slome

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by slome 15d ago
A Google account is a personal identifier, it is linked to your person. Therefor trying to untie it from anything else is futile. Google states: Using a false name or incorrect information when creating a Google account is against Google&#x
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by slome 21d ago
I'm surprised HN failed to mention the real reason in this thread. It's AI. The goal of the project is to have users build (fix, maintain, expand etc) the distro themselves through AI generated (bug) reports which are then picked
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The Shady World of IP Leasing(acid.vegas)
20 points by slome 7mo ago|0 comments
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by slome 2y ago
The openbsd foundation raised around 5 million, half of which has been spent. Curiously they aren't as transparent as they once were. You mention nvidia support, others are hopeful for a better filesystem and wifi as well.
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by slome 2y ago
Thanks for the insight. I had never considered this even though i researched quite some oddities in UTF-8 parsing myself over the years. It's the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to ways to breaking things in software, i find. T
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Telemetry in Firefox for Android causes performance regression and extreme IO(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
2 points by slome 2y ago|0 comments
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by slome 3y ago
OpenBSD only implemented loading AMD firmware two days after AMD published updated microcode to fix Zenbleed. Which makes me believe they were not among the "major kernels", vendors or other entities that got a heads up of this vu
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IRC technology news from the first half of 2023(ilmarilauhakangas.fi)
4 points by slome 3y ago|0 comments
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by slome 3y ago
Author doesn't know why this supposed bug can't be fixed and makes a quick assumption. Later on he asks the reader for insights. Crazy. Just ask the developers directly via the official mailing list [1], or send a bug report as yo
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by slome 3y ago
This allows Mozilla to trim away some of the cruft and have more time available to focus on actually improving Firefox for people living in this day and age. There will always be someone who feels left behind but to me this decision is a no
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by slome 3y ago
You can run debian without systemd [1]. I've been running debian sid - the "unstable"/rolling development version - with sysvinit for over 3 years now and it has been a good experience. [1] https://wiki.debian