williamvds

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by williamvds 2y ago
Sure, no problem with their use against companies. I don't care about the cost to Delta in that video, but I do think this particlar strongarm tactic was way over the line, due to the significant financial impact it could've incur
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by williamvds 2y ago
That video is also a great example of just how abusable the bailiff system is. All the "agents" care about is getting the money for their client. For this, they're willing and apparently able to abort at least one flight, and
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by williamvds 2y ago
Far from being douchey, I think you've hit the nail on the head. No one is perfect, we're all incompetent to some extent. You've written shitty code, I've definitely written shitty code. There's little time or consi
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by williamvds 2y ago
> MSI Afterburner, which are a must for gaming on my laptop If you want some unsolicited software recommendation: CoreCtrl offers similar controls to MSI Afterburner, at least on my AMD GPU
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by williamvds 2y ago
I don't claim to offer a perfect solution, but the first step is admitting the problem. I'll be seeking out alternatives myself. > with good ownership management This part is questionable. As the advertising news highlights, a
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by williamvds 2y ago
Maybe, just MAYBE, people will start reconsidering putting their social communities on this awful service and locking their social lives to it. I'm gonna look into hosting Matrix servers or something. I expect that soon their policy of
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by williamvds 3y ago
Not to mention the centuries of oppression Ireland faced under English rule, where they became effectively slaves in their own country.
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by williamvds 3y ago
Agreed, that's my personal plan for my own money.
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by williamvds 3y ago
Opening everything and making it free during strikes sounds like a great way to do it, but I don't think the power that be would allow it. I've never seen a barrier hopper stopped, but I'm sure the bobbies would be sent in if
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by williamvds 3y ago
I'm aware of just how under invested the rest of UK infrastructure is outside of London, but that doesn't make complaints about its services invalid. With the billions spent on the purple pine you'd reasonable expect a decent
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by williamvds 3y ago
I respect your intentions, and if the CLA is truly restricted to relicensing as MIT or dual-licensing, I'd be more willing to use it. I would hightlight that the dual licensing in particula introduces the issue of sharing any profits w
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by williamvds 3y ago
As soon as I see a CLA I'm turned off even using a piece of FOSS software. I get it's usually just the lawyers protecting the company just in case a contributor tries something dodgy in the future. Out of principle however, I rese
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by williamvds 3y ago
Oh hey, I also worked on Company of Heroes, but a good decade later while porting it to iOS. It was definitely among the nicer codebases I worked on at that job. But we did some unholy things to port it and get it working with touchscreens,
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by williamvds 3y ago
Nitter mirrors usually offer RSS feeds (e.g. <nitter>/<user>/rss) which is how I've been keeping up with a few accounts for years now. We'll see how long the feeds continue working for.
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by williamvds 3y ago
Libraries are a public service, and free WiFi is often provided along with that service. In this case that service is being deliberately sabotaged for one of the most vulnerable groups in society. Internet access is so necessary in modern l
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by williamvds 3y ago
> “a media driver your computer needs is missing” If you installed the N version of Windows, try manually installing the Windows Media Center. I had problems with NVIDIA Shadow play which were resolved by installing it. Apparently the ap
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by williamvds 3y ago
Ignoring the annoyances of Jira-style project management, here's some things I hate about Jira (cloud, on Firefox on Linux): - the keyboard hotkeys aren't customisable, and often fire when I'm using alt+numbers to switch tabs
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by williamvds 3y ago
> which is a very crass assumption in 2023 No, I think it's a very sensible assumption. As far as I can see, virtually every GNU/Linux OS has shared libraries in /use/lib, and it even has crude support for versioning.
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by williamvds 3y ago
Thanks for the great write-up. As someone who somewhat recently got into Nix I've struggled with many of the same problems. With the whole "your system is read-only" bit, I'll add that Nix can make trial and error editin
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by williamvds 3y ago
With bash's HISTIGNORE, I can consciously prefix my command with a space to prevent it being added to history. ls I usually don't care about, but there are directories I regularly cd to, so it would be nice to have those in histor
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by williamvds 3y ago
You can mostly avoid macros now, thankfully. I'm particularly thinking of things like compile-time reflection, some more complex type introspection. Things that would let you get rid of some code generation like D's mixins perhaps
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by williamvds 3y ago
I agree on the practicality aspect. When programmimg in C, one learns to accept these preprocessor hacks. When programming in C++, where limited compile and type metaprogramming exists, one is constantly hitting the limits and it causes end
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by williamvds 3y ago
I have to assume other young people, like myself, want a mostly furnished place because dragging a ton of furniture around is very annoying. Especially when you're forced to move around every few years because the rents keep hiking up.
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by williamvds 3y ago
I unfortunately can't find the emails anywhere, I'll probably try again and keep proper documentation this time.
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by williamvds 3y ago
I don't see it as stupid. I see it as an intentional delay tactic to maneuver around a regulator which, so far, acts far too slowly and imposes weak fines in response to flagrant privacy lawbreaking. As long as Facebook can treat the f
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by williamvds 3y ago
Lack of support is a big killer when it comes to Android. The OEM drops support after a few years, then it's pure luck whether some benevolent dev picks up maintenance of a FOSS ROM like LineageOS. My phone was that lucky for a good fe
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by williamvds 3y ago
Yeah, true. In this case, I'm sure most teams did what mine did, and waited for the outage to be resolved. The development workflow and CI/CD is so tightly coupled to the Git remote, it would have taken a while to create and switc
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by williamvds 3y ago
Git avoids the problem where the central service being down gets in the way of local development. Even in Git, that central service going down means degraded collaboration. Normally a Git remote is just an ssh-accessible machine, and so pre
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by williamvds 3y ago
Grey market key resellers, apparently using volume licensing. It's a roll of the dice whether they'll stay valid, possibly because the same key is resold repeatedly, or Microsoft blacklists them.
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by williamvds 3y ago
Of course, we can trust the megacorps to keep our best interests at heart. It's a well known fact they always consider the long-term effects of their business practices and don't try to extract as much rent as possible from everyo

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