serbuvlad

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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Yep. And that's exactly why the EU has the structure it does. Unfortunately the only country that ever left proceeded to shoot itself in both knees, light itself on fire and jump in a pool of gasoline. For NO reason.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Because if function foo's third flag parameter supports FOO_ENABLE_FEATURE_X starting from 2.31, and a program only occasionally calls foo with this flag, there is no good way to detect this incompatibility on a 2.30 system at link tim
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> you just extract an old Linux distribution into a folder and tell your current/modern compiler to target it That sounds like more work than spinning up a Docker container though. I'm imagining gcc --glibc-target=2.31
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
This is not an ABI stability problem, this is a UX problem. iOS and Android do backwards incompatibility all the time. If you find a mobile app that hasn't been updated in 10 or 15 years, you won't be able to install it on a moder
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Yes but there is simply no reason to have two devices. There are a large number of Windows tablet-laptop combo machines that work perfectly well and prove touch apps work perfectly well on a desktop OS. Yeah, that took a long time for MS to
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I simply do not think that the popularity of US tech is due to anything other than the quality of US tech. I live in Romania, and the people that were rushing to pirate Windows in the 90's after communism fell because they couldn'
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
That was not done by the European Commission. It was a document with no legal power. And it was an acknowledgment of an existing market trend. non-iPhones had already began converging on USB charging (including mini-USB and micro-USB) in th
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Once again, the EU coming 30 years later to do something everyone else is doing, and everyone will credit them for some odd reason. In the 90s, there were dozens (hundreds?) of phone charging ports. A couple of years ago, there were only tw
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Exactly. AI is your intern, not your contractor.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Can anyone using GrapheneOS report if Firebase notifications come in consistently and reliably via sandboxed Play Services? I'm in the market for a new phone, and I'm going to buy a Pixel 9a this week for GrapheneOS if I can relia
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Ok, but there's nothing stopping from writing a "discoverable" GUI or TUI or CLI for this interaction. To the user it doesn't matter. To the developer, it makes a difference. /proc/<pid>/ctl is not a
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Unfortunately, my comment was simply not a defense of the company, since I know little about the situation, nor was it an attack on the city's actions. It was a reply to the comment I was responding
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Me: "I do not think the population should live under fear of excessive, arbitrary and unaccountable law enforcement. The company may be entirely in the wrong in which case they should be punished to the full extent of the law, includin
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
What that may all be very true, would it not be better if law enforcement was predictable and in accord with the written law passed by the legislature and settled, in cases of dispute, by the judiciary?
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
While all that may be very true, and you may be right, that is all for the judge to decide, is it not? I am not taking the side of the company, I am taking the side of rule of law and due process.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
First of all, I think that this instinct to fine-'em, screw-'em, etc. is profoundly authoritarian. It is extremely important for a civil society not only that predictable laws are put into place, but also that predictable enforcem
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I recently started using Codex (OpenAI's Claude Code) and it has a VSCode extension that works like a charm. I tried out Windsurf a while ago. And the Codex extension simply does everything that Windsurf did. I guess it doesn't sh
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I HATE this. I regularly look at really high end products I'll never buy for the fun of it in a "What's the best X that money can buy?" sort of way. And it took me half an hour to find what's the "best" Le
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> I believe trusting any person whose incentive is to take money from you is not a prudent decision. I simply do not see the correlation. There are many people in the world that want to make money and do so by providing a great product a
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
The + button doesn't work on Firefox (143.0.1; Linux; flatpak; x86-64). The - button works and so do other ways of zooming in (scrolling, double click).
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Based? Based on what?
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
To me the important thing is the "nefarious" action that is "implied". For B it's firing (I understand that's what's been happening in this case) and for A it's vandalism (as that's what was happ
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Depends. Obviously Tanzania can't do it. Neither could the EU, the tech sector's not big enough. But the US could. And you can always keep it to "geopolitical allies", or at least away from "geopolitical enemies&quo
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
So doxxing people is just ok now? "The right" makes an app to dox people that criticize Charlie Kirk, "the left" makes a website to dox people that own a Tesla amid a wave of Tesla vandalism. [1] I remember growing up on
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I was indeed wrong. Thanks for the info. And that makes the article even less correct. :)))
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Is it not worth it to keep private data flowing through companies which we could hold to account and, perhaps later on, restrict from such practices, than flowing through a jurisdiction over which we have no control and which does not much
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I think this article is a monumental example of confirmation bias, cherry-picking and wild inferences. Watches were invented for the rich for the very reason the same article describes: it was the poor -- which was to say -- the farmers, wh
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
To be precise, there's an Android API called Play Integrity that defines a device's integrity. This integrity can be STRONG, DEVICE, BASIC, and no integrity. GrapheneOS can only pass a check for BASIC integrity. It cannot pass a c
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> One of the traditional rites of passage for Linux system administrators is having a daemon not work in the normal system configuration (eg, when you boot the system) but work when you manually run it as root. I've don't remem
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I don't understand how "multi-channel IRC with history, multimedia and good UI/UX for the desktop" is such a small market with so few competitors while "single-channel IRC with history, multimedia and good UI/U

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