schmuckonwheels

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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Crazy what people will do for IPv4 space these days
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Linus has been very clear on avoiding the opposite, which is the OpenBSD situation: they obsess about security so much that nothing else matters to them, which is how you end up with a mature 30 year old OS that still has a dogshit unreliab
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466171
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
>If the customer allows for all this crap You imply they ever had a choice. Companies like Tesla and Rivian pioneered the trend of bringing webshit-as-an-instrument cluster to the mainstream. Other car companies saw dollar signs, rode th
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Most people do, with the exception of the woman awkwardly stretching the long hose over the roof of her minivan, scratching it in the process.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
PS/2, which USB all but replaced, solved this by visually keying one side of the connector as flat.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
2020s UX "experts" would bury the entire instrument cluster under a hamburger menu if they could get away with it. The fuel gauge would be moved three menus deep and thus impossible to find, then removed in subsequent model years
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
In between all the political bitching, no one has ever noted the fact that TNR will render correctly on basically any computer built in the last 30 years, including crusty UNIX workstations from the 90s.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
I was expecting to see a post bemoaning the lack of encryption on the elevator music...
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
It's mostly built atop problem shifting. For example, Seattle fought to send their compost and build wind farms in eastern Washington - where it was in someone else's backyard. Similar to battery recycling - which might end up bei
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
>You can’t believe that you’re better than everyone else and everyone else is incompetent and still function in society. Welcome to HN.
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Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video](youtube.com)
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
If you have a pacemaker implanted, do you believe you have the right to modify and update the software that operates it? Separately, do you think it's remotely a good idea?
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
> But then, the company has already, unquestionably, violated the GPL, and the company can be sued immediately. You were right up to this point. Medical devices requiring a prescription must be obtained via specialized suppliers, like a
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
The recipient of that object code is the medical device supplier, not the end-user. It's subsequently transferred to you after presenting a prescription, without any accompanying offer of source code. In other words, assume you are the
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
The GPLv2 under which Linux is licensed does not prohibit that insulin pump from bricking itself if you tried to install "your own derivative work" that wasn't signed by the manufacturer. This is not only possible but also pr
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
It's a medical device that requires a prescription. You can't buy it off the shelf. They're not distributing software to you either. You must go through a medical equipment supplier who transfers the device to you after insur
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
This got buried on HN a few days ago which is a shame: https://social.kernel.org/notice/B1aR6QFuzksLVSyBZQ Linus rants that the SFC is wrong and argues that the GPLv2 which the kernel is licensed under does NOT force y
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
You're excited about the prospect of repairing a manufacturer's faulty engineering at your own cost? An analogy would be buying a new car then bragging to your friends that despite it being a lemon, you're thrilled because yo
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
This is a very straightforward problem with a relatively simple solution: Stop buying Apple laptops to run Linux.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Framework 16 has a 6 port maximum. 6. That means if you want: - HDMI - Ethernet (a must if you're doing real work) - an audio jack (why is this even an option?) - SD reader - USB-A port You are allowed (1) USB-C port. This is in a >
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
If one can't write safe C code, then maybe stick to web development and leave the bootloaders and UEFI stuff to people who can. Training wheels are merely a race to the bottom for barely-literate programmers.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Nothing to do with my comment or your reply specifically. I suspected bot voting manipulation and this entire discussion is filled with absolutely stupid Reddit-style comments. People posting substantive comments were being downvoted. Some
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
An N95 is fairly ineffective against oil-based contaminants.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
This is especially prevalent on the Airbus A320-series aircraft due to the way it's very easy to overfill or spill oil on the APU in a way where the fumes can get sucked into the cabin air. The only commercial aircraft immune to this i
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
I believe Stallman's doctorate is honorary. Courtesy of Wikipedia: >With regard to the use of this honorific, the policies of institutions of higher education generally ask that recipients "refrain from adopting the misleading
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
I want to time-travel back to 2000 like Old Biff with the sports almanac so I can tell Shawn Fanning to use the "it's for historical preservation" defense.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Well there's anonymity from authorities, and there's anonymity from garden variety lunatics. There exists a grey area between not getting away with nefarious activities, and not having your life ruined by a lynch mob because you d
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
That was the beginning of the end. A symptom not the cause. Once you inject politics into your organization the project is doomed.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Common sense would dictate that a military aircraft conducting military operations off the coast of a hostile nation tend to not want to broadcast their position to the world. So not outrageous, just unfortunate. It's extremely common.

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