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by the_biot 5y ago
I don't mean to sound cynical about such projects with good intentions, but I'm not convinced this effort will last without the cooperation and approval from the sci-hub admin herself. Having said that, any alternative way to acce
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by the_biot 5y ago
You misspelled "I don't know".
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by the_biot 5y ago
What a bunch of nonsense. These are tiny laptops, and every bit of space inside is used. Soldering on RAM chips is an obvious optimization to make the laptop thinner. What were you expecting, a DIMM slot that's taller than the actual l
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by the_biot 5y ago
Like who? For all that it's a great idea, I don't think I've seen it used for real applications (i.e. not just an IPFS demo).
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by the_biot 5y ago
The point is that the Raspberry Pi -- any version -- has always been underpowered and overhyped. Wishing for the next version to be better is nonsense. Pick any recent SBC, and it'll be better bang for the buck. This has been true ever
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by the_biot 5y ago
But you blame Google, not the SEO spammers?
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by the_biot 5y ago
I haven't been a Netflix customer in some years, but at the time their algorithm was pretty obvious: recommend only Netflix-produced content. It's the elephant in the room here.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Do you have any numbers to back up that claim?
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by the_biot 5y ago
Argh, how did I miss this. The ^ is just for overriding built-ins with external executables. Apologies! Clearly I hadn't tried nushell -- this feature I thought missing was a big no for me. I have now, and this is definitely worth a tr
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by the_biot 5y ago
Nushell missed the one feature that every Unix shell has: if it doesn't recognize the first word as a built-in command, look it up and run it as an executable. It's crucial, and nushell is missing out on an ecosystem of random she
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by the_biot 5y ago
This is too creepy for even Google to do, although they tried it out for a while. I think it was more like a hash of sorts -- a cookie in the DNS name of a Google tracker.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Yes, I agree, and this is IMHO a better way out of the conundrum these farmers face: install their own electronics with similar functionality.
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by the_biot 5y ago
There is a lot of misinformation about this. At face value, articles like this imply you're not able or allowed to fix mechanical issues, how dare they! What they don't mention is that manufacturers protect their electronic gear i
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by the_biot 5y ago
That is not a compromise, it's giving away information about people who read an article.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Considering he doesn't use ad blockers, i.e. he sees ads at all, he may not be a data privacy expert. /s
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by the_biot 5y ago
Yet another "concept" vehicle, concept meaning "will never be manufactured". This is just marketing bullshit. Why do people take this seriously?
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by the_biot 5y ago
What a bunch of nonsense that is.
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by the_biot 6y ago
That is hardly the point.
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by the_biot 6y ago
That's not how you do a poll though. The respondents are self-selected from a very small subset of the WFH population (readers of this site). In any case, "I wanted an option poll showing that..." is not a great way to get an
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by the_biot 6y ago
The best critique of the OSI layer model was the classic "To Hell with the OSI 7 Layer Model" post. It has disappeared from the current internet, with the exception of essay sites that stole it and now want money to reproduce, but
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by the_biot 6y ago
I know you mean well, but i've tried so very very hard to work with Linux Foundation-driven projects like this. The lesson I learned was that as an independent developer, you simply have no place in an organization like this.
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by the_biot 6y ago
What an amazing find, thanks very much! Reminds me a little of Tori Amos.
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by the_biot 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but if you're going to take that point of view can I assume you're living in a log cabin in the woods? Anything else, and you use Chinese-made products all day long.
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by the_biot 6y ago
OpenPLI is one of the many open source set top box projects that relies heavily on vendor-provided kernels, because of the drivers that run the hardware. Why is it that none of these seem to make an effort to get out from under the outdated
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by the_biot 6y ago
So they've completely ignored the lesson Google taught us all 20+ years ago -- lots of cheap servers scales better than an ever more expensive big iron SPOF setup -- and which we're now all using to scale the internet. It's u
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by the_biot 6y ago
You're seriously suggesting he start spamming people about his email service?
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by the_biot 6y ago
There's a whole class of Lisp and derivatives, dialects etc that get embedded in applications that are in itself written in such languages, and anyone involved in such applications thinks this is just fine. Out here in the real world,
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by the_biot 6y ago
Not really, the firmware is what we aim to replace. But if you want your device supported, you can pitch in. Post description/pics in the wiki, help test code, etc.
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by the_biot 6y ago
That switch is based on a Realtek RTL838x/RTL839x SoC. An effort is currently underway to properly support these in openWRT and the mainline Linux kernel. First patch in OpenWRT is in: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt
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by the_biot 6y ago
I created a support ticket with my RSS reader (Newsblur) about this issue concerning you! It appears to be quietly feeding me hvper.com articles from the now non-functional feeds.reuters.com ( https://forum.newsblur.com/t&#x2

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