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by rodgerd 3y ago
Israel refuses to extradite child rapists; hardly surprising that they'd refuse to give up mere fraudsters.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> The tech world is really becoming a surveillance nightmare. Becoming? Stalkerware, data brokers selling women's information to the Gilead apparatus, Palantir... none of this is new, and present much greater threats on a day to day
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by rodgerd 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_1#/media/File:GNOME_1.0_... is what GNOME 1 looked like.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Wouldn't it be better for users if our financial systems worked like the Google example? Yes, I guess there are a few precious hours of our lives that aren't crushed under the perversity of the Protestant work cult, we should
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by rodgerd 3y ago
"HDMI" is a trademark. You can't claim to offer HDMI in any of your products. The patent pools around approximately all the codecs used for media delivery are heavily cross-licensed. That includes HDMI and HDCP, but also h.26
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Good luck finding an AV receiver or TV with DisplayPort. This pretty much locks any media players into proprietary drivers.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> subsidies Given the repeated bail-outs of US carmakers, and the way Tesla have leveraged government carbon trading schemes over the years, plus the 20 year rule on importing cars, the chicken tax and so on, it would certainly be extre
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Chicken tax.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
One of his most crucial, but under-appreciated, works.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
On the one hand, I don't disagree. On the other hand I don't think he's particularly motivated by high-minded concerns of data sov as much as he is by making more money.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
It is extremely optimistic, to put it mildly. You can definitely get inter-LPAR noise. I've seen it first hand, personally, on systems that I've worked on. Moreover the norm for zLinux system is to isolate guests with zVM, not L
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Mainframes are unbelievably powerful, feature-full, and cost-effective. Having run IBM's own software (WAS and WAS derivatives) on both x86 and IFL, and found the same applications with the same workloads having a ratio of 1.5-2 x
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> The first iPhone was terribly limited compared to what came after it was not in any way terrible for the time. At the time my feature phone had much better MMS, video calling, and J2ME apps. The first iPhone was a joke by comparison lo
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> I certainly wouldn't call that minimalistic. Surely you jest. A fart app is automotive minimalism!
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> This must have been a painful engineering effort It would be less painful if it were a universal option, and they didn't have to test with a bunch of geo-linked options.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> RedHat Unfortunately post-IBM aquisition, Red Hat's closest equivalent (RHEV) was killed off. You've got OpenStack and k8s VMs now, neither of which are really what people running VMWare are looking for I suspect.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> They're not that hard to extinguish, you can just wait for them to stop burning on their own. Pity about the apartment building that burns down around them, eh?
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by rodgerd 3y ago
If you like teardowns, I will plug the Lens Rentals blog @ https://www.lensrentals.com/blog which features teardowns such as https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2021/01/the-secret-of-the-b...
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Also: https://www.esplanaderail.org.nz/
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Jack is all aware of That's great, but he's not a director of bsky or involved in management, nor does he post.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> this is only an intellectual exercise. That's very charitable. Made up crises for renewable energy are demonstrably astroturfed by fossil fuel companies.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
They have a laundry list of anti-trust investigations lined up against Apple for "anything Apple do better than Google" so it appears that they will be resting on their browser, search, video, and mapping monopolies which are fund
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I once did some work looking into whether I could help move some subsystems off a zOS system with the help of an HP pitch that was a combo of auto-translation plus contractors checking. It was an attractive idea. I've also looked at CI
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by rodgerd 3y ago
It's not the core of the story, but man: how HP have degenerated as a company. They were a gold standard for the quality of how they ran as a company and the products they sold. Now look at them.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Given the company it would be more surprising if they weren't.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Perfect.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
And clearly a leadership/partnering-driven madness. They had the answer all along: A/UX, a MacOS UX on a Unix base, gave them what they wanted to get to (modern memory management, stability, multi-user security with a MacOS AI), a
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by rodgerd 3y ago
In New Zealand the bank that provides government departments with banking is required to provide "banking of last resort" facilities to people, even going so far as people who have (for example) done bank fraud. The facilities are
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by rodgerd 3y ago
You have the same relationship with 'computer freedom' that Stalin had to the freedom of the proletariat.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
>Nope. I personally don't believe such things should be allowed to exist at all. "Everyone has to be a linux sysadmin to keep me happy, you aren't allowed things I don't want you to have."

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