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by the_biot 1y ago
Yes, no reason at all. I submit as evidence gtk_hbox_new(), there since the very first version of GTK, and deprecated in 3.2, in favor of gtk_box_new(GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL). It's a prime example of something that was entirely unne
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by the_biot 1y ago
I think he's just pointing out current problems, as he's done many times. He likes to give talks and publicity to his project, as its maintainer, and that includes this sort of "what's going on with the project" tal
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by the_biot 1y ago
Not to one-up you, but my worst nightmare is an open source project where all the maintainers are LLM copy-pasters, with little clue to be had otherwise. And it's already happened, of course. A project I saw mentioned here on HN a whil
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by the_biot 1y ago
The non-compatibility has over the years become the defining feature of GTK/Gnome. The maintainers seem to go out of their way to break API, for no reason at all. That extends to Gnome applications as well. I recently found a GTK API c
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by the_biot 1y ago
> I'd rather be running a Debian, with systemd, and boring regular utilities, than the bespoke environment openwrt has crafted together. Yup, that's the answer. Debian is rock solid, and a script with a bunch of iptables and ip
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by the_biot 1y ago
I agree. This seems so similar to SO many games that were around 40 years ago. It's mario, and a bit of donkey kong. Why are people going nuts over this? I genuinely want to know.
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by the_biot 1y ago
Since you ask: because it's the only firmware that has its own song, that's why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wyvb9GotM
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by the_biot 1y ago
Hear, hear. I find it amazing that ARM hasn't come up with an auto-discovery mechanism for their platforms. They're the only ones in a position to do it, and they've done exactly nothing about it. The device tree junk we have
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by the_biot 1y ago
They had a project called the Core Infrastructure Initiative that had similar goals, but it was abandoned long ago.
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by the_biot 1y ago
This policy, and most of the comments on here, miss the point entirely. Open source is supposed to be primarily a labor of love, scratching your own itch, done for pride and a sense of accomplishment of having done it right. Using an AI cha
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by the_biot 1y ago
It's simply the next step in the 8-interview nonsense that seems to be common at least in tech: it selects for people willing to put up with huge amounts of corporate nonsense. Competence at the job is entirely irrelevant.
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by the_biot 1y ago
The article is a little wide-eyed about how new this kind of censorship is. Belgium broadly has a duopoly, with the first two ISPs listed having the vast majority of the market. Both of them have been doing blocking of pirate sites for dec
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by the_biot 1y ago
That's a bit of a myth. Lots of electronics can still be repaired just fine. Check out some electronics repair channels on youtube. I've repaired plenty of electronics myself. Replacing instead of repairing really is mostly a cult
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by the_biot 2y ago
This has long been considered one of Goodreads' big advantages: its massive publication database, ISBN and all. But recently Anna's Archive has been making quite a bit of noise about their considerable ISBN database: https:/
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by the_biot 2y ago
I didn't realize how bad it was until I recently looked into doing a Python Qt application. There's two competing Python language bindings for Qt: PyQt and PySide. The latter appears more free and active, so that seemed the way to
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by the_biot 2y ago
I'm not sure if any of these free software foundations that take signifant money actually do anything tangible to improve actual software. It's not just obvious grifts like Mozilla and Gnome's foundations. What's the poi
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by the_biot 2y ago
> extremely suspicious timing. I've been wondering for well over a decade why Hetzner didn't get its ass in gear and start offering AWS-like services. Instead all they've offered for years is remote control of VMs. Even no
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by the_biot 2y ago
Unicorn is fantastic. I used it to emulate an SoC's boot environment to get around a very weird HAL, and it worked perfectly. Awesome tool!
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by the_biot 2y ago
If the US gets into a full-blown trade war with China, i.e. massive tariffs on everything, I expect consumer electronics, clothing etc to become much more interesting to repair instead of replace.
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by the_biot 2y ago
> On a completely different note, is there any plans for a full TUI? Or someone that is doing this? What's a TUI here? sigrok-cli can do everything the backend libs do, or do you mean some more interactive text client?
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by the_biot 2y ago
It is my firm belief that everybody should have one of those $10 FX2 boards in their drawer, either for debugging some electronics board stuff (arduino and up), or just for learning about digital signalling. $10 and Pulseview is all you nee
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by the_biot 2y ago
The current sigrok maintainer is trying to take part in this discussion (username abraxa), and is in general trying to reinvigorate the project. However, one or more of you idiots keeps downvoting every single one of his comments, and they&
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by the_biot 2y ago
> Is this a funding problem? No.
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by the_biot 2y ago
I will never understand this. libsigrok (the driver backend) supports over 130 oscilloscope models. Why not just write a GUI that uses libsigrok, and instantly get access to all of those? edit: actually I think that's azonenberg's
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by the_biot 2y ago
Your OLS improvement patch set was huge, and a challenge for anyone to review. But you're right that it took much too long to get any traction, and I don't blame you for getting discouraged. Having said that, you did eventually ge
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by the_biot 2y ago
Stallman arguably was, one time at FOSDEM. Not over some disagreement, he just wouldn't stop talking and make room for the next speaker :-)
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by the_biot 2y ago
> i have yet to see any service provider use BGP confederation in production. I was part of one, back in the early 2000s. Reason was the parent ISP had set up offshoot ISPs in different countries, but they all had their own networks&#x2F
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by the_biot 2y ago
I will always believe, based on nothing but my own gut feel and experience dealing with Homo Sapiens, that the answer is much simpler. They were different, so we killed them.
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by the_biot 2y ago
Disheartening to see CNN has joined the list of publications that turn Reddit threads into what passes for "articles".
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by the_biot 2y ago
That's literally PeerTube you're describing. https://joinpeertube.org/

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