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by the_biot 2y ago
I've always found it a mark of stellar incompetence that YouTube hasn't done ad injection into the video stream, dynamically on the server side. It's to my advantage, so I'm not complaining, but this is a company that ig
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by the_biot 2y ago
The Linux kernel changes internal APIs, and whoever changes it gets to fix the kernel code that relies on it. The end user of the kernel -- user space -- never sees any of this, and the userspace API never breaks. You're implying thi
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by the_biot 2y ago
It's entirely logical for the Gnome folks to do this. They've been removing features and widgets from all kinds of programs for literally decades; Gnome is fundamentally a destructive project. Outright sabotaging GTK (which predat
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by the_biot 2y ago
The strange thing is that while I definitely see it happening in many places around the world, not all the causes are the same. I think @moralestapia has it right: massive inflation is likely a root cause.
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by the_biot 2y ago
I've had the same impression, unfortunately. You have to like them because of their dedication to the mission, and they've achieved a lot. But I bought a laptop battery from them that didn't last long at all, and (at least at
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by the_biot 2y ago
Not necessarily massive. Given that Bing works again now, this seems more like an API frontend failure, or an internal routing failure at some level. Note they seem to have managed to fix the Bing frontend hours ago, but DDG is still dead i
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by the_biot 2y ago
This really doesn't get expressed enough IMHO: Musk is a liability to Tesla at this point, and obviously unfit to lead the company. Of course if he gets fired and the drama/fanboyism stops, what's left is a car company that i
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by the_biot 2y ago
> No code I wrote five years ago is in production today. Same. Sometimes the company disappears, sometimes they just stop maintaining your code after you leave, and it eventually dies. The only code of mine that has stuck around is the o
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by the_biot 2y ago
Asus has been on my shitlist for decades , precisely because of their scammy after-sales support. This is seriously not new. Their products are genuinely crap these days though. Check some of the electronics repair channels on Youtube, an
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by the_biot 2y ago
Years? Try decades . When has Microsoft not been a source of endless security problems?
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by the_biot 2y ago
... a rendered video, i.e. it doesn't exist.
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by the_biot 3y ago
Title is misleading: they will no longer use route servers at exchanges, is all. This won't affect regular peering sessions, and they explicitly invite folks to request them. Much ado about nothing.
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by the_biot 3y ago
> There are now hundreds, if not thousands, of decent editors who have stopped contributing due to toxic, non-productive people. While this is likely true (though not quantifiable), I would add there is also a pattern I've seen play
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by the_biot 3y ago
Because they're massive SoCs with tons of onboard peripherals that aren't hooked up through some bus with discovery, like PCIE. You need tons of (often custom) drivers for those peripherals + device tree map to tell the kernel how
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by the_biot 3y ago
If you have an Android phone or tablet, try Newpipe. It can even import YouTube subscriptions.
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by the_biot 3y ago
> Because it was "a minor 'cosmetic' issue not causing crashes," there was a good chance nobody would fix it—"Unless I do it myself," Zhu wrote. Yup, he gets it.
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by the_biot 3y ago
Which government is this?
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by the_biot 3y ago
I expect you'll get flak for #1, but the morality aspect of it bothers me a great deal as well. Not just supporting products of companies that contribute to China's surveillance state, but I worry that writing open source softwar
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by the_biot 3y ago
That's the problem right there: the Linux kernel situtation. As OP noted they just use the vendor's (long outdated) Linux kernel, with the vendor's (typically crap) kernel drivers. They just don't clean up that situation
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by the_biot 3y ago
OpenIPC is one of those projects where the core team is Russian, and their communication is Russian, and they use Telegram (or a bridge) for everything. As a non-Russian speaker you're pretty lost trying to contribute, and as a result
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by the_biot 3y ago
This site, realclearscience.com, just says "you have been blocked", under a banner that says "realclear politics". It also appears to require javascript, and adblockers disabled. So I have no idea what it's all abou
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by the_biot 3y ago
That makes no sense. Implementing libc and related libs literally means implementing their API. getaddrinfo() is a part of that. Also, getaddrinfo() is so elaborate because it handles a huge amount of networking layers. It's specifical
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by the_biot 3y ago
Just cause it's disclosed doesn't mean it's acceptable. This crap takes us back to the late '90s. Remember all those IE toolbars?
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by the_biot 3y ago
They've been a money train for a very long time now, and at some point started going ultra-woke as well. Last I checked they were demanding what can only be described as "woke loyalty oaths" from people that wanted to speak a
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by the_biot 3y ago
Check out The Local. Local news in 9 European countries, in English: https://www.thelocal.it/
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by the_biot 3y ago
I was talking about the lack of empathy on your part. It's telling that you didn't understand that.
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by the_biot 3y ago
No, this is somebody who saw their country balancing at the edge of the abyss for months, with this clown constantly trying to tip it the wrong way. Their own home country, where they grew up, which has all their friends/family in it.
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by the_biot 3y ago
The fact that Varoufakis still expounds on anything at all after his disastrous term in the Greek government proves that he's utterly shameless, and possibly has little self-awareness. But to see some people taking him serious and even
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by the_biot 3y ago
> being forced to make drivers that work equally in linux, windows and even macOS That is almost a recipe for drivers built on hardware abstraction layers (HALs), so vendors can use literally the same code on every platform. That, of cou
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by the_biot 3y ago
Which is not uncommon for the LF, and why I doubt they were ever the right place to host this. Ironically the reason the LF came into existence was IIRC "get Linus a steady paycheck", perilously close to this failed CII.

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