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by tosti 5d ago
Politicians don't understand the Internet, never mind its protocols. That's why they use silly terms such as "cybercrime". "Cyber" means "the Internet and I don't understand any of it" Code writt
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by tosti 5d ago
https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses
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by tosti 5d ago
Did Bryan Lunduke measure incoming patches or actual merged patches? Are the AI patches bigger on average? Who or what says the patch was made with AI in the fitst place?
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by tosti 6d ago
Any buck guesstimate for present day GNU+Linux?
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by tosti 6d ago
A reuseable program is similarly intentionally generic. Compare ifupdown from Debian and NetBSD with netplan. Both came out without any knowledge of wireguard. Yet ifupdown supported wireguard without having to change anything, while netpla
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by tosti 7d ago
Re: regulation, there were antitrust laws well before the Internet, but they haven't been properly enforced wrt big tech. I see no need for new laws (especially laws that cover technical details because politicians always screw those u
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by tosti 7d ago
Schizophrenia really messes people up and they can't help it. It's not a disease and the likelyhood of developing it is genetic. Hard drugs can also increase the risk.
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by tosti 7d ago
It's all fun and games until Skynet becomes sentient. Actually, I'd like Skynet to become sentient and wrath big tech first order of business. But I hope my house lives off the grid by then. So maybe not.
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by tosti 8d ago
Making the bootloaders unlockable is a good thing.
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by tosti 8d ago
https://annas-archive.gd/
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by tosti 8d ago
I'd favor more incremental steps. The sooner you get the specific CPU instructions out of the way the better. Otherwise your liberation party might be short lived. What I described is an example of build bootstrapping. There's a w
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by tosti 8d ago
Thank you for clearing that up. Good points!
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by tosti 8d ago
I can recommend the book "Savaged by Systemd" It's on AA
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by tosti 8d ago
NetBSD can be compiled from another OS and a compiler can be compiled to shell script. You'd take a minimal compiler (eg lcc), compile it to shell script, run it on the target, have it compile itself, older gcc and work your way up to
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by tosti 9d ago
I reckon what you call SDK is what I'd call the build tools. C++ projects tend to use CMake and that's what I dread most. There have been projects where I brute forced my way on the command line towards succesfully compiling a bin
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by tosti 9d ago
At least a part of it should go to Kibaale Children's Centre imho.
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by tosti 10d ago
Free software doesn't typically have an SDK. A compiler is just one of the available programs. So is a text editor, a shell and script interpreters, some incarnation of make, etc. There's nothing really special about the compiler
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by tosti 10d ago
The rule on liquids is 100ml and I don't think it applies to semen. I object to the naked scanners, especially if kids have to be scanned. That'd be mass producing CSAM. Is TSA above the laws on producing CSAM?
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by tosti 10d ago
So it's enumerating all the subdirectories first and unlinks the tree afterwards? I get that this isn't transactional and inherently prone to race conditions, but if this is indeed the problem, it's rediculous. A single while
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by tosti 10d ago
I'm not afraid of the flight, for me its customs and surrendering all my data. They even want my balls ffs.
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by tosti 10d ago
It's slow in FF, too. Cool for a flight simulator to crash, but it should simulate a plane crash. Not crash the simulator itself :)
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by tosti 11d ago
If you think that's an abomination, try corporate billed-by-the-hour enterprise software where nothing ever changes unless it's approved by several layers of management. I promised myself not to work for any of those anymore :)
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by tosti 11d ago
You could do that, but if that were to happen to me I'd say the installer sucks and my boss should hire someone else ;)
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by tosti 11d ago
If you're going to run the OS, you have to make sure it compiles and runs the bootloader and its installer. The toolchain could be different enough for that to fail. And you do boot into a reasonably small OS and continue from there. T
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by tosti 11d ago
> And you add the bootloader dead last, even though it’s the first thing you see when you boot a Linux machine? That actually makes perfect sense. If you did the bootloader first, how are you going to build it? How do you know what to bo
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by tosti 12d ago
OIC. Rust doesn't guarantee optimizing tail recursion. How unfortunate for a language that's getting widespread adoption.
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by tosti 12d ago
What programmer or programming language can't iterate a loop more than 32000 times?!
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by tosti 12d ago
To be fair, that's pretty much an entire operating system. Just one that lacks its own kernel. It even takes a while to boot up!
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by tosti 13d ago
https://www.pakin.org/complaint?title=Mr.&firstname=Anderson...
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by tosti 13d ago
Does this page 500 for anyone else?

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