lin83

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by lin83 4y ago
> First of all of there are others with regrets they are most likely also found there. Second to warn others. Thirdly to vent. I don't find that the least bit credible. The proposition forum administrators would tolerate someone &qu
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by lin83 4y ago
The survey was just 21 people "exclusively contacted in BIID internet forums". How many people who cut off a limb and regretted it would stick around the forum that fed their compulsion to do it?
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by lin83 4y ago
I also avoid those platforms but that also means self-exclusion from entire communities. I've seen large groups (DnD groups, gaming/sports clubs, obscure tech forums etc) being swallowed wholesale by Facebook, then Reddit and now
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by lin83 4y ago
Also you can use the official Bitwarden clients with a free open source self-hosted backend, like vaultwarden [1]. [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/
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by lin83 4y ago
> unfortunately the alternatives to Google are usually not any better in this respect. I don't that's necessary true. Google (and maybe Facebook) are unique in the size of personal data they hold and they types of data they hav
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by lin83 4y ago
I also have Youtube left on my list. I also find it a little too addictive. Instead of using a browser, I use RSS to subscribe to the channels I'm interested in. From my RSS reader (newsbeat) I can even directly play the video (via mpv
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by lin83 4y ago
It's difficult to overstate how bad things have been for the past 1.5yrs. Automotive and Industrial microcontrollers and components in particular are impossible to source. I have a friend at one of the big US semiconductor companies. H
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by lin83 4y ago
Hiring lawyers is probably going to cost more than the 7000 dollars taken from him. Large companies probably spend that much on their legal teams per hour.
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by lin83 4y ago
People the British government don't like and who they have subjected to torture and extra-judicial killings, the biggest example being people in Northern Ireland opposing Union with Great Britain.
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by lin83 4y ago
If the requirement to be narrow and time limited is not codified in law (which afaik it is not) it is pretty much guaranteed such broad searches will happen. All it takes is convincing a judge. If the past has taught us anything it's t
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by lin83 4y ago
There isn't a threshold for copyright violation. If you copy a 3 line function from a GPL library, you have to comply with the licence. Tools like BlackDuck will pick it up. Snippets aren't exactly defined but I see them as more t
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by lin83 4y ago
> I’m deeply disturbed that you think this form of plagiarism is universal This thread is an eye opener for me too. Do engineers not get trained on their legal obligations? My company is old and not a tradition tech company but we have b
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by lin83 4y ago
I don't think that's true and, if it was, it would be the death knell for open source. Code Plagiarism is taken very seriously by every company I have worked with. Multiple companies have been sued for violating the GPL. The SFC i
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by lin83 4y ago
> Instead of marvelling at the human ingenuity that went into creating it, they sneer at the audacity of openAI to do something without first asking their permission. Something being cool doesn't exempt it from discussion of its eth
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by lin83 4y ago
I believe the previous Python support extension started out as an independent open source project until Microsoft hired its main developer. > It’s baffling. Vendor Lock in? Same reason you can't use the VSCode marketplace of mostly
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by lin83 4y ago
> Insult charges apply when an individual insults another in public to damage their social reputation. This is a gift to the rich and powerful to punish and gag whistleblowers and activists.
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by lin83 4y ago
Isn't that what certification is? COMPTIA etc?
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by lin83 4y ago
> We needed healthcare reform. What we got was the ACA. > What we needed was them to bring back Glass-Steagall in the wake of sub-prime crisis. What we got was ????? Wealthy powerful interests who fund politicans on both sides ensure
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by lin83 4y ago
> but with a surplus of sovereignty. And not even that. Similar agreements and compromises on shared standards, data transfer, compliance etc still have to be made to enable trade. Brexit voters were promised a "bonfire of regulatio
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by lin83 4y ago
Is Jaguar an interpreter and Toit the scripting language? How does it compare to MicroPython? Can I link in C drivers?
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by lin83 4y ago
Testers are fascinating. I worked on firmware for a part under test and was amazed that tests are often literal vectors of bits and that interfaces (UART, JTAG etc) are bit banged. The Test team was super focused on time with the mindset be
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by lin83 4y ago
Surnames are a direct indication and to a lesser extent place of birth I believe.
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by lin83 4y ago
Yes, we are literally trained for that - to keep distance with cars ahead of us, expect the unexpected and so on. We are also told not to drive cars without proper maintaince (and inforced by law in most places) so our cars are reliable. I
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by lin83 4y ago
It's honestly like a black mirror episode. "I have to have maintain a mental model of how my black box ML car AI will act so I don't die or kill other road users... and it can be updated daily."
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by lin83 4y ago
> You are assuming the default is negative. I am assuming the default is negative - for Google. I work for a far far older engineering company which is built on maintaining good relationships with our customers, vendors and their enginee
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by lin83 4y ago
I'm not sure there is anyone nice here. This is likely cynical corporate damage control at best or the work of an annoyed Google employee who happens to use this app and took a personal interest. I love Fairmail and as a paid user I&#x
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by lin83 4y ago
I'm glad Nvidia made the right call at the end of the day. I like to think that developers taking a stand against EGL Streams contributed to their move to open more of their Limux driver stack.
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by lin83 4y ago
> going so far as to disable NVIDIA's non-free driver support in his wayland window manager/compositor Sway. AFAIK this is backwards. It was NVIDIA developers that decided to invent their own thing (EGL Streams) instead of supp
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by lin83 4y ago
I don't believe I said that is the case. A situation with poor or unintended incentives is not hard to imagine. 1) A team is tasked with providing suggestions to improve emails 2) "Inclusive language" or avoiding potentially
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by lin83 4y ago
I am absolutely concerned about some of their actions, like their paused "inclusive suggestions" [1]. There's a big difference between providing a guide and highlighting words in an email that are marked as 'wrong'

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