspective.
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by robhlt 9mo ago
I don't think the Interstellar Blu-ray has Dolby Vision (or Dolby Atmos), just regular HDR10. If the TV/AVR says it's Dolby Vision something in your setup might be doing some kind of upconversion.
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by robhlt 9mo ago
Desktop/Laptop Linux is improving pretty fast, but by using an LTS distro like Debian you miss out on a lot of that. I had to run Ubuntu 22.04 on a laptop for a while and encountered similar monitor switching and bluetooth issues. Even
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by robhlt 9mo ago
"Filmmaker mode" is a trademark of the UHD Alliance, so if TV makers want to deviate from the spec they can't call it "Filmmaker mode" anymore. There's a few different TV makers in the UHD Alliance so there&#x2
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by robhlt 9mo ago
"Filmmaker mode" is the industry's attempt at this. On supported TVs it's just another picture mode (like vivid or standard), but it disables all the junk the other modes have enabled by default without wading though all
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by robhlt 9mo ago
Lately it feels like more and more religious people invoke Christ to tell non-believers what they must do, so I think it's only fair.
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by robhlt 10mo ago
I understand the point, but you're taking their statement "I have nothing to hide" way too literally, and these sorts of arguments based on literal interpretations rarely convince anyone. Has anyone actually ever been convinc
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by robhlt 10mo ago
Both of these are not good responses and are easily discounted by most people ("I don't take nude photos"/"I never tell anyone my pin"). Average people see zero equivalence between sending nudes or their bank p
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by robhlt 10mo ago
The experience on random hardware in 2025 is nowhere close to what is was in 2015. Have you tried it recently? In 2025 I can install pretty much any game from Steam on my Linux desktop with an nvidia gpu and it just works. The experience is
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by robhlt 10mo ago
I wouldn't assume Roku is better to share your data with. Google uses your data to feed their own algorithms instead of just straight up selling it. Their incentive is to keep the data internal so they alone can extract value from it.
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by robhlt 10mo ago
The closed-source user-space component isn't new, the drivers always contained a kernel module and user-space libraries. Those libraries provide an OpenGL and Vulkan implementation. It's equivalent to Mesa for AMD and Intel GPUs (
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by robhlt 10mo ago
Nvidia's kernel driver is open source now [1], they just do the important HDMI bits in their closed source GSP firmware. Basically they moved the proprietary stuff to firmware and open sourced the rest. AMD could do something similar,
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by robhlt 10mo ago
Sway and wlroots are also real community projects with no big corporate sponsors. Its main contributors are also very active in the development of wayland protocols.
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by robhlt 10mo ago
All privacy-respecting browsers block 3rd party cookies by default now, which prevents that kind of tracking. There's still other forms of fingerprinting they can use, but those can be used in apps as well.
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by robhlt 11mo ago
They run their own Gitlab instance with many more steamos projects: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud
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by robhlt 11mo ago
It's running SteamOS according to the tech specs on the store page, not Android. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe
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by robhlt 11mo ago
Valve allows developers to generate activation keys for their games and sell them on other platforms, where Valve gets a 0% cut. This is how you're able to buy games from places like the Humble Store and activate them on Steam. Their a
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by robhlt 11mo ago
There's a lot more to this investigation than the headline suggests. Reuters has internal documents that show Meta is more concerned with losing ad revenue than combating scams and concluded that regulatory fines would likely be less t
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by robhlt 1y ago
The flaw isn't that there's ways around the safeguards, the flaw is that it tells you how to avoid them. If the user's original intent was roleplay it's likely they would say that when the model refuses, even without the
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Meta's AI rules let bots hold sensual chats with kids, offer false medical info(reuters.com)
81 points by robhlt 1y ago|22 comments
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by robhlt 1y ago
This is already supported! KDE has a really powerful "window rules" feature that lets you configure all kinds of properties on specific windows/apps, and focus stealing prevention is one of them. Just right click the app&#x27
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by robhlt 1y ago
I agree. The white light these turn on when recording is not enough for the average person to realize recording is happening. I was visiting a museum yesterday and someone was using these to livestream/record their own (bad) tour. Secu

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