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by tete 11mo ago
Android isn't "just Linux". It's a heavily modified kernel, it's often an even closed source bootloader in many cases and it's completely untrue for userspace, where it incorporates stuff from other OSs (BSDs,
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by tete 11mo ago
I agree. DRM sucks badly. I'd argue that it's a bit of a compliance thing though. Eg publisher lawyers saying DRM is needed, given that there doesn't seem to be much push from Steam for anything "draconian". At leas
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by tete 11mo ago
Fingers crossed for a smartphone next. So sick of that force fed walled garden crap from Apple and Google. Might also help to slow down enshittification by a bit if there was a popular alternative. Maybe something like Waydroid could even e
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by tete 11mo ago
Wow the whole line-up being "just linux computers" that is compatible with everything else really makes me wish they come out with a Steam smartphone instead of the walled garden crap we are being force fed from Apple and Google.
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by tete 1y ago
> The AWS team keeps touting the rock solid reliability of AWS as a reason why we shouldn’t diversify our cloud. Should be a fun meeting! This is and was never true. I've done setups in the past where monitoring happened "multi
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by tete 1y ago
If the complex software you deployed and/or configured goes wrong on AWS it's also your fault.
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by tete 1y ago
> The community seems to be more interested in talking about it and showing pictures of their gear as opposed to actually doing anything with it. Welcome to Hacker News!
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by tete 1y ago
> That is a weird take, to install SmartOS inside a VM for anything else than a PoC. SmartOS is meant to run on bare metal and host its own VMs / zones. It works either way of course but it's funny for an "Illumos cafe&quo
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by tete 1y ago
To be fair CCC is theoretically primarily a German club with an event that is overbooked by so so many people, all of that is done by people NOT being paid for anything (from security to health emergency to infrastructure, ticket checking,
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by tete 1y ago
Ah yeah that "extreme pacifism" that has grotesque ideas like people shouldn't murder other people just because their governments think so. How dare them being opposed to that poor military sector, that nobody ever speaks up
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by tete 1y ago
> We expect the design of encoding/json/v2 to continue to evolve. We encourage developers to try out the new API and provide feedback on the proposal issue. Does anyone have more knowledge on what this refers to? I thought v2 b
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by tete 1y ago
Yes, but with all the v2 in stdlib popping up we will get a lot of outdated code and a lot of "I need to know v1 and v2, because I will come across both".
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by tete 1y ago
> LookupMX and Resolver.LookupMX now return DNS names that look like valid IP address, as well as valid domain names. Previously if a name server returned an IP address as a DNS name, LookupMX would discard it, as required by the RFCs. H
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by tete 1y ago
> I'm not trying to defend Mozilla begging for donations when they really don't need them. They essentially do. The problem is they have a greedy, self-obsessed CEO taking it.
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by tete 1y ago
Of course! Just like like we have been using what we now call VR goggles and voice input since the 80s, oh and hand gestures and governments all around use Blockchain for everything, we also all take supersonic planes while we travel, also
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by tete 1y ago
Seems to be semi regular now that everyone puts all their eggs in only a few baskets.
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by tete 1y ago
When being down scales. :D
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by tete 1y ago
Big blog post about how they saved the internet upcoming. ;) Currently down, but reference: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-i...
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by tete 2y ago
> the current global leader of super-high-tech (USA) I think you are a couple of decades late for that claim.
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by tete 2y ago
So basically like any funding?
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by tete 2y ago
Convince everyone to learn from Norway's model of actually reducing crime in prisons, rather than increasing it like basically everyone else. By using it to solve problems instead of as means to exert revenge.
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by tete 2y ago
Like any kind of copyright law?
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Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing(veloren.net)
340 points by tete 2y ago|91 comments
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by tete 2y ago
tl;dr: If you set up an email server. You just send a few emails to gmail, etc. and you'll know if they are accepted or not. If yes you are set, if not you investigate the problem, maybe really try another IP and eventually fix the iss
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by tete 2y ago
Would be nice. But they all work just fine with wine and/or proton.
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by tete 2y ago
This is really nice and positively surprising for EA. While the RTSs are amazing I think Command and Conquer Renegade is one of the most fun games ever made as well. https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade What
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by tete 2y ago
In my experience the majority of people believing in AI replacing people are people who are horrible in their jobs and who mostly BS their way through, which is the major skill that LLMs are really good at: Hallucinating with confidence. Ca
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by tete 2y ago
I agree. And JSON basically isn't meant to be hand-written, just easy to glance over, if you need to or do basic tests with. It's a serialization format. It's not a config format or anything like that. The idea of wanting to
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by tete 2y ago
> I was initially shocked and then kind of sad that Go is not so simple anymore. Yeah, it's really sad. Go basically became like any other language. Now even fun stuff like net.IP, and a netip, with netip.Addr. Lots of way to write
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by tete 2y ago
> Was landing people on the moon economics? No it was an investment. Military and civil research (in so many fields), as well as propaganda (to USSR, US and the world). It was the cold war. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org&#

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