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by rossy 3y ago
As a new Pixel 7 owner, it really bothers me that Google went from championing the open source kernel drivers on their Snapdragon-based phones to using the proprietary Mali stack on their Google Tensor-based phones. This isn't the firs
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by rossy 3y ago
Ever since AirPrint (IPP) became standard about 10 years ago, I think less about Linux-compatible printers than I do about Linux-compatible laptops - I just basically assume they all will work, which has been true for me so far.
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by rossy 3y ago
It's a shame that, unlike with Win32, using WinUI places pretty harsh restrictions on which programming languages and environments you can use. Only C# and C++ are supported, the latter only with Microsoft compilers. For everything els
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by rossy 3y ago
I love Steam, Valve and Proton, and what they've done for Linux gaming, but nothing will make me compromise on DRM. To me, ending DRM is just as important as supporting free operating systems, so unfortunately no amount of good will gi
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by rossy 3y ago
For what it's worth, I think I am. I got a gift voucher from work a little while back, combined it with a few other gift vouchers I had lying around and bought a convertible ChromeOS tablet. It seemed like a good choice, since I didn&#
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by rossy 3y ago
Even if training a model turns out to be similar to human learning, I don't think it necessarily follows that it should be treated the same, legally or morally. There's nothing wrong with human laws or morals that enshrine human b
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by rossy 3y ago
This is exactly right. Almost everything you see on the internet is copyrighted, even if you're allowed to view it for free. Even FOSS and CC-licensed content is copyrighted. It's just as copyrighted a proprietary codebase. But fo
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by rossy 3y ago
This is always such a reductive position. There's a little bit of evidence that ANNs learn and create in a similar way to biological neural networks, and a lot of evidence that they're quite alien to us, including being way better
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by rossy 3y ago
The disclaimer at the start doesn't mention that some of these flags, like -fno-stack-protector and -Wl,-z,norelro , also affect safety. Yeah, in some cases that doesn't matter, but there are developers out there who use option
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by rossy 4y ago
The idea that there's a noticeable benefit to having a sample rate higher than twice the highest frequency is the snake oil here. Many audiophiles seem to believe this but it's not supported by the mainstream understanding of digi
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by rossy 4y ago
In Xorg, I think you can scale the whole desktop without changing the display mode with xrandr --scale
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by rossy 4y ago
If your concern is that certbot has access to your DNS records, you can set up a CNAME or NS record on _acme-challenge.your-domain and serve the TXT record from a separate, isolated DNS server.
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by rossy 4y ago
I did it with a simple program that just issued READ CD commands to the drive using SCSI passthrough and saved the first ten minutes of the disc to a raw PCM file. Running that program twice produced two files that sounded the same to me, b
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by rossy 4y ago
With Unicode, concerns of running out of space are absurd. There are almost a million unallocated codepoints. At the rate codepoints are being allocated, we won't run out for at least 250 years, and emoji are less than 3% of those allo
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by rossy 4y ago
Firefox already used uxtheme for that. A lot of programs and toolkits do, since the heavyweight HWND-based comctl32 controls aren't suitable for things like browsers because they're slow, hard to render without flicker, there&#x27
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by rossy 5y ago
I'm always uneasy when I install software in Windows because it means I have to trust another third-party. If I have 100 programs on my Windows PC, I've had to trust 100 third-party organisations with my computer and all the data
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by rossy 5y ago
To be even more pedantic, the Unix tools that come with Git for Windows are MSYS2-based, not MinGW-based, and MSYS2 is more like Cygwin than it's like MinGW (it's Cygwin with a few patches.)
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by rossy 5y ago
macOS and Linux have some WebKit-based browsers, but there are none on Windows. It's all Chromium. (Please prove me wrong! I'd love a WebKit-based browser to test webpages in Windows. I'm currently using Playwright's
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by rossy 5y ago
There's some very good points in there, but (4) is unfair. It's true that there's no boundary between a sudoer and root in Linux, but there's also no boundary between an Administrator and SYSTEM in Windows. UAC, even in
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by rossy 5y ago
Yep, which leads to things like the following not creating out.txt (in cmd.exe) prog.exe "abc \" def" > out.txt
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by rossy 5y ago
Even C#, a formerly Windows-only language, has Main(string[] args)
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by rossy 5y ago
How?
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by rossy 5y ago
The exception? It's standard practice for distros to compile with hardening flags, and if RH submits the bugs they find with Coverity upstream, that protects the 1000s of C projects they package.
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by rossy 5y ago
MSVC just got C11 support a little over a year ago, so you won't see many big cross-platform projects using it yet, unfortunately. Some projects can optionally use C11 stdatomic.h and stdalign.h to replace old OS and compiler-specific
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by rossy 5y ago
I trust password managers more than my ability to remember a strong, unique password for each of the 200 sites in my password manager, and more than my ability to identify URL phishing attempts 100% of the time. I use Firefox' built-in
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by rossy 5y ago
And then the vendor wonders why privacy conscious users don't use their browser (a core demographic, judging by their product line and social media.)
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by rossy 5y ago
These might make your bash scripts a bit faster in Linux, but they will make them a lot faster in Cygwin and MSYS bash in Windows, where process spawning is very slow. Seriously, if there's even a chance of someone running your bas
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by rossy 5y ago
Even better, you can add id_ to the URL to get the full page without the Wayback Machine banner, which saves screen space on mobile. https://web.archive.org/web/20220201003547id_/https://www.po...
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by rossy 5y ago
> Unless you're committing deep heresy, it'll have to be written in the same language as the code you're writing right now Calling a C ABI function is deep heresy but calling a COM (subset of C++ ABI) function isn't
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by rossy 5y ago
Conspiracy theories aside, there are free non-US based ACME providers too.

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