tazjin

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by tazjin 29d ago
Currently 6833 people in Sweden have the last name "Malm", and some large fraction of them were born before 2005 (could not be bothered to check how many, sorry!).
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by tazjin 1mo ago
Ironic, considering the content.
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by tazjin 4mo ago
Your posts are very much like "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain". If a definitive answer on this topic was known then it, well, would be known.
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by tazjin 4mo ago
Neither you nor any of the other people making confident takes in either direction actually know . You're just guessing.
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by tazjin 5mo ago
It does, but only for chats between two specific devices. Multi-device support is one of its best features that you lose with E2E. Key distribution is just too hard. I think we won't get a messenger for non-tech people that works well
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by tazjin 6mo ago
EWM implements a Wayland compositor as a native thread spawned by a dynamic module in Emacs, it's a full compositor within the Emacs process: https://codeberg.org/ezemtsov/ewm So it is architecturally possible (bu
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by tazjin 6mo ago
It is probably country and language dependent, I think. I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian), and for other languages I personally also write in cursive (and learnt that in school). I'm in
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by tazjin 7mo ago
Okay, so which hardware are you buying that isn't using any Chinese components?) I don't think the empire can make this kind of hardware from scratch without China at the moment.
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by tazjin 7mo ago
Killing off free repos is not going to happen. That would be a suicide move on the level of the Digg redesign, or Tumblr's porn ban. It kind of would be good for everyone if they did do it though. Need to get rid of this monopoly, and
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by tazjin 8mo ago
People go through all this trouble to host convoluted chat systems, and all this time IRC is right there. There's modern servers like Ergo and modern clients like Halloy (or for the JavaScript addicts: Convos, The Lounge, Kiwi, ...) pr
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by tazjin 8mo ago
These weird anti-Graphene posts confuse me. I use GrapheneOS, fwiw, and I believe some things the project does (like its attacks on F-Droid) are misguided for orthogonal reasons. However, it all makes sense from the perspective of Graphene
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by tazjin 8mo ago
I've only seen the carrier locked phones and long-term contracts in a handful of countries. I've lived in a lot of countries on three continents. In many places the default is prepaid SIMs with separately purchased phones. Somet
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by tazjin 8mo ago
Haskell has exceptions, so dependencies can still do plenty of harmful stuff ;)
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by tazjin 8mo ago
The "assistant" is a personality that the "entity" (or model) knows how to perform as, it's strictly a subset. The best article on this topic is probably "the void". It's long, but it's worth rea
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by tazjin 8mo ago
No. It was obvious from the title that this was about the UK, and also why should they - American sites don't indicate this either, and they have no monopoly on the language.
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by tazjin 8mo ago
Huh? Clearly writing it is not easy, as per your own comment
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by tazjin 8mo ago
Does anyone know of active work happening on such a license?
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by tazjin 8mo ago
Xiaomi, Honor and Huawei make ARM-based notebooks like that. The closest to your description is probably the Qingyun line of laptops.
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by tazjin 8mo ago
I'm not in the US. I spent some time on Google Maps, and the furthest spot I managed to find from a town was about 35km. Note that I didn't say anything about supermarkets - this is a thread about car reliability, so the context i
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by tazjin 8mo ago
Haha, how far is the middle of nowhere from the nearest town in Scotland? A few dozen kilometres?
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by tazjin 8mo ago
The EU is entirely dependent on US services, which don't much care about a fringe phone OS some fraction of people in the EU use. It's like adding duck/egg, crow/egg and other similar problems into the dependency web, to
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by tazjin 8mo ago
You can sell the phones alright, and they might even work, but the fact is that participation in society - especially if you live in a city - will be much harder without Android/iOS. Note, not impossible : You can always carry cash to
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by tazjin 8mo ago
You mean there doesn't seem to be any English non-US resource.
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by tazjin 8mo ago
My current take is that if you start an open-source project now, you should go full AGPL (or similar copyleft license), and require a CLA for contributors. If your thing ends up actually good you now have a defence against exploitation, and
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by tazjin 8mo ago
I regularly take the train between Moscow and Kazan. It's 12 hours, you can get on in the evening, have dinner on the train and then get a decent 8 hours of sleep before getting up, having some coffee and arriving. It's much longe
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by tazjin 9mo ago
You don't need to. This is the first generation where there's millions of hours of online podcasts with tech bros for them to enjoy. In general, we're a uniquely well-documented set of generations, even if we exclude all the
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by tazjin 9mo ago
> where use of the GPL isn't merely inconvenient, but legally impossible What sort of ecosystems are these?
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by tazjin 9mo ago
> Unfortunately nowadays traveling with DB has become a game of Russian roulette. Ironically, Russian trains (even over distances of thousands of kilometres) are usually almost perfectly on time. Germany's DB seems to fill the same
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by tazjin 9mo ago
> Or, we can expect better from software. Maybe someone can fork Firefox and make it run better, hard cap how much a browser window can use. You can already do this. For example, I use `systemd-run` to run browsers with CPU quotas applie
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by tazjin 9mo ago
> Is anyone else worried that a lot of people coming from the Rust world contribute to free software and mindlessly slap on it MIT license Yeah; I actually used to do that to (use the "default license"), but eventually came to

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