spijdar

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by spijdar 5y ago
Old UNIX was never really that beholden to standards. In practice, the de facto and sometimes "de jure" standards were just based on whatever was the most common variant of UNIX, which for a while was Solaris (it's oversimpli
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by spijdar 5y ago
Drones/sUAVs tend to be pretty sensitive to wind and the weather in general. Being able to know, as you put it, the wind speed and direction on every street means being able to potentially avoid significant slow downs and/or runni
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by spijdar 5y ago
I'd take "wouldn't really work" in this context to mean "not be very successful/widely used", a bar that PeerTube has yet to pass IMO.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Not really ironic or related. The privacy here is, well, keeping the tools entirely private -- no distribution or highly limited distribution, not obscuring their function. Irony would be applying obfuscation or other DRM protection techniq
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by spijdar 5y ago
It's still correct regarding ebooks and audio files, you're not paying for the files but the rights to keep a copy of the file and use it personally. If the files are not protected by DRM, then there's no technical limitation
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by spijdar 5y ago
FYI, these computers may lack proper firmware support to deep sleep on Linux as well, and will use s2idle sleep. I believe ARM Macs use the same type of sleep, only with more polished firmware and better vertical integration with the OS.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Are you and GP talking about the same thing? The obj-c drivers from next/OpenStep were replaced with a restricted subset of C++ (not objective-C++) IOKit system. I'm not sure what system GP is referring to based off Obj-C++ but I
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by spijdar 5y ago
The name as displayed on HN is the "real" domain name, it's a format called Punycode, used to allow Unicode domain names despite DNS only allowing a subset of ASCII characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well, if you regret it more than a tinge, and you just bought it from Apple, you can return it within a 2 week window, I believe.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Cool :) this is all before my time but I've got a few Sun boxes running various old BSDs and Nextstep 3.3. I've always been kind of curious how hard it'd be to get NetBSD's COMPAT_DARWIN and COMPAT_MACH to run the next&#
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by spijdar 5y ago
NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP were based on 4.3BSD/4.4BSD(not-lite) and required a license from AT&T to distribute. I assume that, to be legally safe, they would have scrapped that code entirely and replaced it with 4.4BSD lite, pulling i
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by spijdar 5y ago
OpenStep was still based on Mach 2 and (encumbered) 4.3BSD. OS X Server 1.0 was very OpenStep like yes, it used the old Display Postscript server and was more compatible with next/openstep (I think the display servers were similar enou
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by spijdar 5y ago
Tangential to AU/X and licensing costs, I think this is why OS X was something like a "from scratch" recreation of NeXTSTEP instead of being a straight port. They replaced the AT&T licensed UNIX core with a new open sou
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by spijdar 5y ago
There are a number of prominent YouTubers who advertise their own alternative platforms fairly regularly, if "indirectly". There are also videos about LTT's own video service Floatplane on YouTube [0] I'm guessing that e
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by spijdar 5y ago
This is my big pet peeve with people who describe Youtube's demonetization policies as "censorship" and propose Peertube as a replacement. I'm not going to get entangled in the question of what responsibility big social
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by spijdar 5y ago
Proprietary software but "open systems", in the way that OpenVMS is certainly not open source, same with OpenStep, and several other examples I'm forgetting. But they're documented and accept/output open formats, as
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by spijdar 5y ago
I was mistaken, but the end result is the same. It's VSX that's POWER7 and higher specific, which is an extension of VMX/Altivec. The reality is actually worse -- Altivec/VMX doesn't work at all in little-endian on
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by spijdar 5y ago
Unfortunately the SoC they've chosen, while technically supporting little endian, doesn't include the VMX extensions to the ISA IIRC, which all (?) distros require as they generally assume ppc64le = POWER8 or higher, which include
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by spijdar 5y ago
I agree with this in principle, that good code should be endian neutral, but if the goal of the project is to produce something that's broadly useful as a "real laptop" then this is a serious concern, as a lot of software i
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by spijdar 5y ago
To add a little to that second part, I'd say this is really meant to be "built on your own", following that brief example at the end of the README. The releases are more of a convenience thing. You will need Void's packa
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by spijdar 5y ago
Is the problem "literally using a freezer"? Could you (in principle) build an insulated chamber that could deal with the temperatures?
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by spijdar 5y ago
...okay, but could this actually work? I'm assuming because there are no products like this that there's a giant caveat somewhere, but isn't it actually a good idea? My understanding is heat pumps can move more heat energy in
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by spijdar 5y ago
True, but OpenBSD seems to some extent value correctness over "usability". I can imagine the argument being made that if something changed and caused the package to stop building, it should be fixed, because the warning was pote
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by spijdar 5y ago
This is true, but the whole things sounds like anathema to the OpenBSD ethos, as I know it, which seems obsessed with a sort of functional correctness and consistency. Enabling Werror sounds like exactly the sort of thing that'd be enc
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by spijdar 5y ago
I don't think ALSA and Pipewire fill the same niche anyway? I was under the impression ALSA was an API for directly talking to the audio devices, which would be used by Pipewire or Pulseaudio or that in-house solution ChromeOS uses, or
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by spijdar 5y ago
Ah, sorry, I must have missed that. Maybe I need another cup of coffee...
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by spijdar 5y ago
I wasn't aware GTA was a Valve game ;-) I'm guessing the rest, being primarily multiplayer games, are blocked by some anti-cheat/DRM scheme. Hopefully Valve can work out some compromise to get those working on Wine/Proto
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by spijdar 5y ago
As disgusting as I've been raised to find the idea, I suspect GP's point might hold have a grain of truth to dog meat, too. Some cultures eat dog -- I suspect if I ate dog meat, especially if I didn't know it was dog meat,
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by spijdar 5y ago
For better or for worse, I'm not sure the aggregate direction Microsoft takes as a company is either altruistic or malicious, I'm pretty sure it's ultimately profit driven. I expect there are MS engineers who see this as altr
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by spijdar 5y ago
Right, but they still will be slower than if there was no protection at all. 100 slower cores vs 100 cores churning out requests ASAP. For a determined or resourceful attacker, this alone won't be good enough defense, but I can see it

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