berkes

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by berkes 6d ago
This is much bigger than the banning of a volunteer webhost. It shows the US government won't go through usual channels when Europeans do things that under european law, are probably¹ allowed. It shows, again, that US infrastructure is
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by berkes 15d ago
Also, EU is pushing towards more "open" app-stores through anti-trust. Not that it requires Google to "open up" their play-store, but that they must allow other app-stores to work on the same level. So basically allowing
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by berkes 15d ago
What is an "official API"? Honest question, because AFAIK there's no guarantee or (legal) requirement to support any API. Whether that's fully documented, has SDKs or whether it's something reversed-engineered doesn
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by berkes 1mo ago
> most programming languages internal memory representations Often heard wrt JSON but incorrect. It maps to the primitive types in JavaScript. But almost all programming languages treat floats and integers different, make distinction bet
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by berkes 1mo ago
So you compress a format that inflates binaries with 30%? That not only ends up larger than "just the binary", it also eats a lot of extra CPU to (de)compress AND encode-decode. This idea is novel, but wasteful. (edit: I thought y
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by berkes 1mo ago
> Culture is important Which brings us back to why so many people dislike Gimp, and/or see it as a posterchild example of bad FOSS alternatives. I agree, and Culture IS important. And I think the culture around many Open Source &quo
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by berkes 1mo ago
> with git I suddenly imagine a zip format with built-in git. Does this already exist? Basically a file-format that has built-in history, rollback, logs etc. Enabling all these "zipped XML" formats to get this feature "for
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by berkes 1mo ago
yea. I have some of these dumb ones too. After a few days I found one crawled into the pizza oven to sleep.
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by berkes 1mo ago
Yes. We used to have these. And i turned it to most conservative twighlight. It worked most of the times, until in winter, twice, some chickens were locked out. First time I saw it in time. Second time I only found feathers the next morning
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by berkes 1mo ago
For that you need wifi and/or power. I have neither at the coop. Most commercial automated doors work on solar + a battery.
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by berkes 1mo ago
> crepuscular So not specifically at 5AM, but around twilight. In my area, and for my cats, that changes a lot between summer and winter. Same for my chickens, which is why "automatic chicken doors" are difficult/impossibl
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by berkes 1mo ago
This was international. And it was a long while ago, so I don't have anything online to point to anymore. Sorry. If "Map Notes clog the map" then there still is something needed in OSM to allow data that's not directly g
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by berkes 1mo ago
> I completely understand that they only want high quality data I worked on "openopeningstijden", where my aim was to improve the data for businesses in OSM and to disclose that in apis and uis. There were other reasons why I
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by berkes 2mo ago
No, sorry. It's simply not true. Energy prices, and electricity prices are rising, indexed for inflation. For households and for commerce. E.g. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=UUeu
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by berkes 2mo ago
> Economies of scale -> more energy = bigger electric plants = cheaper energy. This isn't true. Certainly not globally. Because electricity in 2026 is converting finite and scares resources. Plants need fuel to burn, water to coo
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by berkes 2mo ago
> Pandora's box is open. And it's not Linux' task to close that, even if it could, which it cannot. How is that disingenuous? I agree that we should keep discussing the merits and dangers of AI-aided software development.
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by berkes 2mo ago
Are you a lawyer or an interlectual-property legal expert? Because if so, please, please elaborate on > I do not see how AI could be legally used on a GPL project. Too many people "believe" or "are convinced" about ma
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by berkes 2mo ago
I'm "berkes" almost everywhere. And my domain is my handle as well: berk.es. So I do the same as you. But I am quite sure e.g. The Great Musk In All His Wisdom will one day either find me annoying and hand over the now discon
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by berkes 2mo ago
My point is that you don't own your handle. Therefore you aren't your handle. Edit: to clarify: You aren't your handle, because it can be taken away from you, can be injected, blocked, overridden, etc. My technical rambling t
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by berkes 2mo ago
We've moved "identity" to a few large monopolists. Who lack all incentive to properly "enforce" it. And whose interest are perpendicular to people owning their identities (being able to take them elsewhere). "P
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by berkes 2mo ago
And also, there's certainly places and situations where you do want to spend tens of thousands on PLCs, buttons and wiring. But not all of it needs this level, quality or insurance. A factory, farm, supermarket, stage, etc, is filled w
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by berkes 2mo ago
> be able to survive field conditions you are right. But my point was that not all of needs to survive the same conditions. E.g. in a theater, you want the high class industry grade rigs for the main lightning when you are running the
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by berkes 2mo ago
> There are many opportunities to retrofit old systems of all types with modern low-cost embedded technologies. I'd leave out the "old" there. An example: Friends work(ed) as engineers in theaters and music-venues. The cos
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by berkes 2mo ago
I've worked on a complex bookkeeping SAAS. Our "CVS" im- and export was the most used feature by far. Yet it was implemented on a thursday afternoon by a junior, using the first "library" that popped up in a google
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by berkes 2mo ago
Give that engineer a raise and an official title of "chaos monkey". On the scale of AWS, you want your production system to be poked at and pushed against. Obviously not something to implement out of the blue in your production if
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by berkes 2mo ago
> The service needs to bill "credits" When talking about e2e tests, it matters where the e's are. If they are at the public interface of "the service", then, indeed, you'd test against "credits". B
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by berkes 2mo ago
> Almost all of them have one number that appears four times, and one or two that appear three times To me that looked suspiciously like string-handling in a weakly typed language. Like when you do `"100" + 1` in JavaScript, or
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by berkes 2mo ago
I was merely re-iterating the marketing from Apple on why they charge the 30%. I personally think it's a lie at best, or a scam (on multinational level) at worst. I've always been convinced that regulation should force companies
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by berkes 2mo ago
Mistral has released some very good, very useful open models. It's European, that's also non-Chinese.
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by berkes 2mo ago
> Down to the manufacturer of the whole product you're buying. In case of an app, what is the "product" you are buying? Because according to Apple, they add a lot of "value" by ensuring the software is safe, perf

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