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by smaudet 4y ago
I love the concept of a librem, TBH everytime I look at buying one I balk at the price compared to a more traditional build. It's like buying a Mac and I can't even justify it by saying it is for iPhone dev. I don't have a ma
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by smaudet 4y ago
"the first step towards open hardware isn't really building a RISC-V system, its building competitive NIC's, keyboards, USB controllers, etc, etc, etc with open hardware designs" Actually it's building the software
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Except the irony is it's baked into their systems as well, so you distribute your own national security threat... It's like phone lines, Intel agencies loved being able to arbitrarily tap lines, at least until they started having
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Hmm. If Apple were easier to develop on I'd consider buying their M chip laptops for that reason alone. My issue last I worked with one was that userspace was ridiculously restricted - they have made it antagonistically difficult to d
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by smaudet 4y ago
We need more exploits of these co-processors running in the wild. This stuff is done in the name of security but is incredibly insecure by nature. We know e.g. the NSA requests builds with this stuff turned off, but if more govts are affect
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by smaudet 4y ago
"GitHub's just a tool to me." Tools are not made all equal, and there's this fallacy that just because it is a tool it is probably OK and as easy to use as abuse. To borrow from the medical industry - yes, opiate drugs a
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by smaudet 4y ago
It isn't picking nits, git does patch management, there is nothing and shouldn't be for review. It matters because where you assign your responsibilities is the difference between spaghetti code/architecture and a well design
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In my experience, in many other's experience.... It's fairly factual, just because you have a way you might like to work or think is best doesn't mean it's the only one. People are very different, perhaps there is some p
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by smaudet 4y ago
I agree Parent comment seems clueless... I learnt early to task things out, in my head/notes. Graphical representation seems like a crutch to me. Specifically regarding 100 days of coding - with truly zero breaks yes this is ridiculous
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by smaudet 4y ago
Seems on point to me, another example of how everything Microsoft touches turns sour... Just focus on fixing your nightmare OS and maybe stop building nonsense everywhere...
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Hmm - review is not a part of git, in fact it is antithetical to git (concept from cvs/svn with centralized systems). A pull request, literally, need only be moving code from one repo to another. The signaling mechanism etc. are not an
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by smaudet 4y ago
Consider sinking capital or asking for donations for your own CI then - sure you might get something for "free", but if you aren't paying anything then you might just be the product. Serious downsides to being the product inc
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by smaudet 4y ago
All your examples seem to be of running Apple stuff on Android. None of it is about actually moving off it. The few examples you mention such as bluetooth and mp3 files from iTunes are to do with an industry standard, not because of somethi
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by smaudet 4y ago
Its not really the streaming persay its this is TV broadcast tech running over IP. Its a networking problem, not a software issue. You will have to change the format or be independently wealthy to compete, 1:M will always by nature be a mat
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by smaudet 4y ago
More applicable TBH with e.g. Facebook, but I generally agree...
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Motorola is chinese??
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"One person's crapware is another person's batteries-included-ware." Point me at an android phone mfg in the past couple years that didn't come with not just FB preinstalled, but unable to delete. Or a samsung phone
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by smaudet 4y ago
Where Microsoft had marketing and familiarity, Apple has/had a better touch (UX as it's often called). Unfortunately for people who entered their ecosystem, there is a heavy influence to keep them there (more than a walled garden,
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by smaudet 4y ago
"The Source of Truth" - what harmful notion. Truth simply is, there is no source. Speak for Source of Lies. Never trust any centralized agency - even if it did honestly represent what was true at some point it cannot hope to be wh
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by smaudet 4y ago
Hmm I don't get it. What's the point? Social network software falls into 1) real software you use already with a dedicated circle of people who care 2) people who don't care and just use one of the relatively 'poor&#x27
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by smaudet 4y ago
I think if copilot is heavily restricted to three line code samples, perhaps I could agree with this. The example cited by the OP is not a three line code sample - if you've ever done matrix coding, you know that sparse matrix operatio
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by smaudet 4y ago
"Maybe I'm being too techno-libertarian here, but I believe existing courts + public feedback cycles + iterating on how the public code is consumed + spreading awareness of the issue is enough to address the licensing problems.&qu
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No they are just going to let other people commit crimes and claim they will never do it... Do you really believe Microsoft employees aren't going to be using this, illegally or unofficially? "Yes! We (Microsoft) aren't doing
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The concept of fair use applies to small volumes of work. Clearly, training on large volumes of data is not small volumes in any sense of the word. The argument that it is fair use is itself flawed.
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That doesn't work, though - the problem is you have automated crime. When you do this, you can no longer handle this on a case by case basis - you have to resort to automating justice. And at this point, you are getting both attacked a
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by smaudet 4y ago
Not a conflict with capitalism - it's another trajedy of the commons - the robber barons of old stole the owned commons land and started said 'capitalism'. Capitalism is still very alive, and will continue to be. It's in
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by smaudet 4y ago
.net core is not Windows only - works on the big three (linux mac windows). That said, I get where you are coming from - .net framework is pretty much just windows, and there a large number of libraries/apps that are Windows first, oth
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by smaudet 4y ago
Regardless, there must be a system. Part of a functioning, healthy system is recompense/justice, and yes foregiveness. If you tear a system down, even if you manage to shift some power balance, you stand to create a situation as bad or
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by smaudet 4y ago
Built carefully, extremely tiny, or single purpose. "Do one thing and do it well" - the unix philosophy, and why I still use cd, ls (dir on windows) today. If a project exceeds two functions its probably doomed to become either re
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by smaudet 4y ago
Nobody is maintaining file hierachies, but everyone manages files, folders, whether they are explicitly exposed via file manager or not. These are organizational concepts, not software concepts. People, even mobile uni students, have and mu

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