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by zajio1am 3y ago
> In my experience, running X11 over a network worked very poorly. In my experience, when combined with SSH compression (ssh -XC) it works well enough that even running Firefox over Internet is usable (although with noticeable latency).
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by zajio1am 3y ago
That only works for software with simple linear versioning. If i have two major versions (say 2 and 3), i could still release a minor version to the older major version (so i would release 2.8, then 3.0, then 2.9, then 3.1).
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> You increment b when you change something in a backwards compatible way. Problem is that 'backwards compatible' is not a black-and-white criterion. Most non-trivial development could lead to changes in behavior (or at least i
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> People just love LTS and backwards compatibility too much. I'm one of them. But it slows the industry, when you can't do API refactors and have to keep bad decisions forever. Hard disagree. API churn is (one of) the real cost
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by zajio1am 3y ago
Libraries are not really a problem, as you can have multiple major versions alongside, so i can have gtk2, gtk3 and gtk4 alongside, each offering its API for applications that use it, while actively developed code (in library) does not need
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How Government Bullying Shapes the Rules of Social Media(cato.org)
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> But in common law jurisdictions generally, there is no such thing as a "valid" or "invalid" signature for simple contracts. Note that this is also true for many civil law systems.
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> Who cares!? Those are both great names for a function... The source code has two purposes - to be processed (compiled/interpreted) by software, and to be read by humans. While it is relatively clear what is considered good code fo
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by zajio1am 3y ago
Never used fglrx. Open source Radeon driver worked well (including OpenGL suppor in Mesa) on old ATI Radeon R200/R300 cards 20 years ago.
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by zajio1am 3y ago
I think it is more like format string attacks made it famous.
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As a FOSS developer, i must say that for me, users as a whole (in contrast to a community around the project) are the primary purpose of developing FOSS. And even if i just looked on non-contributing users in a utilitarian way, they are sti
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> look at the abortion cutoffs in Europe, nearly every European country has a different cutoff from the others. Not really, 12 weeks are pretty common, and most european countries fit in 10-14 weeks, with just few exceptions like UK and
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> In any case, it may be easy to see what is meant by "amygdalas" but it is not right. "Amygdalae" is the right form of the word, whether you want to take it from Latin, Greek, or, indeed, English. If you take a forei
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by zajio1am 3y ago
Linux have stable kernel ABI, while BSD changes kernel ABI between major versions.
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by zajio1am 3y ago
I wonder why browser developers are compliant with this. Everyone accepted that <marquee> or <blink> was horrible, but this knowledge does not stop them to add support for animated GIFs, CSS animations, video autoplay, and if a
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by zajio1am 3y ago
But that also disables comments there.
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> actually the next suspect should be red chillis, adulterated with lead oxide. Why would anyone adulterated red chillis with lead oxide instead of perfectly safe iron oxide, common food colorant?
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by zajio1am 3y ago
It is problematic that such class/wealth-based rhetoric is used even in mainstream publication like apnews.com and not just some far-left rag. It does not matter whether adventurers are wealthy or not, there are plenty of high-risk act
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by zajio1am 3y ago
Nitpick: It is not inflation itself, but unexpected change of inflation rate. Expected inflation rate is neutral, because everyone accounted for it in interest rates.
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Would anyone not call it a vehicle?
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> Reddit has a ton of rules in place, particularly against advocating for violence. I reported a few comments that called for death penalty for someone. Note that taking it literally even calling for imprisonment is advocating for violen
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> This is completely commonplace. Not in EU.
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> Deutsch posed a question that really got me thinking: how come most people can identify and label colors with ease without needing any “reference colors” to do so, but absolute pitch is so rare People usually identify and label colors
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> for example in CZ, you can just generate CSR with ‘openssl req’ get that signed by right CA and produce QESs with that (and assume all the risks inherent in doing that) AFAIK that is not true. In CZ national law, there is also recogniz
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> "Everyone stays strangers, ... It’s no longer a village, but something like a train station. The default mode of being is passing through. People come and go, and there’s no real sense of belonging." > "It’s an oppres
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> Are you guessing what sounds logical to you or do you actually know the answer here? IANAL, but this is a general concept of exhaustion of IP rights when the IP is sold as a part of physical medium, see (28) and article 4 of EU copyrig
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by zajio1am 3y ago
There is a difference from legal point. If the firmware is hardcoded in device, you do not need to accept any license contract with IP holder. You do not need to copy it, and your right to run it is implied from ownership of the device. If
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by zajio1am 3y ago
Even disregarding gender issue (it may also be boyfriend, or one wants to use gender-neutral term), girlfriend/boyfriend generally implies romantic involvement, while cohabiting sexual partner could be just cohabiting FWB without roman
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by zajio1am 3y ago
Military draft is one of most drastic freedom infringement and is almost always limited to males.
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by zajio1am 3y ago
> leading to a lot of effort going into "de-GNU-ification" of technology stacks. De-GNU-ification was mostly about GPLv3, not Stallman. Some of this was pushed by Apple, so they can use free software without copyleft requiremen

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