jarfil

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by jarfil 2y ago
Archiving the repo doesn't stop the downloads. They would need to rename it in order to prevent distro CI/CD from keeping downloading untrustworthy stuff.
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by jarfil 3y ago
But UEFI can have pretty graphics and mouse support, so it must be better... /s Now seriously, TPM and GPT are improvements. Customizable SecureBoot along with disk and RAM encryption, are also nice.
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by jarfil 3y ago
It doesn't help that much of the "C development community" is made of electronics engineers writing "some code to make the hardware work", instead of people with a focus on security. It's similar to the "C
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by jarfil 3y ago
Is that TBM small enough to fit on a SpaceX Starship and send it to Mars? I always thought Boring was a project intended for digging a base on Mars, fitting a whole Tesla in the tunnel would be even more than what's needed to connect s
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by jarfil 3y ago
It's both. Trademark law requires registering for a series of categories where a product seeks protection, with each category being relatively specific. At the same time, suing someone for Trademark infringement requires a judge to dec
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by jarfil 3y ago
It is an issue of trust precisely because a third party controls the platform. If mods actually owned the infrastructure for their spaces, there would be no trust involved, they'd just own it. In this case, mods trusted the company mak
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by jarfil 3y ago
Mastodon, Lemmy, kbin, and the fediverse in general, are right now experimenting an unprecedented growth in number of instances, users, and activity.
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by jarfil 3y ago
Reddit is failing right now. Popular communities already had a lot of people who wouldn't engage in positive discourse, only offset by those massively downvoting and reporting the "noise" comments. Now that they're the o
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by jarfil 3y ago
Q1) Sure, why not. Plenty of power tripping people out there wishing for a turn at the banhammer. Q2) No. The communities are already failing just because the exodus of power users is causing a lack of self-moderation via up/down votes
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by jarfil 3y ago
Indeed. It can however interact with Lemmy and kbin, which are direct Reddit replacements.
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by jarfil 3y ago
"Relay for reddit" offers a good experience: removes header and footer on scrolling, shows a list of post titles with previews, hides all actions behind a finger flick, with less used ones in expandable menus.
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by jarfil 3y ago
Teens/young adults, or really anyone "new" to the web/internet, haven't learned yet the importance of information transmission speed, or which use patterns will make them lose more time than get them something worth
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by jarfil 5y ago
Find the key in no time, but how much time for the information to reach us? If it's a cube close by, then great, but most of them would still be millions of light years away.
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by jarfil 5y ago
It used to be that people using the Internet would realize, or were made to realize, that text communication lacks many of the non-verbal cues, so one should always try to avoid offending others, while when in doubt pick the least offending
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by jarfil 5y ago
On the other hand, following that logic, in times of peace the soldiers of yesteryear are out of work. I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but it might be just a sign that priorities have changed for people. Maybe the basic software liber
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by jarfil 5y ago
Isn't this the same principle behind a Tesla valve?
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by jarfil 6y ago
I've been messing around with some code that uses: #define TERN(c, a, b) c ? a : b I'm not a fan of ternaries, but that macro makes it kind of more ligible.
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by jarfil 6y ago
All I care about is whether this is opt-in and whether I can decide to not give then that data. Other than that, Google being able to process more data about their own platform than others, is something to be expected.
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by jarfil 6y ago
I'm not sure China is underestimating anything. They had an asset, in the form of millions of underqualified workers, and they've used it, to manufacture cheap stuff. But with increasing automation, that asset was never going to l
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by jarfil 6y ago
They will likely have some Apple specific features, but I doubt they'd want to make them incompatible to the point of requiring a software rewrite compared to other ARM chips. Just recompile your stuff, jump through whatever hoops you
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by jarfil 6y ago
Some people know several languages, but it's difficult to learn a locale well enough to 100% touch type when you only have a keyboard in a single locale, and don't use some of the languages as often as others. Also, per-software l
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by jarfil 6y ago
My optimal keyboard would have: mechanical switches, per-key RGB LEDs, MX keycaps with translucent borders to see the LED lights ("pudding" style), per-key legends that would change with the keyboard language and layers. I only wa
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by jarfil 6y ago
Eink used to be expensive, have slow refresh rates, and no color. OLED screens on the other hand have vibrant colors and can show videos. The concept of OLED keycaps is still superior, but it needs to be realized much better and much cheape
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by jarfil 6y ago
The ping from Earth to Mars varies between 360 and 2600 seconds, so 30 might still be fast enough for an "interplanetary" thing.
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by jarfil 6y ago
Reopening or not is a simple balance between "risk of avoidable deaths" vs. "risk of economic damage". Different people put a different value on each one of those, which makes it a political decision.
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by jarfil 6y ago
People normally don't care about realtime death stats, so in many places there is a delay on reporting because nobody ever cared about doing it any other way.
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by jarfil 6y ago
If I get that right, a 1nm layer should behave more like an ideal material, rather that the average of several multi-nm hysterons.
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by jarfil 6y ago
Also the #StayAtHome seems to bring out the best and the word in people, and he mentions having covid-like symptoms right before all of this. That amount of stress can be bad.
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by jarfil 6y ago
Have you tried Cygwin's X server? I've been using it for many years already with no problems, and it's free (both as in beer and as in freedom).
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by jarfil 6y ago
The fun part about this virus is that it works on a 10 day delay, so you can either prevent infections long before it has a chance to start killing people, or you can start dealing with the epidemic once it's too late to stop it. Also,

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