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by rabf 18d ago
David Cameron was guilty of over-estimating the British public. The Brexit vote was intended to put an end to the anti-EU contingent in the conservative party, he never expected that it had any hope of passing.
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by rabf 27d ago
Modesetting work was done in 2022, but for some reason no one had released a new stable release of the Xserver with this patch included since then. This was one of the reasons Xlibre was created, there was all these improvements to Xorg sit
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by rabf 1mo ago
Their position is to build the data centers in space, so apposition on the ground plays directly into their hands!
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by rabf 2mo ago
Possible that a lot of those shorts are by early SpaceX investors who want to lock in a specific price before their share lockup period ends.
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by rabf 2mo ago
Spacex has no existing customer to satisfy their future launch ambitions with Starship, hence data centers in space, just like they did with starlink to provide the necessary demand for Falcon 9. The launch business is not profitable withou
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by rabf 6mo ago
Those users have never heard of the word `uninstall` nor have any comprehension of what it would do. They will after a time, just buy a new computer because the old one is full up.
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by rabf 6mo ago
Password recovery where you enter your mothers maiden name and favourite food.
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by rabf 7mo ago
I just find it strange that you have the same people always complaining about how big tech is too powerful. If you have a problem with what you military is upto, you should take that up with your elected representatives. Boycotting an AI co
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by rabf 7mo ago
First you want the goverment to regulate AI. Now you want AI companies to regulate the goverment? Personally when I buy something I do whatever I want with it and imagine the DOD feels the same.
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by rabf 7mo ago
They have an API.
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by rabf 7mo ago
https://github.com/rabfulton/ViewMD Markdown viewer for Linux
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by rabf 7mo ago
The motorola razr flip phones are great in my opinion.
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by rabf 7mo ago
My concern is that it will make developers even more lazy when optimising their code. What one hand giveth the other takes away. When has any advancement in the hardware not led to the same or worse software performance in few years time? T
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by rabf 7mo ago
I use GIMP and FreeCAD quite often and find them very powerful programs, but maybe I'm some sort of genius? I think where these programs don't do well is among the crowd who expect to be able to just click around an advanced piece
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by rabf 7mo ago
OpenSCAD is ideal for making models that can be modified! You have to program your models with the mindset of parametric CAD though, if I was making a battery case I would start by defining variables for battery length, diameter and count a
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by rabf 7mo ago
Very few people are using C for `quality-of-life features`. I'm fairly certain I've never even seen any C23 code, is it supported by many compilers or C tooling? One of the great things about C is that it is fairly easy to write c
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by rabf 7mo ago
I'll burn what little karma I have and say that for market insights and interesting perspectives, x.com is the best place (manual curation required). Beyond that you should be watching earnings calls each quarter for a range of compani
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by rabf 7mo ago
https://github.com/rabfulton/Auriscribe My take for X11 Linux systems. Small and low dependency except for the model download.
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by rabf 7mo ago
Perhaps it thinks you need to exercise more?
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by rabf 7mo ago
You know, AI might actually be able to fix this!
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by rabf 7mo ago
Bring back webrings!
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by rabf 7mo ago
Oh and porting my first ever OpenGL project to modern Linux for some nostalgia. https://github.com/rabfulton/Hotrocks
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by rabf 7mo ago
Applications for Linux that I always wanted but could never quite find the one that works how I think it should. traymd: A system tray notes application that supports basic live input of markdown. https://github.com/rabfulto
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by rabf 7mo ago
I made this for myself, might not work on wayland though if thats an issue. https://github.com/rabfulton/Auriscribe
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by rabf 8mo ago
Install Davinci Resolve on your phone.
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by rabf 8mo ago
Perhaps as a film student you were meant to be looking at the composition, the shot structures, the color grading, the use of sound? The film may have been boring in its message or story but still a technical masterpiece?
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by rabf 8mo ago
CRT screens did 75Hz/85Hz/100Hz quite well, but rendered only one pixel/dot at a time. This is in no way equivalent to 60Hz on a flat panel!
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by rabf 8mo ago
I had the books (from the library) but never managed to get a compiler for many years! Was quite confusing trying to understand all the unix references when my only experience with a computer was the Atari ST.
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by rabf 8mo ago
I have had codex recover things for me from its history after claude had done a git reset hard, codex is one of the more reliable models/harneses when it comes to performing undo and redo operations in my experience.
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by rabf 8mo ago
You do not need fractional scaling, just set the correct dpi in settings and use a high dpi theme.

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