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by rossy 5y ago
Yes! It's a huge peeve of mine when two well-meaning free software projects can't share code because of unintentional licence incompatibility. Throwing non-commercial licences into the mix would worsen things a lot.
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by rossy 5y ago
I think this is where I disagree. I'm all for identifying corporate exploitation of free software, but this isn't it. If I work to enrich the commons, and as a result someone profits, I don't think harm has been done to me. S
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by rossy 5y ago
> On a Mac, these kinds of errors are unusual. On Linux, build errors like that are normal. I think it's the opposite, and the errors that you encountered are a good example of why, since they all appear to be Mac/Homebrew-sp
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by rossy 5y ago
No, HPKP didn't lock you into one public key forever. You could rotate keys. The HPKP header had an expiry date and let you specify multiple keys, so you could add a new key to the list and switch over when the previous key expired.
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by rossy 5y ago
Maybe, but it feels unfair to bring software bloat into a comparison between Linux and Windows. I don't think Linux could ever come close to the degree of software bloat in Windows. Your Clang install is 300MB? Sure. My Visual Studio i
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by rossy 5y ago
The "DNS provider with a better API" can be your own bind9 server on the same machine as certbot, updated with RFC 2136. Completely standard, no changing APIs, no 4th party, no maintenance. I set up a server like this at work and
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by rossy 5y ago
> 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light. I've always felt that cars are already like this. I don't
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by rossy 5y ago
A fun fact about Windows is that you can just pluck the system time out of a known memory location (0x7ffe0014). It's unlikely that a tool like this could patch that and I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of the techniques t
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by rossy 5y ago
That's another thing I'd argue is "weird" in macOS, the only widely used modern desktop operating system that does things this way, rather than vice-versa. Most new converts from Windows or desktop Linux to macOS tend to
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by rossy 5y ago
I don't think that's what's going on here. I'm pretty sure they're measuring the performance of the first window opened. A lot of Windows applications, Firefox included, do single-instance manually by opening an IPC
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by rossy 5y ago
> And that's for the core desktop (launcher + config apps). It gets worse with regular apps. Some being GTK and others KDE/QT based, some use bizarro or legacy frameworks, some with custom cross-platform UIs that kind of match
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by rossy 5y ago
For what it's worth, my Firefox on Linux performance problems disappeared as soon as I switched to Wayland. Touchpad scrolling is now smooth and responsive, like it is in Windows. I also force-enable WebRender, since I think it's
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MGBA Integration: Introducing the Integrated GBA(dolphin-emu.org)
151 points by rossy 5y ago|9 comments
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by rossy 5y ago
I'm sorry, but I find that hard to believe when the linked posts are from a Microsoft employee, who says repeatedly that the problem isn't a simple as "NTFS is slow," that they spent a release optimising NTFS, they'
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by rossy 5y ago
> Well it should 'just work', Hit the download button, install, plug it in and forget it. That's exactly what it does. When software like this is packaged, the maintainer will normally place a dependency on any other sof
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by rossy 5y ago
> That is enough to confuse them and start googling around for that message. I'm struggling to think of a reason why that isn't a good thing. God forbid an error message gives you something googleable and actionable rather
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by rossy 5y ago
It's only common in certain bubbles. Someone who primarily uses FOSS could easily say this. Someone who prefers software created in the era before online telemetry was widespread could also say this.
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by rossy 6y ago
It wasn't a banking app, but I recently came across the first app I've seen that, in addition to SafetyNet, also checked if the Magisk Manager app was installed to try to detect if the phone was rooted. I wouldn't be surprise
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by rossy 6y ago
I bought one of these (WRT1900ACS) when I was working from home last year. It's good, but not great. Before anyone else buys one of these for their open source "support," you should know that Linksys/Marvell basically th
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by rossy 6y ago
Oh yeah, I was floored when I plugged a DS3 into my Linux laptop and the KDE UI came up prompting me to pair the device over Bluetooth. Sure enough, I unplugged it and it seamlessly switched to Bluetooth. That was a level of integration I w
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by rossy 6y ago
This is bad news. I think a lot of businesses are suspicious of LE and itching for valid reasons to keep the status quo of paying for certs, and well... here's one. I've been pushing internally for my business to use LE certs, but
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by rossy 6y ago
You'd be surprised at what image processing algorithms are fast enough to work in realtime when they have optimised GPU implementations. Anime4K is one of those CNN-based anime upscaling tools, and it can run in realtime as a shader in
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by rossy 6y ago
I think it might be an out-of-date assertion, but I'm not sure either since I also hear it from people who seem to be well-versed in the C standard. The only place in C17 where I can see memcpy singled out (6.5p6) also mentions copying
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by rossy 6y ago
> memcpy actually has a few semantics that cannot be legally expressed in C (specifically, strict aliasing doesn't kick in). Are you sure? I hear this a lot, but I don't think it's really true. char pointers are allowed
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by rossy 6y ago
While similar in concept, Wine is better than WSL1 in a lot of ways due to supporting sound, graphics, and GPU acceleration. I've always been suspicious of WSL because it follows a narrative that benefits Microsoft - that Linux is prim
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by rossy 7y ago
I think that's a proprietary in-house emulator known as POPS. The fact that Sony already had an in-house PlayStation emulator for the ARM-based Vita makes their decision to use something else for the PS Classic a bit strange.
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by rossy 7y ago
I don't know about you, but I've been running wobbly windows up until about a month ago, when I disabled KWin's compositor in favour of picom for performance reasons. I hope to get them back when I'm able to start using
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by rossy 7y ago
Hmm, poking around on that website, there's some more: https://club.myce.com/t/announcing-laser2wav-a-software-only... That tarball seems to have fallen off the internet, but there's also this. Check out lase
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by rossy 7y ago
> While folks are thinking about CDs: I've not been able to get an F2/F3-frame CD image. If anyone has such a thing (not copyrighted, just a CD containing a text file or public domain music piece is fine), I'd love to get
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by rossy 7y ago
There's a good list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_with_tracks_hid... I was using Arcade Fire's Reflektor as a test disc for this a little while back.

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