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by shasheene 6mo ago
I'm still sad that Linux dropped support for i486 and early-i586 CPUs. And more disappointed that distributions especially Debian the "universal operating system" has dropped support for i586 already (and is dropping support
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by shasheene 11mo ago
> the project lead, Rudra B. Rudra, has had less time to dedicate to the work recently. As a result, the team could not ship a stable 25.10 release this October. That may not be the biggest deal, because Ubuntu 25.10 itself is not going
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by shasheene 1y ago
I think this is premature and a big mistake for Linux. The costs of distros and the kernel steadily dropping older x86 support over the last few years never causes an outcry but it's an erosion of what made Linux great. Especially for
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by shasheene 1y ago
Debian's tagline is the "universal operating system". It's a distribution with active ports on a very large number of architectures [1], even incredibly obscure ones. The goal of universal compatibility that separates th
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by shasheene 2y ago
Gaol is an archaic spelling of jail, that retains the same pronunciation and meaning as jail :)
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by shasheene 2y ago
Highlighting the very popular app enabled by this, KOReader: https://koreader.rocks/ https://github.com/koreader/koreader
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by shasheene 2y ago
Oh finally! I have a Kindle Scribe, and it's really amazing hardware, but it's unusable for reading websites like Wikipedia and sending links to it using the Amazon bookmarklet is a pretty bad experience. The biggest issue is the
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by shasheene 3y ago
The entirety of SoMa and Mission Bay are liquefaction zones [1], expected to face major damage during the next major earthquake. I wonder if "Drop, Cover, and Hold On" really is good advice for liquefaction zones for a very big ea
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by shasheene 4y ago
SpaceX and T-Mobile are starting a trial in late-2023 to use unmodified handsets for text (and later, voice and data) with the Starlink V2 network to remove cell coverage dead-zones. [1] [2] It's achieved by "dedicating a slice o
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by shasheene 4y ago
Yes, Patreon's WYSIWYG editor is incredibly buggy. But far worse is Patreon's messaging platform. Write a long message, then accidentally have a window resize event occur and lose your entire message. Patreon's problem with l
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by shasheene 4y ago
A much better website is https://alternativeto.net Really great crowd-sourced recommendations with useful reviews. Though while AlternativeTo allows filtering by open-source status, it doesn't do so by license.
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by shasheene 5y ago
I'd argue Joe Manchin (Democratic Senator of West Virginia) has single-handedly changed an eye-watering $3.5 trillion dollar spending bill into what appears to be a slightly less eye-watering $1.5 trillion package. The lower number (an
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by shasheene 5y ago
Two houses helps prevent tyranny of the majority. Consider the United States. Each state gets 2 senators no matter what, but the proportion of House of Representatives seats each state gets is calculated based on the state's population
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by shasheene 5y ago
What new features and improvements would you like to see added to Rescuezilla?
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Show HN: Rescuezilla v2.2 (disk cloning and imaging tool)(github.com)
8 points by shasheene 5y ago|4 comments
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by shasheene 5y ago
Weblate allows anonymous translation suggestions (to accept a suggestion you have to be logged in though). I'm not associated, I just use it for a personal project and find it great. Not perfect, but still great.
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by shasheene 5y ago
For translation, using a Weblate instance makes a lot more sense over using Google Sheets https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate hosted.weblate.org is only free for open-source projects, but it shouldn't be hard t
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by shasheene 5y ago
Why do you think Intel will succeed in selling leading edge fab services to fabless companies when GlobalFoundries (the chip making business of AMD) was unable to compete? To me, it seems like the same story is playing out again.
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by shasheene 5y ago
The new Sourceforge team has generally done a great job. Here is a review that might help some people. Pros: For general project discussion, Sourceforge's traditional discussion forum is far superior to Github/GitLab issues (thoug
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by shasheene 6y ago
I found this article from 2 years a great read: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...
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by shasheene 6y ago
The author of i3 Windows Manager has a series of interesting blog posts about his pain points with Debian project. [1] Well worth reading the blog series. He also has a research distribution named 'distri' that tries to fix certai
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by shasheene 6y ago
Ubuntu at least does it in alphabetical order of the first letter of the codename. Eg, the release after Ubuntu 20.04 Focal was Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy. This means that hearing the Ubuntu codename "Bionic" provides some information: i
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by shasheene 6y ago
Your ikigai reference [0] link is broken (403 forbidden)
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Show HN: Graphical drop-in replacement to Clonezilla disk imaging(github.com)
3 points by shasheene 6y ago|0 comments
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by shasheene 6y ago
Yep, the United States government gaining the ability to directly block the licensing of ARM reference designs from companies like Huawei's HiSilicon (and the fabless chip designers such as Rockchip) is a VERY big deal. It's a ver
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by shasheene 6y ago
Sorry, I forgot that typical grub.cfg contains the root partition's UUID (and at least historically, the partition device node). While it is possible to configure GRUB to scan for a root partition rather than using a UUID, this is less
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by shasheene 6y ago
> With the sole exception of one bootable tool vendor who added custom code to perform a signature verification of the grub.cfg config file in addition to the signature verification performed on the GRUB2 executable, all versions of GRUB
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by shasheene 6y ago
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20200610151434/http://en.roscosm...
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by shasheene 6y ago
It's strange, because Nintendo has such good first-party game development skills, develops entire operating systems for their internet-connected consoles (including security architectures spanning hardware/software). Even some of
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by shasheene 6y ago
Due to decades of Deng Xiaoping's One Child Policy, China is a slow motion demographic car crash that's impossible to stop. China will "get old before it gets rich", and the days of 6% growth aren't coming back. I r

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