mid-kid

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by mid-kid 9d ago
What does that mean?
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by mid-kid 20d ago
LLMs aid people in abusing copyright by stripping copyleft software of its freedoms and then making derivatives which the author then copyrights restrictively. It's simply not a level playing field when one party is allowed to restrict
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by mid-kid 20d ago
I understand you were acting in good faith, but are you sure these antics didn't contribute to it? I remember instances in my own childhood where my parents would e.g. turn off the wifi router when they were angry at me, and I'd i
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by mid-kid 20d ago
As long as copyright exists, we need copyleft licenses to ensure that covered software can't be copyrighted. That is to say, being against copyright doesn't mean you want to allow others to abuse it against you.
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by mid-kid 2mo ago
That's the gnome dialer, yeah.
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by mid-kid 2mo ago
Is the source code published anywhere?
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by mid-kid 2mo ago
Except for covid, it seems the decline was already there.
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by mid-kid 2mo ago
I don't really need a tag saying how to reach the place, but better public transport support would go a long way. I also have this issue with places marked as parkings, to determine whether they're public, open or even reachable.
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by mid-kid 2mo ago
Youtube survives on google's massive repertoire of products being vastly more profitable, not because it's the best of its kind.
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
Tbh, the installer was inevitable after systemd integrated a bootloader, crafted a paritioning scheme for autodiscovery, took over user and home directory management, and topped it off with an updater and "system extensions" layer
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
For an article written late last year I hoped for a little more awareness of how massive a security hole granting full, unfiltered access to the X11 server is. Granted, any sandboxing is better than none, but firefox is one of the few app
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
LuaJIT has held back the lua ecosystem for over a decade. There's no reason to not at least try to move the implementation closer to luau or puc lua, not create yet more incompatible syntax
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
It was just an example of the type of shit they say to sell it, and then walk back from. https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/sam-altman-dario-amodei-walki...
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
The snake oil is how the people at the top scream "in x years we won't need programmers" and end up proving themselves wrong time and time again. It's a real technology and it can do a lot, but it's being sold like
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
I came up with this one on my own many many years ago. Exact order and bs=1M and everything. I taught it that :) Though I usually do the individual partitions before the main disk, to make sure fdisk doesn't complain about existing sig
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
This, in part. The swift deprecation of XUL extensions felt like a kick in the gonads and made me switch to Pale Moon for a while, after which I landed on Firefox ESR to avoid the inmediate impact of bad decisions, and accumulated a veritab
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
The Game Boy Color/GBA also had a web browser in the form of the Mobile Trainer GB, although it didn't allow inputting arbitrary URLs (although one can modify the DNS, it wasn't documented) and its limited subset of HTML migh
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
In Terry's case, the attention visibly fueled his delusions, providing clamoring approval for many of the self destructive things he did, eventually leading to his death. I don't think Drew means he should've been fully alone
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
They already are in the same position. See: Android, ChromeOS.
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by mid-kid 3mo ago
It's really jarring to still be pinning this on Microsoft, when Google and Apple have been doing the same for free, for years, in iOS, Android and ChromeOS.
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
Cronie has a mechanism for this, called "anacron", which is called hourly by cron (on my system, /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron), and performs all the /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} tasks, no matter if the ea
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
https://pkgcraft.github.io/
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
It already is, though? I've been using dash as /bin/sh for years, openrc is using that.
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
It's a shame that this article focusses on Omarchy being "just some dotfiles" when I feel it's the weakest of the points it makes against Omarchy (there's many valid reasons to have issues with it!). Omarchy isn&#x2
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by mid-kid 4mo ago
https://archive.is/sAVRF
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by mid-kid 5mo ago
Seeing this article, and how much webextensions manage to mess up the browser, I'm wondering how bad this experiment would've been with the legacy XUL extensions. Maybe they had a point in getting rid of them...
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by mid-kid 5mo ago
I see what happened, I was replying to a different comment, that did mention the GBA audio, when I wrote that, but somehow ended up replying to this one. This comment explains it better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by mid-kid 5mo ago
gah, you're right, I was thinking of memory protection (as in, marking the relevant regions as read-write and read-execute) when I wrote MMU. It's of course optional, and you can ignore it for trivial examples, but most games and
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by mid-kid 5mo ago
I've never coded for SNES, but the GBA having access to a mainline, modern C compiler is a massive buff. Also, emulators for it have always been available on practically any computer, console and mobile phone, and there's many so-
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by mid-kid 5mo ago
I'd say the GBA is the sweet spot for this. The DS has you dealing with two cores you need to write a firmware for that have to communicate to do anything useful, a cartridge protocol to fetch any extra code or assets that wouldn&#x2

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