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by wolfgke 7y ago
This is because of the specific architecture of BCM2836, BCM2837, and BCM2711B0, which are rather VideoCore chips with appended ARM cores.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I don't understand why anyone would present the data like this, sure, 'lower is better' makes sense in benchmarks where you're presenting a raw timing or such, but with an arbitary unit like 'score' just i
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The homeowner's permission is completely useless since there are likely other homeowners in the area that will agree. Why does an "agree" "overwrite" a "disagree" and not the other way round?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
In other countries, the salaries in the IT/development sector are not that great.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> That is fine, but it doesn't answer the question how Librem is purportedly solving that problem. By not supporting WhatsApp, it forces the user to solve the problem that he/she makes a very bad decision with respect to his&#x
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> To the average consumer it's slower, bigger and more expensive than the alternatives I do not believe that they target the average consumer.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> My bank used a smart phone for 2fa, no text or card reader options available. Switch your bank.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> How? If you are stuck in one of the countries where more than 90% of citizens use WhatsApp, your choices are not to use WhatsApp, or to get an Android or IOS smartphone. So you decide for the former.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Quite right, but they still need enough buyers to stay in business, which looking how things in FOSS hardware and software business go, that isn't a guarantee. The problem rather is that many FOSS advocates are not willing to pay
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Yup. Google a search company, any technology that doesn't impact their bottom line, is dispensable (to a lesser/greater degree) to them. Rather: Google is an advertising company, ...
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Binary is the source code, albeit in less convenient form. At least the copyleft defenders would not agree.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Changing the legal framework around intellectual property doesn't stop it from being intellectual property. As I wrote under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20811544 "Geheimnisverrat" applies to lea
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> You wouldn't have to. Without copyright, it seems to me that everything becomes copyleft by default. No, without copyright, you cannot force the other party to give you access to the original source code. BTW: There does not seem
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Ah, I see, so we could abolish IP law by renaming it to Conditionally Shared Secrets and keeping all provisions the same? I will try to explain it to you again: the purpose of all the criminal offences that are subsumed under "Geh
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> That's still just enforcement of intellectual property. No, in German law, this is a completely different criminal offence.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> There is much untouched land on the moon. Who owns that? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moon_Treaty&oldid...
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Without IP how can you enforce copyleft? Someone could just take your code and modify it and distribute modified binaries without you being able to do anything. You can, for example, reverse-engineer these binaries or develop binary pa
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Trade secrets are protected only by intellectual property regimes, and we're talking about a world without intellectual property. Not in Germany. In Germany, there exists a class of criminal acts that are subsumed unter the umbrel
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> At least in the context of copyright, independent creation of something is not infringement. The lines what is really counts as "independent" are deeply blurred.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Are you arguing that it's unfair that a business needs to sell something that people are willing to pay for I argue against that media companies are using goon squads (police, judges, industrial-prison complex) to rob people who p
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> It's not uncommon to hear a fan talking about buying a product specifically to support the creator. A consideration: Could a reason for this also be that people do want to avoid that their money goes to "evil media companies&
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The products of human creative toil should be kept and enjoyed by all, versus being locked-up being veils of secrecy that inevitably lead to their loss. Tell that to Disney: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.p
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by wolfgke 7y ago
MHRD is a similar game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/ Also cf. (somewhat different, but related spirit) Silicon Zeroes ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/684270/Si
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> In high school I did the lowest tier maths and then jumped in the deep end by doing a year of electrical engineering. I’ve now done those harder math classes but I feel like there’s holes here and there. I think when I took physics it
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> > To learn to do better art, I'd need to spend at least 6-12 months. (To think it takes less is insulting to artists.) I just don't have the time to not be writing games. > That's such a strawman. He doesn't
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Relevant: the yuri visual novel "The Expression Amrilato" about a girl that is stranded in a world where everybody speaks Juliamo (the in-game name for Esperanto) instead of Japanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/w&#x2
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> You're more likely to get three phase in countries where electrical stoves, ovens, and even house heating are more common (Germany being the most obvious example). As I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Germany is one of the few countries that do this though probably because it's common to have electric heating for the house. In Germany, electric heating for the house is very uncommon (in opposite to France, I think) for the reas
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I am very sure to have excellent memories about my childhood and I believe that my comment reflects these memories well. Or to put it into different words: if you are somewhat smart, you should see very fast that the only winning move is n
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by wolfgke 7y ago
"This attitude might seem childish but harmless at first glance, but is actually a real problem with real consequences. Young Android users, in particular, increasingly feel left out within their group of iPhone-using friends because o

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