notalaser

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by notalaser 9y ago
After seeing the astroturfing in this thread, I'm switching to Vivaldi or Chromium, not Tor Browser.
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by notalaser 9y ago
So put a big red scary "PRESS THIS BUTTON AND YOU'LL GET HACKED IN TEN MINUTES UNLESS YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT CRASH BEFORE THAT" that turns telemetry off and let me press it.
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by notalaser 9y ago
What later days? Software mixing worked fine in ALSA in 2004-2005, and OSS emulation had been working reliably way before that. The first PulseAudio release was in 2004, and it wasn't adopted by Fedora until way, way later.
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by notalaser 9y ago
This has worked reliably in ALSA before it has worked reliably in PulseAudio (and, in fact, way before PulseAudio received any meaningful adoption, when Fedora enrolled everyone in PA's beta testing).
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by notalaser 9y ago
No, but they will affect most of the equipment connected to those generators.
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by notalaser 9y ago
That's the thing -- it's (no longer) easy at all. When accessing every other function requires guessing which hamburger menu it's hidden behind, it looks clean and easy to use, but it's not.
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by notalaser 9y ago
In the meantime, a bunch of us developers are desperately trying to figure out what the fsck broke this time, drinking our sorrows about this new life where we can't debug anything that happens at boot, and frantically setting up BSD
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by notalaser 9y ago
Of course you are free to do whatever you want, it's the entitlement that pisses me off. Somehow, employees charging "too much" is not ok and totally not the companies' fault, whereas offering too little is great manag
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by notalaser 9y ago
So... the business doesn't even generate enough revenue to afford hiring the kind of people who can keep it running well , or at least not as well as its owners would want it to be running? Should workers be doing charity work now?
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by notalaser 9y ago
> But maybe the job isn't economically worth it at the higher salary? As in, their business doesn't even generate enough revenue to afford hiring the kind of people who can keep it running?
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by notalaser 9y ago
> But, I'm kinda baffled why anyone would volunteer to provide free labor to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. YES! MacOS users don't need to document macOS as a volunteer project, they need to dema
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by notalaser 9y ago
Honestly -- I have no idea, I only had to do it a few times, on Yocto and buildroot images, and in pretty restricted cases. It was pretty easy (basically udev has this file which matches a set of device selection rules with a set of actions
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by notalaser 9y ago
I don't know what they use, but there's always eudev, Gentoo's fork which works just fine, and offers pretty much everything that udev offers (except for the systemd dependency).
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by notalaser 9y ago
Yes. This is all handled via udev, udisks & co., XFCE, Gnome and KDE have nothing to do with it (other than having it work more or less out of the box).
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by notalaser 9y ago
*nix, iSeries, cockroaches, and finally, that VAX that someone still has running somewhere.
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by notalaser 9y ago
But it's not "just" limited tools and a need to train developers. A language having a small community results in a lack of library and collaboration; you end up dealing with tool vendors who barely manage to keep themselves a
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by notalaser 9y ago
Do you think (as in bet-your-company's-profits-on-it believe) that Ada will still be a first-class language in GCC ten years from now (the standard product lifecycle for RHEL), and that you'll be able to staff the project and buil
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by notalaser 9y ago
I love Ada, and I've written Ada code, but there are so few people who know it that building a community around an init system built in Ada is very difficult. The barrier of entry for contributions is "learn this language develope
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by notalaser 9y ago
> Someone would ask this sooner or later, so.. why is this written in C, really? When systemd was started, Rust barely had a working compiler and go had been announced for about one year.
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by notalaser 9y ago
I ended up trying apulse myself last evening and it seems to work fine, so crisis averted for now. I don't particularly enjoy having stuff much with LD_PRELOAD and friends but I suppose it's less effort. Thing is... I know what yo
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by notalaser 9y ago
Maybe this will help: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse . I just got bit by the new Firefox dependency. Installing PulseAudio left me without sound in VLC (even though I'm using the PulseAudio output plugin) and F
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by notalaser 9y ago
Good point -- that's one of the reasons why I think it's "just" a red flag. The one place that I mentioned what exactly like that -- small company, couldn't afford too much wage, hiring mostly students or fresh grad
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by notalaser 9y ago
Full disclosure: white dude, not a minority of any kind in my country. Five years ago, I would have said that the percentage of women in an office isn't necessarily a good indicator of anything. Nowadays, this would be my first advice:
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by notalaser 9y ago
Because it's highly lucrative.
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by notalaser 9y ago
In my experience, while the statistics that the article quotes are obviously correct, the reasons have very little to do with the architecture, and they very much mimic the way that the "community" works. Linux' architecture
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by notalaser 9y ago
> Or because it makes maintaining a distro so much easier ? In my experience, such a general statement is not true of any init system. I had to maintain a systemd-based system (albeit not a general-purpose one) and I was moderately hap
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by notalaser 9y ago
AmiKit does something of a similar consequence (though with an opposite approach) via Rabbit Hole: https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/ .
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by notalaser 9y ago
Why is it bad? Genuine question, and please don't give me the "it's so unintuitive" answer, that's why programs come with documentation.
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by notalaser 9y ago
I stand corrected, I didn't know about that group policy setting.
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by notalaser 9y ago
> Surgeon workstations can absolutely be restarted once per month to install the monthly roll-up. I was replying to the part about forcing updates. I didn't know about the group policy setting (rightfully pointed out by sp332); with

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